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The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee announced this week that a group of donors has committed $2.1 million to an initiative meant to close the long-standing equity gap in college graduation rates. The work is rooted in the Moon Shot for Equity partnership that UWM...
Wisconsin Inno: Here’s how Wisconsin stacked up to other states for VC funding in 2022
While Wisconsin startups raised fewer venture capital dollars last year compared with the record-setting year of 2021, the state was not alone in experiencing a decline in VC funding and it didn't fare as poorly as the nation as a whole. Wisconsin startups raised $526...
State efforts to boost venture capital topic of March 28 Tech Council luncheon
Young companies need capital to grow, create jobs and add value to the economy. Securing angel and venture capital is one way of obtaining that kind of startup money – but does Wisconsin have enough early stage capital to compete with its neighbors? Learn about two...
WisBusiness: NorthStar installs electron beam accelerator at Beloit facility
NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes has received and installed a specialized device that can produce a radioactive material used in certain cancer therapies. The company recently announced the custom-built electron beam accelerator was delivered and installed at its...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Generac makes minority investment in Colorado software company
Town of Genesee-based Generac Holdings Inc. has made a strategic minority investment in Boulder, Colorado-based Rolling Energy Resources. RER provides electric vehicle load management software that is often used by utilities and electric vehicle owners to monitor and...
Wisconsin Inno: Milwaukee-area leader to help women of color in workplace with online platform
With the goal of empowering Black, Hispanic, Asian and Indigenous women in the workplace, a Milwaukee-area leader is launching an online social community and training platform for women of color. Known as Leaders LeadUp, the platform is designed to help women of color...
Wisconsin Inno: Kenosha taps Milwaukee architect for $22M innovation center at former Chrysler site
The city of Kenosha has selected Milwaukee's Eppstein Uhen Architects Inc. (EUA) to design a multimillion-dollar innovation center in the city's planned innovation district. Construction of the 59,000-square-foot center could begin as soon as December and be largely...
Wisconsin Inno: Mayor Johnson to pitch Milwaukee as a tech hub at Austin’s SXSW festival
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...