Tenth Annual Event Celebrates the State’s Most Innovative Products and Services
MADISON, WI (October 11, 2023) – Last night, 9 winners were honored from the 25 finalists and more than 300 nominees during the 2023 Wisconsin Innovation Awards at the Memorial Union in Madison. The ceremony recognized the state’s most innovative products and services from eight industry categories. The 2023 winners were selected by a panel of 19 experts with backgrounds in many business sectors – technology, food, healthcare, agriculture, nonprofits, education, government, and the like – from throughout the state of Wisconsin.
“The Wisconsin Innovation Awards seek to celebrate and inspire innovation, and highlight the creative spirit from the state’s leading public, private and nonprofit sectors,” said Matt Younkle, Co-Founder of the Wisconsin Innovation Awards and Pythonic Corporation. “We want to congratulate all finalists and winners from the 2023 Wisconsin Innovation Awards and look forward to encouraging an even greater environment of innovation in the year to come.”
The Wisconsin Innovation Awards Ceremony is presented by Wipfli. Supporting sponsors include Exact Sciences, Green Clock, JP Cullen, Madison Gas & Electric, Neider & Boucher, Perkins Coie, the Wisconsin Union, and Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation. Additional support provided by American Family Insurance, BioForward, Eppstein Uhen Architects, First Business Bank, gener8tor, HealthX Ventures, Indeavor, Innovate Network, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, and Madison College.
The 2023 Wisconsin Innovation Awards Winners:
Biotechnology: Elephas
https://elephas.com
Madison
Elephas’ Cybrid platform is the only platform in the world that utilizes live human tumor, with the native architecture and tumor microenvironment, to predict response to therapy. Elephas’ patented tumor fragmenting and sorting processes preserve the vital cell functions necessary to understand how a drug will interact with a tumor in the body.
Business to Business: Synthetaic
http://synthetaic.com
Delafield
Rapid Automatic Image Categorization – RAIC — automates the analysis of large, unstructured satellite, video, and image datasets without time-intensive human labeling or expensive labeled data troves. This provides insights through rapid search of unstructured data, quick labeling, model training, and deployment. RAIC has been applied across industries, including geospatial, defense, security, science, technology, conservation, and more.
Education: Hello Loom
http://www.helloloom.com
Madison
Hello Loom is a small business that designs tools and tutorials to engage people in the process and pleasures of weaving. The portable and efficient design of the laser cut looms makes getting started fast and fun with endless potentials of learning traditional skills and prototyping new weavings. The design is efficient, focusing on refined features such as the wooden needles, comb and integrated display stand.
HealthIT: NECTO: Novel Endovascular Clip-on Torque Operator
https://bmedesign.engr.wisc.edu/projects/s23/clip-on_torque_device
Madison
The NECTO device is useful in procedures that involve the removal and resheathing of catheters during vascular procedures, while traditional devices have to be reloaded from a long distance away. This makes the NECTO a promising device for reducing procedural time. The NECTO improves operator efficiency, reduces operational costs, provides faster delivery of therapies, and improves patient recovery time.
Manufacturing: The Virtual Foundry
https://thevirtualfoundry.com/
Stoughton
The Virtual Foundry’s 3D printing filament materials democratize metal 3D printing. The materials create minimal waste and nearly unlimited shape options, and allow customers independence from third party suppliers and the ability to be their own supply chain.
Nonprofit: Community Clothes Closet
https://communityclothescloset.org/
Menasha
The Traveling Closet visits homeless and domestic abuse shelters, schools and community centers every 60 days bringing free warm and functional clothing directly to those most in need. Until the Traveling Closet debuted in October 2021, mobile delivery in ‘pop up’ distribution events to bring families free clothing had never been undertaken in the state of Wisconsin.
Professional Services: Managecore
http://www.managecore.com
Franklin
Managecore Watchdog is unique in that no other SAP managed services provider uses an automated tool for monitoring and reporting of their customers’ systems that customers have access to directly, placing customers at the center of the process.
Software: Nurse Disrupted, Inc.
https://www.nursedisrupted.com/
Madison
Nurse Disrupted is an end-to-end telehealth solution that has connected over 400 providers to over 42,000 patients, most experiencing homelessness. The program includes program management, starter sets, mobile and web apps, data and analytics, hardware, and technical support.
People’s Choice: Power of Perception
https://www.powerofperceptioninc.org/
Eau Claire
Power of Perception (POP) is an Eau Claire-based 501(c)(3) whose mission it is to create a valuable toolbox of resources to equip Eau Claire’s African American and Biracial youth with the tools they need to become contributing citizens. By uplifting mentees through education and inspirational talks, weekly mentoring/tutoring sessions, community events, monthly care packages, POP shows up for Eau Claire’s Black/biracial youth in grades six through 12.
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About the Wisconsin Innovation Awards
Led by a steering committee of business, community and entrepreneurial leaders, the WIA hopes to encourage an even greater environment of innovation by bringing innovators together from various business sectors (e.g. tech, food, healthcare, agriculture, nonprofits, education, government), and from throughout the state of Wisconsin.
For more information, press only:
Molly Walsh
608-698-5890
molly@wisconsininnovationawards.com
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