THE NEWSROOM

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...