Resource Directory

Marketing

Core Creative 

Core Creative is a full-service advertising and branding agency that helps clients overcome both external and internal marketing challenges to thrive in their increasingly competitive markets. They do so by applying their unique say it. live it.TM philosophy to drive brand alignment.

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SRH Marketing

SRH Marketing delivers a seamless combination of strategy, creative and digital to optimize budgets and drive growth.

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Boelter & Lincoln

B+L’s health care professionals are experts at working with health care providers to cut through the clutter and communicate with targeted consumers in a meaningful way that connects their unique needs with your services and personnel. The benefit to you is a greater number of qualified, insured patients and a higher level of patient engagement.

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BVK

BVK is a Top 25 independent marketing and advertising agency headquartered in Milwaukee, WI. They create category-changing work for brands that create life-changing experiences. Focusing on the pillars of healthcare, travel & tourism, higher education and recreation & lifestyle industries, we are structured as a series of specialized teams integrated seamlessly under one roof.

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Zizzo Group

Zizzo Group is an engagement marketing company dedicated to conneting intuitively, proactively and innovatively. They provide all-in solutions that leverage placement, authenticity, voice, personalization, emotion, sounds, smells and a million other subtleties that are often ignored or lost in the bigger picture of marketing.

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Healthcare Business Insights

Our mission is to provide healthcare insights that change lives. They provide information to help healthcare leaders optimize performance, engage and retain employees, and understand the market.

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Hanson Dodge

Hanson Dodge has been inspiring consumers and delivering transformational business impact for leading brands on a global scale for more than 30 years. They are a fully integrated agency known for solving complex problems through strategy and an idea-first approach.

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Law

von Briesen & Roper, s.c.

von Briesen & Roper, s.c. transforms the traditional law firm into a modern platform for legal innovation. They combine our industry leading expertise with innovative technology and a creative approach to problem-solving to generate game-changing advantages for our clients. Recognized as a great place to work and founded on our core values of unparalleled service and recognized expertise, we provide innovative, cost-effective, value added and practical legal advice and effective representation.

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Godrey & Kahn S.C.

Godfrey & Kahn provides high-level service and creative legal solutions to its clients. This firm was founded on a simple idea – judge our success by the success of our clients. It serves clients by first understanding their business and their needs, and then by offering strategic legal advice and smart, practical solutions to real world problems.

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DeWitt LLP

DeWitt utilizes their creativity to offer proactive and effective legal solutions to their clients. The success of their clients is their ultimate goal. Large corporations, family-owned businesses, employers, associations, individuals, municipalities and others turn to their lawyers because they have a proven track record of legal accomplishments.

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Husch Blackwell

Husch Blackwell’s industry teams collaborate across practice areas to deliver in-depth solutions to the most complex business challenges. They bring together the best legal minds and reach beyond law to include experienced industry professionals. This approach gives their clients a greater perspective and ensures forward-thinking results.

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Michael Best 

Michael Best is a full service firm with more than 250 lawyers who provide our clients with the exceptional legal service and business acumen that have defined our firm for generations. They’ve earned many loyal clients by understanding each one’s unique goals, opportunities, and challenges and by delivering results, year after year.

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Regulatory

Kinetic Compliance Solutions

Kinetic Compliance Solutions specializes in advising clients in the highly-regulated medical device and life sciences industries. From healthcare compliance and contract negotiations to regulatory strategy and FDA submissions, our combined 20 years of in-house industry experience and unique combination of legal and regulatory expertise deliver solutions at all stages of growth so that you can focus on driving innovation and profitability.

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Nova Consulting & Compliance 

Nova Consulting & Compliance, LLC is a company of Hall Render, one of the nation’s preeminent health law firms. This unique organizational structure ensures that Nova’s clients have access to accurate, up-to-date compliance services and advice. Nova’s team is multifaceted and regularly works with a wide range of providers across the country with the full spectrum of compliance matters.

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Finances & Accounting

Wipfli

With assurance, accounting, tax and consulting services customized to your needs, Wipfli helps you overcome challenges, achieve your goals and plan for future success. We’re proud to give our clients the value and experience of a diverse firm that specializes in a wide range of services and industries, dedicated to enduring results, outstanding service and lifetime relationships.

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Talent

Polaris Talent

Polaris Talent offers recruiting-as-a-service for early stage companies to IPO-ready companies (and beyond) who do not have an internal recruiting function or who need to augment their existing team quickly.

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Aerotek 

Today Aerotek serves virtually every major industry, and they’ve placed exceptional people in hundreds of thousands of roles and positions. Everything we do is grounded in our guiding principles to build and nurture quality relationships that allow us to place quality people in quality jobs.

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Tech Services

TESCHGlobal 

Whether we are developing new and innovative web applications, connecting systems, empowering data analytics or guiding future strategies: we seek opportunities to help move your business forward and make a positive impact in the world.

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Xorbix Technologies

Xorbix is a Milwaukee, Wisconsin software development and IT consulting firm. Xorbix was created to provide organizations top-notch IT consulting services and custom software development solutions. We’ve been building award winning mobile applications before the mobile revolution hit mainstream.

