Bistro Speaker Series: Wisconsin's \$100 Million Fund for New Businesses

Lorrie Keating Heinemann, secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions,
discusses efforts to help accelerate Wisconsin's high-growth companies through a \$100 million fund that will offer money for investment in venture capital funds that agree to invest in Wisconsin's new businesses. Money will go to those areas identified as the state's core strengths, including life sciences, water technologies, advanced materials, alternative energy and energy storage, information technology and business services, and homeland security and defense.