Episode 17 now available! Ep 17 - Angela Damiani, CEO & Co-Founder, NEWaukee Building Belonging in Startup Communities Founders have almost nowhere to say "I don't know if this is going to work." Angela Damiani helped build a place where those conversations can happen and feel heard. You can't express doubt in front of your team. They're looking to you to lead. You can't say it to your investors or your board. And you're probably not going to put it on LinkedIn. Angela started NEWaukee 17...
4 days ago • 6 min read
Episode 16 now available! Ep 16 - Russell From, President & Co-Founder, WayFi Wireless The Invisible Tech Changing How We Connect Russ From spent years at Verizon flying to data centers around the world. He kept noticing the same problem... There are still places where cell phones just don't work (and they should). The traditional fix costs a hundred grand or more. Turns out there's a technology called Passpoint that's been around for over a decade, and hardly anyone knew it existed. WayFi...
25 days ago • 7 min read
Startup Wisconsin is organized by Headway, a digital product agency based in Green Bay, WI. Powered by our state sponsors, Nicolet National Bank and gener8tor. New on the podcast Learn about Wisconsin's growing tech scene through stories of startups, founders, investors, and the incredible people making it happen. The Startup Wisconsin Podcast is presented by Valency Fund EP 13How This Website is Helping Solve the Mental Health CrisisBen Camp, CEO & Co-Founder, Recovery.com EP 14Helping...
about 1 month ago • 13 min read
Episode 15 now available! Ep 15 - Jillian Bichanich, Serial Entrepreneur Building Two Mission-Driven Startups "It shouldn't be this hard to do good in this world." In this episode, we sit down with Jillian Bichanich, a Wisconsin-born founder and builder, to discuss how she is growing two mission-driven startups at the same time. Jillian shares her journey as the co-founder of Cubbi, an app designed to support families navigating disabilities, and as the founder of Pocketchange, a platform...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
Episode 14 now available! Ep 14 - Michael Ceely, High Performance Executive Coach Helping Founders Get Out of Their Own Way Michael Ceely has been a competitive bike racer, a high school Spanish teacher, and a licensed psychotherapist. Now he coaches founders and executives to stop overthinking and start moving. His clinical background gives him an edge most coaches don't have: he can spot when a high-achieving founder actually needs therapy before they're ready for coaching. This...
about 2 months ago • 6 min read
Episode 13 now available! Ep 13 - Ben Camp, CEO & Co-Founder, Recovery.com How This Website is Helping Solve the Mental Health Crisis Ben saw people in crisis turning to the internet for help, and finding websites taking advantage of them. So he built something better. But he didn't start in the US. Ben and his co-founder launched Recovery.com's first product in India, used revenue-based financing to avoid dilution, built their entire leadership team from a Madison coworking space, and raised...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
Startup Wisconsin is organized by Headway, a digital product agency based in Green Bay, WI. Powered by our state sponsors, Nicolet National Bank and gener8tor. New podcast episode Ep 12Turning UW Milwaukee Research Into Startups Jessica Silvaggi, President, UWM Research Foundation Jessica shares what actually happens when a university invention needs to find its way to market. Spoiler: most of the time, the inventor becomes the entrepreneur by default because no one else is stepping up. We...
about 2 months ago • 20 min read
Episode 12 now available! Ep 12 - Jessica Silvaggi, President, UWM Research Foundation Turning UW Milwaukee Research Into Startups Jessica Silvaggi's path to leading the UW Milwaukee Research Foundation wasn't exactly linear. Molecular biology degree → Harvard PhD in bacterial genetics → postdoc researching Parkinson's disease → 16 years in tech transfer. That scientific curiosity now drives her work helping university researchers turn ideas into real-world products and companies. In this...
2 months ago • 5 min read
Startup Wisconsin is organized by Headway, a digital product agency based in Green Bay, WI. Powered by our state sponsors, Nicolet National Bank and gener8tor. Hey folks! We're pretty excited about 2026. Startup Wisconsin Team: Andrew Verboncouer & Jacob Miller We took a short little break over the holidays and now we are back in action over here. Apologies for the delay on getting events updated for January. We can't wait to share some of the things we are planning and the amazing people...
3 months ago • 12 min read