Case, M-WERC, Gener8tor, Synesis, & More: This Week’s WI Watchlist

cramping. Synesis has performed experiments with mice and found that its plant-based formula improved key immune response markers, UW-Madison said.

—Scanalytics, a Milwaukee-based startup that creates hardware and software to help customers track the movement of people through physical spaces, has begun collaborating with Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: [[ticker:CSCO]]), a networking hardware giant based in Silicon Valley. Cisco sponsored a recent competition for startups developing smart hardware technologies, and Scanalytics took first place in its category. Joe Scanlin, the startup’s co-founder and CEO, says Cisco did not award an upfront cash prize to Scanalytics, but he expects to receive sales and engineering support from Cisco as the two companies work to integrate their technologies.

Author: Jeff Buchanan

Jeff formerly led Xconomy’s Seattle coverage since. Before that, he spent three years as editor of Xconomy Wisconsin, primarily covering software and biotech companies based in the Badger State. A graduate of Vanderbilt, he worked in health IT prior to being bit by the journalism bug.