MILWAUKEE, WI — March 27, 2026 – BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation today announced its investment in Novir, a Milwaukee-based health technology company redefining how preventive healthcare is delivered at scale. Novir is transforming access to essential health services through a technology-enabled care model designed to meet patients where they are. Focused on prevention, accessibility, and operational simplicity, […]
MILWAUKEE, October 16, 2025 – BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation today announced that it has invested in Phoenix-Aid, an Oshkosh-based medical device company developing a groundbreaking wound care technology designed to accelerate healing and reduce infections for patients with diabetic foot ulcers and other chronic wounds. Phoenix-Aid, Inc. has developed a nano composite matrix for wound care dressings that will […]
Technology Allows for Better Management of Late-Stage Cancer MILWAUKEE, July 9, 2025 – BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation Inc. today announced that it has made an investment in AIQ Solutions, a Madison area company that provides powerful insights into the effectiveness that treatments are having on specific lesions for cancer patients. AIQ’s software technology was born out of the […]
Funding to Support Optometry Tech Platform MILWAUKEE, March 12, 2025 – BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation Inc. has announced its investment in Madison-based Optical X, Inc., joining lead investor HealthX Ventures in supporting the company’s innovative approach to the optical market. Optical X has developed an advanced point-of-sale retail management system designed for optometry practices, integrating seamlessly […]
BrightStar Announces Investment in Milwaukee Health Tech Startup MILWAUKEE, January 29, 2025 – BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation Inc. today announced that it has invested in Wales, WI-based Intrnls, Inc., joining lead investor CSA Capital as well as angel groups Milwaukee Venture Partners and Tundra Angels. Intrnls has focused its unique additive manufacturing process on creating filters for large […]
BrightStar Announces Investment in Milwaukee Health Tech Startup MILWAUKEE, August 23, 2023 – BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation Inc. today announced an investment it made earlier this year in Geno.Me, a health tech startup based out of Milwaukee founded by Britt Gottschalk. The company’s technology platform links genetic information with medical records and allows researchers at universities, companies, and hospitals […]
BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation Celebrates 10 Years This past month, BrightStar Wisconsin marked its 10-year anniversary of its charitable mission to create quality jobs in the state by investing in rapidly scalable early-stage ventures. The Foundation has been involved in getting some of the most successful Wisconsin startups going over the past decade. “Looking back, […]
BrightStar Announces Investment in Madison Business Company Moved from Singapore MILWAUKEE, March 23, 2023 – BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation Inc. today announced an investment in Child Health Imprints after it moved its headquarters from Singapore to Madison last year. The company’s technology platform allows clinicians in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) to more effectively and efficiently review […]
BrightStar Announces Investment in RoddyMedical, Inc (MILWAUKEE, WI, October 27, 2022) – BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation Inc. has announced that it has invested $150,000 in Wauwatosa based, RoddyMedical, Inc., an early-stage innovative medical device development company. The investment will help the company finance thescale-up of production manufacturing, and inventory of the firm’s first wearable Medical Device, the SecureMove-TLC® The […]
