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Elumenati expects growth with move into Milwaukee’s Harbor District
Since 2003, Milwaukee digital technology company The Elumenati LLC has been building its immersive video projection systems for museums, science centers, laboratories and universities in the U.S., Portugal, the Middle East, South Africa, Canada and other destinations...
Penrod to open office in Portland, plans to double staff next year
Milwaukee-based Penrod will open an office in Portland and plans to double its ranks by 2020, the company announced Wednesday. Penrod is a provider of custom-built Salesforce solutions and has offices in Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Dallas. The company has approximately...
Venture Investors Bets on Healthcare, and Milwaukee, With $75M Fund
Venture Investors is going all-in on healthcare with its latest venture fund. Launched in 1982, Venture Investors (VI) is the oldest venture firm in Wisconsin, and one of the older VCs in the US. Historically, early-stage life sciences and healthcare startups have...
IoT company launches smart city network in Milwaukee
In today's economy, data is everything, and one Milwaukee tech company has created a low-cost network that will enable companies, governments and researchers to collect large amounts of data that can be used to improve the environment and public safety.
Everstream investing $27M in Milwaukee fiber network ahead of DNC
Cleveland-based Everstream is investing $27 million to expand its fiber network into the metro Milwaukee before the Democratic National Convention in 2020, the company announced Tuesday. The expansion consists of two fiber rings that encircle western Milwaukee...
Milwaukee CEOs Count On Legacy-Industry Challenges To Lure Tech Workers
A handful of powerful business leaders in Milwaukee have coalesced around the goal of advancing a digital-tech-oriented transformation of one of America’s most industrially oriented cities. They’ll be closely watched by business and government leaders in other...
Cybersecurity summit urges companies to share hacking woes
About 60% of small businesses have been hit by a cyber attack. It has cost organizations more than $100,000 in lost revenue and there is also embarrassment of telling others. "A lot of times people don't want to share them and we need to culturally get over that,"...
What ‘Shark Tank’ investor Robert Herjavec says Milwaukee needs to be a tech city
"Shark Tank" investor Robert Herjavec thinks there's a real future for cities like Milwaukee to lure in people and businesses from the coasts.
MKE Tech Hub Coalition hits the ground running with free incubator FOR-M
Essentially, the incubator program becomes a feeder system for the more established startup accelerators in the Milwaukee area run by gener8tor, The Water Council and the Mid-West Energy Research Consortium.
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