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Wes Schroll feels like he's made it to the starting line. The Madison-based consumer loyalty and rewards app Fetch Rewards Inc. that Schroll founded as a college student is now valued at more than $1 billion. That makes Fetch Rewards part of an elite group of startups...
SHINE Medical Technologies, Phoenix merger focused on advancing fusion technology
JANESVILLE and FITCHBURG, Wis., April 20, 2021 – SHINE Medical Technologies LLC and Phoenix LLC today announced that the companies have completed a merger under which Phoenix has become a wholly owned subsidiary of SHINE. SHINE is a next-generation nuclear technology...
‘Dealing with China’ will launch series on trade policy with WisBusiness.com
“Dealing with China,” a panel discussion on U.S.-China relations under the Biden administration, will be held virtually from noon to 1 p.m., Tuesday, April 27. It is being produced by WisBusiness.com in partnership with the Wisconsin Technology Council. Participants...
WisconsinINNO: Milwaukee entrepreneur launches social connection app with COVID scale
A Milwaukee startup is making it easier to connect with friends during the COVID recovery. bLinkup is a social app that uses geolocation to notify users when friends are nearby and displays crowdsourced data at top rated locations. The app recently added a new feature...
Crunchbase: Medable Secures $78M Series C Extension To Scale Digital Clinical Trials Program
Clinical trials research company Medable brought in its third round of funding in the past year, this time a $78 million extension to its $91 million Series C round announced last November. “This new round was really an insider round,” Medable co-founder and...
Guest column: Pandemic effect on tech jobs measured by Cyberstates report
By Kathy Henrich Data always has a purpose. It helps measure our past, understand the effect of unexpected forces, and set direction for the future. Measuring the impact of technology in 2020 was especially important, especially in light of the headwinds of a global...
InsideWis: Attracting ‘OPM’ from elsewhere will help Wisconsin companies grow
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – Cultured Decadence may sound like a societal dilemma, but it’s precisely the opposite. It’s a young company offering a timely solution – all the while demonstrating how emerging companies in Wisconsin can attract investors from elsewhere....
WEDC: Wisconsin’s emerging investors: advice to early-stage startups
Being an entrepreneur means asking for money—and it takes some skill to know how to make the ask. We spoke with some of Wisconsin’s emerging venture capital investors about what startups seeking early-stage investment should keep in mind when honing their elevator...
She Conquers Capital: Samara Mejia Hernandez, Chingona Ventures, talks deal flow, FemTech, and all things LatinX in VC
Wisconsin State Journal: Fetch shows potential for high-growth technology companies in Wisconsin
By Scott Resnick Fetch Rewards has delivered to Madison its first unicorn — and, at least as important, lessons for how to achieve more high-growth startup companies. A “unicorn” in the technology sector is a venture-backed startup with a valuation of $1 billion or...
WisBusiness: Broad backing for broadband
GOP and Dem Joint Finance Committee members agree that a big investment in broadband is needed in rural areas. But that was the extent of agreement. During a Milwaukee business panel, Joint Committee on Finance members Evan Goyke, D-Milwaukee, and Jessie Rodriguez,...
Madison Rotary: Jason Fields’ “We Must Not Accept Complacency”
On an historic day, when the Club returned to the Park Hotel for the first time in more than a year of pandemic isolation, our speaker was fellow Rotarian Jason Fields. Jason is the new president of the Madison Regional Economic Partnership. He spoke on the topic “We...
UW–Madison: Alum’s mask makes Time magazine’s list of best inventions of 2020
While studying abroad in Singapore as a University of Wisconsin–Madison mechanical engineering undergraduate student in 2013, Max Bock-Aronson experienced heightened levels of air pollution firsthand. He also happened to be taking an engineering course on air...
WiSys: UW-Green Bay’s Kelly House wins campus research communication prize in WiSys Quick Pitch
UW-Green Bay’s Kelly House was recognized for excellence in research communication during the WiSys Quick Pitch on April 7. The student “pitch” competition inspires UW System students to consider the impact of their research and effectively communicate it to the...
Reuters: Insurance startup Clearcover raises $200 million from Eldridge, others at $1 billion valuation
Clearcover has raised $200 million in fresh capital as part of a late-stage financing round led by Eldridge, the investment firm helmed by Los Angeles Dodgers owner Todd Boehly, the digital car-insurance startup will announce on Tuesday. In a statement seen by Reuters...
WisBiz: The Show features Eric Oakland and Marita Herkert-Oakland, owners of Relumed
Welcome to “WisBusiness: The Show,” a twice-a-month Web show covering state business news and issues. MADISON – The latest episode of “WisBusiness.com: The Show” spotlights Eric Oakland and Marita Herkert-Oakland, owners of Relumed. Eric and Marita explain how Relumed...
Wisconsin State Journal: Madison-based Exact Sciences broadens scope in cancer diagnostics
When Exact Sciences moved to Madison from Boston in 2009, the company had 20 employees and the intention of developing a colon cancer screening test. Now, millions of people are screened each year using Exact Sciences’ Cologuard, the company employs more than 5,000...
CTC: Learn a little more about 13 Governor’s Business Plan Contest finalists from SBDC/CTC for 2021
Twenty-five entries representing innovations in products and services in sectors as broad as health, cleantech, education and more are competing in the finalist round of the 18th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest. More than half of them are names...
WisBusiness: Wisconsin YES! alum Alex Hart-Upendo reflects on contest
In 2018, Alex Hart-Upendo took home the grand prize with his company Build-A-Bow. Build-A-Bow is a custom eco-friendly bow retailer specializing in bow ties, hair bows and bow ties for dogs. Hart-Upendo founded Build-A-Bow when he was just 9 years old. Hart-Upendo...
WisconsinINNO: Madison firm developing lab-grown seafood raises $1.6M in pre-seed round
Cultured Decadence, a Madison startup specializing in cell-cultured seafood products such as lab-grown lobster meat, said it has closed a $1.6 million pre-seed round of funding. The round was led by investors including Bluestein Ventures, Joyance Partners,...