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  • Workhound seeks to catch employee grievances before they stray

    Workhound seeks to catch employee grievances before they stray

    If a company’s employees have desk jobs, it’s easier to solicit feedback from them. But if the workforce includes truck drivers, warehouse workers or nurses – jobs that aren’t very stationary – it can be even tougher for management to engage with workers. The Des Moines company Workhound is making employee feedback more mobile friendly.…

  • Madison-based insurtech startup SafetyNet launches new insurance program

    Madison-based insurtech startup SafetyNet launches new insurance program

    Renter SafetyNet, a new insurance program from CUNA Mutual Group’s innovation lab, was launched today in Wisconsin. In a shifting housing market where more people than ever are renting rather than buying, Renter SafetyNet is a first-of-its-kind program created specifically for landlords to come out of the Madison-based insurance tech startup, SafetyNet. “PEW research put…

  • InsurTech startup SafetyNet is using insurance to increase Americans’ financial security

    InsurTech startup SafetyNet is using insurance to increase Americans’ financial security

    SafetyNet, a Madison, Wisconsin-based insurance tech startup, is hoping to solve a problem that plagues nearly half of all Americans. “A Fed[eral Reserve] report said that almost half of Americans can’t afford to pay a $400 surprise expense,” said Mark Greene, Director of Innovation at SafetyNet. “Other stats say more than half of Americans don’t…

  • Health Snaps engages patients for better physical therapy results

    Health Snaps engages patients for better physical therapy results

    Three students at the University of Wisconsin were discussing business ideas when one mentioned his experience with a cumbersome paper process during physical therapy. Thinking there had to be a better way, the trio formed Milwaukee-based Health Snaps, a startup currently going through the NMotion Accelerator program. “Max (Zirbel, CTO), Jordan (Mather, CEO) and I…

  • Snowshoe Candy Co. wins $10K in prizes at Get Started Omaha

    Snowshoe Candy Co. wins $10K in prizes at Get Started Omaha

    Cox Business brought Get Started Omaha back for the fourth year during Omaha Startup Week earlier this month. The event featured six entrepreneurs pitching their businesses to a panel of experts for a shot at $7,500 in cash and a $2,500 Cox Media package. This year’s pitch winner was Ali Clark from Snowshoe Candy Co.,…

  • Trunk Club competitor enters Wisconsin’s gener8tor accelerator

    On Dec. 26, Men’s Style Lab founder Derian Baugh got what he calls a “belated Christmas miracle.” He found out that his fledgling e-commerce startup had been accepted to gener8tor, a Madison, Wisc.-based accelerator he describes as extremely competitive. Of 385 applicants, Men’s Style Lab was chosen as one of five startups from across the…