Eight UW-Madison startups will receive funding assistance as a result of the Discovery to Product (D2P)’s State Economic Engagement and Development (SEED) Program and a matching grant of $300,000 from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC), the organization announced recently.

As previously reported, the SEED Program funds innovative research that helps commercialize technologies developed by UW-Madison faculty and staff.

“There are so many remarkable technologies and companies associated with UW-Madison discoveries,” D2P Director Andy Richards said in a statement. “Thank you to WEDC for their matching support of the UW-Madison SEED program. The funding will allow these outstanding emerging businesses to benefit from additional university research to improve market readiness and implementation of their cutting-edge technologies right here in Wisconsin.”

According to a release, the grants were given to Jose Ayuso and David Beebe who are working with Salus Discovery, Kyoung-Shin Choi with ChloBis Water, Beth Drolet with Arkayli Biopharma, Dawei Feng with Flux XII, Joseph Grudzinski and Justin Jeffery with Phantech, Amish Raval with Cellular Logstics, Damon Smith with Field Prophet, Matthew Wolff and Timothy Kamp with Table Bluff Life Sciences.