At the close of the first quarter, financial reports across the board indicate venture and growth investors in private companies continued to scale back their investment pace. According to Pitchbook data, 27 Wisconsin-based startup companies raised venture capital in the first quarter of 2023. Milwaukee area companies Company Name HQ Location Year Founded Funding Amount … Wisconsin VC Funding Quarter 1
Milwaukee-based startup EVEN, launched in 2022, has reached another funding milestone. Company founder and CEO, Mag Rodriguez, announced it raised a $2.2 million seed round to support the direct-to-consumer platform that allows artists to sell their music to consumers before it is commercially available elsewhere. The funding round was led by CSA Partners with participation … EVEN raises $2.2 Million seed round
Food FiXR founder Dr. Grace Hameister is ready to change the way people look at food. The Doctor of Chiropractic, Functional and Integrative Medicine founded Food FiXR, an “interactive FoodTech and HealthTech platform” that allows users to make informed choices at the grocery store before the items land in their carts, in 2021. The app … Food FiXR is set to soar
Twenty-six entries representing sectors such as health care, cleantech, education, software and innovations in products or services are competing in the finalist round of the 20th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest. The contestants have emerged after two rounds of judging in the contest organized through the Wisconsin Technology Council and its sponsors and volunteers. … Finalists in Gov’s Biz Plan Contest announced
Bradley Woods is a multi-faceted innovator. Woods spent most of his career in software development. In his free time, he indulged in his passion for art. Both a painter and a sculptor, Woods longed to create art using metal, but he did not have access to a metal foundry. Undeterred, Woods began to experiment with … The Virtual Foundry creates new frontiers
Milwaukee-based Dinvy, a professional service automation (PSA) software company, has relaunched its signature product. The company offers professional service automation (PSA) software designed to track time, budgets, projects, and everything else a business needs to manage to be successful. The epiphany came from their own mission statement. “One of our mission statements was that we … Dinvy Ascent targets businesses of all size
Maker llc, founded in 2012, might be one of the region’s most inventive workplaces. The collection of creatives has been producing graphic designs, product designs, and environmental designs for over a decade. The Mequon-based design firm has recently gotten a whole lot more inventive. It has spun out a design company that focuses on medical … More magic from Mequon’s Maker
It is often said that dogs are man’s best friend. That is certainly true of Amadeus Benitez and his beloved golden retriever, Leo. At the close of 2021, Benitez returned home to discover that Leo had somehow gotten into a box of baking chocolate and ate two of the bars. Benitez was in a panic, … Chocolate Rescue for Dogs gets two paws up from man’s best friend
Dr. Tim Hunter is the founder of Wolf Star Technologies. Launched in 2010, the bootstrapped company has created software that helps engineers take the guesswork out of product testing, while significantly cutting down on the time and cost associated with product development. Hunter has an impressive resume. The founder holds a PhD in Engineering and … A software solution for a pressing engineering problem
Bob Muchka knows sewers. For more than a quarter of a century, Muchka worked in sewer maintenance and rehabilitation. When he retired, his passion for the industry continued. Restless in retirement, he began to consider opening a business. Inspiration struck Muchka when he viewed a TED Talk led by computer scientist Joseph Redman about the … AI goes underground with Infrastructure DL