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More than 350 high school students and mentors from all across the United States came to compete in a VEX Robotics Competition at the Lambeau Field Atrium. Students from California, Illinois, South Dakota, Nebraska, Ohio, Florida, Tennessee, Montana, Indiana,...

TitletownTech says its latest investment is in a Chicago-based logistics company. Tusk Logistics publicly launched at the supply chain and logistics conference Manifest, and announced its $1.6 million pre-seed funding round, led by Forum Ventures with participation...

Wisconsin will receive more than $400,000 through a settlement with the crypto-related company Nexo Capital, the state Department of Financial Institutions says. DFI this week announced a $22.5 million multi-state securities settlement against the company, which was...

WEC Energy Group (NYSE: WEC) today announced that the company will lead a pilot project at its Valley Power Plant in Milwaukee to test a new form of long-duration energy storage. WEC Energy Group is collaborating with EPRI, an independent, nonprofit energy research...

TitletownTech, a venture capital firm formed out of a partnership between the Green Bay Packers and Microsoft, has invested in Tusk Logistics, a Chicago-based supply chain company that has built a national network of regional parcel carriers. Tusk publicly launched at...

There are still 17 months to go before the 2024 Republican National Convention comes to Milwaukee, but the GOP and local organizers are already laying the groundwork to bring upwards of 45,000 visitors to the city for the four-day event. Local officials and Republican...

One of the University of Wisconsin System's longest-serving chancellors is leaving for a job leading a similarly sized university in the Midwest. Indiana University Southeast announced Thursday that UW-Parkside Chancellor Deborah Ford will begin serving as the...

Upwardli, a financial technology company offering credit building products for consumers new to credit, announced a $2 million Series Seed funding round led by Dundee Venture Capital, with participation from Techstars, J4 Ventures, Cascade Seed Fund, Avesta...

Milwaukee financial technology startup Upwardli has raised $2 million in seed funding from investors to grow its credit-building platform, the company announced Thursday. Upwardli will use the capital to hire additional staff, improve platform features to help users...

The Milwaukee School of Engineering has announced place to turn an historic home at 308 E. Juneau St. in downtown Milwaukee into The Patricia E. Kern Conservatory of Music. In a press release issued Wednesday morning, the school said it has acquired the one-time...

It's been one year since the opening of Aurora Health Care's $228 million medical center in Mount Pleasant adjacent to the Foxconn Technology Group campus, with the new facility admitting nearly 1,800 patients by year-end 2022. The facility represents Aurora’s first...

For more than a century, the city of Sheboygan has been a key energy hub helping to power homes and businesses in eastern Wisconsin and beyond. With new technological advances and the ongoing transition to cleaner renewable generation sources, Alliant Energy announced...

For more than a century, the city of Sheboygan has been a key energy hub helping to power homes and businesses in eastern Wisconsin and beyond. With new technological advances and the ongoing transition to cleaner renewable generation sources, Alliant Energy announced...

Serial entrepreneur, Dustin Overbeck, got the idea for his company, HeyGov when he was struggling to receive payments from government municipalities in the early days of the pandemic. Overbeck is also the owner of Town Web Design, a company that creates websites for...

The parent company of We Energies plans to spend $250 million to acquire an 80% stake in a solar project located around 140 miles northeast of Dallas, Texas. Milwaukee-based WEC Energy Group will acquire the stake in the 250-megawatt Samson I Solar Energy Center,...

More than two years since the founding of Milwaukee-based venture capital fund Character by John Zeratsky, Eli Blee-Goldman and Jake Knapp, the team has unveiled an expansion of their venture capital efforts. A new program called Character Labs will help pre-seed...

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) is seeking commercial partners interested in developing an inexpensive method to synthesize the active ingredient in Tylenol and other pain relievers, as well as the commodity chemical p-aminophenol, from lignin. The...

he Whitewater University Technology Park board of directors has appointed Elizabeth Thelen, M.S. as the Whitewater University Technology Park and Community Engagement Center's Executive Director. After an extensive nationwide search, the search committee narrowed the...

Oshkosh Defense is gearing up to make a run at a $5 billion contract to build the U.S. Army's next generation of heavy-duty tactical trucks. The company, a subsidary of Oshkosh Corp., is one of four companies recently selected to deliver protoype trucks for evaluation...