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 …
UW spinouts
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 …
Two UW-Madison startups will compete during Forward Fest Pressure Chamber event
Noted: UW–Madison spinouts NovoMoto and OnLume will compete at the annual Pressure Chamber event, part of the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce’s neXXpo event at the Forward Festival highlighting Madison’s most innovative companies.
UW-Madison spinout AIQ Solutions draws investment
Noted: 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 …
In the Spotlight: Kristen Slack, founder of Prof2Prof
Prof2Prof started as a midnight inspiration. Kristen Slack, a social work professor at UW-Madison, literally bought the domain prof2prof.com in the middle of the night after reading a New York Times article about an e-commerce …
Blexx Technology seeking to improve hypodermic needle sterilization and disposal
Noted: Erin Tenderholt founded Blexx Technology three years ago at age 19, early in her college career at UW-Madison. A recent business school graduate, Tenderholt is looking to continue her role in the company, with …
Four UW teams are finalists in the 2019 Governor’s Business Plan Competition
Four UW–Madison innovators will compete in the final round of the statewide Governor’s Business Plan Competition. Badger startup companies that are part of what’s known as the “Diligent Dozen” include Blexx Technology, DarkAero, Voximetry, and …