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The Ideadvance Seed Fund is awarding five area businesses with Small Business Innovation grants and Partnered Innovation grants. The Ideadvance program helps companies that want to advance a scalable, profitable business model. Grant dollars are earned after...

Neenah-based health care provider ThedaCare, which has a large presence in the northeast and central parts of Wisconsin, and Wauwatosa-based Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin today announced a partnership under which the Froedtert health network will...

ThedaCare and the Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) health network are announcing a partnership that will provide patients with expanded and convenient access to the most advanced levels of specialty care. The vision of the partnership will...

Wisconsin is banding together with six other Midwestern states to promote development of a “clean hydrogen” economy. The states, which also include Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana, will work together to identify opportunities for advancing...

The partners in a new broad climate-smart initiative today touted the potential of the project to greatly expand farmer-led conservation practices and business opportunities. The groups learned on Wednesday they will receive up to $50 million from the U.S. Department...

Gov. Tony Evers, together with six other Midwest governors, today announced the creation of the Midwestern Hydrogen Coalition, which will facilitate the development of a strong clean hydrogen economy in the Midwest. The coalition includes Wisconsin, Illinois,...

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ administration is trying again to limit the levels of a group of chemicals known as PFAS in Wisconsin’s groundwater. The Wisconsin State Journal reported that Evers authorized the Department of Natural Resources last week to begin work on...

OVERVIEW Entrepreneurial activity increased sharply in Wisconsin in 2020 and 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Entrepreneurship is a key part of any healthy economy but ensuring that new business activity leads to significant economic impact by creating high quality...

The Milwaukee Bucks announced today the organization would be partnering with an artificial intelligence, or AI provider to add to the game day experience. San Francisco-based GameOn Technology and the Bucks are adding a conversational AI chat experience to the...

Educational Credential Evaluators, Inc. (ECE®), a nonprofit organization that evaluates foreign educational credentials, will add four esteemed leaders to its board of directors for the 2023-2025 term. • Adria Baker, Ed.D. is the associate vice provost for...

A Madison-based startup called Realta Fusion aims to develop commercially viable fusion technology that could help offset global greenhouse gas emissions. Kieran Furlong, the company’s CEO, said the UW-Madison spinoff company is working to create the “lowest capital,...

The Biden administration has approved Wisconsin’s plan to spend more than $78 million in federal funds as part of an effort to build a nationwide electric vehicle charging network. In a letter dated Wednesday, the Federal Highway Administration notified state...

The Federal Highway Administration has approved Wisconsin’s plan to expand its electric vehicle charging stations under the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) initiative. The approval means that the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) can now...

“When you’re a planner, you just want to get it right, because everything in the company really revolves around the inventory. If the inventory is not right, the salespeople are not happy. The CFO is not happy because it’s in the wrong stuff and it’s the cost of...

Walmart shoppers will now be able to virtually try on clothes without leaving home. A new feature, rolled out on Thursday in Walmart’s iOS app, uses photos that customers upload to show how clothing will look on their bodies. The technology, called Be Your Own Model,...

After an extensive site selection process for its second major U.S. hub, 3D printing firm Formlabs on Wednesday celebrated the official opening of its Milwaukee office. Formlabs could earn up to $675,000 in state tax credits through the Wisconsin Economic Development...

An event that helped Milwaukee businesses including Pete's Pops and Triciclo Peru get their start awarded more than $25,000 Wednesday evening to eight new businesses. The Rev-UP MKE Pitch Competition run by the community nonprofit group Near West Side Partners Inc....

In its latest round of funding, the Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin has awarded $544,541 for eight projects that will increase research and student training collaborations among 10 UW System universities. Students will be involved in projects and programs that...

This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with Laura Dresser, associate director of UW-Madison’s COWS policy research center. She discusses findings from the latest State of Working Wisconsin report, which includes data on employment, wages and labor...