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Venture commander: High-tech expert gets capital charge

When Winslow Sargeant’s term ended at the National Science Foundation this year, he could have gone anywhere.

He chose Madison. And that says a lot, said John Neis, managing partner at Venture Investors LLC, where Sargeant is becoming the fifth partner.

Sargeant, who earned his doctorate in computer and electrical engineering at UW-Madison, is a Dot-Com Bubble survivor with a wealth of hard-earned entrepreneurial experience and a Rolodex bulging with prime contacts from three years with the NSF’s Small Business Innovation Research program.