Category Archives: Tech

Fab Lab Gets $300K for Clinical Devices

In an effort to spur medical device innovations, the BerbeeWalsh Foundation is making a five-year, $300,000 donation to the Morgridge Institute for Research’s Advanced Fabrication Laboratory or ‘Fab Lab’, the institute announced…

WeMontage Hosts College Giveaway

To prevent homesickness for first-year college students, WeMontage is giving away 100 removable photo wallpaper montages, the company announced today. Students and parents can enter the “WeMontage College Homesickness Giveaway”…

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…