Best Enterprise Infrastructure Companies in Wisconsin, United States
The 59 best Enterprise Infrastructure companies in Wisconsin, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: PKWARE.
Our analysis of 147 Enterprise Infrastructure companies
$38.8b in tracked funding; 99% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Enterprise Infrastructure companies in Wisconsin
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PKWARE Provider of enterprise data security solutions for data discovery and protection | $38M | 73 mo ago | Acquired | — | 1986 | WordPressMySQLPHP+12 | 48 patents Secure data compression, encryption, and archive file management technologies. | — |
| 2 | Ionic Cloud-based cross platform application development solutions provider | $14M | 122 mo ago | Acquired | Ben Sperry Co-Founder | 2012 | Node.jsReactNext.js+21 | 50 patents Patents concentrated in transport & manufacturing processes | — |
| 3 | Tascet Cybersecurity solutions provider specializing in fraud prevention and quantum infrastructure security | $13M | 167 mo ago | Series A | — | 2005 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Datica Digital clinical administrative tasks management tool | $13M | 117 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2013 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Sonic Foundry Enterprise Video solutions | $10M | 43 mo ago | Public | — | 1991 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Ionic Platform offering mobile application development software | $4M | 135 mo ago | Acquired | Ben Sperry Co-Founder | 2012 | Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceNode.js+22 | 50 patents Patents concentrated in transport & manufacturing processes | — |
| 7 | Ebullient Offers cooling systems for data centers | $3M | 113 mo ago | Series A | — | 2012 | — | 69 patents Advanced two-phase cooling heat sink modules for high‑power electronics thermal management. | — |
| 8 | NovaShield Global provider of packaging, protective, and engineered coated solutions | $2M | 198 mo ago | Acquired | Praveen Sinha Founder & CEO | 2006 | — | — | — |
| 9 | Curate Solutons Provider of an AI-platform to search through multiple government documents | $2M | 83 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2016 | Squarespace CommerceSquarespaceSentry+31 | — | — |
| 10 | Swoop Search Graphical search interface and analytics | $2M | 138 mo ago | Seed | Quinn Bottum Co-Founder | 2011 | — | — | — |
| 11 | Metify Cloud based bare metal servers | $2M | 39 mo ago | Seed | — | 2019 | WordPressMySQLPHP+39 | — | — |
| 12 | EDCS Power Platform that designs and builds equipment to improve power efficiency in data centers | $1M | 139 mo ago | Deadpooled | John Meinecke Co-Founder & CEO | 2013 | — | — | — |
| 13 | mdotLabs Advertising security platform | $1M | 151 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | Timur Yarnall Co-Founder & CEO | 2013 | — | — | — |
| 14 | SimplifIDe Security solution for secure authentication to enhance customer experience | $285K | 112 mo ago | Deadpooled | Nick Fuhrman Co-Founder & CMO | 2016 | — | — | — |
Top 12 Enterprise Infrastructure companies in Wisconsin
#1
Public · Madison, Wisconsin · founded 1991 · 153 employees$9.7Mraised▾
Sonic Foundry offers solutions for lecture capture, enterprise webcasting and hybrid events. Its flagship solutions include Mediasite, the patented webcasting platform, which automates the capture, management, delivery and search of lectures, online training and briefings. Customers include corporations, universities and government agencies.
- Nov 2022Post IPO$1.2M
- Aug 2021Post IPO$3.5M
- Mar 2019Post IPO$5M
#2
Seed · Cottage Grove, Wisconsin · founded 2019 · 4 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Cloud based bare metal servers. It offers a solution to monitor and provision the bare metal server. It allows users to run containers on bare metal or VM. It provides real time monitoring to ensure data center assets meet governance. IT asset monitoring and auto discovery, security alerts, and notifications are some of its features.
- Apr 2023Seed$1.5M
#3
Acquired · Milwaukee, Wisconsin · founded 1986 · 120 employees$38Mraised▾
Provider of enterprise data security solutions for data discovery and protection. The company offers a platform that combines data discovery with protection capabilities. It secures data across various environments, including endpoints, servers, and cloud repositories. The platform provides features such as encryption, masking, and redaction to ensure data security and compliance.
- Jun 2020Venture Debt—
- Conventional Debt$38M
#4
Deadpooled · Madison, Wisconsin · founded 2013 · 17 employees$12.6Mraised▾
Digital clinical administrative tasks management tool
- Sep 2016Series B$6.5M
- Mar 2015Series B$4M
- Nov 2013Series A$2M
- 2013Seed$100K
#5
Acquired · Madison, Wisconsin · founded 2012 · 99 employees$13.6Mraised▾
Ionic is a cloud-based cross-platform application development solutions provider. The product offered by the company includes mobile UI toolkit, API library, etc. The features of the product include biometric-based secure authentication, secure data storage, etc. It also provides components that are written in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to develop user interfaces. It provides integration over SQLite, stripe, etc.
