BrightStar announces new investments MILWAUKEE, Dec. 9, 2016 – BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation Inc. today announced that it has committed $550,000 to three new companies, Access HealthNet, Onkol, and Rent College Pads. The investments bring the BrightStar portfolio to 32 companies in less than three years of investing. “These investments show that we have effectively stepped up […]
Downloadable File: Fall Ad Campaign.pdf Dear BrightStar friends: Hopefully many of you saw the ads that we are currently running in the Milwaukee Business Journal, BizTimes and Wisconsin State Journal. For those of you that haven’t seen it, click the link below. This is the second year that we’ve run our “donor appeal” ad campaign. […]
Downloadable File: BSW Moxe press release 10-21-16.pdf BrightStar announces investment in a job-creating Wisconsin company MILWAUKEE, Oct. 24, 2016 – BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation Inc. today announced another 2016 investment and would like to welcome Madison-based Moxe Health into its portfolio of Wisconsin early-stage, job-creating companies. Moxe provides the healthcare market with a more effective electronic […]
BrightStar invests $250k in Madison firm By Molly Dill, October 24, 2016, 1:02 PM Milwaukee-based BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation Inc. has invested $250,000 in Madison health care IT startup Moxe Health. BrightStar’s funds, deployed in April, were used to fill a gap while Moxe worked to close a $5.5 million funding round, which occurred earlier this month, said Todd […]
BrightStar has been very active investing in early-stage companies that are creating high quality jobs in Wisconsin. Below is a link to a video that will update you on our progress, and has comments from nine of the companies in our portfolio. We hope you’ll take a few minute to give it a view! Click […]
Local Ties Lead to Partnership Between Fetch Rewards and Kraft Heinz By Jeff Buchanan, May 25th 2016 Wes Schroll, the founder and CEO of Fetch Rewards, says that in early 2015, his startup received a call from a man who worked at Oscar Mayer, the meat producer known for its hot dogs, bologna, and Wienermobile. Schroll […]
Downloadable File: BSW-Patina Press Release – Final 5-6-2016.pdf Patina Solutions to support BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation’s early-stage companies with mentoring MILWAUKEE, May 10, 2016 –Patina Solutions and BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation today announced that Patina will provide mentoring services from its select group of experienced executives to all 29 of BrightStar’s portfolio companies. The portfolio companies will […]
Downloadable File: 2015 Annual Report.pdf 2015 proved to be a successful year for start-up growth in Wisconsin as BrightStar made investments in 14 early-stage companies. We encourage you to click the link below to read up on the exciting things happening at BrightStar! BrightStar Wisconsin 2015 Annual Report
Xconomy: BrightStar Reveals Phoenix Investment, Sale of $500K in Tax Credits By Jeff Buchanan, 2/11/2016 BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation has made its first investment of 2016 and has sold $500,000 in “early-stage seed” tax credits to several individuals, the foundation said this week. Phoenix Nuclear Labs, a Madison, WI-based startup that has developed particle accelerator technology with applications […]
Downloadable File: BSW 2016-02-09 press release.pdf BrightStar announces first 2016 investment and sale of tax credits MILWAUKEE, Feb. 9, 2016 – BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation Inc. today announced its first investment of 2016 and would like to welcome Monona-based Phoenix Nuclear Labs into its portfolio of Wisconsin early stage, job-creating companies. “The capital this round will […]
