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With the recent all-cash sale of one of its portfolio companies, a venture capital firm in Madison says it's returning money to Wisconsin investors. Brazen Technologies Inc., a recruiting event management software firm founded in Wisconsin, was recently acquired by...

A new report summarizes the 2022 activities of WEDC’s entrepreneurship and innovation programs, which support a vibrant entrepreneurial culture in Wisconsin by offering targeted resources to various types of startups at crucial stages of development. During the period...

The head of the state Department of Workforce Development says the rise of AI technology “couldn’t come at a greater time” given the state’s labor challenges. Speaking this week during the first meeting of the Governor’s Task Force on Workforce and Artificial...

WEC Energy Group is adding $3.3 billion to its new five-year capital investment plan, including an additional $1.4 billion in renewable energy generation. The plan, which covers 2024 to 2028 now calls for $23.4 billion in spending, up from $20.1 billion in the plan...

Gov. Tony Evers signed Executive Order #211 creating the Governor’s Task Force on Workforce and Artificial Intelligence to gather and analyze information and produce an advisory action plan to identify the current state of generative artificial intelligence’s (AI)...

A Green Bay-based video game publisher that wants to fund and support Midwest-based game developers raised $3 million from TitletownTech, the owner of Skee-Ball, and other Wisconsin investment funds. Midwest Games launched earlier this year in Green Bay by Ben Kvalo,...

As Wisconsin celebrated a successful bid to become a designated U.S. regional technology hub, hundreds of other places across the country — including St. Louis, Pittsburgh and Raleigh, North Carolina — didn't make the cut. Wisconsin was among 31 places the Biden...

More than four decades ago, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire alumna Audrey Nelson struggled in her college courses less than a year after a traffic crash injured the frontal lobe of her brain. “I was just sort of bumbling along for a while,” recalls Nelson, who...

Walking away from the backhoe she'd just operated and heading to a massive wood chipping truck, Enaviana McGowan was already feeling good about the choice she made — exploring a career as an electrical line worker for We Energies. The junior at Milwaukee High School...

EnsoData is partnering with React Health, a sleep and respiratory device manufacturer, to optimize positive airway pressure (PAP) adherence support for patients with sleep apnea, the company announced recently. “Out PAP compliance AI model has an incredible ability to...

Milwaukee-based Rockwell Automation Inc. is expanding its partnership with Microsoft Corp. “to accelerate automation design and development through generative artificial intelligence,” according to an announcement on Thursday. The two companies do have a longstanding...

When Alex Peters walks through manufacturer KI’s Green Bay plant, he sees a lot of potential for how artificial intelligence could enhance the company’s machines. The northeast Wisconsin company produces furniture for offices and schools. KI manufactured its first...

The Marquette University College of Nursing has entered into a collaboration with Epic, the industry leader in electronic health records software, to integrate the company’s new Lyceum platform for electronic health records into the college’s nursing curriculum....