Sowing seeds for state’s growth. Venture Center could draw dollars, attention

Buried in the budget proposal Gov. Jim Doyle will present to the Legislature Tuesday night is a relatively small $2 million funding item for a new Wisconsin Venture Center.

But if implemented well, say Doyle and his supporters, such an organization has potential to help boost the amount of venture capital coming into the state and the number of well-prepared, high-growth companies competing for it.

"This will be a public-private partnership that will be significantly staffed, and its goal will be to put the great new companies in Wisconsin together with venture capital from all around the country," Doyle said in an interview.

By KATHLEEN GALLAGHER
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