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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...
WisBusiness: Tech Council board urges approval of UW engineering building project
The Wisconsin Technology Council’s board of directors is calling on state lawmakers to “fully authorize” a UW-Madison College of Engineering construction project. In a memo delivered last week to all members of the state Legislature, the board members are urging...
Marquette biomedical sciences professor receives $2 million R01 grant to study factors in the transition to opioid addiction
Dr. Matthew Hearing, assistant professor of biomedical sciences in Marquette University’s College of Health Sciences, has received a R01 grant worth $2,067,753 from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Drug Abuse to study how the brain changes in...
Wisconsin Legislature resolution on UW-Madison College of Engineering
July 13, 2023 TO: Members of the Wisconsin Legislature FROM: Board of directors, Wisconsin Technology Council RE: A resolution on the UW-Madison College of Engineering project The board of directors of the Wisconsin Technology Council strongly urges the Wisconsin...
UW golfers Beckman, Smith will join July 24 Tech Council outing to benefit Biz Plan Contest
Jacob Beckman and Ryan Smith, members of the UW-Madison Men’s Golf Team and former high school champions in their respective states, will be on hand Monday, July 24 at Blackhawk Country Club for a scramble golf tournament to support future winners of the Wisconsin...
WisBusiness: An associate dean at UW-Madison’s College of Engineering says researchers at the university are trying to boost storage capacity and range for batteries used in electric vehicles
David Noyce, director of the university's Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory, spoke yesterday during a Wisconsin Technology Council event in Wauwatosa focused on electric vehicle development. He and other speakers discussed some of the challenges associated with...
WisBusiness: Startups in Wisconsin raised at least $640 million from investors last year, according to the Wisconsin Technology Council’s latest Wisconsin Portfolio report.
While that's lower than the record-high total of nearly $869 million from 2021, it's the second-highest total for annual investment dollars ever seen in the state. Last year's total includes 107 different deals, compared to the 140 deals seen in the prior year. The...
WisBusiness: the Podcast with Wendy Baumann, WWBIC
This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: The Podcast” is with Wendy Baumann, president and chief visionary officer of the Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Corporation. WWBIC is a statewide economic development corporation that aims to level the economic playing field...
Calendar 2022 was Wisconsin’s second highest year for early stage investment dollars at $640 million
Investments in young, Wisconsin-based companies by angel and venture capitalists and other equity investors totaled $640.2 million in 2022, far from the previous year’s total of $868.8 million but still the second-highest investment total on the books. Research by the...
InsideWis: Cracks in the venture and angel world will crimp Wisconsin in 2023
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. -- The second biggest year in Wisconsin’s angel and venture capital economy was 2022. Don’t expect a repeat in 2023. That statement combines what is already known about early stage investments in Wisconsin for the past calendar year, and how...
WisBusiness: InvivoSciences gearing up for FDA application on heart failure drug
InvivoSciences, a pre-clinical stage biotech firm based in Madison, is gearing up for a potential FDA application for a heart failure drug and companion diagnostic tool. But first, company leaders plan to meet with officials at the federal agency to get feedback ahead...
BizTimes Milwaukee: gener8tor unveils second cohort for Kenosha accelerator
Wisconsin startup accelerator gener8tor, along with the City of Kenosha, announced this week the latest cohort of companies that will participate in the city’s second gBETA program. gBETA is a free, seven-week accelerator that works with local, early-stage startups so...
‘WisBiz: The Show’ features Arek Schmocker of Chocolate Rescue for Dogs
Welcome to “WisBusiness: The Show,” a twice-a-month Web show covering state business news and issues. In the latest episode of “WisBusiness.com: The Show, Arek Schmocker of Chocolate Rescue for Dogs, who was the winner of the Bright New Ideas award at the Governor’s...
Wisconsin Public Radio: ‘More jobs for the Verona and Dane County area’: Epic Systems is planning another expansion
One of Dane County’s biggest companies is planning another expansion — on top of efforts to add two new buildings and hire an additional 1,700 new employees this year. Epic Systems, a Verona-based health care software company that employs around 13,000 people, is...