Milwaukee, Madison and Wisconsin
This was a relatively light week for funding announcements in the Silicon Prairie, but it was dominated by rounds from Chicago, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Large Rounds ($10+ million) The Milwaukee Business Journal reported that Shine Medical Technologies raised $50 million in new financing from Oaktree Capital to continue to commercialize radioisotopes for medical uses. In…
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In honor of the IO Summit, which was born out of the IO Podcast, Silicon Prairie News has compiled a list of some of our favorite podcasts from the Silicon Prairie: The Inside Outside Podcast – http://insideoutside.io/ – With over 168 episodes bringing together entrepreneurship and corporate innovation, this podcast is a regional leader in…
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The funding round up is an aggregation of a variety of sources, including Pitchbook, Form Ds, and Crunchbase. After building a list from these sources, we look for press releases and other mechanisms to provide more information. If you are would like to appear in the funding round up next week, please email us at…
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In the interest of keeping tabs on fundings on the Silicon Prairie, this week we are providing a simple funding round-up. For this round-up, we used Form Ds, Pitchbook, and Crunchbase to provide us with a list of companies that received early stage funding, venture capital funding, or grants. We have provided information regarding the…
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Wisconsin based Intellivisit continues to expand. According to recent filings at the SEC, the company raised $692k this month from undisclosed investors. The company was founded in 2014 by Jay Mason, Jeff Miller, and Michael Eaton. Since its inception, the company has expanded to serve customers in six states including many areas of Wisconsin. This…
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2018 was a terrific year for the Silicon Prairie regarding venture dollars deployed. More than $6.1B was deployed in the region. While the number of companies receiving funds was about 8% lower (approximately 1450 companies were venture backed in the region), the amount of funding was up more than 34.5% from 2017 to 2018. Thus,…
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OnLume and Simply Solutions announced last week that they had raised over one million dollars in venture funding. Madison based medical device company, OnLume, filed paperwork with the SEC that they had raised $1.37 million of incremental cash. On its website, the company describes its technology as, “intuitive and ergonomic solutions for precise fluorescene image-guided…
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Frontdesk, a Milwaukee startup, helps corporate travelers book travel online. The goal is to become Airbnb for business travelers seeking a place to stay akin to corporate housing. The company states on its website: “We offer securely managed short-term stays at the best apartments in the best cities.” The company was founded in 2018 and…
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Pegex, a Madison, Wisconsin based startup, has built a SaaS platform that provides waste management companies with business productivity tools that include a robust CRM, an automated quote engine, documents and data automation, workflow management, and other unique sets of templates and tools for their industry partners. But, in doing our research for this company,…
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NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes, LLC formerly of Madison, Wisconsin now headquartered in Beloit, is the recipient of a $15 million cooperative agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA). This funding on July 23rd, is part of ongoing support by the DOE/NNSA to establish a stable domestically produced non-uranium-based source of…
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