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Entrepreneurs and startups throughout Dane County will gain access to much-needed capital to grow their businesses thanks to a partnership between the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) and the Urban League of Greater Madison (ULGM). At the Urban...

When Christina Henderson was a medical student in 2022, she found herself flying across the country to complete a required rotation at Duke University in North Carolina. The logistics were challenging. Without a car and clear support to find short-term housing,...

Modine (NYSE: MOD), a diversified global leader in thermal management technology and solutions, today announced a multimillion-dollar investment to expand U.S. manufacturing capacity for Airedale by Modine™ data center cooling products. This strategic investment...

Wauwatosa-based social networking app Sit By Me was created to break the ice between remote workers while increasing revenue for local cafés and co-working spaces. Founder and CEO Brad Steckart was sitting at a coffee shop writing a paper for graduate school when he...

Milwaukee-based Potawatomi Ventures, the economic development arm of the Forest County Potawatomi Community, has acquired Delafield-based Lyons Electric for an undisclosed price. Lyons Electric is a full-service commercial and industrial contractor with 50 employees....

 Across the road from Cantafio’s Buckhorn Supper Club, what was mostly farmland has been converted into an 830 acre site for one of Wisconsin’s new data centers. Where houses and barns once stood, and in pastures where cows grazed, bulldozers now have their run of the...

Village of Caledonia officials are considering a proposal for a new data center on a 245-acre site near the border with Milwaukee County. The data center would be built on land currently owned by We Energies, located southwest of Douglas Avenue and County Line Road....

The University of Wisconsin–Madison is executing its campus entrepreneurship plan with the formation of a new entity, the Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Hub. The Hub, aimed at strengthening entrepreneurial pathways, was approved by campus governance in May, and a search...

Lyra Health, the leading provider of mental health benefits for employers, has acquired Bend Health Inc., a leader in pediatric mental health care, to better tackle the growing, global youth mental health crisis. Nearly one in five children are experiencing a mental,...

This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with Chris Landowski, co-founder and chief technology officer of Onego Bio. The company earlier this year purchased a 26-acre lot in Jefferson County for a planned manufacturing facility. Onego Bio produces a...

About five years ago, Shawn Wiederhoeft received a life-changing kidney transplant, and in the process, might have helped change the lives of future transplant recipients. The Madisonian was one of 30 kidney transplant recipients in a recent trial hoping to persuade...

Open, collaborative spaces inside the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Center for Cancer Discovery will bring together the institution’s cancer research programs in one shared facility. The idea is to spark greater innovation that will advance discoveries and save...

Madison startup EnsoData announced a $20 million funding round in June and is poised to transform the arena of sleep disorder diagnosis, the Wisconsin State Journal reports. Co-founded by Chris Fernandez, the company develops artificial intelligence-based software...

The majority of respondents in the latest Marquette University Law School Poll say tariffs hurt the economy, though the survey illustrates the partisan divide on the issue. Among all adults in the recent national poll, 59% said tariffs hurt the economy, 28% said they...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and a radical shift towards software-driven technologies are driving the need for a new breed of software professionals. Businesses need talent that bridges the skills gap between traditional software engineering and modern generative AI...