The successes, failures, insights and opportunities that shape some of the Midwest’s most exciting entrepreneurs. Host Kathleen Gallagher talks with company founders who are taking risks, disrupting the status quo and driving economic growth in the region
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Atzeyo Biosensors' platform helps doctors diagnose cancer in their offices.
Olio Health provides healthcare software.
Setex Technologies' material is used for nose pads and other consumer products
LIfeLoop developed software for senior living communities.
Genomenon provides genome interpretation software.
Eden Park Illumination's light fixtures disinfect air.
Unify Medical makes a surgical microscope.
Realta Fusion is developing fusion energy systems.
Cultured Decadence was aiming to grow meat from lobster cells.
Gripp's mobile software helps farmers.
iotaMotion's miniature robotic system helps surgeons
DeepSight Technology's unique capabilities are improving medical imaging.
Neurable sells a smart headphone that helps people with focus.
Diamond Kinetics' technology helps baseball and softball players.
Mycocycle Inc. uses fungi to remove harmful toxins.
Marathon Health provides advanced primary care at health centers across the U.S.
Marani's ECG- and AI-enabled garments monitor moms during pregnancy.
Eric Apfelbach turned around two companies and led a publicly traded company.
Synbiotic Health makes clinically tested ingredients for gut and overall health.
Sifter Solutions' AI-powered platform helps people find groceries.
Quantified Ag created ear tags to monitor cattle's body temperature and movement for illness.
Disarm Therapeutics' discoveries may yield breakthrough treatments.
Sesame Solar makes renewable, mobile nanogrids for emissions-free disaster response and off-grid power.
Stratus Materials creates novel materials for next gen batteries for electric vehicles.
SPR Therapeutics provides patients with a non-opioid, non-surgical, minimally-invasive pain treatment option.
How Claros Technologies is aims to rid the world of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
NutriSense was first to provide continuous glucose monitors to consumers.
Improve the health and performance of specialty crops around the world through advanced tech.
Connecting manufacturers with live data for faster decision-making and improved processes and products.
The Silvas developed headsets to allow doctors to see the heart they're working on floating in front of them.
How a company's work is transforming diesel to use clean-burning, renewable, alternative fuels.
After exploring all seven continents and dozens of countries, Corey Jaskolski started Synthetaic to create the ChatGPT of image data in Wisconsin.
Arnab Nandi's research into spatiotemporal data spawned Mobikit.
Eric Christopher founded Zylo and, in the process, invented the category of software subscription management.
Jian-Ping Wang's years of research paid off when the world's first ever earth-free magnet was developed.
Jacob Babcock and his team are helping to free us from cords and make wireless charging more prevalent.
Monika Roots is a child psychiatrist who has co-founded two telehealth startups.
Cory Scott stumbled into a pitch contest and emerged with first place, a pre-paying customer and the beginnings of LiveBy.
Chris Goode leaned on 30 years of work experience in weather to start his company, Climavision, which raised $100 million out of the gate to improve weather forecast speed and accuracy.
Amy Brown quit her high-level executive job to start her own venture that helps companies to improve customer relationships and profitability.
After focusing on scalability and profitability Ben Schmidt's Pittsburg-based Roadbotics, which provides image analysis of road infrastructure, was acquired by Michelin in 2022.
After founding four companies, including Ann Arbor-based Accuri Cytometers, which was acquired in 2010 for $205 million, Jen Baird is now she's helping other young startups grow.