Fifteen years ago, Zach Popp, founder and president of Sativa Building Systems, began looking into sustainable alternative building materials after his infant daughter fell ill for an entire winter due to black mold in her bedroom wall.
In 2021, Mike Basarich and Chad DeBaker co-founded Fleet Cycles, a small business in Monona, Wisconsin, which designs and manufactures electric cargo bikes for military and commercial uses.
Cell Logistics is developing a novel therapy that helps the heart heal after a heart attack, preventing further pathological changes that lead to heart failure.
Aquarius Systems has been solving customer problems with their custom engineering designs since Founder John Dauffenbach developed a prototype in the 1960s. Now, his children Jane, Dave, and Jim Dauffenbach are partners in running this business that battles aquatic problems.
Dr. Chang Hee Kim opened
GoDx in Madison in June of
2017, and the company has
benefited from being centrally
located in the University
Research Park, surrounded
by the biotech industry and
proximate to the University of
Wisconsin-Madison.
Stem Pharm is developing human stem cell-based models of neurological diseases with the goal of creating the next generation of pharmaceuticals to more effectively treat conditions like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and epilepsy.
Matthew Pearlson and Dr. David Walker co-founded an advanced manufacturing business, PrintFoam, in Wisconsin to make carbon capture more efficient and cost-effective.
Karyn Frick PhD, Chief Scientific Officer of Estrigenix Therapeutics, Inc., and her team are leading great new developments in the field of neurobiology.
Paige Peters of Rapid Radicals Technology has learned things she never expected on her entrepreneurship journey.
Siren Shrub Co., which takes drinks up a notch with an old-but-new concept, has taken its company up a notch in just a few short years.