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Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

Nonprofit foundation that commercialises University of Wisconsin-Madison research and funds campus innovation

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The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, known as WARF, is an independent nonprofit that supports the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It handles the path from research to discovery, commercialisation and investment, and gives the university annual funding for research.

What Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation does

Patent management: it manages more than 2,000 patents on university inventions.
Investment portfolio: assets held to fund university research.
Accelerator challenge grants: competitions for campus researchers, such as one on mental health technology and one on big data.
Technology transfer: intellectual property managers who handle disclosures from researchers.

Clients

Faculty, staff and students at UW-Madison, and researchers at the Morgridge Institute for Research.

Key facts

Founded: 1925
Status: Independent, nonprofit foundation
Location: Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Summary written by TrustList from the business's own published information, Oct 2026.

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Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation is ranked on 1 TrustList ranking at #1.

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