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The Inno Pages
Search for and Discover Local Startups
Use the Inno Pages to search for and discover Wisconsin’s top startups. Filter by industry, funding, stage and size or hit the ‘Inno Shuffle’ for a little dealer’s choice.
Telkonet
- Funding: $5M – $10M
- Stage: IPO | Public
- Headcount: 51 – 100
- Year Founded: 1999
Telkonet is a Clean Technology company focused on driving stockholder value through the expansion and growth of its energy management platform within commercial markets
SmartUQ
- Funding: $1M – $5M
- Stage: Serie A
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2014
Unique analytics and uncertainty quantification software for simulations, testing, and complex systems.
Redox
50 on Fire Winner
- Funding: $10M – $50M
- Stage: Serie B
- Headcount: 51 – 100
- Year Founded: 2014
Redox is the modern API for EHR integration. We help the best healthcare software get to market.
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SoFresh, Inc.
- Funding: $1M – $5M
- Stage: Serie A
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2018
Patent-pending SoFresh packaging extend shelf life by 4x, saving bakeries big money while eliminating moldy waste. SoFresh established manufacturing in Kenosha producing new bakery packaging sold across the US. Our technology works inhibit mold on berries, produce, cheese and other perishables.
Punch App Inc.
- Stage: Pre-Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2020
Punch enables B2B ecommerce via messaging. Suppliers can connect their buyers to enable ordering, invoicing and payments. Punch also makes it easy for them to broadcast promotions and product launches along with offering unique modes of payment including ACH, Cards, Wires and Term based payments.
QPI Consulting
- Year Founded: 2018
Consulting service to increase your profitability by improving bottom line and customer satisfaction. We help you create best product and process quality to reduce cost, increase throughput, reduce customer complaints. We also help to achieve world class quality certification like ISO9001, IATF16949
Grindez
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2021
The mission of Grindez is to facilitate the trust of global freelance jobs market that is powered through the growth of the gig economy and driven cryptocurrency adoption.
Xylome Corporation
- Funding: $1M – $5M
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2013
Xylome is a Wisconsin Tax Credit Qualified company in our first seed-round funding. Xylome’s palm-oil-biosimilar and related drug delivery products were created for food, pharma and consumer goods, using Midwest and Great Plains agricultural feedstocks and fermentation technologies.
Agricycle Global
- Funding: $1M – $5M
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 11 – 50
- Year Founded: 2016
Agricycle is a vertically integrated portfolio of ethically sourced and upcycled CPG brands with the mission of eliminating extreme rural poverty through market-based solutions. Secondly, Agricycle sells low-barrier agricultural technologies to preserve food loss from over 35,000 farmers worldwide.
DELU Games
- Funding: Bootstrapped
- Stage: Bootstrapped
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2019
We are the creator of DELU, a family fun indoor or outdoor tailgate type game. DELU is a combination of cornhole, washers, skee ball, golf, and fun. DELU is sold online at delugames.com, which launch in December 2019. The game is currently manufactured in Wisconsin.
Helium, LLC
- Funding: Bootstrapped
- Stage: Bootstrapped
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2019
Helium seeks to elevate lives through the power of reading. The company delivers library-sourced books to readers' homes, returns them when finished, and donates to local causes with each rental order placed.
BookLive
- Funding: $0 – $100K
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2016
BookLive is an online directory to find and hire entertainers for both live and virtual events. BookLive also offers BookLive Pro, a SaaS platform that serves as a CRM and suite of business-management tools for artists, ultimately helping them make a living doing what they love.
SMARTcare Software
- Year Founded: 2017
SMARTcare is advancing home healthcare. We are a complete SaaS business automation platform for home healthcare providers that drives best practices in care and elevates patient/caregiver engagement and satisfaction. SMARTcare uses connected technologies that enable home care providers to organize, optimize and simplify care delivery while saving time and improving outcomes. The SMARTcare platform supports home care (non-skilled) and home health (skilled) providers across the US, North America.
Shark Media Promotion
- Year Founded: 2018
Promoting your Business is our Business!
Shark Media Promotion is unique in the field of mobile advertising and promotions. We are walking, digital billboards that command attention better than any other medium currently available! We are ready to connect, communicate and promote your brand!
imeetify hub
- Funding: $0 – $100K
- Stage: Pre-Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2019
change the way meetings are scheduled, use "imeetify" - The app which simplifies the process of scheduling in-person meetings and virtual meetings.
our tag line- meetings made super easy with imeetify !
Get ahead on productivity using imeetify, plan , schedule meeting on the go & achieve your goal
Gentueri Inc.
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Serie A
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2018
The Future of biological sample collection. Our patented non-invasive sample collection and preservation devices and kits make sample collection as easy as possible in about one minute. Samples are processed in the collection device for efficiency and to minimize transfer error.
Gentueri Inc.
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Serie A
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2018
The Future of biological sample collection. Our patented non-invasive sample collection and preservation devices and kits make sample collection as easy as possible in about one minute. Samples are processed in the collection device for efficiency and to minimize transfer error.
National Alliance of CBD Manufacturers
- Stage: Pre-Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2018
The NACM is a professional 3rd party certification org. for CBD manufacturers. As the industry grows exponentially with little to no regulation in the way of quality, it is imperative that manufacturers be held to a high standard of quality and control. NACM aims to build that standard.
UX Triggers
- Funding: Bootstrapped
- Stage: Pre-Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2018
An algorithm driven platform for market acceptance ratings and trend forecasting in websites, branding, magazine covers, fashion, interior design and more. Powered by color psychology data and demographic behavioral research studies.
VIP Crowd
- Year Founded: 2017
VIP Crowd makes it fun, easy, and rewarding to allocate a few minutes per week to help businesses that treat their customers and employees like VIPs. Complete fun activities that support businesses in your network while competing to win weekly prizes for you and your favorite charity.
Impulse Car Share
- Funding: $0 – $100K
- Stage: Pre-Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2018
Impulse Car Share is Milwaukee's only car sharing company. Impulse will provide Mandel Group residents shared electric vehicles. Impulse plans to provide electric vehicles to large office buildings, large employers and local hotels. We want to help Milwaukee reduce pollution and congestion.
Benetron Hydrygen Generator
- Funding: $10M – $50M
- Headcount: 11 – 50
- Year Founded: 2010
Tower Energy has developed a method of manufacturing hydrogen at a 50% lower cost than current methods. The system also manages water use and suited for urban settings in the Midwest with lots of vehicles to use the hydrogen near the reactors.
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Acuity
- Headcount: 5,000+
Acuity Insurance, headquartered in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, is a property and casualty insurer that is recognized as a top regional insurance carrier.
Quantum Spatial
- Headcount: 101 – 500
- Year Founded: 1969
OnCourse Learning
- Stage: Acquired
- Headcount: 101 – 500
- Year Founded: 2007
As OnCourse Learning, we have successfully brought together these best-in-class brands with even more industry experts, products and services to enhance professions, guide career paths and even begin new careers.
Fiserv
- Stage: IPO | Public
- Headcount: 5,000+
- Year Founded: 1984
Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV) is a leading global technology provider serving the financial services industry, driving innovation in payments, processing services, risk and compliance, customer and channel management, and business insights and optimization.
Hopster
- Headcount: 11 – 50
- Year Founded: 2012
Hopster is a digital experience that helps CPG Brands convert into relationships that drive engagment, loyalty, targeted trial, cross-selling and advocacy.
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