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Are you a passionate entrepreneur with a great business idea? An inventor with a terrific new product opportunity? Seeking innovative ideas and early seed capital investment opportunities, with both wet lab and office space available to innovators in the Fitchburg Technology Center.

One of the nation's top law firms, known for premier, sophisticated legal practices and innovative industry teams - from the most prominent legal specializations to emerging areas of the law - providing depth of understanding and thoughtful solutions to our clients' unique, every-changing and most complex business issues for more than 160 years.

A leading provider of financial services to cooperatives, credit unions, their members, and valued customers worldwide for more than 70 years - corporate headquarters are in Madison.

5Nines Data was founded in Madison in 2003 and success is based on practicing good business, hiring smart people and responding to customer needs quickly. 5Nines Data provides commercial data center, wide area networking and Internet services as well as on-site IT integration and support services primarily to businesses in southern Wisconsin.

Earth Information Technologies specializes in transforming business data into web-based knowledge systems - offering full life-cycle web application development using the latest interactive technologies, providing intuitive interfaces to databases ranging from small business to large enterprise. Since 1999, Earth Information Technologies has been bringing innovative ideas to life for a broad range of enterprises both domestically and internationally.

The people in the independent firms of Grant Thornton International Ltd provide personalized attention and the highest quality service to public and private clients in more than 100 countries. Grant Thornton LLP is the U.S. member firm of Grant Thornton International Ltd, one of the six global audit, tax and advisory organizations.

Shaping Business Excellence.

MGE's experienced Economic Development staff and resources are helping businesses get started, stay competitive and grow.

Web Conferencing and Collaboration Solutions.
Enabling people to make powerful connections - hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible, providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time.



An innovative, Madison-based company providing document processing solutions for redaction, data capture and mapping.

A Seattle-based fund applying a hands-on approach with portfolio companies, helping to recruit and build teams, advising on the development of product, business, and go-to-market strategies, and establishing productive connections with business partners.