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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
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- 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.
The Game Crafter
- Headcount: 11 – 50
The Game Crafter has a web-based game builder that lets you easily make your own game! Make a board game, card game, or custom playing cards through our website.
Telematic
- Funding: $0 – $100K
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2014
Telematic is a woman-led technology, marketing and consulting company that builds end to end mobile solutions for real time engagement with next generation consumers.
Holos
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- Funding: $0 – $100K
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2015
Holos is an all-in-one ecosystem designed to make users feel at home in VR.
Errund
- Funding: $0 – $100K
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2012
Errund connects customers to quality, background-checked cleaning and service professionals for homes and offices.
Modern Movement
- Funding: $0 – $100K
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 11 – 50
- Year Founded: 2014
Modern Movement fitness products take training to the next level by syncing your workout with videos, games and motivational tools that transform every training session into engaging and dynamic, digital experiences.
Swirl Insurance Services
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2017
Swirl works directly with property management companies, residential mortgage lenders, and loan services to help their customers easily buy and retain insurance!
Seiva Technologies
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2015
Seiva manufactures wearable technologies to maximize human performance.
Updown Technologies, Inc.
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2015
Updown generates personalized workouts for you based on your fitness experience, goals, and more.
OpenHomes
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2013
OpenHomes is a dynamic, venture-funded startup transforming the real estate industry. Our disruptive platform automates and modernizes the home buying & selling process, saving sellers an average of $6k each.
Exit 7C
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 11 – 50
- Year Founded: 2017
Exit 7C is leading the industry with unparalleled innocation in retail technology, gasoline delivery, and driver experience.
Golf Pipeline
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2012
Golf Pipeline exists to provide golfers with tools to manage their golf game, and their golf lives. The foundation of Golf Pipeline is the ability to book online tee times by showing all available inventory for participating golf courses based on the sear
Plovgh
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2010
MobileIgniter
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 11 – 50
- Year Founded: 2011
MobileIgniter works with manufacturing, agriculture and consumer goods companies to help capitalize on Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies
HealthLX
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 11 – 50
- Year Founded: 2014
HealthLX (Healthcare Language Exchange) gives new healthcare software solutions instant access to comprehensive patient information and realtime analytics by linking legacy data, applications and processes.
NexVex
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2011
NexVex Inc. operates a platform that helps homeowners and property managers connect with roofing contractors in Texas, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.
ThirdSpace
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2014
Coinigy
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2014
Coinigy is a cloud-based cryptocurrency trading platform built for sophisticated traders.
Kilter, Inc.
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2017
Kilter Rewards works with your employer to provide a wellness program that motivates employees to stay active by generating donations for charities of your choice.
Workloud
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 11 – 50
- Year Founded: 1996
ScheduleSoft provides end-to-end labor management technology products to businesses of any size.
Thalchemy
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 11 – 50
- Year Founded: 2012
Vidmaker
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Acquired
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2011
Vidmaker Inc. develops a social video platform where anyone can create video and share it everywhere.
Quietyme
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2013
Quietyme was created to protect sleep environments. We are well suited for healthcare, hospitality and property management or anyone trying to lower noise levels or monitor other elements.
basic-code
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2017
basic-code is a consulting firm utilizing proprietary sales analysis & forecasting software to provide companies the tools and vision to manage inventory, improve forecasting efficiency and deliver improved Key Performance Indicators like revenue, profit,
VALIANT HEALTH
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Acquired
- Headcount: 11 – 50
- Year Founded: 2011
Valiant Health is a healthcare technology company focused on helping clients improve their quality ratings and optimize their revenues.
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