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 …
UW spinouts
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 …
‘DarkAero’ creating new ways to fly with personal aircraft kits
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 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.