In the 16th episode of The Innovate 608 podcast, two UW-Madison grads and veterans of the Madison startup scene reflect on what it takes to be successful....
Investments in young, Wisconsin-based companies by angel and venture capitalists totaled at least $810 million in 2021, exceeding by more than $300 million the previous mark of $483.6 million set in calendar year 2020....
A near-infrared spectrograph — an instrument that splits light into its individual colors, or wavelengths, to form a rainbow-like spectrum — will soon be shipped to South Africa from UW–Madison. ...
U.S. News & World Report has ranked UW–Madison’s online master’s degrees in engineering No. 9 in the nation for 2022. This is the eleventh year in a row that the online engineering programs, offered through the College of Engineering’s Interdisciplinary Professional Programs, have been highly...
Check out the latest episode of 'WisBusiness: The Show', featuring Thomas Jeffries of Xylome. Xylome, a University Research Park tenant, is working to create a healthy yet environmentally #sustainable substitute for palm oil....
Emerging companies may apply through Feb. 11 to meet with major firms and explore potential business relationships around technology needs and innovation as part of the ninth annual Wisconsin Tech Summit, which will take place in-person at Lambeau Field....
The Epic Health Research Network is essentially a consortium of company customers who choose to contribute de-identified data on a mix of health issues that could stand to benefit from more study. In the late summer of 2021, a report by the Epic Health Research...
Madison's unicorn startup Fetch Rewards Inc. has hired former Facebook executive David Sommer as its first chief customer officer, according to a Wednesday announcement....
To determine the best markets for STEM professionals, WalletHub compared the 100 largest metro areas across 19 key metrics. Our data set ranges from per-capita job openings for STEM graduates to median wage growth for STEM jobs. ...
Viruses can be wily adapters, changing their identities to find new hosts and thwart efforts to stop them. That’s why University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers and their collaborators are making progress toward developing universal vaccines against some the planet’s most harmful pathogens, including the virus family...
Exact Sciences plans to pour more than a third of a billion dollars into its Madison campuses in a move designed to bring more than 1,000 new jobs to the area. “Since relocating to Wisconsin in 2009, Exact Sciences has grown from a handful of...
Seven small businesses in Wisconsin will receive up to $600,000 to commercialize their innovations, thanks to the SBIR Advance program’s latest round of funding. The state matching grant program provides assistance to companies in the process of completing a project in the federal Small Business...