Three University of Wisconsin–Madison professors — Charles Mistretta, Denise Ney and Ann Palmenberg — have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors. NAI fellowship honors academic inventors who have “demonstrated a spirit of …
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Comprehensive directory helps campus entrepreneurs find resources
Entrepreneurial resources at UW-Madison are numerous, but very decentralized. Campus innovators that have an idea for a product, service, business, or social innovation often don’t know where to start. Discovery to Product is pleased to …
Varsity Venture Studio will help launch UW-Madison-based startups
UW-Madison, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, and High Alpha Innovation are bringing a venture studio to campus. The studio provides startup capital and hands-on support to select business ideas sourced from faculty, students and staff. …
Podcast with Karu Singkaralingam, founder of Simple Machines
Sankaralingam, who is also a professor of computer sciences at UW-Madison, set out in 2017 to design a streamlined computer chip. Today, Simple Machines is in the process of bringing it to market. The chip …
Madison-based startup DataChat secures $4 million in private investments
Madison-based startup DataChat raised $4 million in an early-stage investment round led by Silicon Valley venture capital firms. DataChat, which was founded by researchers and engineers at UW-Madison, aims to help businesses analyze data in …
UW spinout OnLume honored with Wisconsin Innovation Award
On October 15, four winners were honored from ten finalists and almost 400 nominees during the 2020 Wisconsin Innovation Awards which was broadcast live from Milwaukee. The ceremony, emceed by Wisconsin local Denise Thomas, President …
Boosted Chews chosen to participate in gBETA early-stage accelerator program this fall
Boosted Chews, a student startup creating bite-sized caffeinated snacks, has been chosen to participate in an early-stage accelerator program this fall. This program, gBETA, is a seven-week experience in which companies learn how to refine …
UW-Madison spinouts receive SBIR funding to advance technologies
Since 2014, the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Extension’s Center of Technology Commercialization, has provided nearly $8.8 million in SBIR matching-grants to 111 Wisconsin tech businesses. Several UW spinouts recently …
Badgers make Wisconsin Inno’s 25 under 25 list
Wisconsin Inno has unveiled its third-annual Inno Under 25 list, and several Badger innovators are featured, including: Max Fergus, founder of LÜM Shawn Michels, founder of SteadyShot Kit Chow and Aditya Parihar, founders of BoostedChews …
UpStart Kitchen incubator for food entrepreneurs opens in Sherman Park
UpStart Kitchen was scheduled to open this spring but pushed back its launch because of the coronavirus pandemic. The food incubator for food entrepreneurs, UpStart Kitchen at 4325 W. Fond du Lac Ave., celebrated its official launch …