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Inspired by calls to action after Jacob Blake shooting, Packers, Bucks, Brewers form venture capital ‘league’ for minority startups
Green Bay Press Gazette
ASHWAUBENON – The Green Bay Packers, Milwaukee Bucks and Milwaukee Brewers are pitching in together to tackle a long-term problem: helping Black- and Latinx-owned startups score investment money.
In collaboration with Microsoft, the state's three major-league franchises created the Equity League, a networking initiative to increase investment in businesses started by Black and Latinx entrepreneurs.
The Packers said 1% of venture capital-backed startups have Black founders and less than 2% are Latinx. Only 3% of employees at venture capital investment funds are....
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New North Region Stepping Up to the COVID-19 Challenge
Survey: 87% of business owners expect better 2021
Insight On Business
The COVID-19 pandemic took a toll on Northeast Wisconsin businesses in 2020, but many area executives retain an optimistic outlook for 2021 and beyond, according to results of the annual survey of businesses conducted by First Business Bank.
According to the 2021 Business Statistics & Trends Survey, 43 percent of Northeast Wisconsin respondents reported their business performed below expectations in 2020, compared to 25 percent in 2019. Fifty-seven percent of the businesses, however, reported meeting or exceeding expectations in 2020.
“It’s a tale of two economies,” said Susan Finco, owner and president of Leonard & Finco Public Relations in Green Bay. “You have one group doing great and another that’s miserable. I don’t think we’ve seen anything like that. But there’s optimism on a few levels. There’s a belief that....
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Future USS Cooperstown completes trials on Lake Michigan
FOX 11 News
MARINETTE (WLUK) -- Littoral Combat Ship 23 is one step closer to becoming USS Cooperstown.
The LCS built at Marinette Marine completed acceptance trials on Lake Michigan.
The trials test and verify all systems are ready for the Navy.
“LCS 23, like other Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ships, delivers unique flexibility and capability to the U.S. Navy,” said Joe DePietro, Lockheed Martin vice president and general manager, Small Combatants and Ship Systems. “Freedom-variant LCS are inherently capable, and they offer....
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Encourage Educational Attainment
UW-Green Bay expands Rising Phoenix program supporting N.E. Wisconsin high school students
We Are Green Bay
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – The University of Wisconsin Green Bay announced on Monday that its Rising Phoenix program is expanding to the Mishicot School District with hopes of providing high school students a pathway to higher education.
“As a University on the rise, we are proud to expand the Rising Phoenix program with the School District of Mishicot,” said UW-Green Bay Chancellor Michael Alexander. “We are pleased with the achievement of our first Rising Phoenix Program in Manitowoc and look forward to growing our partnership with the students, teachers and....
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Expansion and Business Development in the New North
Waukesha-based precast company Spancrete sold to Minnesota firm; All its facilities (including one in Green Bay) will continue operating
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A Waukesha-based company that makes and installs precast concrete slabs for construction projects has been acquired by a similar company.
Spancrete Inc. has been sold for an undisclosed price to Albany, Minnesota-based Wells Concrete, the fifth-largest precast business in the United States, it was announced Monday.
All of Spancrete's locations, totaling just over 360 employees, will continue to....
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