Wisconsin WEDC grants help grow entrepreneurship programs across state
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation is helping 11 organizations develop and expand programs aimed at growing entrepreneurship throughout the state. WEDC’s new Entrepreneurship Support pilot program is awarding the organizations $500,000 in grants to help fund programs that promote entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial education, mentorship and training, business development and financial services. “Much of the economic growth […]
New $10M fund aims to aid Wisconsin startups
Northeastern Wisconsin’s nascent startup culture will get a much-needed boost next year. A $10 million boost, to be more specific. Maybe more. The Winnebago Seed Fund wants to raise at least that much money to invest in 10 to 14 startup companies over the next four years beginning in 2017, fund manager David Trotter said. […]
Madison HealthX Ventures raises first fund
HealthX Ventures, a Madison venture capital firm that invests in digital health care businesses, will announce Sunday that it has raised more than $20 million for a first fund. The fund, which raised the money from about 80 investors, puts money into very early-stage software businesses that solve cost, quality and access issues in the health […]
The Marquette University Enterprise Seed Fund is taking applications for its third round of funding, good example of Intake Process
Overview and purpose of the fund The fund will provide seed capital to growing start-up businesses at critical junctures in their development. Open to all disciplines across campus, it will support activities, including commercialization activities, that further accelerate business growth. In addition, the fund seeks to strengthen the link between research and technology transfer and […]
Badger Fund raises more than $10 million
The Badger Fund of Funds said Tuesday it has raised more than $10 million of capital from private investors, double what was required by the state legislation that launched it. The private funding brings to more than $35 million the amount the Badger Fund has to invest. The Badger Fund was formed after the state in 2013 committed […]
Badger Fund of Funds launches first venture capital fund in La Crosse
The Badger Fund of Funds, seeded with a $25million commitment from the state, said Thursday it will launch its first venture capital fund in La Crosse. The Idea Fund of La Crosse will be managed by Jonathon Horne, a LaCrosse native who previously worked in investment banking at J.P. Morgan in New York. He was […]
Marquette launches seed fund to support student, faculty ventures
Marquette University said Thursday it has launched a seed fund that will provide $600,000 of early-stage capital to support student and faculty entrepreneurship on its campus. The effort is being administered by Marquette and funded by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. “The Marquette Enterprise Seed Fund will offer a critical source of capital to support […]
University of Wisconsin FluGen snaps up $12 mln Series A
FluGen Inc., a biotechnology company developing a novel “universal” influenza vaccine, has completed a $12 million Series A financing. Venture Investors LLC, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), the State of Wisconsin Investment Board, and other new investors participated in this first institutional financing of the company, along with many of FluGen’s existing investors led […]
Seven projects could receive $200K in funding through U Wisconsin’s Ideadvance Seed Fund
The Ideadvance Seed Fund, aimed at helping more people on University of Wisconsin campuses commercialize their ideas, has identified seven projects that could receive a total of as much as $200,000. Sleep Environment Innovations LLC, a company that came out of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, qualified for stage two funding of as much as $50,000, […]
Marquette announces inaugural innovation fund awardees
Marquette President Michael R. Lovell today announced the university’s first-ever strategic innovation fund awardees. Thirty-eight unique projects led by Marquette faculty, students and staff across a variety of disciplines will receive nearly $5 million. Awardees fell into one of six thematic categories: academic programs and student support, community collaboration and outreach, water and environmental, advanced […]