The Wisconsin Innovation Awards, which honor innovators from a range of business sectors across Wisconsin, recently recognized 10 companies, including five that are based in Madison. One of the five is POLCO, which is headquartered at Bunker Labs Wisconsin in URP. ...
A “pitch night” at the Madworks business accelerator on campus made significant monetary awards to two Madison businesses with roots in UW–Madison....
The University of Wisconsin—Madison is ranked 28th in the Academic Ranking of World Universities....
Two accelerator programs for very young companies are nudging their latest participants out of the nest....
An annual report ranks the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), the private nonprofit foundation that manages intellectual property on behalf of the University of Wisconsin—Madison, as 7th among the world’s universities in U.S. patents issued in 2015....
EyeKor, a developer of software for managing clinical trials of therapeutics for ocular diseases, has raised $600,000 in equity funding, according to a regulatory filing....
Thousands of entrepreneurs, investors and like-minded professionals are expected to attend the seventh-annual Forward Festival, which has more than 40 events taking place throughout Madison. ...
Stratatech Corp., a Madison company developing skin tissue products to treat burn victims, will be purchased by Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, a specialty pharmaceutical company based in the United Kingdom....
Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals — a California drug development company with most of its operations in Madison — plans to raise $45 million in a private stock offering....
Imbed Biosciences, located at University Research Park, received clearance from the FDA to market its Microlyte Ag wound dressing for prescription and over-the-counter use. ...
Madison’s high tech job growth far outpaced the national average from 2013 to 2015, with a 6.04 increase, ranking it 11th in the nation....
Madison is one of the top cities in the U.S. when it comes to growth in the tech-heavy industries that are pushing the nation’s economy forward, a report says....