With the music industry being dominated by men, women are often faced with sexism and discrimination. According to She Is The Music, only 21.7% of women are artists, 12.5% of women are songwriters and only 2.7% …
UW spinouts
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 …
Student startup makes safe dining easier for restaurants, universities during COVID-19
An idea developed before the pandemic has turned into software to help restaurants and universities succeed in the COVID age. UW-Madison sophomores Abhijeet Manohar and Sourish Kundu have co-founded a secure menu and ordering platform …
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 …
Silicon Valley investors go in on UW spinout DataChat
DataChat, a Madison company that developed an intelligence interface that allows business users to extract insight from their data simply by talking to a chatbot, has raised $4 million to build its team and customer …
Boosted Chews chosen to participate in gBETA early-stage accelerator program this fall
Boosted Chews, a student startup creating bite-sized caffeinated snacks, has been chosen to participate in an early-stage accelerator program this fall. This program, gBETA, is a seven-week experience in which companies learn how to refine …
UW Spinout OnLume Awarded $2M Grant
OnLume has been awarded a $2 million grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute to advance the development of its proprietary device for Fluorescence-Guided Surgery (FGS), the company announced today. “We …
FluGen CEO talks Covid-19 vaccine development
At Wisconsin Inno’s latest virtual event, Paul Radspinner, the president and CEO of FluGen, revealed the startup’s progress on developing a Covid-19 vaccine as the pandemic rages on its seventh month. The event, which took …
UW-Madison grad’s gaming company pivots into tech service for other small businesses
Earlier this year, Jordan Tian and his team made the tough decision to close the computer gaming and console gaming lounge he founded and co-owned not far from Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport. Tier 1 Gaming …
UW-Madison spinouts receive SBIR funding to advance technologies
Since 2014, the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Extension’s Center of Technology Commercialization, has provided nearly $8.8 million in SBIR matching-grants to 111 Wisconsin tech businesses. Several UW spinouts recently …