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Lauren Davis has spent her professional career taking care of people. The founder of FASTMedical began her career in health care as a certified nursing assistant (CNA). She later earned her certification as a registered nurse (RN) and went on to become a corporate compliance officer at a large retirement center. Ready to branch out FASTMedical: Revolutionizing assisted-living reimbursements

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When Deanne Herber and her daughters started a podcast in 2020, they had the modest goal of amusing family and friends with stories about their life as a military family. Quickly, they discovered that military families around the globe were tuning in to their show, Kids in Combat Boots. As listeners laughed along with the Kids in Combat Boots serves military kids

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

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Milwaukee-based LeaseCrunch, under the leadership of co-founder and CEO Ane Ohm, announced last week that “the company has nearly doubled its team as the company achieves record growth.” Launched in 2016, the SaaS (Software as a Service) company created an intuitive, scalable solution so accounting firms can easily collaborate with their clients to the new LeaseCrunch Experiences Record Growth

Milwaukee-based Rex Academy is leading the way in providing accessible STEM education. The company has created a partnership with University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) that will allow Rex Academy students to transfer up to six credits of coursework toward a Bachelor of Science in Information Science & Technology degree at UWM. Founded in 2015 by Sandhya Rex Academy partners with UW-Milwaukee

StickyLickits could be Wisconsin’s next great startup success. Company founder, Linda York, has developed a product that supports healthy eating in kids while encouraging kids to have fun with their food. The company makes edible stickers featuring some of the hottest stars in the Pre-K universe, including PAW Patrol, Elmo and Sponge Bob. The product West Coast company finds new home in Milwaukee

Jamie Andrzejewski’s professional life was at a crossroads when a birthday gift for her then six-year-old daughter, Emma, led her into entrepreneurship. Emma received a lip balm making kit from her uncle and she was eager to begin the project. The mother and daughter had a great time making the lip balm, but Jamie was Nourish Natural Products offers healing with heart

Spaulding Medical CEO, Amanda Baltz, is getting ready to showcase what the Menomonee Falls based MedTech company has been working on behind closed doors. “The last couple of years we’ve been heads-down, developing our next-gen product and we are so excited about what we’ve developed to help our clients,” Baltz said. “We are in the Spaulding Medical: On the rise

Barbara Zabawa has an impressive resume. She is a lawyer who specializes in the health and wellness industry, a professor at UW-Milwaukee, an entrepreneur, and a podcast host. Now, she has also added ‘designer’ to her list of accomplishments. Nearly a decade ago, Zabawa was trying a case in federal court. Security regulations required her Introducing Pursesuitz Pocketwear

Nicole Sdao describes herself as a “faith driven entrepreneur.” “I’m a recovering volunteer addict is what I am,” she said. Over the years she had learned the key value of volunteerism, both to the organization that receives the work being done, and the world outside of the organization. An ever-increasing number of schools are making Altruize modernizes volunteer data