News Know Your Worth: Female Investors Provide Advice for Breaking Boundaries How to break boundaries in the investment world? We caught up with two female investors-in-residence to discuss how the industry has evolved, the importance of women supporting women, and their...
News A Low Tolerance for ‘No’: In Conversation with Polsky’s Innovation Programs Director Breaking boundaries is not glamorous or easy, but having a low tolerance for ‘no’ and finding mentors can help advance professional opportunities for women in historically male-dominated industries. As we...
News 30 Teams Advance to Phase II of the 2024 Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge Today, the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation announced the 30 Phase II teams advancing in the 2024 Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge (NVC), the University of Chicago’s...
News SNVC Alum KitcheNet Talks Pivoting Business Models Trista Li, MPP ’16, MBA ’18, co-founded KitcheNet as a policy student at the Harris School participating in the 2016 John Edwardson, ’72, Social New Venture Challenge (SNVC). Today, the company sells locally sourced...
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...
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 9 Episode 9: Grubhub June 10, 2021 Matt Maloney admits he had a bit of an ego when he entered the New Venture Challenge. He had already launched Grubhub, had a...
News ETA Spotlight // Trevor Lwin, MBA ’12 Trevor Lwin, MBA ’12, and his partner Bruce Mosczcelt worked together for nearly a decade at BMO Capital Markets prior to pursuing the traditional search fund career path. The two formed...
Technology Library E: Highly Optimized Recombinant Antibody Phage-Display Library Using recombinant antibody libraries for drug development has numerous advantages over animal immunization including: faster production times, favorable expression, and not being limited by antigen immunogenicity. However, this approach is…
News Fireside Chat: Airbnb Cofounder Nathan Blecharczyk Reveals How the Business Grew, Survived COVID-19 and Found Success Thanks to a Publicity Stunt As Airbnb neared the end of its first year in business, its prospects looked grim. The San Francisco-based startup — at the time called AirBed & Breakfast — wasn’t...
News Small Business Spotlight: ‘I Choose the Ladder’ Coaches Fortune 500 Companies on Employee Development, Retention Three years ago, Watchen Nyanue, MBA ’22 had a dream job as the senior vice president of marketing partnerships for the WNBA’s Chicago Sky. The only problem? It wasn’t...
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...
News Understanding the Human Elements in Your Business: Trust, Collaboration, and Emotional Loss We are at a unique time in human history, and while we are all living our own reality, we also are experiencing a global sense of connectivity – and grief....
