Entrepreneurship & Small Business

Mequon-based Capital Midwest Fund is now investing with a newly announced diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiative in mind.

There’s no single reason why early stage financing in Wisconsin soared to new heights in 2021.

Cedarburg-based eTEK Precision Manufacturing will move from its current location at N37 W5677 Hamilton Road to the building at N143 W6437 Pioneer Road, which is the current location of Scot Pump.

Students in Marquette’s Law and Entrepreneurship Clinic (LEC) have successfully completed their Neighborhood Entrepreneur Project, aimed at providing free legal support to low and moderate-income microentrepreneurs in Wisconsin.

Milwaukee-based Ideawake has completed a $1 million funding round which will be used to help the company accelerate its market expansion into health care.

Racine-based R&B Grinding, LLC has been acquired by Willis & Smith Capital, a Plano, Texas-based private equity firm. The transaction closed on Feb. 1. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Angel investors and venture capitalists invested at least $810 million in young, Wisconsin-based companies in 2021, shattering the previous yearly early-stage investment record for the state of $483.6 million in 2020

Blessing Egbon, founder and chief executive officer of Milwaukee-based Exit 7C, has reached a plea deal with the state in which he has agreed to plead guilty to three counts of wire fraud.

The MKE Tech Hub Coalition is one of a handful of local organizations seeking to increase the amount of tech workers in our region. The coalition’s newly released 2021 impact report highlights how much closer they are getting toward their ultimate goal: to inclusively double the tech workforce in southeastern Wisconsin.

Milwaukee-based software startup Dinvy is looking to help other local businesses through their “Let’s Go Milwaukee” campaign.