THE NEWSROOM

DWD Chief Economist Dennis Winters expects manufacturing employment in Wisconsin to exceed pre-pandemic levels in the near future. In an interview Friday, Winters said it “might be a couple months” before that occurs. “The outstanding thing that we don’t know about...

Until recently, the University of Wisconsin-Madison had a successful program to compost discarded food. Starting in 2009, the university collected food scraps at campus cafeterias to send to the West Madison Agricultural Research Station for composting. In 2018, the...

Delphinus Medical Technologies, Inc. today announced the closing of a $30 million Series D financing to fuel worldwide commercialization of its SoftVue™ 3D Whole Breast Ultrasound Tomography System (SoftVue™). The round drew participation from both new...

ith major advances in the transition to creating safe, clean renewable energy generation, Alliant Energy announces plans to add 175 megawatts (MW) of battery storage in Wisconsin. The plan, filed today (Sept. 30, 2022) with the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin,...

To further the reach of the Boys & Girls Club of Dane County, while helping them create new funding opportunities, Spotz is donating a lifelong subscription to their facility reservation management software and online marketplace. Spotz, a software startup that...

Milwaukee native Ian McCullough is the creative entrepreneur behind Free Music Land, a peer-to-peer music licensing platform. The company was one of the eight Milwaukee-area startups to receive a $10,000 grant through the MKE Tech Hub Coalition‘s FOR-M incubator...

Did you know there is a NASA spin-out company just a stone’s throw away from Milwaukee? Sheboygan-based VibeTech, headed by engineer and founder Dr. Jeff Leismer, is using technology developed to help astronauts combat the physical effects of space travel to build...

Steve King, a longtime Republican Party operative who was then-President Donald Trump’s ambassador to the Czech Republic, has been named CEO of the Republican National Convention’s Milwaukee host committee. Reince Priebus, who chairs the Milwaukee RNC host committee,...

The University of Wisconsin System is making a new push to encourage more potential college students to apply for federal financial aid. The goal is to get more high school seniors from lower income families to consider enrolling at state universities and ensure...

Marlon Ross was born and raised in Chicago and spent the past seven years living in Dallas. But within the next 45 days, he plans to permanently relocate his early-stage health technology startup to Milwaukee. Ross's company Wellacy Health was one of five startups...

Octopi Brewing is unveiling new facilities in Waunakee as part of a $62 million development that makes it the first solar and battery storage project in Dane County, brewery founder Isaac Showaki said. It's a massive undertaking for the startup. Showaki founded the...

Last month, two clinicians were part of a team that introduced a new chemotherapy technique at American Family Children’s Hospital to treat a patient with retinoblastoma, the most common type of eye cancer in children. Dr. Margo Hoover-Regan, pediatric oncologist and...

"I think that's the critical issue looking forward, is this 'you don't need college' crowd," Wegenke told WisPolitics.com President Jeff Mayers in a recent interview. "And what are we going to do about it? I think we can't be tacit. I think we have to get out there...

The Idea Fund of La Crosse has launched its second venture fund focused on pre-revenue startups. Called Idea Fund II, the new venture fund has already attracted over $20 million in investment capital, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission....

With a problem-solver mindset, walking by faith and leaning into the power of the Milwaukee Tech Ecosystem, Chad Johnson, founder and CEO of Tip a ScRxipt, has taken his startup from an idea to a live platform in under three years. Tip a ScRxipt is a payment and debit...

A project began today at the UW–Madison Prevention Research Center that is focused on earlier detection of ovarian cancer. Of the five types of gynecologic cancers, which are cancers of the woman’s reproductive systems, ovarian cancer continues to cause more deaths in...

The Idea Fund of La Crosse recently launched a second fund that has attracted more than $20 million dollars of investment capital according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing shows that investors have committed $20.075 million to the...

This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with Dean Amhaus, president and CEO of The Water Council in Milwaukee. Amhaus discusses some of the top trends in water technology innovation, as well as the role of data analysis and predictive modeling in water...

Milwaukee-based Neostella, a global hyper-automation company, will acquire Chicago-based Work-Relay after signing an agreement with the company this week. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Work-Relay helps companies systemize and scale complex business operations...