There’s a new startup in town. Meet GoStrive, a community engagement platform for health and wellness organizations (and special events). Founded in 2012 by University of Wisconsin-Whitewater professor, Choton Basu, the startup now has nine employees. GoStrive is currently lead by Accelerate Madison founder, James Jackson. GoStrive is the exclusive partner of the National Parks …
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2013 was a year full of activity and increasing visibility for the Madison startup scene. Capital Entrepreneurs membership grew 50% in 2013 and now encompasses nearly 300 members – all of which are founders or early stage employees of Madison area startups. Capital Entrepreneurs member companies now employ over 350 full time people and created …
Spill is a confidential place for young adults to “spill†about life issues anonymously, and share advice, support, and encouragement with one other. Originally launched for college students, the service has now expanded to high school students in the US and Canada. Spill is now available at 150 colleges, and they currently have an IndiGoGo …
gener8tor has been rated as one of the “Top 9 Hot Startup Accelerators” by CNN Money. gener8tor is based in Madison and Milwaukee, and hosts two 12 week accelerator programs each year. gener8tor was represented by their focus in Hardware, which pulls from the area’s local manufacturing network and offers access to electrical and mechanical …
The year of 2013 was an action filled year for PerBlue. Our flagship title Parallel Kingdom saw the release of an entirely new Age. The Age of Ascension was the 5th Age launched for the game and went live in February 2013. It was the first new Age to be released in over 2 years, …
The 2nd Capital Entrepreneurs / Startup Milwaukee joint event will take place in Madison on the evening of January 22nd. It’s an Open Social format, so anyone with an interest in entrepreneurship is welcome to join. The event will focus on continuing the conversation about better connecting and strengthening the entrepreneurial communities in Madison, Milwaukee, …
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This past year was quite the ride for EatStreet. We started off 2013 strong with our Series A investment led by Cornerstone Angels and Independence Equity, followed by a great TechCrunch article discussing the proud milestone and our plans for our new funds. Sticking true to those plans, we wasted no time utilizing said funds. …
Keeping loyal customers is less expensive than getting new ones , which requires a little more effort and sometimes a bit of creativity. You can even hire an interim CIO to help with innovation decisions and aligning processes and technology to best support the business. They can deliver a unique perspective to help your company …
There is an upcoming Doyenne Retreat for women entrepreneurs the weekend of February 7-9, 2014. The Doyenne Retreat is a weekend-long, strategic planning workshop for women-led startups. The Retreat is a opportunity for you and your team to escape the day-to-day routine and focus on developing your next strategic move. There will be intense feedback …
2013 represented another year of rapid growth for Networked Insights. Dozens of the world’s largest brands and advertising spenders joined our client roster during 2013. To accommodate the demand for our technology-enabled marketing services, we expanded our offices in Chicago, New York, Madison, and LA increasing our full-time head count by 42%. On the client …
2013 has been a fast-paced and exciting year for Murfie! We kicked off the year with a move (down the block) to larger, better digs at 7 North Pinckney Street. Ordinarily, moving an office of software developers one block is pretty straightforward, but Murfie had the added challenge of safely moving our valuable inventory. As …
With 2013 quickly coming to an end, and no work shortage in sight, the staff at Hardin Design & Development wanted to take a moment to review all that we’ve accomplished. For starters, we experienced another year of growth, 16% to be exact, and are excited to have impressive new programmers in the office as …
We hit our one-year-in-business mark in October, and we’ve come a long ways in terms of providing news on the startup scene in Madison. Part of what makes us tick is keeping in tune with the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Madison. This year, we built relationships with groups such as Capital Entrepreneurs, the Center for Technology …
32auctions is a bootstrapped startup based in the great city of Madison. We provide an effective cloud based service for anyone wanting to host a silent auction fundraiser. To date, 32auctions has benefited nearly 12,000 causes across the globe, including in the US, Canada, UK, Europe and Australia. We even broke into the top 100,000 …
Nextt is a Madison startup that helps people get out from behind their screens and do more together offline. In contrast to other social networks that focus on sharing the past with a large group of digital followers, Nextt helps users organize their future with their smaller group of friends, making it easy to create, …
At Noble Applications, we exceeded our expectations for our first full year in business. We are officially bootstrapped, and have been able to turn our focus to responsibly managing rapid growth. Besides exceeding our sales and financial goals for 2013, as a bootstrap startup, we are very proud that we were able to add 5 …
2014 To bring us into 2014, we’ll be looking back at 2013. A lot of great things happened within the Capital Entrepreneurs community and the Madison Startup Scene and we’d like to share them. We’ll be kicking off with a series of posts from Capital Entrepreneurs companies summarizing their year in review, and we’ll cap …
The ice fishing angler’s new best friend BlueTipz was recently featured in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. BlueTipz is a wireless transmitter that sends an alert to your smartphone when you have a fish on your ice fishing tip-up. Invented by Bob Baddeley and Brad Zdroik, BlueTipz brings high tech to an industry that has changed …
Abby Larner is a UI/UX Designer, Front-end developer, and Graphic designer. She is a co-founder of 900dpi and was the organizer of Design Like Mad. She shares the full recap of the Design Like Mad event that took place earlier this month with us now. I live in Madison, Wisconsin, where the tech scene is …
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Murfie was named as one of the “upworthiest” technologies of the year by the writers of Yahoo Tech. Murfie is the planet’s largest online CD marketplace where people can send in their CDs which are then converted to a digital format that plays on any device: Mac, PC, phone, tablet, even the Sonos. Check out …
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