THE NEWSROOM

This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with Bethany Larsen, program manager for gener8tor’s gBETA Kenosha program. Larsen, a Kenosha native, earlier this month was announced as the leader of the early-stage startup accelerator program. Funded by a grant...

A clinical trial now open at UW Health | Carbone Cancer Center uses a patient’s dying tumor cells to try to teach their immune system to find and destroy cancer cells following surgery for a type of brain cancer called glioblastoma. Carbone Cancer Center is one of...

BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation Inc. today announced that it has made an investment in Green Bay-based Midwest Games, the only dedicated video game publisher in the Midwest. The games industry has grown rapidly to over $330 billion dollars and is expected to continue...

A protective mineral coating identified by University of Wisconsin–Madison biomedical engineering researchers could allow powerful messenger RNA therapeutics like COVID-19 vaccines to be stored at room temperature, making them more accessible to lower-resourced...

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...