THE NEWSROOM

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...

Rockwell Automation agreed to acquire a Canadian company that makes autonomous mobile robots for industrial settings with model names including Warthog, Jackal, Dingo and Turtlebot. Rockwell called such robots the next frontier in industrial automation and...

Ohio insuretech firm Bold Penguin has inked its second national pro sports sponsorship since being acquired by American Family Insurance of Madison. The NFL's Cincinnati Bengals named the Columbus software maker its "Official Commercial Insurance Technology Partner."...

Linda Ceylor said she has cell reception on her organic dairy farm in Price County. It just depends on where you're standing. "Sometimes I'll be having a conversation, even in my house where I have a booster, and if I move to the left or move to the right, somebody...

On a Friday in August, Germantown software firm VBA’s leadership team learned the company secured a $156 million private-equity investment. The following day, a Saturday, chief technology officer Rich Pierce worked 20 hours. He was busy with technology projects the...

This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with Patrick Sullivan, CEO, co-founder and co-inventor at Flux XII. Sullivan has spent the last few years as a graduate student researcher at UW-Madison, with a focus on battery chemistry, energy analysis and...

TitletownTech now has almost $100 million to invest in and attract early-stage startup companies and entrepreneurs to the Green Bay region. Its impact in its first five years of existence left even its founders and most ardent advocates in a bit of disbelief. “If when...

Dr. Nicholas Reiter, assistant professor of chemistry in Marquette University’s Klingler College of Arts and Sciences, has received nearly $1.68 million in R01 funding from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences to study the...

Milwaukee-based health care payments analytics and data science company Sift Healthcare announced the appointment of Dhiraj Sankala as the company’s new chief technology officer. Sankala previously served in key leadership roles at Zelis Healthcare, Nuance Healthcare...

Second-quarter 2023 data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) show that Wisconsin banks remain on a solid foundation. Banks continue to be responsive to the needs of their customers, and lending increased in all categories (commercial, residential,...

A German manufacturer of long-duration energy storage systems that's planning to test its products in Milwaukee later this year has announced another U.S. testing site. The Phoenix pilot project, called Desert Blume, will use proprietary non-lithium battery technology...

Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) recently selected eight projects for funding through the Dairy Innovation Hub initiative. These one-year grants fund promising work in the Hub’s four priority areas: stewarding land and water resources,...

Froedtert Health and ThedaCare announced today that their respective Boards have approved a definitive agreement outlining the terms of the planned combined health system, an important step in their process to combine the organizations to advance local health care for...