Five Madison-area companies won six of the nine Wisconsin Innovation Awards during the annual ceremony held Wednesday at the Memorial Union.

Imbed Biosciences (Madison) won the biotech category, Filament Games (Madison) won in education, Standard Imaging (Middleton) won in health IT and Infosec (Madison) won in software. Meanwhile, Tall Poppy Writers (Madison) won in the collaboration and people’s choice categories.

“The Wisconsin Innovation Awards seek to celebrate and inspire innovation and highlight the creative spirit from the state’s leading public, private and nonprofit sectors,” Wisconsin Innovation Awards Co-Founder Matt Younkle said in a statement. “We want to congratulate all finalists and winners from the 2019 Wisconsin Innovation Awards and look forward to encouraging an even greater environment of innovation in the year to come.”

According to a release, a panel of 28 judges selected the winners from 31 finalists and more than 400 nominees.

The other winners came from Appleton, Wis., Kohler, Wis., and Milwaukee.