EatStreet just announced that they raised an additional 15 million dollars in funding. The series C round, which was led by VC 4490 Ventures and Lumia Capital, will make EatStreet competitive with the biggest online food ordering services on the market. EatStreet was founded in 2010 by three UW-Madison students, and five years later they have …
Ignite Madison is back! Join your fellow Madisonians for Ignite Madison on Wednesday, May 21st at 8pm at the High Noon Saloon to learn about people who love all things food. Ten speakers will each give 5 minute presentations using slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds, covering such things as cooking, fermentation, gardening, and food sustainability. The …
Abodo, a Madison company that lists apartments for rent in order to help people find a place to live, has just raised over $900,000 of funding. Â A graduate of the gener8tor program, Abodo.com currently has over 80,000 listings in cities like Madison, Milwaukee, Green Bay, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, and Raleigh, NC, with more cities to come …
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The 2014 Startup Weekend Madison event is a wrap! Congratulations to all teams and thank you to everyone who participated. We hope you enjoyed the weekend and learned a ton. Check out some great pictures from the event here, and the full team list here (with project details). The high quality of projects this year …
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian will be featured at an upcoming Wisconsin Union Directorate Distinguished Lecture Series event on Thursday, February 20th, starting at 7:30 pm. Alexis is currently on a tour for his latest book, Without Their Permission, which aims to promote Internet startups and entrepreneurial environment among students and the community. The event will also feature UW-Madison …
SnowShoe has just launched a newly designed website and demo, and they need help from Madison’s developer and hacker community! SnowShoe wants you to go to their site and order a free developer kit. Once you receive the kit, SnowShoe would like to schedule a Google Hangout with you as your build your first test …
Ignite Madison is back! Join your fellow Madisonians for Ignite Madison on Wednesday, February 12th at 8pm at the High Noon Saloon to learn about people who are using their creative talents in unique ways to make or engineer items by hand. Ten speakers will each give 5 minute presentations using slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds, covering …
The Madison Sewing Studio held it’s grand opening, as well as an all day ‘Swatch-a-thon’ last weekend to great success. The events kicked off Friday night with an open house, featuring sewing demonstrations, music, and more. Saturday’s event, the Swatch-a-thon, was a sewing/creating marathon where participants used swatches donated by area stores to create a design over …
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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The inaugural “Start Me Up” Emerging Healthcare IT MeetUp Day joins the 2013 Digital Healthcare Conference this year. The Digital Healthcare Conference (June 11-12) is an exclusive gathering of healthcare leaders to network, learn and innovate. Attendees share insights, compare experiences, and hear engaging presentations from their peers. The list of speakers is available here. …
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WomStreet wraps up an amazing first year with a bang, launching one of their most viral contests to date. The contest was a promotion for 6 pop icon DJs. In just 1 hour after launch, the contest set a submissions record with nearly 40 entries. It was their 42nd contest, with over 30 different customers, …
Hardin Design & Development CEO Jon Hardin was named one of the top 9 Young Entrepreneurs to Watch in the Chicago area by Under30CEO. Under30CEO launched a nationwide campaign this summer to discover the most promising young entrepreneurs from all across the United States. Hardin Design & Development is headquartered in Madison and builds cutting …
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Bad Donkey Social‘s Enriched Text Content (ETC) technology was highlighted by InBusiness recently. ETC is a mobile product that creates an alternative to bland alphanumeric text by adding relevant branded images in-line as part of text conversations. The product is currently in beta testing, with a release slated soon. More than 20 Madison area businesses …
Asthmapolis and their “smart” asthma inhaler were recently featured in Wired. Asthmapolis helps patients and health providers better monitor the behavior of asthma utilizing a sensor that attaches to an inhaler. The sensor records the time and location of each use, which makes data collection part of the act of using the inhaler. The data …
Pretty Lights Music will select the opener for their show from the top 5 finalists voted on WomStreet. The show will take place on November 15 at the Alliant Energy Center. All talented DJs near Madison are being asked to submit their best original 15 minute mix. The contest can be found here.
Gener8tor is now accepting applications for their Winter 2013 class based in Madison. Gener8tor is a seed accelerator and invests its capital, expertise and network in capable, first-stage entrepreneurs with innovative business models. Check out the companies from their Summer 2012 class here. Apply for the Winter 2013 class here.
Madison based TrustEgg is launching their public beta today, and was also featured on TechCrunch. TrustEgg provides parents a way to save for a child’s future that’s ultra-simple, gets a market rate of return, and is accessible to families of all income levels. A parent can set up an account for each child in minutes …
We’re looking for Wisconsinites who think differently – creatives and entrepreneurs – to engage in a fun brainstorm at Merchant on Monday, December 5 from 6-9pm. We need help envisioning a new health start-up rooted in social innovation and public-private partnership. Questions like: What does a healthy city look like? Can a new health start-up …
Milwaukee/Madison based technology incubator 94labs will sponsor a Hackathon to benefit area non-profits as a part of Marquette University’s Entrepreneurship Week. The 94labs Social Cause Hackathon will encourage collaboration between students, entrepreneurs, designers, and developers as they work to create applications for the participating non-profits. The apps created will help the agencies raise awareness, increase …
Madison’s very own TEDx event wrapped up a successful day Saturday at the Promega auditorium in Fitchburg. TEDx events are independently organized TED events. The vision for TEDx Madtown is to bring together people who are motivated to take the ideas discussed out into the state and engender new conversations in their communities, particularly about …
