News DeepTechU Day 3: Navigating Lab to Launch, Deep Tech Investment, and a Culture Shift Toward Commercialization “The best companies we see have deep venture experience,” said Beckett Jackson, investing director, Boeing HorizonX. But they also have a grand vision about how the technology will become a...
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 2 Episode 2: ExplORer Surgical April 22, 2021 Jennifer Fried, MBA ’15, started her MBA at Chicago Booth with dreams of a career in venture capital. By the time she graduated,...
News ETA Spotlight // Andrei Papayanopulos, MBA ’14, Cofounder of Arpa Capital Andrei Papayanopulos started at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business with the aspiration to raise a venture capital fund in his native Mexico, where at the time, he...
Program Resources A suite of programs and resources designed to provide graduating students and alumni access to the education, capital, and mentorship necessary to acquire and grow small businesses.
News Stellatus Solutions, a Startup Born at UChicago and Nurtured By Polsky, Acquired by Slingshot Aerospace to Help Prevent Satellite Collisions in Space Last fall, a team of University of Chicago students was tasked with addressing a challenge one might hope already had a solution: How to improve communication between satellite operators to...
News Collaboratorium Helps Kick off the Academic Year with a Collision of Entrepreneurial Brain Power For entrepreneurial students at Chicago Booth, one of the seminal events to kick off the academic year is the Polsky Center’s Collaboratorium, where scientific minds collide with business brains in...
Event Driving Growth: A Speaker Series on Operating in a PE/ETA Context April 5, 2024 This lecture focused on CXO will feature Booth alum Alex Panosian, MBA ’18. Alex Panosian obtained his undergraduate degree at the United States Military Academy at West Point and an...
News Liv Labs Lands SBIR Grant and Spot in Y Combinator as it Develops a Better Tool for Women Experiencing Urinary Incontinence Urinary incontinence is a common ailment among women that often goes unspoken – and therefore untreated. One in four U.S. women, and 40% of women over age 65, experience unwelcome...
News Psyonic Racks Up Accolades as its Bionic Hand Prepares for Nationwide Launch An Illinois startup that has developed a more affordable bionic hand has been racking up accolades as it prepares for the nationwide rollout of its high-tech prosthetic. Psyonic, which this...
News Small Business Spotlight: OjaExpress, Designed By and For Immigrants, Brings Same-Day Delivery to Ethnic Grocery Stores When Boyede Sobitan worked as a healthcare consultant, traveling four or five days out of every week, his return home to Chicago was often met with a request from his...
News NVC Alum Lighten Helps Mourners Plan Virtual Funerals. How Will It Pivot Post-Pandemic? When Alexandra Koys’ uncle died, about four years ago, she took charge of the funeral planning to relieve her grief-stricken mother of the burden. She didn’t like her options: gloomy,...
News Chicago Inno’s “Under 25” Honors Seven UChicago Grads Making Waves as Young Innovators Chicago Inno’s annual list of rising young innovators found plenty of entrepreneurial talent to celebrate at the University of Chicago. The 2022 “Inno Under 25” list featured seven recent graduates...
