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Two years ago, New York-based tech giant IBM acquired Milwaukee-based 7Summits, a Salesforce consultancy founded by entrepreneur Paul Stillmank. Now, Stillmank is back with a new startup that aims to help businesses understand the latest advancements in artificial...

October 2, 2023 – October 30, 2023 | Application Deadline September 25, 2023 Startup founders in the idea and pre-revenue phase, we want you. This initiative addresses the following: founder mindset, scalable business model design, pre-accelerator training, mentoring,...

A Pittsburgh-based digitization services firm has debuted a 25,000-square-foot facility near Green Bay that will help scale the company's operations. Forever Inc. said its new $5 million digitization building in Hobart will add to the company's ability to convert over...

Dietram Scheufele has a “nightmare scenario” for next year’s election. Just days before Election Day, “we’re going to see some piece of deep fake or really well-produced piece of information” based on artificial intelligence that influences voters enough to change the...

Tech entrepreneur and 7Summits founder Paul Stillmank, along with a team of seasoned industry veterans, announces the launch of his latest venture, 7Rivers. The Milwaukee-based startup is helping businesses understand and embrace the latest advancements in artificial...

The University of Wisconsin–Madison was ranked 35th out of 437 public and private doctoral institutions, and 12th among public universities in the 2024 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Colleges” rankings. It is UW–Madison’s highest overall U.S. News...

Lightship’s Bootcamp is a free entrepreneurship education program, serving underrepresented early-stage business founders. Madison Region Economic Partnership (MadREP) and Lightship Foundation unveiled plans to bring the Lightship Bootcamp program, powered by the...

Three finalists have been chosen as potential candidates for the chancellor position at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, including Phyllis King, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs and vice provost for partnerships and initiatives at the University of...

Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: A) and Exact Sciences Corp. (Nasdaq: EXAS), a leading provider of cancer screening and diagnostic tests, today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for the sale of Resolution Bioscience to Exact Sciences. Financial...

In conjunction with the National CHIPS and Science Act, the National Science Foundation last year created its new Regional Innovation Engines program to catalyze critical technology ecosystems across the U.S. that are stimulating economic growth and creating jobs....

Enrollment largely held steady at most of Wisconsin's public universities this fall, bucking a downward trendline that has plagued institutions across the demographically challenged Midwest. The campus-by-campus breakdown, however, shows many of the state's smallest...

Successful kidney transplants rely on the biological compatibility of the donor and recipient but still require long-term use of drugs to tamp down the recipient’s immune system and prevent donor organ rejection. Finding a method to increase compatibility can help...

Madison-based Exact Sciences, a provider of cancer screening and diagnostic tests, has entered into an agreement with Santa Clara, California-based Agilent Technologies to acquire one of its portfolio companies: Kirkland, Washington-based Resolution Biosciences....

Milwaukee-based financial services firm Baird has acquired a minority stake in Minneapolis-based Octavus Group, the parent company of LoCorr Funds. LoCorr Funds is headquartered in Excelsior, Minnesota and is a leader in low-correlating alternative investments. The...

Three advertising and marketing professionals with decades of experience at varying lifestyle agencies have joined forces to launch Moonshot, a new venture studio concept, here in southeastern Wisconsin. Ryan Chuckel, founder and chief executive officer of...

Aquatech International plans to more than double the size of its Hartland facility that focuses on technology for the battery-grade lithium chemical market with the help of a $4.7 million loan from the Export-Import Bank of the United States. The company will add...