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The Zilber Family Foundation is giving $20 million to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Joseph J. Zilber College of Public Health to support faculty excellence and student achievement. Specifically, the funding will support two endowments: the Zilber Faculty...
MKE Startup News: RoddyMedical: Creating a new standard of care
Registered nurse Lindsey Roddy witnessed the dangers of tangled medical tubing when she nearly lost a patient after a medical line carrying life support medications caught and was pulled out from the patient’s body. Studies indicate that 19 million medical lines are...
Wisconsin Inno: Realta Fusion, WRTP | BIG STEP to craft fusion workforce pipeline
WRTP | BIG STEP, a nonprofit workforce intermediary, is working with Madison startup Realta Fusion in a partnership that will work to identify the competencies and skills needed to create and sustain Wisconsin’s fusion workforce as the industry develops. “There’s no...
PR Newswire: Bend Health Launches Virtual Neuropsychological Evaluations for Kids and Teens
Bend Health, Inc. ("Bend") a leading national, virtual pediatric behavioral care provider that raised $32 million in capital last year, today announced an expansion of its child and adolescent mental health care services to include virtual neuropsychological...
WisBusiness: As artificial intelligence enables more potentially misleading digital content to be produced, a Madison-based expert says blockchain technology could hold the key to authentication
In a recent blog post on LinkedIn, AmpliPhi Digital founder Spencer X. Smith highlighted mounting concerns about the potential for "deepfakes" such as manipulated video, audio and images to mislead people. Because AI has now advanced enough to create convincing fakes,...
UW-Madison golf team members to join July 24 Tech Council outing to benefit Biz Plan Contest
Join us Monday, July 24 at Blackhawk Country Club in the Madison suburb of Shorewood Hills for a scramble golf tournament to support winners of the 2024 Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest and to celebrate with members and friends of the Wisconsin Technology...
Blackhawk Country Club: A hacker’s guide for July 24 golf outing
Our third annual golf outing is approaching quickly! Join us Monday, July 24 at Blackhawk Country Club in Madison to celebrate a great summer. Below is Tom Still's hacker guide to succeed at the golf outing. Registration is open until Monday, July 17 - click here to...
Wisconsin Inno: Milwaukee logistics startup doubling warehouse space and staff
Fast-growing Milwaukee startup Atomix Logistics LLC is doubling the size of its current facility with a move to a 60,000-square-foot warehouse near Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport. It also said it plans to double the size of its team. The startup, which...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Madison health-tech startup RadUnity completes seed funding round
Madison-based RadUnity Corp., a startup creating a platform aimed at making the process of medical imaging within the health care industry more uniform, has closed a $500,000 seed funding round. The funding came from two undisclosed angel investors based in...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Versiti acquires Indiana-based Quantigen
Milwaukee-based blood health and research organization Versiti on Monday announced its acquisition of Quantigen, a specialty lab in Fishers, Indiana. Founded as an expert methods development laboratory, Quantigen provides a range of services supporting preclinical...
WEDC: Improving home health care for seniors
Finding caregivers for an older relative is no easy task, and it’s even harder for families to monitor how well that essential care is given. Scott Zielski, of Eau Claire, learned that quickly when his father moved back and forth among hospitals, skilled nursing...
WisPolitics: Gov. Evers: Announces release of 2023 Governor’s Task Force on Broadband Access annual report
Gov. Tony Evers today announced the release of the Governor’s Task Force on Broadband Access’ third annual report. Building upon findings from the previous two reports, the 2023 report provides an update on efforts under Gov. Evers and the Evers Administration to...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Future 50 winners for 2023 announced
The 2023 Future 50 winners have added nearly 1,400 jobs in the Milwaukee region during the past three years. Future 50 recognizes the fastest growing companies in southeastern Wisconsin. The program started in 1988 with the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of...
Wisconsin State Journal: Epic Systems designing a sixth campus and 5.5-acre underground parking ramp
Don’t expect to see the construction cranes that tower over Epic to disappear anytime soon. Epic Systems Corp. is designing a sixth campus, starting with a 5.5-acre, four-story underground parking ramp with 2,050 parking stalls on its northwest side to anchor an...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: UW-led team of astrophysicists identifies invisible ‘ghost particles’ in Milky Way using AI
Astrophysicists have long predicted that the Milky Way is a source of ghostly particles called neutrinos, but haven’t been able to detect them. Until now. In a new study led by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a massive detector at the IceCube...
Madison Startups: RadUnity Raises $500K in Funding
RadUnity Corp., a University of Wisconsin spin-off that focuses on data normalization in medical imaging, has secured $500,000 in seed funding, the organization announced recently. According to a release, the funding will advance the development and implementation of...
InsideWis: Wisconsin’s personal income taxes: Looking beyond rhetoric on both sides
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – How do disparate tax rates from state-to-state affect business and worker attraction and retention? The debate over that question has been reignited by Gov. Tony Evers’ veto of a personal income tax cut led by the Republican majority in...
As Goes Wisconsin: What Wisconsin needs: From technology to journalism
We talk to Tom Still, president of the Wisconsin Technology Council, which is the science and technology policy adviser to the Wisconsin Governor and Legislature. We talk about what it is that WTC does and also hear his thoughts on what Wisconsin needs in order to...
Learn how to launch, fund and grow your own business at SWIFT event July 26 in Superior
Join advisors assembled by the Wisconsin Technology Council for a free session to help entrepreneurs of all types learn more about the basics of launching, funding, and growing a young business by attending the Wednesday, July 26 event in Superior. This free event...
WisBusiness: the Podcast with Nick Myers, RedFox AI
This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with Nick Myers, CEO and co-founder of Madison-based RedFox AI. The startup company has a conversational artificial intelligence platform that’s meant to help guide patients through the process of at-home...