Phoenix secures $4M in funding from US Army to demonstrate neutron-based nondestructive testing equipment
MADISON, Wis., April 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Phoenix, LLC, a Wisconsin-based nuclear technology company, has secured $4 million in funding from the US Army to demonstrate innovative neutron-based methods of nondestructive testing utilizing its high flux neutron generators.
WARF Accelerator – Projects
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation supports a pipeline of promising projects in an effort to accelerate the public benefits of technologies developed in university laboratories. The following list highlights WARF Accelerator's projects in medical devices,...
Northwestern Mutual, Johnsonville part of $1.7M funding round for marketing startup Lumanu
Lumanu, a startup with offices in Milwaukee and Oakland, California, has closed on a $1.7 million round of seed funding, which includes follow-on investment from financial services and life insurance giant Northwestern Mutual. In April 2018, Northwestern Mutual was...
Stratatech expands facility for making skin tissue for severe burn patients
By Erik Lorenzsonn Mallinckrodt, a global pharmaceutical company, unveiled its expanded production facility for StrataTech's lab-grown skin tissue therapy last week. Photo by ERIK LORENZSONN One of the city's largest and oldest bioscience operations has unveiled an...
Sustaining the Transition to Value-Based Health Care
Initial efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act seem to have been put on the back burner — at least for the time being. But discussion continues on one critical question: What’s the role of value in our health care system? Read More at...
Seed money: Madison has become fertile ground for venture capitalists
Ask venture capitalists why they do what they do, and you’ll hear some different takes. For Ken Johnson, who founded seven different companies before launching Kegonsa Capital Partners in 2004, venture capital — the business of making high-risk investments in startups...
WEA Trust’s Partnership with Kiio Demonstrates Improved Outcomes and Reduced Costs for Public Sector Employees
Kiio Program Dramatically Cut Medical Spending; Reduced Utilization of Emergency and Urgent Care, Unnecessary Treatments and Diagnostics; and Decreased Fills for Opioid and Benzodiazepine Prescriptions Madison, Wis. (March 26, 2019) – Today, WEA Trust and Kiio...
Entrepreneur’s Guide to High Impact Angel Investing Outside of the Major Venture Capital Centers
This introduction to high impact angel investing – for our purposes in this guide the term “high impact” refers to high risk/reward startup investing in usually tech-driven or tech-enabled businesses – is aimed at angels located outside of the major venture capital...
FluGen’s M2SR Influenza Vaccine Succeeds in Phase 2 Human Challenge Trial Against a Highly Mismatched Virus
— Topline data shows first flu vaccine to demonstrate protection against a multi-season mismatched H3N2 strain in a human challenge clinical trial — — Intranasal administration of M2SR well-tolerated in trial — — Protection against influenza challenge correlated with...
UW Health Launches Accelerator
UW Health is launching Innovation Hub, a business accelerator program that will be led by experienced entrepreneur Thomas “Rock” Mackie, the organization announced recently. According to a release, the hub’s goal is to offer support for creative ideas and projects...