Noted: A group of UW-Madison alums have invented a two-seat kit aircraft designed to carry up to 750 pounds. Their startup company DarkAero ships the kits to customers in parts that are assembled in the …
UW spinouts
UW Changes Lives: Campus-born fertility company seeks to improve women’s health care, Wisconsin economy
What started as a side project in a laboratory in the University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Biochemistry is now a successful Wisconsin startup that’s closer than ever to giving women a way to easily track …
New CEO for Cellular Logistics, Madison heart repair startup
Noted: Cellular Logistics’ Tandem HF technology, discovered by chief science officer Eric Schmuck in the research labs of cardiologist Amish Raval at the UW-Madison, is based on combining a framework of proteins derived from cardiac …
Change of plans: UW-Madison real estate major will pursue start-up app after graduation
UW-Madison senior Jack Pawlik majored in real estate, but will pursue an entirely different career after graduation as co-founder of a start-up app.
UW-Madison spinout Stratatech expands facility for making skin tissue for severe burn patients
One of the city’s largest and oldest bioscience operations has unveiled an expanded production facility for its flagship product: a lab-grown substitute for human skin.
UW-Madison student continues his entrepreneurial run with coffee app Drip
A UW-Madison student and entrepreneur is trying to make buying and selling cups of coffee at independent shops more convenient.
Airplane kit company hopes to soar in Governor’s Business Plan Contest
DarkAero was founded by UW–Madison alumni and siblings Keegan, River, and Ryley Karl. They are among 25 companies that advanced to the final stages of the Governor’s Business Plan competition.
Local tech startups to pilot projects for the U.S. Air Force
Noted: Holos is a UW–Madison spinout company that uses virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality, one of two local companies developing technologies for the United States Air Force. Holos took part in a mentorship program …
UW–Madison spinout Novomoto has big plans for 2019
After winning the Governor’s Business plan contest in 2018, Novomoto has big plans for expansion in 2019 and beyond. The company provides rent-to-own solar electrical systems for families in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and …
Madison’s Blexx Technology Takes the Sting Out of Hypodermic Needle Disposal
Noted: What started out as a passion project for Erin Tenderholt as a sophomore business student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison soon became a business with Blexx Technology. Now in her senior year, Tenderholt is …