FoodChain, a spinoff started in part by a recent UW–Madison alumni, expects to accept its first orders for local food this December. The phrase “local food” promises fresh, nutritious food that sustains the local economy …
UW spinouts
Cellular Logistics, Cellular Dynamics scientists to study heart treatment in pigs
UW-Madison researchers involved in two Madison-based stem cell companies have received a federal grant to test experimental therapies for heart failure in pigs. The $765,000 grant, announced last week, will allow Dr. Amish Raval, co-founder of …
$674,000 in state matching grants advance 8 high-tech small businesses
Noted: NCD Technologies, Proteovista, DataChat, and SeedLinked are UW Madison spinouts.
Renewable plastics out of corn cobs
When Pyran’s chemical engineering team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison embarked on their new project aimed at tackling the enormous problem of replacing oil to make paints and plastics, they had a feeling they would …
UW–Madison, local startup testing a one-two punch against hard-to-heal wounds
Millions of people with severe burns or diabetic skin ulcers could benefit from an experimental enhancement to a next-generation covering that is already healing difficult wounds. A $1.5 million, two-year Small Business Innovation Research grant …
Max Fergus disrupts the mainstream music industry with a new streaming app
Max Fergus (BBA ’18) still has the screenshot of the text conversation in which he pitched the idea of a startup to his friends. He didn’t know at the time that that text conversation marked …
Madison AI Startup to Expand with Backing from California Tech Company
GreenBay Technologies, officially founded as a company just last month, is based on work started by a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and two PhD students. AnHai Doan, a professor of computer science at UW-Madison and …
UW Researchers Develop Camera That Can ‘See’ Around Corners
Technology Could Have Impact On Everything From Surgery To Defense And Disaster Relief Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Universidad de Zaragoza in Spain have developed a new kind of virtual camera that …
AIQ Solutions of Madison raises $3.2 million for cancer treatment assessment software
A Madison company that makes software approved to gauge treatment response in breast and prostate cancer patients plans to submit a second product, for blood cancers, for approval by early next year. AIQ Solutions, which …
Two campus spinouts achieve major milestones
AIQ Solutions was formed by UW Madison researchers who pioneered methods to quantitatively assess changes in cancerous bone lesions in response to cancer treatment. On campus, they received early support from Discovery to Product’s Igniter …