Venture Capital

Another dismal report on venture capital investing in Wisconsin has some business leaders wondering what the state must do to attract more private equity financing for its emerging companies. An interested observer in that debate could turn out to be the State of Wisconsin Investment...

Alfalight, Inc., a University of Wisconsin-Madison spin-off developing high-power diode lasers, has received a research and development contract worth $4.5 million from the Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, Md. The 12-month program will focus on the development of a high-power, high-brightness multimode diode laser source...

Madison-based drug discovery and development company Metagen Corp. closed a $535,000 seed investment round with the Marquette University Golden Angels Network, the investment group reported Wednesday....