Food Accelerator Expands Nationally
The Food Finance Institute (FFI) announced recently that its Wisconsin FaBcap Accelerator has changed into a national Fellows Program. “Through our new model, in one year, we will touch more businesses…
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Pill Skills Earns Ideadvance Grant
The Center for Technology Commercialization announced recently that Pill Skills earned a Stage 1 Small Business Innovation Ideadvance grant of $15,000. Pill Skills, which progressively teaches children an important life skill with…
Pyran Raises $4M, Hires CEO
Pyran announced recently that it closed its fundraising round, which totaled nearly $4 million in investments and grants, and hired a CEO. According to a release, Arosa Capital led the…
Northwestern Mutual Creates $100M Impact Fund
Northwestern Mutual announced today the launch of a $100-million impact investing fund, which will invest in Black and African-American communities nationally and in the Milwaukee area. According to a release, the fund will focus on physical…
CMFG Launches Discovery Fund
CMFG Ventures, the venture capital arm of CUNA Mutual Group, has launched the CMFG Ventures Discovery Fund, which will invest in early-stage companies with diverse founding teams (people of color…
Company Profile: Cultured Decadence
by Sam Johnson, for MadisonStartups.com In the last few years, the alternative protein movement has been brought to many consumers’ attention. Companies like Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat have started…
Cultured Decadence Raises $1.6M
Cultured Decadence, which makes lobster and crab meat using cell culture and tissue engineering techniques, raised $1.6 million in a pre-seed financing round, the company announced recently. “The way we…
HealthX Closes $55M Fund II
HealthX Ventures raised more than $55 million in its second fund, HealthX Ventures Fund II, L.P., which closed Feb. 15. According to Joel Martin, partner and head of operations, the…
UW Launches Entrepreneurship Science Lab
To improve student entrepreneurship, the University of Wisconsin has launched an entrepreneurship science lab. Open since January, the lab is comprised of a multi-disciplinary team of scholars focusing on measurable outcomes relating to…
Urban League Announces Minority Startup Loan Program
The Urban League of Greater Madison, through a $400,000 grant from the American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate and Social Impact, announced this week the creation of a loan program for new…
