THE NEWSROOM

The City of Milwaukee is one of 22 organizations selected as a finalist as part of the federal government’s “Recompete Pilot Program,” which could eventually earn the city up to a $50 million investment that would support economic development efforts within the...

Lake Geneva-based Joy Research, the edtech startup that’s developing the app JOY HELPS, has named Steve Cindrich as its new chief executive officer. “Joy Research has grown rapidly, given that this was just an idea in May of this year,” said Dave Gee, co-founder and...

Microsoft has closed on the purchase of over 1,000 acres of land in Mount Pleasant for its expanded data center campus. The company paid a total of $176 million for the land. The company paid the Village of Mount Pleasant $63.2 million for 400 acres on Braun Road and...

Wisconsin has received official designation as a Regional Technology Hub from the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA). This designation clears the way for Wisconsin to compete for up to $75 million in federal investments, and right away Wisconsin will...

Milwaukee-based energy equipment manufacturer Advanced Ionics announced today that it has added John Jung as president and chief operating officer and Ignacio Bincaz as chief commercial officer. Advanced Ionics is a hydrogen electrolyzer developer focused on...

Baird Capital has closed on $218 million for its sixth U.S. venture capital fund and has already invested in three companies, Baird announced Monday. It's the firm's largest venture fund to date. The fund has invested a total of $34.5 million in three companies so...

Kwik Trip is now eligible to earn up to $41 million in state tax credits by continuing to expand its operations in Wisconsin, according to WEDC. The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. yesterday announced the La Crosse-based convenience store chain plans to invest...

La Crosse-based convenience store company Kwik Trip plans to invest more than $151 million to expand its operations in Wisconsin, creating more than 500 jobs by 2027, according to the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. The company plans to expand its dairy,...

Wisconsin continued to make progress in its transition to renewable energy in 2023, but environmental advocates say there’s still a long way to go. The Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, or PSC, estimates that eight utility-scale solar projects will come online...

The U.S. economy has performed much better in 2023 than was projected a year ago, according to economist and UW-Madison alumnus Brad Tank. “The forecast last year [was] resoundingly in favor of a much slower economy than actually materialized,” he said last week. Tank...

We Energies is about two months away from starting operations at its newest liquified natural gas (LNG) facility in Ixonia. Construction on the $192 million facility started in 2021. The company expects to see $200 million in savings once the new LNG plant is online...

Incoming MMAC President Dale Kooyenga predicts the corridor between Chicago and Milwaukee will see substantial development in the coming years, anchored by Microsoft’s operations in the region. “There’ll be a point here I think in the next five, six years where you...

This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with Wes Schroll, founder and CEO of Fetch. The Madison-based company’s mobile app offers users a rewards program for the products they buy, awarding points for scanning receipts that can be redeemed for gift cards...

Milwaukee-based private equity firm Generation Growth Capital (GGC) has acquired three Midwestern manufacturers as part of the launch of its newly formed metal manufacturing platform, called American Consolidated Metals. The first company acquired by Generation Growth...

A protein that could regenerate heart tissue and a new treatment for diabetes and obesity have taken top honors from WARF. The first 2023 WARF Innovation Award has been given to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Ahmed Mahmoud, assistant professor of cell and...

Delavan-based PlantPharm BioMed, a biotechnology company manufacturing edible vaccines that can be used to treat several types of viruses in both humans and animals, has been awarded a $900,000 federal grant to develop an edible COVID-19 vaccine for animals. The grant...