The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) has awarded a $200,000 grant to Madison-based Doyenne Group Inc. to support women-led innovative ventures in Wisconsin. The Doyenne Evergreen Fund will provide $400,000 in early-stage capital sourced from a WEDC Capital Catalyst Program grant and matching funds raised by...
Biotech startup Invenra, located at URP, has raised $2 million in new equity financing. The cash will be used as “operating capital” as the cell-free antibody maker continues to add employees and line up sales prospects....
The Madworks Accelerator is offering grants to early stage startups to participate in a high energy 10-week lean startup program....
Cellular Dynamics International, Inc. (CDI) announced an exclusive agreement with SeouLin Bioscience Co., Ltd., for the distribution of CDI's products in the Republic of Korea....
The Software Assurance Marketplace (SWAMP) has added three new services to its suite of assurance offerings....
Morgridge Institute for Research A Morgridge Institute for Research summer camp that has immersed hundreds of Wisconsin rural high school students in cutting-edge stem cell research is in the national spotlight, starting with a front-page news feature in The Wisconsin State Journal. The story, by WSJ reporter...
For the second year in a row, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been ranked 25th worldwide and 18th nationally by the Center for World University Rankings....
UW–Madison — along with its affiliated organizations and start-up companies — has a $15 billion impact on Wisconsin and supports 193,310 jobs, according to new data released this spring....
The SWAMP, the Software Assurance Marketplace, gives developers a chance to run their software programs through a series of tools that can root out potential pitfalls — small gaffes that may cause hiccups in the way a program runs or bigger gaps that could let...
A new federal designation will move 14 counties in south-central and southwestern Wisconsin to the front of the line for perhaps $75 million in federal grants over the next two years for a series of projects in the food manufacturing and biotech sectors....
A gift to the Morgridge Institute for Research's 'Fab Lab' will help spur medical device innovations coming directly from doctors....
Exact Sciences’ ambitious plan to commercialize molecular diagnostic tests for several of the deadliest cancers is starting to come into focus....