Wes Schroll holds no grudges against all the potential investors who said “no” to putting money into Fetch Rewards. That’s good, because there were far more who said “no” than who said “yes,” especially in the company’s early days. “As an entrepreneur, you’re going to...
A UW-Madison spinoff company that has developed a device to better monitor the heart during surgery, thus saving lives and cost, is the grand prize winner of the 18th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest....
gener8tor, a Wisconsin-based company that has built a nationwide network of startup accelerators, is adding programs in Peoria, Illinois and Oklahoma City, gener8tor announced this week....
For months, many of us have talked about herd immunity as the destination, and vaccines as the vehicle we need to get us there. But what if it’s a destination we actually never reach?...
Pranil Panda, a 9th grade student at Eisenhower Middle/High School in New Berlin, is the first-place winner in Wisconsin YES! Pranil’s company, All Weather Glowing Fish Bait, is an artificial bait that can be used for multiple species of fish in any weather, water depth...
New guidelines have moved the recommended age to start getting screened for colon cancer from age 50 to 45, which could also have major implications for Madison-based Exact Sciences Corp., the biotech company behind the at-home colon cancer screening test Cologuard....
A California startup developing electric vans and trucks is partnering with UW-Madison in hopes of making electric vehicles more available while reducing the use of limited natural resources....
Pointing to the success of the Badger Fund of Funds, Governor Evers’ 2021-23 proposed budget includes the creation of a larger, $100 million venture capital fund of funds. This proposed Wisconsin Fund would be similar to public-private venture capital initiatives launched in Indiana, Ohio, Michigan...
The strong growth of Madison’s technology sector is drawing attention nationwide. In 2020, the country’s biggest tech migration increase took place in Madison, according to LinkedIn data published by Big Technology on December 17, 2020....
Five prizes were awarded in the fourth annual Morgridge Institute for Research Ethics Cartooning Contest, which invites participants to make a cartoon on any ethical issue related to biomedical research....
Participating businesses to receive $5,000; grant program to potentially help approximately 84,000 Wisconsin small businesse...
The Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) course in the spring 2021 semester offered a dynamic, challenging practicum that paired students with startups in the earliest stages. As many of the startups had little to no business expertise on their founding teams, the contributions made by UW...
Forward BIOLABS is the only coworking life science lab of its kind in Wisconsin that helps biohealth startups get off the ground without the typical overhead and supply costs, thanks to its state-of-the-art space and lab equipment....
A bipartisan group of supporters headed by eight former secretaries of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. or its predecessor, the Wisconsin Department of Commerce, are supporting the creation of a state-backed “fund of funds” to invest in early-stage companies....
The incidence of neuroendocrine tumors, which originate in the digestive system, has increased 600 percent in the last 30 years, primarily because doctors are finding them unexpectedly when looking for other problems during tests such as CT scans. The challenge to find optimal treatments is...
Eleven teams of entrepreneurs, many of them local, will soon take their social entrepreneurship endeavors to the next level as part of StartingBlock’s 2021 Social Impact Cohort, the startup accelerator announced last Friday....
Researchers at UW–Madison have made new photoreceptors from human pluripotent stem cells. However, it remains challenging to precisely deliver those photoreceptors within the diseased or damaged eye so that they can form appropriate connections, says David Gamm, director of the McPherson Eye Research Institute and...
They’re still being called “Concerts on the Square” — but for 2021, one of Madison’s most popular summer outings will take place a mile east of the Capitol....
The Wisconsin Idea is the notion that the benefits of the University of Wisconsin should ripple well beyond the borders of campus. If you wanted to see the Wisconsin Idea in action, you could visit University Research Park....
The American Economic Association named UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank a distinguished fellow, an honor that just four economists in the country received this year....