News Automated Investment App Investable Takes First Place Prize of $50,000 at the 17th Annual Global New Venture Challenge The 17th Annual Global New Venture Challenge (GNVC) has awarded first place to Investable, an automated robo-advisor app linked to your payroll which makes investing effortless. The app deducts a...
News Phase II Teams Selected for the 17th Annual Global New Venture Challenge 22 teams from across the world are advancing to Phase II of the Polsky Center’s 2024 Global New Venture Challenge (GNVC). The GNVC is the global track of the...
News Global New Venture Challenge (GNVC) Announces 7 Finalists to Compete for more than $100,000 in Investments Seven teams have been selected for the 17th annual Global New Venture Challenge (GNVC) finals, taking place on Friday, May 31st. The GNVC is a track of the top-ranked Edward...
Event Tech Enablement Workshop Series: Using AI to Elevate your Customer Experience (Automation and Responsiveness) June 25, 2026 This session addresses one of the most common pain points for growing businesses: the gap between customer expectations for immediate responsiveness and the reality of limited staff and bandwidth. Participants...
News Autism Therapy Startup AIM Clinics Wins UChicago’s Social NVC The 2018 cohort of the John Edwardson, ’72, Social New Venture Challenge concluded with AIM Clinics taking home first place and $45,000, plus an additional $20,000 award supported by the...
Page Venture Gallery Venture Gallery View startups founded from across the University of Chicago ecosystem in a range of industries. Welcome to the Venture Gallery! The Polsky Center provides “first look” and early...
Event Business Acumen: Productivity, Let AI Tackle Your To-Do List October 2, 2025 This session is to enable small business owners learn how to use AI for productivity, small, repeatable workflow that runs after hours and hands you a clean checklist, warm leads,...
Technology A New Genetic Medicine Strategy For Treating Neurological Disorders Synaptic transmission and plasticity are fundamental to neuronal functions, and alterations of synaptic protein expression are direct causes of autism, intellectual disability (ID), and epilepsy. De novo loss-of-function (LoF) mutations…
News The Hiring Process is Now an AI Arms Race, but There’s Still Room to Restore the Human Element The following article was written by Scott Holloway, general partner at Starting Line and entrepreneur-in-residence at the Polsky Center, and originally published in Crain’s Chicago Business on December 22, 2025....
Event Global New Venture Challenge (GNVC) Finals May 31, 2024 Join us for the Finals of the Global New Venture Challenge, the Executive MBA track of the Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge. 2024 Agenda: 9:00 – 9:15 A.M:...
Page 2024 Companies Traditional // FreshX ($1,000,000) Encore Marketplace Inc. ($375,000) Herriot ($170,000) Decimal Code ($75,000) Owler AI ($110,000) Slosh Dynamics ($125,000) Ark Health ($30,000) ORO Intelligence ($10,000) Pharos Aerospace ($10,000) Stratix ($10,000)...
