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[ Announcement ] Startup Wisconsin Week 2025 calendar is now live!
The Startup Wisconsin Week 2025 calendar is now live.And there are more events being added still! Leaders from across our communities are working hard to put together great events to connect, educate, and celebrate. On the calendar you can filter by city, virtual, and topic. → See the 35+ events on the calendar so far Already hosting an event during that week in November and want to add it to our calendar?
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Helping tech founders, startups, investors, and talent get connected and discover events and programs across Wisconsin since 2017.
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...
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...
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...