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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...
In Business Magazine: Here’s to responsible innovation
Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) have many worried that technology is becoming fatally disruptive, not just creatively so. The recent examples of unethical technology development are all around us, from the misuse of environmental DNA to examples of...
In Business Magazine: Triumphant tiny technology
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and in the case of SixLine Semiconductor, not being able to see its product with the naked eye wasn’t an impediment to earning the grand prize last month in the 20th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest. SixLine, a...
WEDC: Advances in nanotechnology through UW-Madison research
SixLine Semiconductor could lead the way toward the next generation of wireless electronics SixLine Semiconductor, a Middleton startup whose product could someday improve the speed and battery life of your cell phone, won the grand prize in the 20th annual Wisconsin...
WisBusiness: UW-Madison: UW will launch materials engineering research initiative with major MSF sponsorship
The University of Wisconsin–Madison Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) has received $18 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for interdisciplinary exploration of fundamental questions in materials science. The grant will provide...
WisBusiness: UW-Madison: Center For Healthy Minds at UW-Madison to launch research on connection between asthma and Alzheimer’s disease
Chronic inflammatory diseases can compromise brain health and increase dementia risk, but why and how that happens is a lingering scientific puzzle. A multi-disciplinary team of University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers is set to launch a five-year investigation...
BizTimes Milwaukee: North Carolina startup takes grand prize at Summerfest Tech’s Pitch Competition
A Raleigh, North Carolina-based health care startup took home a first-place prize of $20,000 at this year’s Summerfest Tech Pitch Competition. Lavni Inc., founded by Marcus King, aims to combat the stigma surrounding mental health care by connecting individuals in...
WisBusiness: UW Health: Carbone Cancer Center named one of America’s Best Cancer Hospitals 2023
Today, Newsweek announced theinaugurallist of America’s Best Cancer Hospitals 2023, naming UW Health | Carbone Cancer Centerthe top cancer hospital in Wisconsin and 30th in the United States. This award is presented by Newsweek and Statista, a data-gathering...