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Venture Investors to open Michigan office

The Madison venture capital firm, which recently moved into a larger space in the MGE Innovation Center in <a href="http:/...

Venture Investors' early-stage fund grows to $115 million

The Madison-based venture capital firm, which raised $69 million in the initial closing, said the additional funding places Early Stage Fund IV among the largest Midwest...

Investor warns of angel-venture funding gap

Payne, an entrepreneur-in-residence for the and a prominent angel investor, will be in Madison to address the June...

Brazilian bio-industry should impress American investors

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Investors raise $25 million for biodiesel plant

The $60 million plant, to be developed by North Prairie Produc...

Bio-energy and cleantech grab attention of investors

- In 2000, so-called cleantech investments made up only one percent of the venture capital market in the United States. By late 2006, that slice of the venture capital pie had grown to 14 percent. The message is clear: The markets are warming to technologies that produce alternative fuels, keep the air and water clean, and help conserve energy.<...

Early-stage executives hear from investors

In evaluating MatriLab, a Milwaukee-based biotech with scientific ties to the , they counseled technology start ups t...

Commerce qualifies seven for investor tax credits

The programs, which are designed to encourage investment in technology and biotechnology companies, offer Wisconsin income tax credits to angel investors...

Investor links East Coast funds to Midwest tech

, a sector fund of the Peak Ridge Capital Group, wants to bridge the gap between the Midwest and the East Coast venture communities, and his passion for investing in innovative Midwestern technology companies is one of th...

Angel investors commit $12.7B in first half of `06

The center, which has been conducting r...

Wisconsin investors the lifeblood of New Jersey biotech

This round of financing, coordinated through ., a Milwaukee investment banking firm, w...

Venture Investors looks to fund 20 companies

The Madison-based venture capital firm announced it has raised $69 million from mostly Wisconsin source...

California investors acquire RedPrairie Corp.

While terms of the deal were not disclosed, representatives from both companies confirmed that RedPrairie...

Wisconsin investors will make their pitch to IPIC

The firm, (Internet Privacy & Identity Credential), will meet with four prospective Wisconsin investors on May 18 in Mad...

Investors commit $3.4 million to Imago

Imago, a provider of atom probe tomography instruments for u...

Winner of Burrill competition courted by North Carolina investors

Din and Newport stand in front of the display promoting their winning business pla...

Milwaukee investor gives $10M to business school

The endowment is the largest the university has received and will fund business professorships, scholarships, and a discretionary fund. Lubar also said he would help the university raise another...

SWIB plans to invest $50m with Mason Wells and Venture Investors

The The investment would be split between Biomedical Fund II and <a href...

Five technology companies qualify for investor tax credits

"By encouraging investors through tax credits to make these crucial investments, we are helping to turn these great ideas into viable, job-creating businesses," Gov. Jim Doyle said. The Angel...

Platypus raises $1.2 million from private investors

Platypus qualified under Wisconsin Act 255, which grants tax credits...

Early Stage Symposium session will help emerging companies prepare for investors

"Venture Readiness Tools for Commercialization Success" will be held Oct. 20 as a track within the larger conference at Madison 's Monona Terrace Convention Center . Compa...

eMetagen gets $535,000 from MU angel investors

eMetagen plans to use the Golden Angels investment, a...

NovaScan qualifies for investor tax credits

"These tax credits are an additional incentive for investors and will help us attract qualified angels to fund the next phase of development and clinical testing of our technology," said...

10 more firms qualify for investor tax credits

The state Department of Commerce has qualified 10 more businesses for investor tax credits under Commerce can give out up to $3.5 million to venture capitalists and $3 million to angels per year for at least 10 years. It's u...

Milwaukee firm among first to use Act 255 tax credits in investor pitch

Neurognostics oversubscribed on its $1 million angel finance round by about 15 percent,...

Five more companies eligible for Act 255 investor tax credits

Potential investors in five more Wisconsin companies qualify for tax credits under One of the act's provisions allows angel and venture investors to claim tax credits after financing technology firms from <a href=...

Technology council to coordinate angel investors

Wisconsin excels in researching and developing cutting-edge technology ... but we need more capital investment in the first and most critical stage, said <a target="blank" href="http://www.wisgov....

Investors hear about new agricultural technology

Prospective agriculture investors heard about using biomass and enzymes to produce hydrogen fuel, ethanol, and cancer treatments at the annual meeting of These were just a few of the topics brought to the conference by the AgVest group, which focuses on agricultural investment in the sta...

Students will show off biomedical devices to professors and investors

will have a chance to bring a semesters worth of work into the spotlight on Friday at the Biomedical Engineering D...

Local biotech startups must compete nationally for investors attention

Conference on...

Wisconsin investors seek regional partners and informed legislature

We believe [venture capital] is a wor...

Investor profile: Peter M. Skanavis, tech angel, sees investing as civic duty

This is not an easy thing to do. But fortunately for southeastern Wisconsins tech community, Peter M. Skanavis is doing every...

Angel investor boot camp advises and educates cherubs

MADISON, Wis. Educating and advising potential angel investors, or cherubs, on how to act and think like fully grown seraphs was the goal of a seminar at the Tuesday in Milwaukee. The primer, titled Private Equity and Angel Investing Boot Camp, exposed au...

Enhancing Relationships with Investors

In these challenging financial times, good relationships with shareholders are more important than ever. Maintaining a positive relationship with current investors is especially critical because they could very likely be the best source for leading a companys next round of financing. Here are some tips for doing just that: Understanding the needs a...

EducatedInvestor.com Launches to Help Investors Make Informed Decisions

Madison, Wis. The stock market and mutual fund scandals that have caused investors to lose vast sums of personal wealth have left these individuals confused or nervous about getting back into the market. A Madison-based company, has launched a new free web site <a href="http://www.educatedinve...

Investors Pick Favorites at Life Science Conference

MADISON, WI - Companies from nine different states staked their territory Tuesday and Wednesday in an exhibit hall and gave brief presentations in hopes of catching the eye of venture and angel investors at the Wisconsin Life Sciences & Venture Conference at Monona Terrace, Madison. According to industry insiders in attendance, many of the companies representing not only life sciences b...

My View - State Government Needs Integrity To Build Investor Confidence

I applaud Senator Ted Kanavas for his desire to align best business practices to state government. I was also pleasantly surprised to see the senator refer to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Sarbox) in his recent WTN exclusive interview. Lets look at this concept a little closer. President Bush signed Sarbox into law on July 30, 2002 in the wake of corporate accounting scandals, most notably Enro...

Corona Optical Systems continues to excite investors

Lombard, Ill.-based Corona is a manufacturer of dime-sized fiber optic modules for telecommunications equipment. The three and a half-year-old company, which runs its engineering design operations out , has strung together an impressive list of funding and capital partners in the middle of the telecommunication indu...

Connecting Investment Capital with Entrepreneurs: Investors to lay out what theyre looking for in startup companies

The conference, scheduled for June 3-4 in Milwaukee, is being organized by the . Organizers plan to turn the tables on a standard venture conference by giving entrepreneurs and other representatives of emergi...