Save the date for our virtual 2020 W•O•M•E•N Reception on the morning of Wednesday, Dec. 2.
Andrea Dlugos of Wisconsin Investment Partners; Dana Guthrie of Alchemy Angels Investors and Richelle Martin of the Winnow Fund will discuss their experiences with the Wisconsin investing ecosystem.

More details to come!

The Tech Council is one of about 50 groups taking part in the “Stop the Spread” coalition, which is a private-sector effort to do precisely what the name suggests: Encourage people to take common-sense steps to stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Please watch a video by Interim UW System President Tommy Thompson, a former Wisconsin governor and federal Health and Human Services secretary.

The Green Bay Packers, Milwaukee Bucks and Milwaukee Brewers recently joined the coalition as well. Watch a video featuring Packer players here.  On Wisconsin!

New "WisBusiness: The Show" coming soon!

Sponsors include Exact Sciences, UW-Milwaukee and BDO.

View our full show archives here.

Next week, we’ll highlight all of the news, awards and student stories to come out of this week’s Early Stage Symposium!

The speakers, panelists, investors and entrepreneurs really highlighted the best and brightest coming out of Wisconsin’s ecosystem!

ECONOMY

• Wisconsin State Journal: Gov. Evers says COVID-19 relief package should be completed next week
• Milwaukee Business Journal: DWD to turn off Wisconsin unemployed extended benefits program
• WisBusiness: UW Now Livestream: Our economic possibilities
• Wisconsin State Journal: Madison Plan Commission approves big redevelopment on Capitol Square
• Wall Street Journal: Job openings are rising closer to pre-pandemic levels
• MKE Tech Hub Coalition announces partnership to expand state registered technology apprenticeships
• Milwaukee Business Journal: Feaster focused on equity as new Professional Dimensions CEO
• WPR: Retailers large and small adapt to compete this holiday season
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: BMO Harris to dedicate $5 billion to minority businesses nationwide
• USA Today: Target and Ulta Beauty team up to bring 'shop-in-shop' concept to 100-plus stores

ENTREPRENEURS + INNOVATION

• WisBusiness: Social networking guru Jon Jacques says focusing on one platform can jumpstart online success
• Wisconsin State Journal: Two Madison-area startups, and one from Minnesota, win prizes in business competition
• Milwaukee Business Journal: Chicago startup invents self-cleaning diaper station
• StateScoop: Small businesses need continued cybersecurity assistance through pandemic, officials say
• WisconsinINNO: Tech Hub Coalition creates partnership to build tech apprenticeships in Milwaukee
• UWMRF: TCARE has a successful $3 million funding round
• Guardian: First passengers travel in Virgin's levitating hyperloop pod system
• NPR: The unexpected boom in startups
• Medium: The Oculus Go wasn’t designed for black hair, but this innovator made a prototype to fix it
• Wisconsin State Journal: PSC seeking applications for $7 million in energy innovation grants
• WisconsinINNO: Mobile22 delivers ‘Uber-like’ experience for traditional taxi companies
• Milwaukee Business Journal: Cybersecurity startup moves HQ from Silicon Valley to Minnesota

INVESTING

• Milwaukee Business Journal: Big U.S. tech stocks emerge as election winners
• WisBusiness: Varsity Venture Studio will help launch UW-Madison startups
• CNBC: SoftBank makes its first e-scooter bet, leading a $250 million investment in Germany’s Tier
• WisconsinINNO: Fetch Rewards secures roughly $80 million from investors in latest capital raise
• Business Insider: 100 rising star VCs who represent the future of venture capital
• Crunchbase: Global venture funding in the first month of the final quarter of the year held steady at $23 billion
• Aithority: Curve Health raises $6 million seed round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners
• CNBC: VC firms consider life outside Silicon Valley as they shift to remote work
• Reuters: SoftBank Vision Fund's portfolio back above water on tech valuations

COVID-19

• Wisconsin State Journal: Gov. Evers announces new COVID-19 order advising Wisconsinites to stay home
• UpNorthNews: More COVID-19 records: Wisconsin hospitals scrambling to keep up
• Business Insider: Biden reveals his COVID-19 advisory board, cochaired by a former surgeon general Vivek Murthy
• WBAY: Wisconsin sets new records for cases, deaths and hospitalizations
• Spectrum News: Wisconsin's plan for a COVID-19 vaccination
• NYTimes: U.S. health officials detail how people may start to get treatments and, once authorized, vaccines
• EHRN: Global spread of information has shaped the evolving inpatient care of COVID-19
• STAT: How mRNA became a leading technology in the COVID vaccine race
• Wisconsin State Journal: Mayo Clinic bans visitors as COVID-19 cases rise
• CapTimes: Madison leaders implore state, individuals to head off catastrophic COVID-19 spread
• Guardian: T-cell COVID immunity 'present in adults six months after first infection'
• STAT: COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech is strongly effective, early data from large trial indicate
• Urban Milwaukee: Mayor upset that Aurora is ‘pausing’ community testing while under pressure to treat patients
• CapTimes: Hospitals scramble for staff, ICU beds as Wisconsin passes a quarter million COVID-19 cases

