The founders of EatStreet, a national food ordering and delivery company, were honored Nov. 14 with the UW–Madison 2018 Entrepreneurial Achievement Award. EatStreet is rooted in Madison, where in 2010 three UW–Madison undergraduates grew frustrated …
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UW Discoveries Drive Drug Development
The reinvention of a photographic film company has transformed a pioneering stem cell startup into a biotech leader with an eye toward regenerative medicine and drug discovery. The former Cellular Dynamics International Inc., with deep …
Madison Companies Dominate Deloitte Fast 500 Technology Firms
Two companies based in Madison and one with most of its operations here are among the top 10 businesses in the Deloitte 2018 North America Technology Fast 500 rankings for staging the biggest revenue jumps …
Small miracle: Stem cells drive research and entrepreneurship in Madison
In 1998, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers made waves in the worlds of biology and medicine, revealing they had five examples of human embryonic stem cells — biological building blocks at the foundation of cellular development …
UW Med School Leads the Way in Commercializing Research
Robert Golden, dean of the UW-Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health for the past dozen years, leaned into the question as if he wanted no doubt to exist on where he stood. We were …
Applications for Transcend UW’s Student Innovation Competition Open
Transcend Madison’s Innovation Competition is a student-led effort to bring students all across UW–Madison together to demonstrate their novel ideas and creations. The event was created by Transcend UW, a student organization focused on providing …
UW–Madison Among Schools Producing the Most Startups
As college students across the country settle in to another semester of classes, America’s next generation of entrepreneurs are getting the wisdom and tools they need to one day launch the next hit startup. Of …
UW researchers, students partner with with local brewing company
Nowadays many people don’t enjoy their beer warm, but for most of the past couple thousand years, warm beer was the norm, according to Kirby Nelson, a brewmaster at the Wisconsin Brewing Company. After all, …
Study Names Madison Among Top Tech Towns
Madison is No. 14 among the top 20 “tech towns” in the United States, a study by CompTIA says. “This college town is making significant strides toward becoming a center for technology,” says the report, …
Discovery to Product creates new program to grow entrepreneurship at UW–Madison
Discovery to Product, which supports and mentors faculty, staff and student innovators and entrepreneurs on campus, is offering a new program called Innovation to Market. The fall I2M program builds on the success of D2P’s …