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WisconsinINNO: Baird among investors in San Diego genomics company's $21M Series B round
Jan 15, 2021 | NEWSROOM, Tech Council News
The venture capital and private equity arm of Milwaukee's Robert W. Baird & Co. is investing in a San Diego life sciences startup that built technology designed to help researchers better understand human diseases. Baird Capital, which is based in Chicago, was...
Update from SBA – PPP Re-Opens Friday, January 15th
Jan 15, 2021 | Featured, NEWSROOM, Tech Council News
The U.S. Small Business Administration, in consultation with the U.S. Treasury Department, will re-open the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan portal to PPP-eligible lenders with $1 billion or less in assets for First and Second Draw applications on Friday,...
WisBusiness: Experts say Wisconsin is a leader in CRISPR gene-editing technology at a recent Tech Council webinar
CRISPR, short for clustered regularly interspaced palindromic repeats, is a genetic tool used to alter specific genetic codes within organisms to achieve desired changes. It differs from genetic modification, which replaces genes or genetic pairs. But the scope of...
Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau named a fellow in the Association for Computing Machinery
Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, chairman of the Department of Computer Sciences at the UW-Madison, has been named a fellow in the Association for Computing Machinery for "contributions to storage and computer systems." The international ACM Fellows program recognizes the top 1%...
InsideWis: Pieces falling into place to improve Wisconsin's high-speed broadband access
Jan 14, 2021 | Featured, Inside Wisconsin, NEWSROOM, Tech Council News
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – When Gov. Tony Evers declared 2021 to be the "Year of Broadband Access" in Wisconsin, that line in his annual State of the State speech likely resonated with people statewide, especially those living and working in rural Wisconsin. As...
Center for Technology Commercialization wins national Tibbetts Award
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Wisconsin Center for Technology Commercialization (CTC) has received a prestigious award from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) for achieving significant economic impact in advancing small technology businesses. For the past 39 years,...
Rep. McGuire Named Co-Chair of Wisconsin Technology Caucus
This week, in partnership with the Wisconsin Technology Council, members of the Wisconsin State Legislature have formed the Wisconsin Technology Caucus, in order to promote access to technology and tech jobs in the state. "From Governor Evers naming 2021 the year of...
Madison365: Bucks partner with MadREP to connect Black entrepreneurs with online resources
The Milwaukee Bucks and The Lonely Entrepreneur (TLE), a New York-based non-profit that empowers individuals with entrepreneurial skills and support, today announced their selection of the Madison Region Economic Partnership (MadREP) as a partner in their initiative...
WisBusiness: Wisconsin's export markets are expected to recover to pre-recession levels by the middle of this year for goods, but services won't fully recover until 2023
The unemployment rate has fallen "fairly consistently" since it peaked at 13.6 percent for Wisconsin in April, said John Koskinen, of DOR. The rate has since dropped to 5 percent as of November. The GDP has also been steadily recovering since October, Koskinen said....
Milwaukee Business Journal: Exact Sciences anticipates 2020 revenue of about $1.49B
Biotechnology and cancer diagnostics company Exact Sciences Corp. said Monday it expects to report $1.49 billion in 2020 revenue when it officially posts its financial results in February. Madison-based Exact Sciences (Nasdaq: EXAS), which makes the Cologuard colon...
'WisBiz: The Show' features Milwaukee's El-Amin brothers, upcoming events.
Jan 11, 2021 | Featured, NEWSROOM, Tech Council News, WisBusiness: The Show
Welcome to "WisBusiness: The Show," a twice-a-month Web show covering state business news and issues. MADISON – The latest episode of "WisBusiness.com: The Show" spotlights entrepreneurs Que and Khalif El-Amin, founders of Milwaukee's Young Enterprising Society, which...
WHA Names New Chief Medical Officer: Dr. Chris Green
Long-serving UW-Health Physician Dr. Chris Green brings broad experience to advocacy position With the recent retirement of Chief Medical Officer Dr. Mark Kaufman, the Wisconsin Hospital Association (WHA) has tapped UW-Health's Dr. Chris Green to serve as the...