Young companies, including several UW-Madison spinoffs, are leading the way on clean technologies.
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Finalists in Gov’s Biz Plan Contest poised to aid in post-COVID economic rebound
Twenty-five entries representing sectors as broad as health, cleantech, education and innovations in products or services are competing in the finalist round of the 18th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest. The contestants have emerged …
Stem Pharm Wins $1.7M NIH SBIR Grant Award for Better Models of the Brain
Stem Pharm, Inc. has been awarded a $1.7 million SBIR grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to optimize its induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived model …
At Pyran, Kevin Barnett is out to replace petroleum with plants
Kevin Barnett was in his fourth year of chemical engineering grad school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison when it hit him. He was sitting in a room of around 80 engineering grad students at the …
UW startup DataChat democratizes data science
DataChat, the fourth tech startup from University of Wisconsin–Madison computer sciences professor Jignesh Patel, makes data science accessible to anyone. Founded in 2017, it has grown quickly to 20 employees and recently received $4 million …
One Shot: The future of transportation
The future of transportation – think urban air mobility – calls for a new generation of manufacturing. Grad student Buzz Rankouhi is building an audacious prototype and a company to do it. What do a …
Positive and negative
Introducing Geladen, a young startup launched by former UW–Madison professor (and WARF Accelerator alum) Mark Etzel. The company is advancing a pair of ultra-charged technologies that could transform dairy processing and potentially create a new …
UW Spinout DataChat one of Wisconsin Inno’s “21 Startups to Watch”
DATACHAT This Madison company, founded in 2017, developed an intelligence interface that allows business users to extract insight from their data simply by talking to a chatbot. DataChat was created at the University of Wisconsin-Madison …
Rock County medical isotope companies mark milestones
NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes, one of two Rock County companies developing radioactive isotopes for medical imaging and therapies, said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved its new method of making a key isotope that …
SmarTrac can help alleviate shortage of physical therapists
Physical therapy can make the difference for a quick post-surgery recovery. Unfortunately, the U.S. is experiencing an extreme shortage of physical therapists that is only expected to get worse, according to a UW-Madison computer sciences …