HEALTH

• WisBusiness: UnityPoint Health Meriter restricted by COVID-19 community spread
• Channel3000: Wisconsin chief health officer quits as COVID-19 rages
• Guardian: Conservative US supreme court justices suggest Obamacare will be upheld
• STAT: Inside the tense, high-stakes meeting on Biogen’s Alzheimer’s treatment
• SanFran Business Journal: Carbon Health lands $100 million to open 1,500 clinics nationwide by 2025
• South Florida Business Journal: Healthcare providers battle burnout in fight against COVID-19
• CNBC: El Paso hospitals see patients with both the coronavirus and the flu

EDUCATION

• CapTimes: DPI biennial budget request includes increase in aid for schools, full-day 4K funding
• OnWisconsin: The UW redoubles its commitment to a welcoming campus environment
• CapTimes: Madison College part-time faculty see lighter course loads, feel like 'expendable entity'
• WPR: Wisconsin voters approved 84 percent of school referendums in election

Please send your upcoming virtual events for consideration to laura@wisconsintechnologycouncil.com

Greater Green Bay Chamber presents Tech Connect: Work in or Advise a Tech Startup on Monday, Nov. 16

WARF Innovation Day has opened registration! This 60-minute event will include four quick pitches, glimpses of cherished UW-Madison places, people and traditions and a moderated Q&A session on Wednesday, Nov. 18

Hyper Innovation offers Fall Innovation and Technology Showcase, enabling university collaboration around applications for emerging tech such as AI, IoT, AR and VR, and how they are applied to digital health and virtual learning/training on Thursday, Nov. 19 

Women’s Entrepreneurship Week presents To Bootstrap or to Raise?  Considerations in a COVID-19 World on Friday, Nov. 20

WMEP presents Discover2Recover – Increasing Cash Flow on Friday, Nov. 20

SBDC’s Wisconsin Go Global Initiative presents Global Business Opportunities Abound Featuring WEDC on Tuesday, Dec. 1

WEDC is offering virtual Marketplace 2020: The Governor's Conference on Diverse Business Development offers training, education, networking and mentoring opportunities to Wisconsin small business owners, with particular attention to challenges faced by minority, woman, veteran and LGBTQ entrepreneurs on Tuesday, Dec. 8 – Thursday, Dec. 10

Edible-Alpha LIVE! is a one-day virtual event will showcase national leaders in the food and ag industry for podcast interviews and up-and-coming entrepreneurs for early look presentations focused on impact investing and innovation, taking place Wednesday, Dec. 9

• WI Health Connect: Think you may have COVID-19? Free, confidential over-the-phone screening now available.
• Live dashboard with QUICK NUMBERS and FACTS on the IMPACT of COVID-19
• Michael Best has formed a COVID-19 Task Force to address business and legal implications.
• Reinhart’s Coronavirus Resource Center includes the impact of HR 6201 on employees.
• BDO monitors the latest COVID-19 business impacts and regulatory updates.
• Learn more about Epic tools that can help you and your organization treat and prevent the spread of COVID-19.
• WIPLFi: Information to help businesses and individuals weather the coronavirus.
• Quarles & Brady has created a resource of COVID-19 articles that impact clients and businesses.
• Wisconsin Department of Tourism is actively planning for Wisconsin’s economic COVID-19 recovery.
• Click here to sign up for the WisPolitics/WisBusiness daily healthcare report.
• Husch Blackwell explores issues at the intersection of law and public health emergencies.
• TASC is making its expertise and emergency benefit accounts available for free to Dane County employers in 2020.
• Neider & Boucher provides their clients with the necessary focus to help define and reach their goals during COVID-19.
• UW-Madison’s CROWE researchers track and analyze the economic impact of COVID-19 in Wisconsin and beyond.
• WMC launched a Coronavirus (COVID-19) Business Resource Center and Employer Toolkit.
• Godfrey & Kahn’s COVID-19 Resource Center provides timely insights on the unique legal challenges and business implications created by the pandemic
• Baker Tilly’s Coronavirus Resource Center: how an unplanned event such as the COVID-19 outbreak can affect your organization, employees, customers and suppliers.
• The Burish Group: UBS Business Owner Resiliency Center
• The Creative Company is offering a free crisis white paper download: How to communicate with clarity during COVID-19
• Aberdean Consulting has an updated Remote Office/Home Office Security Survey  
• MKE Tech Hub has a new outgoing newsletter for the tech community to stay informed and engaged. Click here to subscribe.
• UW-Madison launched a new COVID-19 dashboard for faculty, staff and students