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Energy Tech Innovations, LLC (ETI) is one of the 26 companies vying for a win in the Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan contest. Founded in 2015, this company has developed a simpler and more cost-effective way to create biogas, while commodifying the carbon dioxide...

2023 has not been easy on the venture capital industry. The year started off on the heels of months of major technology firm layoffs, and with an uncertain economy marked by high inflation and a challenging stock market. In March, the collapse of Silicon Valley...

A startup that's looking to transform the music industry is the first company Milwaukee venture capital firm VC 414 publicly announced it has backed. Milwaukee-based Even Labs Inc. announced Friday it raised $2.2 million in seed funding with participation from VC 414,...

A simple drawing of what a weather balloon might look like from above led to Delafield-based artificial intelligence startup Synthetaic being featured in The New York Times. The company’s Rapid Automatic Image Categorization platform was able to track the Chinese spy...

Billionaire Diane Hendricks, chairman and sole owner of Beloit-based construction materials company ABC Supply, reflected on her entrepreneurial journey during a recent appearance at Concordia University Wisconsin in Mequon. Hendricks, who grew up on a Wisconsin dairy...

Leaner is better. That’s what Meta chief executive officer Mark Zuckerburg said when he announced in March that the company would be laying off 10,000 workers. That sentiment sums up the ongoing shift in the technology sector as several well-known companies, including...

Microsoft Corp. and Epic on Monday announced they are expanding their long-standing strategic collaboration to develop and integrate generative AI into healthcare by combining the scale and power of Azure OpenAI Service1 with Epic's industry-leading electronic health...

For the record, Craig Culver’s favorite frozen custard at Culver’s Restaurant is vanilla, but he’s also partial to the most popular flavor, caramel pecan. Culver, whose family founded the popular Culver’s Restaurant franchise, came to Lakeland Tuesday to share his...

Milwaukee-based startup EVEN, launched in 2022, has reached another funding milestone.  Company founder and CEO, Mag Rodriguez, announced it raised a $2.2 million seed round to support the direct-to-consumer platform that allows artists to sell their music to...

At the close of the first quarter, financial reports across the board indicate venture and growth investors in private companies continued to scale back their investment pace. According to Pitchbook data, 27 Wisconsin-based startup companies raised venture capital in...

WARF is seeking commercial partners to help develop a new method for extending the storage life of various meat products. This method’s inventor, Mark Richards, is a professor in UW-Madison’s Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences. The Wisconsin Alumni Research...

Redox has partnered with Verato, which specializes in identity data management solutions, to enable healthcare organizations to create and leverage more accurate data to drive faster organizational innovation and operational success, the company announced recently....

Milwaukee-based tech startup EVEN wants to change the status quo in the music industry. Through the startup’s blockchain-based platform, artists can sell their music directly to fans before uploading it on traditional streaming platforms. Fans who use EVEN are given...

The chair of UW-Madison’s Department of Engineering Physics says nuclear energy is at a “pivot point” as development progresses on new types of reactors. Paul Wilson spoke yesterday during a Madison event hosted by the Customers First Coalition focused on new nuclear...

Leaders from Northwestern Mutual’s Data Science Institute see many ways that artificial intelligence could position Milwaukee as a national leader in technology and research. During a roundtable discussion held Thursday, Marquette University president Michael...

Kristen Raney is Northeast Wisconsin Technical College's next president, making her the first female to lead the college in its 111-year history. Raney will start July 1, taking over for current president Jeffrey Rafn, who served the college for 26 years and is...

This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with Nick Kees, an attorney with Godfrey & Kahn in Milwaukee. Kees, a member of the law firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group, discusses an event being put on next week by the Wisconsin District Export...