This semester, 27 students blending a range of MBA specializations and other graduate disciplines formed teams within the Weinert Center to explore and develop business ideas. Each team brought a unique combination of experience and …
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Transcend 2022 Innovation Competition
On April 22, 2022 in the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID), the first in-person Transcend Innovation Competition in two years finally began! After many months of diligent planning from the Transcend Team, UW-Madison students arrived …
‘Diligent (Baker’s) Dozen’ to present live June 1 at Entrepreneurs’ Conference in Milwaukee
Finalists representing diverse tech-based sectors in Wisconsin’s early-stage economy will present from 3 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 1, as part of the 19th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest. The four-month, staged contest culminates …
Catalyst For Change
John Berry is a transition metal chemist. That means he experiments with elements in “the big middle part of the periodic table” that are able to bond with one another in strange and interesting ways, …
Two engineering faculty startups earn Discovery to Product SEED grants
College of Engineering faculty members David Beebe and Dawei Feng are leading two of the emerging technology projects that earned funding through the University of Wisconsin-Madison Discovery to Product office’s annual State Economic Engagement and …
UW researchers honored as inventors
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 …
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 …