Entrepreneurs

MADISON—The recently released Q2 MoneyTree Survey figures show no reported venture investment activity in Wisconsin between April and June of this year. Both total venture capital and initial venture investments were reported in the survey, which was released by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Thomson Venture Economics and the...

DEMO 2004 presenting company DataPod spent last week in Silicon Valley to roll out its new identity and its long-awaited software. The Israeli company has taken on the moniker BeInSync, a name that aptly describes the services delivered by the 1.0 release of its synchronization...

CHICAGO—Earlier this summer, we looked at venture capital funding in the U.S. during the first quarter of 2004, which reached about $5 billion in investments in small companies. While promising, this level was lower than the $5.4 billion invested during the fourth quarter of 2003,...

TeraMEDICA Inc., a Wauwatosa-based startup with roots in the Mayo Clinic, offers a solution to a growing problem in the medical industry. TeraMEDICA's software is billed as an enterprise solution that enables instantaneous delivery of digital images, whenever and wherever they are needed, without the...

Scientific research at UW-Madison is being transformed into thriving start-up companies that are playing a key role in the knowledge-based economy. This is the story of one such spin-off, Quintessence Biosciences, and a young graduate student named Laura Strong....

MADISON – Gov. Jim Doyle announced Monday that he has established a new Governor's Small Business Technology Transfer Award. The award will recognize the achievements of small businesses in Wisconsin that have succeeded in taking an idea and developing a business....