Venture Capital

Madison's bioscience business community is widely known as one of the premier locations for research collaboration and growth, but the arrival of Northwestern University's Caden Biosciences could be a sign that Madison has reached a "critical mass" of talent and technological resources....

A recent visit to the Land of the Rising Sun has Yer Biotech Blues columnist Michael Rosen thinking international. Given the resurgence of the Japanese biotechnology industry, he believes the time is right for companies in the Midwest to build stronger ties to both the...

California's Silicon Valley is still the king of tech, even though it has many worthy geographic rivals for that title. What sets apart the patch of land between San Jose and San Francisco? According to DEMO Letter columnist Chris Shipley, it starts with an economic...

The intersection of biotechnology and information technology is crossed by a number of Wisconsin companies, particularly those immersed in genomics, but the combination is more customer centric than glamorous. And, as venture capitalists and executives alike will concede, such multi-disciplinary capabilties are not as important...

Since its inception in 2002, BellBrook Labs has been funded in part by federal grants, and that trend continued with the recent awarding of small business innovation grants totaling more than $800,000. The company will use the funding to upgrade and modify its enzyme screening...

The Wisconsin Department of Commerce has announced a $50,000 technology venture fund grant and a $50,000 technology matching grant to NovaScan and Platypus Technologies, respectively. The funds will be used to develop medical imaging technology and West Nile Virus antibody detection technology....

Jason Smith, a Wisconsin native educated at UW-Madison, is leveraging his East Coast venture capital connections to finance high-tech innovators in the Midwest. Smith, the director of Avolte Venture Fund Midwest, plans to finance companies in the make-or-break growth stage....

Seven more companies, most of them start ups, have been qualified by the state Department of Commerce for the state's Angel Investor and Venture Fund Tax Credit programs. Under the programs, people who invest in these companies are eligible for state tax credits. ...

Tommy Thompson, two days after launching a presidential bid, is positioning himself as the "idea candidate" of the 2008 presidential race. At the recent Wisconsin Biotechnology and Medical Device Association annual conference, he outlined a few suggestions to speed the pace of electronic health record...

The new products and solutions of 67 companies were on display during the recent DEMOfall 2006 event, raising the bar for the Winter 2007 conference. In this brief edition of DEMO Letter, columnist Chris Shipley points readers to recaps of the event's media coverage, to...