Kevin Dwyer, CEO of HealthConnect.Link, has made it his mission to connect low-income and uninsured people to affordable health and social services. His nonprofit startup aims to create an online network between service providers so that people needing care can learn about places that have needed...
A Madison company has developed a software tool aimed at helping women decide when and how often they should have a mammogram to check for breast cancer. HealthDecision says its tool combines data from a patient’s electronic health records and medical history with guidelines physicians are...
Redox, a Madison, WI-based startup that develops digital tools that enable healthcare applications to access data from electronic health records systems, says it has raised $9 million from investors. New York-based RRE Ventures led the Series B financing. Other participants in the funding round included return...
A blood test to identify several foods or vitamin supplements that children with autism disorder cannot process in the normal way could be available as soon as a year from now, a Madison company says. NeuroPointDX, a division of Stemina Biomarker Discovery, has identified a group...
A new company entering Madison's booming stem cell industry promises a line of therapy that could stop some of the negative impacts of aging. JangoBio, a University of Wisconsin-connected biotech that announced its launch at the end of 2016, is refining a stem cell-based solution for...
Madison, Wisconsin-based HealthX Ventures has hired Taha Jangda for a partner role from the investment firm’s portfolio company Redox Engine. Redox is a health IT startup that developed a way to use APIs to help healthcare facilities share data. Jangda worked in business development at Redox for...
A blood test that can identify early cases of lung cancer is showing high levels of accuracy in preliminary tests, Exact Sciences Corp., of Madison, said Monday, and several other cancer tests look promising, as well. With its Cologuard DNA stool test for colorectal cancer used...
Rachel Neill hasn't always been a startup junkie. The health tech guru landed her first job in the criminal justice field, working as a research analyst with the National Council on Crime & Delinquency. But since then, Neill has grown into a local entrepreneurial leader. For the...
A Madison serial entrepreneur and an Indiana entrepreneur who’s a graduate of last spring’s gener8tor class in Madison are two of the 600 people chosen as this year’s Forbes’ 30 Under 30. Forbes says its 2017 list — highlighting 30 of the “entrepreneurs, innovators and game...
A startup company that is working to fight cancer is moving to Madison from Chicago on Jan. 1, and is bringing along its first round of funds from investors. Capio Biosciences has developed technology that can identify cancer cells in the bloodstream, said co-founder and president...