Aug. 28, 2025 11a
(WGTD)---A bio tech company that helps other bio tech companies develop ideas and bring them to market will be an anchor tenant in the new Kenosha Innovation Center in the Kenosha Innovation Neighborhood.
Kivi Bio founder and president Todd Kapp spoke on WGTD's Morning Show.
Kapp says his new firm has brought together experts in various aspects of bio tech to help fledgling companies that may be a bit short on resources. "If there's a market need and there's the technology to support--that's a nice match then you have a business," he said. "We're already working with all types of people."
Kapp—the son of a nuclear technician—has a degree in chemical engineering and has worked for a variety of companies as a business development specialist.
He moved to Trevor in western Kenosha County a number of years ago in order to comply with an employer’s order that he live somewhere relatively close to a major airport for ease of travel.
Kapp said he stumbled upon the under-construction Kenosha Innovation Center when he dropped off a son at the new LakeView Technology Academy, the first building to open in KIN. "I'm driving and dropping him off at school and see outside this big, beautiful skeleton of a building now accepting leases. And I'm like oh my gosh this looks fantastic," he said
He noted that the location is in relative close proximity to Gateway Technical College, UW-Parkside, Carthage College, Eli Lilly in Pleasant Prairie and AbbVie and Abbott in Illinois.
Kapp says his business is based in part on an altruistic desire to help others develop new medical treatments for chronic illnesses. He spoke of his late father. "When I get into bio and biotherapeutics and things like that, I want to help those companies develop the next thing so if my dad could've had a pill or a treatment to avoid a chronic condition--that's why I do what I do," he said.
The complete list of tenants for the new Kenosha Innovation Center will be announced at the center’s grand opening on Oct. 1st. The public is invited.
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