Transforming how technologies become tech companies.
The UW College of Engineering drives STEM discoveries rooted in engineering research. The Badger Tech Foundry, part of the Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Hub, takes the next step—forging entrepreneurs into founders and market-ready technologies into newly founded companies.
Our Mission
Deploying deep tech and founders
Empowering impactful startup creation by training serial founders, leveraging proven success to accelerate venture development, and building forward-thinking technology verticals around the College of Engineering’s research strengths.
Biotech
Transforming innovative technologies into healthcare solutions with broad societal impact.
Materials
Perfecting nanoscale development and processes to improve components across sectors.
Fusion
Developing innovative technologies that strengthen the rapidly growing nuclear fusion industry.
Energy
Pioneering the clean energy revolution by translating breakthroughs into commercial markets.
The Vision
Reimagining the foundry
Foundries of the past existed in different iterations across the world, but they were all created to melt and mold metals into the essential materials that shaped societies.
We aim to join this innovative legacy by re-envisioning what it means to forge—accelerating innovation not only through materials, but through companies.
Our PROGRAMS
The Foundry formula
Empowering impactful startup creation by training serial founders, leveraging proven success to accelerate venture development, and building forward-thinking technology verticals around the College of Engineering’s research strengths.
Grow serial entrepreneurs
The Catapult program identifies promising technologies and their best commercialization pathway, and EEIR (Early Career Entrepreneur-in-Residence) offers training and hands-on development for strategic launch.
Train entrepreneurs
IIT (Innovators-in- Training) identifies potential founders in their graduate studies stage, helping them hone their product profile and build preliminary business cases.
Friends of the Foundry
External Partnerships with organizations, established entrepreneurs, early-stage investors, and alumni or donors can unlock new pathways for innovation and create advanced tech networks throughout Wisconsin—and beyond.
PARTNERS & GRADUATES
Updates
News & launches
Sept 2026
Turning Early Entrepreneurs into Wisconsin’s “Serial Founders” with Badger Tech Foundry
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Badger Tech Foundry, first “spoke” in the Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Hub, focused on helping early-career researchers become serial entrepreneurs
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How EEIR Luis Escaño and 3D Powder Tech are Revolutionizing Metal Manufacturing
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We want to hear from students, faculty, and staff ready to deploy their deep tech innovations. Reach out with questions and to find your pathway to launch.
Bill Murphy
wlmurphy@wisc.edu
(608) 265-9978
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