- Apr 2016Series A$8.9M
- Apr 2015Seed$3.7M
- Mar 2014Seed$1M
- 2013Seed—
#6
Acquired · Madison, Wisconsin · founded 2016 · 24 employees$2.2Mraised▾
Curate is a provider of an AI-platform to search through multiple government documents relating to infrastructure/construction projects. The product offerings include CurateBUILD and CurateLOCAL. It scrapes websites for search keywords and runs relevant documents through its AI engine for providing insights. Its chief target market consists of construction/engineering professionals and municipal corporations.
- Jul 2019Seed$1.6M
- Nov 2017Seed$451.4K
- 2016Grant (prize money)—
- 2016Seed$100K
#7
Series A · Madison, Wisconsin · founded 2005 · 11 employees$13.2Mraised▾
Cybersecurity solutions provider specializing in fraud prevention and quantum infrastructure security. They offer a security system that serves as the backbone of an organization's enterprise risk strategies, enforcing security protocols to protect borders and boundaries, secure critical assets, and prevent cyberattacks and fraud. Their Global Uniqueness Registry ensures users are unique, preventing synthetic identities and impersonation. They provide security credentials, not dependent on devices, controlled by the organization, eliminating risks like account takeover and phishing. They transform Zero Trust architectures into prevent-and-protect strategies, utilizing security credentials immune to compromise. They prevent fraud in payments and point-of-sale, stopping synthetics and imposters. They offer solutions for financial, healthcare, government, payments, telecom, travel, retail, education, and insurance industries. They provide a high-value security asset owned and controlled by the organization, bringing a profound change to its enterprise risk strategies.
- Aug 2012Series A$13.2M
#8
Series A · Madison, Wisconsin · founded 2012 · 9 employees$3.4Mraised▾
Offers cooling systems for data centers. Their systems circulate an engineered fluid that, unlike water, poses no risk to computer hardware. It also systems features quiet, reliable centrifugal pumps which eliminate the choice for HVAC.
- Jan 2017Series A$125K
- Jan 2016Series A$2.3M
- Jan 2015Seed$1M
#9
Acquired · Madison, Wisconsin · founded 2012 · 68 employees$3.7Mraised▾
Platform offering mobile application development software. It allows developers to build and deploy mobile applications from a single codebase. The platform enables users to insert dynamic web content into the mobile app.
- Mar 2015Series A$2.6M
- Mar 2014Seed$1M
- 2013Seed$118K
#10
Acquired · Madison, Wisconsin · founded 2006 · 1 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Global provider of packaging, protective, and engineered coated solutions. They develop, manufacture, and sell diverse solutions, including paper and film-based tapes, films, protective packaging, woven and non-woven products, and packaging machinery. Their offerings cater to various applications, including automated packaging, building and construction, carton sealing, geomembrane solutions, industrial tapes, packaging films, protective packaging, retail and specialty products, and sustainable packaging. They serve industries like aerospace, appliance, auto aftermarket, consumer goods, e-commerce, electrical/electronic, food processing, general manufacturing, HVAC, marine and composites, moving and storage, remediation and restoration, structure fabric solutions, and transportation. They focus on innovation, sustainability, and providing solutions for diverse customer needs.
- Jan 2010Grant (prize money)$150K
- Jul 2008Grant (prize money)$768K
- Mar 2008Grant (prize money)$768K
- Feb 2008Grant (prize money)$768K
#11
Deadpooled · Mequon, Wisconsin · founded 2013 · 4 employees$1.4Mraised▾
Platform that designs and builds equipment to improve power efficiency in data centers. The UPS hardware products are housed in the data center and provide backup for over a minute. The double conversion four wire is of DC UPS design and is power electronics based control technology.
- Dec 2014Series A$1.3M
- Apr 2014Seed$100K
#12
Seed · Madison, Wisconsin · founded 2011 · 45 employees$2Mraised▾
Swoop Search allows users to search, analyze, extend and integrate data without writing a single line of code. Users can write queries and find relevant results and use that information for the next search. Swoop provides visualized statistical information generated from search results. Swoop has patents in graphical search interface.
- Dec 2014Seed$2M
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How research on Cloud Computing in Wisconsin is moving
A read on the academic research around Cloud Computing in Wisconsin — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 93 papers.
UW–Madison and UW–Milwaukee lead Wisconsin's cloud research, balancing optimistic breakthroughs in atmospheric aerosols and resource management with notable concerns, reflecting a cautiously optimistic stance.
- University of Wisconsin–Madison74
- University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee9
- Southeastern Wisconsin Information Technology Exchange Consortium3
- Concordia University Wisconsin3
- University of Wisconsin–Superior2
- Operating system1→3
- Moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer5
- Remote sensing5
- Satellite5
- Speedup5
- Workload5
- Arctic1→6
- Big data1→3
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