News Autonomous Precision Machining Startup Takes First Place at 2023 ANVC Four startups received investment at the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation’s 2023 Alumni New Venture Challenge (ANVC). The ANVC, which launched in 2019, is the alumni track of the New Venture Challenge,...
News 2017 Americas Alternative Finance Industry Survey The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago and the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance at the University of Cambridge Judge...
News Winter 2019 Small Business Growth Program Cohort Announced The Polsky Small Business Growth Program has announced its Winter 2019 cohort, which is made up of small businesses located in the South and West Side of Chicago.
News Polsky Day-long Conference Celebrates and Inspires Entrepreneurial Women A diverse roster of professionals, professors, and entrepreneurs all take to the stage at the Women and Entrepreneurship Conference.
News 2019 Fall Cohort Selected for the George Shultz Innovation Fund Four companies will move on to the fall finals of the 2019 George Schultz Innovation Fund.
News Chicago Booth-Led Startup Punchh Closes $40 Million Series C Round Marketing platform Punchh just closed a $40 million series C round. Founded in 2010 by Shyam Rao, MBA ’08, and Sastry Penumarthy, MBA ’00, Punchh has grown from an online...
News Record-Setting NVC Alum Talks Passion, Growing Pains, and Putting Her Foot Down Breaking boundaries means knowing when to make unpopular decisions for Jilian Fenton, the founder and CEO of My Art Cache – which brought in a record-setting prize during the 2019...
News Genes Reveal Details of ‘the Crime,’ Pathway to Develop a Novel Treatment for Neurodegenerative Disease University of Chicago researcher Christopher Gomez is developing a gene therapy to treat a rare, neurodegenerative disease – and conducting a clinical trial, backed by Pfizer and Biogen, to establish...
News NVC@25 Fireside Chat: Ben & Frank Cofounder Mariana Castillo To mark the 25th anniversary of the Edward L. Kaplan ’71 New Venture Challenge, the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is hosting a series of fireside chats with alums...
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 3 Episode 3: BenchPrep April 29, 2021 Ashish Rangnekar, MBA ’11, grew up in a sleepy town in India where success looked like a white-collar job, not entrepreneurship. But early on...
News Record $1.6 Million Awarded in the 25th Anniversary Finals of Chicago Booth’s New Venture Challenge; First-Place Winner Andes STR Lands More Than $660,000 The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University if Chicago has announced a record-breaking investment of $1.6 million in the winners of the 2021 Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New...
News Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge Investment Pool Swells to $1.73 Million After Additional Funding Rolls In; First-Place Winner Andes STR Gets $681,000 The record investment pool in the 25th annual Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge (NVC) jumped to $1.73 million this week after investors put additional money into the finalist...
