Former Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin John D. Wiley and serial entrepreneur Eric Apfelbach join the StudyBlue, an online academic network available to students and teachers at both high schools and colleges, Board of Directors. These additions to the StudyBlue team will help grow...
Governor Jim Doyle announced that Integrated Genomics, Inc. will receive a total $250,000 from the Technology Venture Fund. They will be relocating their laboratory and commercial operations to Madison from Chicago. They estimate that up to 18 new positions will be created....
Merge Healthcare, a medical imaging and health IT solutions provider, and etrials Worldwide, Inc. a provider of clinical trials software and services, today announced that they have reached a definitive agreement for the acquisition of etrials by Merge. The combined organization will provide clinical trial...
Recessions come and go, but this economic downturn has left a mark in Wisconsin that will prove much harder to erase. Simply put, many of the jobs that have been lost won't be coming back. But after the hard times passed, most of the jobs...
Toni Sikes, an entrepreneur who built the nation’s largest online arts retailer from a warehouse on Madison’s near East Side, will receive the sixth annual “Seize the Day” award at the Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference. The award, which celebrates entrepreneurial leaders who have been crucial to Wisconsin’s...
President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate Venture Investors’ Managing Director Winslow Sargeant, Ph.D. to a key administration post as Chief Counsel for Advocacy, Small Business Administration. Dr. Sargeant is currently Managing Director at Venture Investors LLC, a venture capital firm that is...
The MidAmerica Healthcare Venture Forum, one of the nation’s largest regional platforms to showcase healthcare start-ups and emerging growth companies, will attract more than 200 private equity investors to Madison in November. Gov. Jim Doyle announced Wisconsin’s selection for the Nov. 10-12 forum during the 2009...
G. Steven Burrill, CEO of Burrill & Company was recently in Madison, Wisconsin to honor the UW- Madison students that competed in the annual G. Steven Burrill Business Plan Competition. WTN News had the opportunity to talk with Burrill about the origins of the contest...
Fears of paycuts, layoffs and mergers -- Ravi Gupta has seen it all before. Before starting his own environmental consulting business 10 years ago, Gupta was the local manager for an international firm riddled with rumors of financial turmoil and internal politics. The company closed his office...
SO far, San Diego remains a fertile breeding ground for entrepreneurs, despite the problems in the broader economy. Connect, a nonprofit organization led by Duane Roth, right, helped husband and wife Rolf Muller and Judy Muller-Cohn obtain a $1 million investment to start Biomatrica, their business That...