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Today, the Urban League of Greater Madison (ULGM) and the Green Bay Packers Foundation announced a $250,000 matching gift challenge grant for the Black Business Hub and Accelerator Project (BBHAP). This exciting announcement was made at the annual Unity Picnic, a...
WisBusiness: TitletownTech closes second fund totalling $70M
TitletownTech now has $95 million in assets under management after recently closing on a $70 million fund. The Green Bay venture capital firm yesterday announced 27 new and existing investors contributed to its second fund, including the Green Bay Packers and...
MKE Startup News: eCourt Reporters join gener8tor; continue to scale
Burlington-based eCourt Reporters has been an active presence in the region’s startup ecosystem since its launch in 2017. Founders Karen Renee and Judy Gerulat have created an online legal platform designed to connect court reporters and other legal support...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Jump Start: West Allis startup WorkShift looking to revolutionize gig work for hospitality industry
Yang was a finalist in the 2023 Governor's Business Plan Contest. Good help is hard to find. For those in the hospitality industry, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic made it even harder. For Bekki Yang, chief executive officer of West Allis-based WorkShift, this...
WisBusiness: UW inventors create energy-efficient wireless network system
UW-Madison researchers have created a new wireless network system that dramatically improves energy efficiency. That’s according to an overview from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which is seeking commercial partners to help develop the system. WARF says...
WisconsinEye: WEDC’s Wisconsin Investment Fund Committee has identified six investment funds ripe for partnership
The Wisconsin Investment Fund, a $50 million dollar investment pool funded by the federal State Small Business Credit Initiative, is designed to support innovative small businesses and boost the state economy. Once partner venture capital funds are selected, the WIF...
MKE Startup News: JOY offers solution to mental health crisis
Dave Gee, an entrepreneurship instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and Marquette University, is concerned about his college-aged students. The Launch Pad director said, “the mental health problem is incredibly acute and pervasive across college...
Wisconsin Public Radio: Number of jobs in Wisconsin reaches record high as unemployment hovers near record lows
Wisconsin's labor force is continuing its post-pandemic expansion, the latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows. The total of number of nonfarm-related jobs across Wisconsin grew to more than 3 million as of June 2023. That's a record high and an...
Milwaukee Business Journal: Microsoft’s Mount Pleasant data center clears another hurdle as more project details emerge
Microsoft Corp. gained another needed approval toward a possible October construction start for its data center in Mount Pleasant, which the company said will support the state’s information technology industry. “The project is needed to address expanding customer...
Wisconsin DWD: BLS Data: Wisconsin Breaks Record in Number of Jobs During June
he Department of Workforce Development (DWD) today released the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) job totals for the month of June 2023, which showed Wisconsin's total nonfarm jobs reached a record high of 3,006,900. This is 52,900 more jobs than a year ago and an...
Guest column: The Crowdfunding Phenomenon: Gumroad’s Journey to Success
By Spencer X. Smith Entrepreneur Sahil Lavingia has been making waves in the startup business world ever since he began raising capital for his company, Gumroad. His groundbreaking approach to funding has attracted the attention of investors, advocates, and media...
Marquette University EOP receives $800,000 in funding pilot cyber explorers pre-college program
Marquette University’s Educational Opportunity Program has received $799,500 in funding from the U.S. Department of Education to pilot the Seizing Opportunities Academic Readiness (SOAR) Cyber Explorers Pilot Program, which provides teaching and learning activities to...
InsideWis: Future of fusion energy has strong toehold in Wisconsin
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. -- Wisconsin has all the makings to be an international hub for fusion. No, I don’t mean fusion cuisine, although that’s on the calendar now that Bravo TV’s headline “Top Chef” series has selected Wisconsin as a destination for its upcoming...
WisBusiness: Milwaukee’s gener8tor program announces latest cohort of startups
The Milwaukee chapter of the gener8tor accelerator network has announced its latest cohort of startups, each of which will receive a $100,000 investment. Along with those funds, each selected startup will join a 12-week business development program, which includes...
Wisconsin Inno: Wisconsin Tech Council finds venture capital in state dropped 26% in 2022
Wisconsin startups raised over $640 million in angel and venture capital funding in 2022, 26% lower than the prior year's record-breaking total, but still the second-highest level of investment on record. According to the Wisconsin Technology Council's Wisconsin...
Wisconsin Inno: Like Uber for basketball courts: Startup wins $5K in Milwaukee pitch competition
An early-stage Milwaukee startup building an app that would connect basketball players with indoor courts recently won $5,000 in a local pitch competition. The startup, called I Got Nxt, would have an Uber-like model of pairing idle gyms with competitive or...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Johnson Controls paying at least $455 million to acquire workplace management firm
Johnson Controls will pay at least $455 million to acquire FM:Systems, a North Carolina-based provider of workplace management technology. FM:Systems has 200 employees and 1,200 customers with more than 2.4 million users across 80 countries. The firm’s software...
Madison Startups: NorthStar, Bayer Establish Agreement
NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes announced today that it will provide Bayer with its environmentally preferred, non-carrier added (n.c.a.) therapeutic medical radioisotope, actinium‐225 (Ac‐225). “We are very pleased to enter this Ac-225 supply agreement with Bayer, a...
Cap Times: Madison biomedical startup prepares heart failure treatment for FDA application
A Madison-based medical technology startup says a personalized heart failure treatment it is developing is nearing the FDA application process. While other areas of disease including cancer screenings have caught up to the advancements in personalized treatment,...
Cap Times: One City Schools saved by Wisconsin budget deal, Kaleem Caire says
Caire is a member of the Wisconsin Technology Council board. The early-June compromise that paved the way for the state’s biennial budget may have also saved one Madison charter school, according to its leader. One City Schools Founder and CEO Kaleem Caire said prior...