Entrepreneurship & Small Business

William Shakespeare coined the phrase "To thine own self be true." Todd Graves has applied that philosophy to his business life with great success in building Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers into the fastest-growing restaurant chain in the country, and he recommends others do the same.

DotCom Therapy has raised $13 million to expand its pediatric teletherapy resources and to establish additional partnerships with health care systems nationwide, the Madison-based company announced today.

Milwaukee-based Agricycle Global has launched a new ingredients business on the heels of a $2.4 million funding round led by Wisconsin-based MaSa Partners and CSA Partners, the startup recently announced.

A newly formed network of angel investors organized as Milwaukee Venture Partners has invested in Madison-based Immuto Scientific, Inc. and Cincinnati-based Akru.co – marking its first investments since launching earlier this year.

Milwaukee-based startup Bright Cellars has raised $11.2 million in a Series B round led by Chicago-based venture capital firm Cleveland Avenue.

Wisconsin’s state-backed venture capital program the Badger Fund of Funds experienced its first exit after one of its portfolio companies, Curate Solutions, was purchased in an “eight-figure” deal, Badger Fund partner Ken Johnson told BizTimes Milwaukee.

Marquette University-based humanitarian organization Global Brigades is spinning off a for-profit microfinance firm with the backing of four founding investors.

Wauwatosa-based medical device manufacturer RoddyMedical Inc. raised $600,000 to finance the production and launch of the startup’s first wearable medical device.

The Capital Midwest Fund, a Mequon-based venture capital fund, raised $13.65 million, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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