World Travel, Mercury Marine, and Nelson & Pade among finalists for the 2021 Wisconsin Innovation Awards
WIS BUSINESS
MADISON — Twenty nine companies and nonprofit organizations have been selected as finalists for the 2021 Wisconsin Innovation Awards. In total, over 331 business, products, and services from around the state were nominated. The finalists were determined by a panel of 27 statewide industry experts, with winners to be announced at the annual awards ceremony on October 5, 2021. Nominations spanned across the state of Wisconsin, representing startups, companies, and established businesses of all sizes and industries....
Georgia Pacific and gener8tor announce class as part of the 1915 Studios Accelerator INSIGHT PUBLICATIONS
Georgia-Pacific and nationally ranked startup accelerator gener8tor have named the five companies selected for its inaugural 1915 Studios program, including one from Northeast Wisconsin — Roving Blue.
Roving Blue, Altitude Medical, Luys Systems, RingCo and Saneex set themselves apart through a competitive application and interview process to take part in the summer cohort. The startups were recruited from all over the country. Roving Blue is headquartered in the Oconto County village of Lena. The other companies are based in Indianapolis, Miami, Silicon Valley and Cleveland, Ohio. Each company focuses on hygiene, Internet of Things and sensing technology....
Move over, hard seltzers: these cans of Wisconsin-made cocktails use real fruit juice but have just 1 gram of carbs
GREEN BAY PRESS GAZETTE
CLINTONVILLE – Supper Club Cocktails Lite premixed cocktails are made with two shots of Wisconsin innovation, and have a real chance at appealing to hard seltzer zealots.
Each 12-ounce slim can of Garden Party (vodka, watermelon, cucumber and mint), Gins and Roses (gin, raspberry, lemon and rosewater) and Bramble On (a rum-based blackberry Mojito) ready-to-drink cocktails holds just one gram of carbs. The original White Claw hard seltzers have two grams of carbs...
Long journey doesn't stop daycare provider from reaching for dreams, setting new goals
GREEN BAY PRESS GAZETTE
MARINETTE -- When it came to selecting a name for her day care center, Nakiva Bell-Smalls of Marinette had an easy time of it. With a last name of Smalls, the selection of Smalls World Daycare was a natural.
It was the three-year journey to get licensed that was a challenge.
“The process was very detailed,” Bell-Smalls said. “There was a 13-page checklist to go through from making sure the environment is up to code to making sure that you have all of the proper equipment and are meeting all of the safety requirements.”... The Shop on Main coffee shop fulfills second goal of Oconto artist Hearley
GREEN BAY PRESS GAZETTE
OCONTO – The opening of The Shop on Main fulfilled two longtime goals of Lynne Hearley. “I always wanted to sell my own art, and I always wanted to have my own coffee shop,” she said. After a more than a year of hard work, those dreams came to fruition when the business opened on July 1. “Everybody calls it ‘The Shop,’" Hearley explained. She has sold her works under the auspices of Iron Maiden Metal Art for a decade, and moved into the building at 821 Main St. four years ago... Read More 5>
Nominations are open for Wisconsin Inno Under 25, annual list of rising innovators who are making big moves
THE BUSINESS JOURNALS
To highlight some of our youngest entrepreneurs and technologists, Inno compiles a list each year of promising and accomplished techies in the city’s startup scene.
We are looking for impressive young technologists making a difference at local startups, budding founders working to get their own companies off the ground, student entrepreneurs balancing college courses and building a startup, or a teenager in their bedroom learning to code. Help us tell the stories of young people contributing to the local tech and startup industry in impactful ways...Read More 6>
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