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Over 70 judges have volunteered so far to judge entries and provide feedback in the 2023 Governor’s Business Plan Contest, which includes a cross-section of disciplines that help define Wisconsin’s startup culture. This year’s judging pool will feature a strong...
Wisconsin Public Radio: DNA from blood samples could help early cancer detection, Wisconsin researchers say
Some of the most deadly cancers are also among the hardest to detect before symptoms appear, but Wisconsin researchers used technology to develop what they believe could be a more effective and inexpensive way to identify cancer early. Researchers at the University of...
Wisconsin Public Radio: Bayfield County microgrid aims to keep the lights on amid extreme weather
Far northern Wisconsin has faced several extreme floods in the last decade that have caused tens of millions of dollars in damage to infrastructure while also cutting off power for some living in the region. Now, Xcel Energy and Bayfield County are partnering to build...
Wisconsin Inno: Madison startup invests in new offices while keeping in-person work optional: Slideshow
One of Wisconsin's most successful startups is investing in new physical office spaces in Madison and Chicago but has stopped short of requiring employees to use them. Fetch, the Madison-based maker of an increasingly popular consumer loyalty app, opened a new...
Wisconsin Inno: These Wisconsin startups raised the most VC money in Q4
As venture capital momentum slowed in late 2022, fewer dollars flowed to Wisconsin startups last quarter compared with earlier in the year and in the same quarter of previous years. But 2022 as a whole was still a historically strong year for venture capital...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Wisconsin wage growth slowed to end the year, but hourly gains remained above 5%
After peaking in May, Wisconsin saw a slowdown in wage growth that continued in the fourth quarter, but the increase in average hourly wages remained above 5% in December, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The average hourly wage in the state...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Molson Coors and Greater Milwaukee Urban League to launch networking group for Black entrepreneurs
Chicago-based Molson Coors Beverage Company and the Greater Milwaukee Urban League announced today that they will partner to launch a networking group for local Black entrepreneurs, called the GMUL Entrepreneurship Connection. As part of the program – which includes...
BizTimes Milwaukee: VC 414 aims to support underrepresented founders, de-mystify venture capital
Venture capital with a conscience has hit the streets of Milwaukee through the opening of the city’s newest VC firm: VC 414. Founded by venture capitalist and angel investor Jennifer Abele and former BMO Harris executive Raquel Filmanowicz, VC 414 launched at the...
Wisconsin student entries welcome by Jan. 31 for 2023 Governor’s Business Plan Contest
Looking for a self-directed project this semester that can lead to prizes, mentoring and live connections to the business world? The 20th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest will accept entries online for the 2023 competition until 11:50 p.m. Tuesday,...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Consolidation, labor shortages, new technology impacting health care industry in 2023
The year 2022 was a big one for merger and acquisition activity among hospitals and health systems in Wisconsin. To understand how the health care marketplace is being transformed by this and other trends – including higher costs, labor shortages and the shift to...
BizTimes Milwaukee: See photos of Marquette’s new business school
The new home of Marquette University’s business and innovation leadership programs, the Dr. E.J. and Margaret O’Brien Hall opened its doors to students last week. “We told prospective students and their families they would have seven or eight semesters in the most...
The Cap Times: Great Dane co-founder Rob LoBreglio sees craft beer frontier in Japan
It’s been more than two decades since Rob LoBreglio, co-founder and brewmaster of the Great Dane Pub & Brewing Company, first started joking with his friend and former brewing apprentice Tetsuya Kiyosawa about opening a brewery in Kiyosawa’s native Japan. When...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: In rural Wisconsin, former employees lift curtain on troubled crypto mine
Two recently unemployed Chinese nationals weigh their options in a cramped Park Falls motel room, not far from where they worked in a former paper mill now being used to mine cryptocurrency. One of them continues to nurse a stitched-up laceration across his left wrist...
Associated Press: UW-Richland closure transition plan calls for online focus
Richland County leaders are fuming over University of Wisconsin-Platteville officials’ plan to shift to online education at their Richland branch campus after in-person instruction there ends for good after the spring semester. UW System President Jay Rothman in...
Lakeland University: Lakeland lands $75,000 entrepreneurship grant to support veterans
Lakeland University has received a $75,000 entrepreneurship grant from the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) to help veterans start their own businesses. The grant will enable Lakeland to expand existing programs and to build new programs to address the...
Insight: Study: Oshkosh Chamber impact $1.5 billion over past 20 years
Oshkosh Chamber of Commerce activities for the past 20 years have generated and supported a $1.5 billion economic impact and helped create and support 13,481 jobs, according to a study just released. In 2022, the Chamber partnered with the Center for Customized...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Wisconsin added 1,500 private sector jobs in December
Wisconsin added 1,500 private sector jobs and the state’s unemployment rate dipped to 3.2% in December, according to the latest preliminary data released by the Department of Workforce Development. The slight uptick in December leaves the state with 2.1%...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Wearable Technologies named a finalist in SXSW Pitch competition
Hartland-based startup Wearable Technologies Inc. has been named one of just 40 global finalists in the 2023 South by Southwest (SXSW) Pitch competition. The startup’s founder and chief executive officer, Deepak Arora, developed a wearable device that uses artificial...
InsideWis: Laid off by Big Tech? There are openings in Wisconsin
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – If you’re one of 10,000 Microsoft workers slated for layoff soon, there’s very little solace in being told it’s part of a “Big Tech” efficiency trend that now extends to more than 154,000 layoffs in less than a year. After all, it wasn’t...
WisBusiness: Xcel Energy, Bayfield County: Partner to construct Wisconsin’s first microgrid under new utility program
Xcel Energy and Bayfield County have signed an agreement to partner to construct Wisconsin’s first microgrid under an innovative new utility program. Through Xcel Energy’s EMPOWER Resiliency program, Bayfield County, in far northern Wisconsin, will build a microgrid...