THE NEWSROOM

As venture capital momentum slowed in late 2022, fewer dollars flowed to Wisconsin startups last quarter compared with earlier in the year and in the same quarter of previous years. But 2022 as a whole was still a historically strong year for venture capital...

After peaking in May, Wisconsin saw a slowdown in wage growth that continued in the fourth quarter, but the increase in average hourly wages remained above 5% in December, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The average hourly wage in the state...

Chicago-based Molson Coors Beverage Company and the Greater Milwaukee Urban League announced today that they will partner to launch a networking group for local Black entrepreneurs, called the GMUL Entrepreneurship Connection. As part of the program – which includes...

Venture capital with a conscience has hit the streets of Milwaukee through the opening of the city’s newest VC firm: VC 414. Founded by venture capitalist and angel investor Jennifer Abele and former BMO Harris executive Raquel Filmanowicz, VC 414 launched at the...

The year 2022 was a big one for merger and acquisition activity among hospitals and health systems in Wisconsin. To understand how the health care marketplace is being transformed by this and other trends – including higher costs, labor shortages and the shift to...

The new home of Marquette University’s business and innovation leadership programs, the Dr. E.J. and Margaret O’Brien Hall opened its doors to students last week. “We told prospective students and their families they would have seven or eight semesters in the most...

It’s been more than two decades since Rob LoBreglio, co-founder and brewmaster of the Great Dane Pub & Brewing Company, first started joking with his friend and former brewing apprentice Tetsuya Kiyosawa about opening a brewery in Kiyosawa’s native Japan. When...

Two recently unemployed Chinese nationals weigh their options in a cramped Park Falls motel room, not far from where they worked in a former paper mill now being used to mine cryptocurrency. One of them continues to nurse a stitched-up laceration across his left wrist...

Richland County leaders are fuming over University of Wisconsin-Platteville officials’ plan to shift to online education at their Richland branch campus after in-person instruction there ends for good after the spring semester. UW System President Jay Rothman in...

Lakeland University has received a $75,000 entrepreneurship grant from the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) to help veterans start their own businesses. The grant will enable Lakeland to expand existing programs and to build new programs to address the...

Oshkosh Chamber of Commerce activities for the past 20 years have generated and supported a $1.5 billion economic impact and helped create and support 13,481 jobs, according to a study just released. In 2022, the Chamber partnered with the Center for Customized...

Wisconsin added 1,500 private sector jobs and the state’s unemployment rate dipped to 3.2% in December, according to the latest preliminary data released by the Department of Workforce Development. The slight uptick in December leaves the state with 2.1%...

Hartland-based startup Wearable Technologies Inc. has been named one of just 40 global finalists in the 2023 South by Southwest (SXSW) Pitch competition. The startup’s founder and chief executive officer, Deepak Arora, developed a wearable device that uses artificial...

Xcel Energy and Bayfield County have signed an agreement to partner to construct Wisconsin’s first microgrid under an innovative new utility program. Through Xcel Energy’s EMPOWER Resiliency program, Bayfield County, in far northern Wisconsin, will build a microgrid...

Gene therapies have the potential to treat neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, but they face a common barrier — the blood-brain barrier. Now, researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have developed a way to move therapies across...

Fox Valley Technical College has officially signed two articulation agreements that will allow students earning an Associate of Arts (AA) or Associate of Science (AS) from FVTC to seamlessly transfer to UW Oshkosh or UW-Green Bay with junior standing to continue their...

According to Cody Retlich, he has two passions: drones and helping people. Retlich became professionally involved with drones while studying Entrepreneurship at UW-Whitewater. During that time, he worked for a firm that used drones to conduct surveys of agricultural...