Category Archives: Tech

Company Profile: DwellHop

Whether you’re buying or selling a house, it can be a little stressful and confusing. This is where DwellHop comes in. Formerly known as TwentyFourSevenOpen, DwellHop provides property marketing services,…

Pivotal Acquires Patel’s Quickstep

Two years and two exits for Jignesh Patel. The University of Wisconsin professor’s data processing startup Quickstep Technologies was acquired by Pivotal, the company announced this week. Patel, who will join Pivotal,…

NeuWave Closes $25M Series C

NeuWave Medical, which focuses on clinical innovation to fight cancer, announced today that it completed a $25 million Series C financing round, led by Versant Ventures. According to a release,…

Panel: WI Ahead in Health Tech

The healthcare system in Wisconsin is ahead of other states, which is a main reason for the fast-growing health tech industry, according to a panel discussion at the monthly Wisconsin…

Deadline to Apply for WERCBench Labs Nears

The MidWest Energy Research Consortium (M-WERC) is accepting applications through May 29 for its business startup initiative, WERCBench Labs. The Milwaukee-based program encourages engineers, scientists and programmers in various funding stages…

Ionic 1.0.0 Released; IBM Partnership Announced

After 14 beta versions, Drifty today announced the release of Ionic 1.0.0, nicknamed Uranium-Unicorn. “This is such an important milestone for all of us here on the team,” Co-Founder Ben…

Company Profile: UpDown

It can be a challenge for people to live a healthy lifestyle and find time for exercise, especially with a job that requires frequent travel. On his way home from…

Sensori Uses Kickstarter for SensoriOne

Peter Oppermann and four other friends founded Sensori in 2013, and after almost two years of business, they announced they’re running a Kickstarter campaign for their motion-capture open platform called…

Drifty Closes $2.6M Series A

Drifty, makers of the Ionic open source mobile SDK, announced today that it raised $2.6 million in its Series A round. According to a release, Lightbank led the round, which included…

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Fetch Rewards Receives $500K Loan

The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation has awarded a $500,000 loan from its Technology Development Loan Program to Fetch Rewards, an app that helps simplify grocery shopping, the organization recently announced. According…