Wisconsin’s investment in early-stage businesses is changing perceptions

Attorney Joe Hildebrandt has been a part of many deals connecting promising young Wisconsin companies with investors, some close at home and others in the financial centers of the nation’s East and West coasts. Over the years, Hildebrandt told a legislative committee last week, he’s battled the notion that Wisconsin is a "flyover state" that neither wants nor welcomes investors.

Lately, Hildebrandt is happy to report, there’s a change of attitude among those investors. They’re taking Wisconsin a bit more seriously.

"A large part of that is perception versus reality. Act 255 has been a major change from that perception," Hildebrandt said.

Tom Still

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