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As the popular South by Southwest (SXSW) music, arts and technology festival kicks off Friday in Austin, Texas, Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson will be there to pitch Milwaukee as an innovative city for businesses and individuals to invest in or as a place to...
WEDC: Wisconsin Investment Fund aims to boost innovation
The Wisconsin Investment Fund, a new resource from WEDC, is providing $50 million to boost innovative, young businesses that could energize the state’s economy for years to come. The fund will partner with professional venture capital managers who will identify...
Madison Startups: Fetch Launches New Receipt Tech
Fetch has launched its next-generation receipt-scanning technology, which improves accuracy with item recognition, product intelligence and enhances user experience, the company announced today. “Receipt understanding is a very complex problem,” Fetch Group President...
MKE Startup News: Rex Academy partners with UW-Milwaukee
Milwaukee-based Rex Academy is leading the way in providing accessible STEM education. The company has created a partnership with University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) that will allow Rex Academy students to transfer up to six credits of coursework toward a Bachelor...
Channel 3000: Hundreds gather to honor former UW Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank at memorial service
Hundreds gathered at First Congregational United Church of Christ in Madison today to honor the life and legacy of the late former UW Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank. Friends and family shared memories of her life filled with service and learning. They called out her...
BizTimes Milwaukee: 20 Wisconsin hospitals included in Newsweek’s list of the best in the nation
Newsweek magazine recently unveiled its annual list of the World’s Best Hospitals, which includes its list of the 420 best hospitals in the Unites States. Newsweek and global data firm Statista create the rankings. This year they ranked more than 2,300 hospitals in 28...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Marquette unveils new advanced automation lab
Marquette University and Omron Automation Americas unveiled this week the Omron Advanced Automation Lab at Engineering Hall on the MU campus. The Omron Advanced Automation Lab was announced in June 2022 with Omron Automation Americas gifting the university more than...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Details revealed for Wisconsin’s new $50 million investment fund
The Wisconsin Investment Fund Committee met for the first time Friday morning, just over a week after Gov. Tony Evers unveiled plans for the new $50 million fund, funding which is coming from the federal government’s American Rescue Plan Act. The committee, which is...
WisBusiness: The Wisconsin Technology Council is touting the quality of the state’s health care system as an economic development asset.
"2023 Taking the Pulse: How Quality Health Care Builds a Better Economy" references findings from a variety of sources to support this notion. It includes figures from the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality ranking Wisconsin among the country's top...
MKE Startup News: 49 entries advance in 2023 Wisconsin Governor’s BPC
Forty-nine entries from 25 different municipalities have advanced to the semi-final round of the 20th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest, contest producers announced. Contestants emerged in first-round competition involving an independent panel of about...
WisPolitics: GMCC Lunch(UP)date with Wisconsin State Legislators
On March 2, 2023, Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce hosted an event featuring a bipartisan group of state legislators representing Greater Madison - Sen. Melissa Agard (D-Madison), Rep. William Penterman (R-Columbus) and Rep. Shelia Stubbs (D-Madison) - for a...
Wisconsin State Journal: Epic Systems to add 1,700 jobs as it expands its Wizards Academy campus in Verona
Epic Systems Corp. is building two new office buildings as it looks to grow its workforce by 10% in 2023. The two new buildings, named Creatures and Guilds, will become the sixth and seventh buildings on the Wizards Academy cluster at the Verona-based medical software...
InsideWis: Quality health care is Wisconsin asset, but it can’t be taken for granted
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – Most people rank the quality of the health care they receive in a hyper-personal way. If a doctor, nurse or clinician fix what ails them, people tend to give good marks. If health problems persist without a good explanation as to why, the...
WisBusiness: UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health: New Osher Center for Integrative Health launches at UW–Madison
After more than a year of planning and development, the University of Wisconsin Integrative Health program officially opened the Osher Center for Integrative Health at University of Wisconsin‒Madison. The center will be funded through a $5.5 million endowment from the...
Wisconsin Public Radio: UW System President Jay Rothman to seek in-state tuition increase
University of Wisconsin System President Jay Rothman will seek the first tuition increase for Wisconsin undergraduate students since state lawmakers initiated a freeze more than a decade ago. Rothman will ask the UW Board of Regents to approve a 5 percent increase...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Wisconsin ranks 12th in U.S. for agricultural exports following record year
It was a record year in 2022 for food, forestry and agriculture product exports from the state of Wisconsin. The latest U.S. Census trade data shows Wisconsin exported goods in the aforementioned categories to 142 countries totaling approximately $4.22 billion. This...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Summerfest Tech returning with expanded programming, new location
Summerfest Tech is returning for its sixth year with a new three-day format. This year’s event, being held June 26 through June 29, also has a new home at Potawatomi Casino|Hotel. Milwaukee World Festival Inc., the organization that runs Summerfest, attributes the...
Wisconsin Inno: These nine Wisconsin companies made Inc. list of fastest-growing Midwest firms
The highly valued Madison startup Fetch is among nine Wisconsin firms on Inc.'s latest list of the fastest-growing private companies in the Midwest. Fetch, which makes a consumer rewards app, reported 407% revenue growth between 2019 and 2021, placing it at No. 2...
Wisconsin Public Radio: Evers proposes $750M for broadband expansion amid massive federal investment in high-speed internet
Gov. Tony Evers' proposed budget calls for the state to invest $750 million in broadband expansion over the next decade as Wisconsin could receive more than $1 billion from the federal government. Despite the infusion of federal dollars, the head of the Public Service...
Wisconsin Dept. of Workforce Development: DWD Announces $3.8 Million in Wisconsin Fast Forward Worker Training Grants
From education to eye care to meat snacks, employers across Wisconsin will use more than $3.8 million in Wisconsin Fast Forward grants from the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development to support worker training programs that put people on the path to employment...