Lynx Biosciences, a Madison-based biotech company, is undertaking a fundraising round for $1 million. President and founder Chorom Pak says the company upped its initial ask from $350,000 in order to hasten its expansion efforts. “We wanted to move 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
A national solar company that helps people set up panels in their home is expanding into southeastern Wisconsin. Amy Heart, policy director for Sunrun, said she is “really excited about what the future holds in Wisconsin,” adding that the company
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
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
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
MillerCoors is pursuing more rigorous water use standards at its Milwaukee brewery in partnership with the Alliance for Water Stewardship. AWS is a multi-stakeholder organization dedicated to supporting responsible water usage with three programs: a standard and verification system, membership
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
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
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
Field Viewers, a startup specializing in radiation sensors, wants to expand and break into three different markets with efficient design. “So electronic circuits traditionally have been really bulky; in order to sense one pixel of a detector, a radiation circuit
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
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
QBE North America, an Australia-based global insurer with offices in Wisconsin, has opened a unique new Digital Innovation Lab in Sun Prairie. The lab was unveiled to over 200 people on Feb. 22, as part of the Greater Madison Chamber
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
