WEDC awards $249,000 in grants to Milwaukee entrepreneurship programs
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Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation will disburse $249,000 in grants to six Milwaukee-based organizations supporting entrepreneurship.
The grants are a part of a WEDC initiative to provide $500,000 in economic support to 13 organizations that offer resources to entrepreneurs throughout Wisconsin.
Northwest Side Community Development Corp. will receive $60,000 to expand professional accounting, marketing and legal support services for women and minority-owned businesses on Milwaukee’s northwest side. The group specifically targets child care businesses for assistance.
BizStarts, known for its institute that works with entrepreneurs to build wealth in low to moderate-income Milwaukee neighborhoods, will receive $60,000 to build its education and long-term business coaching programming.
BrightStar invests $100,000 in two Milwaukee-area startups
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Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska and Carol Hirschmugl, UW-Milwaukee physicists, are using their STTR Phase II grant to bring better lithium-ion batteries to the market through their startup, SafeLi LLC. (Photo: Derek Rickert, UWM Photo Services)
BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation Inc. recently invested $50,000 in Shorewood-based battery technology company COnovate, Inc. and Wauwatosa-based health tech company Retham Technologies. The two $50,000 seed investments from BrightStar were matched by the Wisconsin Economic Development…
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COnovate, Inc. and Wauwatosa-based health tech company
Retham Technologies.The two $50,000 seed investments from BrightStar were matched by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp.’s Capital Catalyst program, according to the Wisconsin Technology Council.COnovate, Inc., formerly known as SafeLi LLC, was founded by University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professors Carol Hirsch