Kathleen Gallagher

Midwest Moxie

Business EN ↓ 90 episodes

Hear about the successes, failures, insights and opportunities that shape some of the Midwest’s most exciting entrepreneurs. Host Kathleen Gallagher, executive director of 5 Lakes Institute, talks with company founders who are taking risks, disrupting the status quo and driving economic growth in the region.

Author

Kathleen Gallagher

Category

Business

Podcast website

www.wuwm.com

Latest episode

Dec 27, 2025

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Episodes

Managing pain: Maria Bennett 30.06.2024

SPR Therapeutics provides patients with a non-opioid, non-surgical, minimally-invasive pain treatment option.

Destroying forever chemicals: Michelle Bellanca 18.01.2024

How Claros Technologies aims to rid the world of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.

Helping customers take control of their health: Alex Skryl 15.01.2024

NutriSense was first to provide continuous glucose monitors to consumers.

Assessing plants with AI and other technologies: Mark DeSantis 11.01.2024

Bloomfield improves the health and performance of specialty crops around the world advanced technology.

Managing production with cloud-based software: Sunny Han 08.01.2024

Connecting manufacturers with live data for faster decision-making and improved processes and products.

Holograms and augmented reality in the surgical suite: Jennifer and Jon Silva 04.01.2024

The Silvas developed headsets to allow doctors to see the heart they’re working on floating in front of them.

Making diesel engines run cleaner: BJ Johnson 01.01.2024

How a company's work is transforming diesel to use clean-burning, renewable, alternative fuels.

Making image-based AI better, faster, cheaper: Corey Jaskolski 25.12.2023

After exploring all seven continents and dozens of countries, Corey Jaskolski started Synthetaic to create the ChatGPT of image data in Wisconsin.

Translating data science into startups: Arnab Nandi 21.12.2023

Arnab Nandi’s research into spatiotemporal data spawned Mobikit.

Helping companies keep track of software subscriptions: Eric Christopher 18.12.2023

Eric Christopher founded Zylo and, in the process, invented the category of software subscription management.

Breakthrough science driving a cleaner tomorrow: Jian-Ping Wang 14.12.2023

Jian-Ping Wang’s years of research paid off when the world's first ever earth-free magnet was developed.

Wirelessly powering phones, headsets and other devices: Jacob Babcock 11.12.2023

Jacob Babcock and his team are helping to free us from cords and make wireless charging more prevalent.

Providing virtual, pediatric mental health services: Monika Roots 07.12.2023

Monika Roots is a child psychiatrist who has co-founded two telehealth startups.

Mapping neighborhoods across the country: Cory Scott 04.12.2023

Cory Scott stumbled into a pitch contest and emerged with first place, a pre-paying customer and the beginnings of LiveBy.

Forecasting weather better with technology and radars: Chris Goode 30.11.2023

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.

Listening in at scale to health care providers’ customer conversations: Amy Brown 27.11.2023

Amy Brown quit her high-level executive job to start her own venture that helps companies to improve customer relationships and profitability.

Overcoming nerdy preoccupations to steer startup sales: Ben Schmidt 23.11.2023

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.

Paying forward 20 years of founding, funding and running startups: Jen Baird 20.11.2023

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.

Helping workplace resources find their next use: Garry Cooper 13.11.2023

Dr. Garry Cooper started with research lab materials but has grown Chicago-based Rheaply's digital resource exchange platform to find next uses for industrial and IT equipment, building materials, furniture and more.

Curious robots and inventory management: Sankalp Arora 23.04.2023

Sankalp Arora figured out while in graduate school at Carnegie Mellon how to make robots curious.

Autonomous drones and video interviewing: Danny Ellis and Kurt Heikkinen 16.04.2023

Danny Ellis and Kurt Heikkinen know first-hand how difficult, and ultimately rewarding, a startup can be.

Pea protein and novel battery materials: Nicole Atchison and Francis Wang 09.04.2023

Nicole Atchison and Francis Wang are both building a more sustainable future.

Protecting the wellbeing of youth athletes: Tyrre Burks 02.04.2023

Tyrre Burks' desire to create the safest environment possible for a young athlete to play the sport they love resulted in forming an insurance company.

Computer engineering and biological products: Nancy Benovich Gilby and Katie Thompson 26.03.2023

Nancy Benovich Gilby and Katie Thompson have both figured out how to bring unique products to market in business.

Nuclear fusion and the era of abundant energy: Greg Piefer 19.03.2023

Greg Piefer's company, Shine Technologies, has about 400 employees and $700 million of funding directed at harnessing the reaction that powers the sun.

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