December 11, 2023
2023 Best in Business:
- Betting on Milwaukee
- Dominic Ortiz: CEO of the Year
- 2023 Best in Business Honorees
- Nonprofit Excellence Award winners
- Innovation + Entrepreneurship Award winners
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...
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...
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Regional Spirit Award winner: Dean Amhaus wants the world to know about Milwaukee’s most valuable resource
Dean Amhaus was not always a champion of the city of Milwaukee and southeastern Wisconsin. A Cudahy native, he...
Lifetime Achievement Award winner: Jerry Jendusa has made it his personal mission to develop Wisconsin’s business leaders
When it comes to his legacy among Wisconsin’s business ecosystem, Jerry Jendusa doesn’t like to be referred to as...
Celebrating the journey of the 2023 Innovation + Entrepreneurship award winners
BizTimes Media once again recognized the top innovators and entrepreneurs in southeastern Wisconsin at its recent Innovation + Entrepreneurship...
Social Enterprise of the Year Winner: Sherman Phoenix Foundation
Economic empowerment, entrepreneurship support and cultural celebration are core to the mission of the Sherman Phoenix Foundation.
Launched in...
