MILWAUKEE -- PointOne Systems, a company specializing in patient-specific molecular data and personalized medicine, has chosen Frank Langely as its president and chief executive officer, it announced Friday....
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,...
MADISON -- Entrepreneurs at emerging companies often face a dilemma as they reach a stage in the firm's development that requires additional capital for growth, but are challenged by either the lack of seed and venture capital, or traditional bank financing requirements....
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...
OpGen, Inc. has added two new members to its board of directors: James Ogle and Thomas Pyle. The company is looking to bring in seasoned executives to help take OpGen's products to the next level....
I recently met with a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor who asked me where Milwaukee's entrepreneurs hang out. ...
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....
The Department of Financial Institutions is going through a renaissance under the leadership of Secretary Lorrie Keating Heinemann, who is taking an aggressive and creative approach to encourage more investments in start-up businesses and to measurably improve Wisconsin’s financial literacy scores. DFI is lending its...
MADISON – If you stand on your tiptoes and squint, you can almost read the framed documents hanging in the lobby of UW Madison's new $35.6 million biochemistry building....
MADISON – After the downfall of so many companies early in the decade, the dot-com industry is once again rearing its head in a resurgence of profit and popularity. With the prolific search engine Google - now valued at an estimated $36 billion - about...