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 […]
BrightStar Invests to Defeat Cancer MILWAUKEE, September, 2022 – BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation today announced that it has invested in Milwaukee based Tundra Targeted Therapeutics, Inc., joining Golden Angels Investors in the funding round. The company, originating as a spin-off from the Medical College of Wisconsin, has developed a platform that allows a patient’s own T-cells to more efficiently […]
BrightStar’s Latest Investment Helps Publishers and Authors MILWAUKEE, August 10, 2022 – BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation has invested in DropCap, Inc., a company that has developed technologies to help independent book publishing companies and authors create more targeted and cost-effective ways to sell their books globally. The La Crosse based business offers two products. The first, […]
BrightStar Wisconsin invests in a novel, animal sterilization technology company BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation, Inc. is pleased to announce its investment in Madison based SpayVac earlier this month. The company’s revolutionary drug release technology allows for successful sterilization of animals with only a single injection. Originally developed by a Canadian company for other applications, the SpayVac […]
BrightStar Announces New Investment BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation Inc. today announced that it has invested in De Pere based ReadySet Technologies, joining lead investor, Rock River Capital Partners out of Madison. The goal of ReadySet is to leverage its experience and virtual reality (VR) technology to create an all-in-one virtual retail lab platform for product development, category […]
BrightStar Wisconsin’s First Investment of 2022 MILWAUKEE, March 9, 2022 – BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation has made a $100,000 investment in FindSpotz, Inc., a Madison based SaaS company. FindSpotz (dba Spotz) does just that…finds spots for people to congregate. The company offers an efficient management software platform to manage, publish and make community spaces (parks and rec, […]
