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NovoMoto, a startup from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is finishing its first 100 solar lighting installations in the Democratic Republic of Congo. NovoMoto LLC distributes the systems on a rent-to-own basis on a plateau about 80 kilometers from the capital, Kinshasa. After a $10 down payment and three years of paying $2.15 a week, the …
Four computer-science business ideas win — one already has customers Four projects created by computer-science students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison won a total of $12,000 in prizes in the computer science department’s NEST competition on April 6. “I’m excited for two reasons,” said organizer Jignesh Patel, professor of computer science. “The first-prize winner, Moonshot …
Selected from among 35 student teams and student-led start-up companies, LineLeap received the $15,000 Qualcomm grand prize in the 2018 Transcend Madison Innovation Competition, held April 4-5, 2018, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. LineLeap, which allows users of its website (lineleap.com) to bypass big crowds waiting to enter popular nightclubs—akin to the “fastpass” made …
Jon Eckhardt, executive director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship has received funding from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, to study how to improve how university entrepreneurial ecosystems, like that at UW-Madison, can drive economic growth.