Ideas
Gorman selling dozens of single-family rental homes in Milwaukee to tenants
As the Community Development Alliance works to wrest thousands of homes from the hands of predatory investors in Milwaukee,...
Johnsonville owners added to Milwaukee Brewers ownership group
Ralph and Shelly Stayer, the owners of Sheboygan County-based sausage manufacturer Johnsonville LLC, have joined the ownership group of...
Innovation Award winner: Synthetaic
Delafield | Founded: 2019
Employees: 46 | Funding raised: $17.5 million
synthetaic.com
Corey Jaskolski founded Synthetaic in 2019 after his conservation work...
Innovation Award winner: Octane Coffee
Waukesha | Founded: 2018
Employees: 4 full time, 3-4 contractors | Funding raised: $1 million
getoctanecoffee.com
Octane Coffee designs, builds, launches and...
Innovation Award winner: Hydro-Thermal Corp.
Waukesha | Founded: 1934
Employees: 85
hydro-thermal.com
Hydro-Thermal has a 90-year history as a manufacturer of industrial process heating solutions. Its products...
Innovation Award winner: Adam Aerospace
Milwaukee | Founded: 2020
Employees: 6
AdamAeroCorp.com
Adam Aerospace is developing new, blockchain-based data verification software for use in the aerospace and...
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Entrepreneurship Award winner: Paul Stillmank
7Rivers | Milwaukee
Founded: 2023
Funding raised: $4 million
7riversinc.com
Paul Stillmank grew his previous company, a Salesforce consultancy known as 7Summits, from...
Entrepreneurship Award winner: Britt Gottschalk
Geno.Me | Milwaukee
Founded: 2021 | Employees: 8
Funding raised: $500,000 (seed), $2.6 million (seed II)
yourgeno.me
Geno.Me is a data exchange platform...
Entrepreneurship Award winner: Roy Dietsch
PartsBadger | Cedarburg
Founded: 2017 | Employees: 57
Funding raised: Bootstrapped
parts-badger.com
PartsBadger started after Roy Dietsch found it difficult to get a...
Entrepreneurship Award winner: Norrie Daroga
CodeBaby | Milwaukee
Founded: 2001, rebooted in 2018 | Employees: 5, plus 7 full-time contractors
Funding raised: $2 million
codebaby.com
Mequon-based iDAvatars acquired...