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Work Space

Tenant Advisors

Tenant Advisors is a commercial real estate firm and consultant representing the interests of office space tenants throughout Milwaukee, Madison & Chicago, and the surrounding suburbs. They save our clients time and money through both our aggressive and unbiased tenant only representation by creating leverage thru their proven and refined process. They never represent real estate owners, nor do they manage or own any commercial real estate. There’s never a conflict of interest, so you can count on them to find you exactly the office space you need and negotiate and help structure a deal that property aligns to the needs of your business.

Please call Rocky Hofstetter for more information (224-500-1877).

 

The Accelerator Building at UWM’s Innovation Campus

With researchers from UWM, the Medical College of Wisconsin, Concordia University Wisconsin, and other academic institutions, the Accelerator encourages academic research with commercial potential. The Accelerator brings together industry partners, startups and researchers.

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Technology Innovation Center at Research Park 

It doesn’t matter if you’re a start-up company with more patents than people. Or you’ve just sealed the deal on your second round of capital funding. At the Technology Innovation Center, you’ll find the resources you need to move to the next level, with more than 80,000 square-feet of prime lab, light manufacturing and office space.

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Grants & Funding

Fine Point Consulting, LLC

Fine Point Consulting is a rapidly growing accounting firm that represents 90+ startups and nonprofits in Madison, Milwaukee, and Chicago. They know your company is unique, so they customize their services to meet the needs of your business, with personal attention and reasonable prices.

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Center for Technology Commercialization

The Center for Technology Commercialization provides one-on-one assistance to early-stage emerging technology businesses throughout Wisconsin.  Center consultants are experts in commercialization processes. We have over 60 years of combined experience and have collaborated in acquiring over $100 million in federal and other funding for our clients.

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Venture Investors

Venture Investors seeks the next big things in healthcare. Based in the Midwest with open access to renowned research universities, and the vibrant communities that surround them, we target, uncover, and invest in extraordinary ideas that will shape the future of health and wellness.

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Government

Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation

WEDC is committed to creating and maintaining a business climate that allows you to maximize your potential. Working with more than 600 statewide partners they’re enhancing our communities, supporting business development, advancing industry innovation, tapping global markets and developing a talented workforce to help Wisconsin realize its full economic potential.

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Associations

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BioForward Wisconsin 

BioForward Wisconsin promotes the growth of Wisconsin’s biohealth industry and defines the future of healthcare through leadership in integrated health solutions. BioForward serves as the independent voice of Wisconsin’s biohealth industry, providing services and resources to support the growth of our industry throughout the U.S. and the world.

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Startup Milwaukee
Startup Milwaukee provides entrepreneurs with access to mentorship, capital, talent and a community of like-minded entrepreneurs. We work with digital companies with scalable business models. Their vision is to make Southeast Wisconsin among the best places to launch and grow a high-growth company.
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Advancing AI Wisconsin 
Advancing AI Wisconsin is a grassroots initiative to increase awareness of a set of technologies often referred to as “Digital Disruption Technologies” and their impact on Wisconsin businesses, workforce needs, educational programming and the State overall. Their mission is to make sure that Wisconsin is not left behind in the wave of technological changes of the Great Transformation. 
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MKE TECH

Join the MKE Tech Hub movement. Connect to people and organizations who share a passion to transform southeast Wisconsin into a thriving, innovation-based economy where technology, entrepreneurship and innovation are core to our success. Collectively, their goal is to build a vibrant tech ecosystem and culture that makes people want to live and work here.

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Wisconsin Technology Council 
The Wisconsin Technology Council is the science and technology advisor to the Governor and the Legislature. It is an independent, non-profit and non-partisan board with members from tech companies, venture capital firms, higher education, research institutions, government and law.
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Consulting & Management

MCW- Catalyst Bioconsulting
Catalyst BioConsulting (formerly PICO – Postdoc Industry Consultants) is a business consulting group comprised of highly trained scientists that provides a broad range of consulting services for the many challenges faced by start-up and established firms.
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Fine Point Consulting, LLC

Fine Point Consulting is a rapidly growing accounting firm that represents 90+ startups and nonprofits in Madison, Milwaukee, and Chicago. They know your company is unique, so they customize their services to meet the needs of your business, with personal attention and reasonable prices.

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WiSolve

WiSolve is a consulting team of made up of skilled researchers representing many disciplines of expertise. Their clients are often seeking the data-driven research and professional conversations that their consultants are eager to provide. They train our consultants by offering hands-on experiences with clients, workshops to broaden their entrepreneurial skills, and they offer access to a community of likeminded startups.

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Data Analytics & Risk Assessment

Milliman

Milliman is among the world’s largest providers of actuarial and related products and services. Their mission is to help our clients protect the health and financial well-being of people everywhere. Milliman serves the full spectrum of business, financial, government, union, education, and nonprofit organizations. In addition to their consulting actuaries, Milliman’s body of professionals includes numerous other specialists, ranging from clinicians to economists.

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Educational Services

Concordia University of Wisconsin Professional Master’s in Business Administration

The Professional MBA (pMBA), a new business degree is for individuals in positions who already have a doctoral degree and who want to elevate their current roles and professional skills, while getting exposure to prominent leaders and entrepreneurs, both in the Midwest and Silicon Valley (via an included trip). Cohorts will have focus areas such as business in health care and tracks such as startup or corporate.

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