EnsoData, a Madison-based health technology company, has been cleared by the FDA for its EnsoSleep software. Chris Fernandez, the company’s CEO and co-founder, says gaining that clearance “involved a ton of nonclinical and clinical testing of software,” since the company was founded in 2015. “We really started it after closing

UW-Madison has launched a new online resource for students, faculty and staff in STEM fields. The STEM Diversity Network was created by associate professor of genetics Ahna Skop and UW-Madison interns Olushola Kemi Olukoga of Cottage Grove, Minn., and Kaitlin Morse of Mount Horeb. “The goal is to create a

Cottage Grove’s Midwest Lighting Institute is exploring how varying the type of lighting in different facilities can affect human behavior, health and productivity while driving down energy costs. “Lighting has been a field that most people, quite frankly, haven’t thought a whole lot about,” said Tamara Sondgeroth, president and executive

When it comes to serving beer in a glass, the pour is everything — that’s why Pour Authority, a new app from Madison-based developer Craig Robertson, was created to easily measure the volume of a glass of beer. A standard American 16-ounce pint glass, a 14.75-ounce porter glass and a

Two relatively new Wisconsin venture capital funds are looking to young technology companies to supplement their various products and services. Representatives of CUNA Mutual Group’s CMFG Ventures and Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures took part in a panel discussion Tuesday at the Wisconsin Technology Council’s Innovation Network luncheon, where they talked

Over 50 high school teams gathered in Milwaukee to deploy multi-purpose robots in a head-to-head competition. The FIRST Robotics Competition took place March 22 – 24, featuring teams of 20 or more students from across the country, including 40 teams from Wisconsin alone. They were tasked with raising funds for

Companies young and old gathered in Waukesha for the Wisconsin Technology Council’s Tech Summit, bringing diverse perspectives together with the goal of collaboratively solving problems in the technology sphere. Nearly 50 emerging companies met with more established names, including GE Healthcare, Rockwell Automation, Aurora Healthcare, Johnson Controls and Exact Sciences,

American Family Insurance is undertaking the largest solar panel rooftop installation ever in Wisconsin, putting in close to 4,500 solar panels at its national headquarters building in Madison. A Madison-based commercial solar developer, SunPeak, is partnering with American Family on the project, which is expected to finish up in two

As Milwaukee’s minor league hockey team nears the end of its first season back at the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena in decades, team President Jon Greenberg says investing in an upgraded facility was well worth it. The Milwaukee Admirals originally played at the historic downtown arena from around 1973 to around

As business connections between Madison and Austin, Texas deepen, the South by Southwest show provides a unique opportunity to get more exposure for Wisconsin’s southern region, Madison Chamber of Commerce President Zach Brandon says. The two-day SXSW show took place on March 11 and 12 in Austin, where companies from

WARF is seeking commercial partners to help develop a new kind of energy harvesting device made from renewable materials. Xudong Wang, an associate professor in the Materials and Science Engineering department at UW-Madison and lead inventor for this technology, has been working on this specific project for almost two years,

Jeff Keebler, the previous senior vice president of energy supply and planning for Madison Gas & Electric, has succeeded Gary Wolter as CEO. This change comes as MGE is “going through a lot of transitions as an organization and as an industry,” according to Keebler, who has worked 22 years

Functional Biosciences, a Madison-based biotechnology company, has been awarded its CLIA Certification of Compliance from the Wisconsin Department of Health. Achieving CLIA compliance was no easy task, according to Kym Larson, laboratory director for Functional Biosciences. “It’s actually a very long process,” she said. “There’s a long laundry list of

A new study from Exact Sciences and Mayo Clinic released by the American Association of Cancer Research shows a new blood-based test could make detecting lung cancer a more reliable process. “These results reveal an opportunity to detect lung cancer from a simple blood draw,” said Kevin Conroy, chairman and