Page Entrepreneurs-in-Residence The Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) program is open to current students and alumni and provides mentorship and coaching to University of Chicago students. Successful Chicago-based entrepreneurs are available to meet throughout the...
News What 5 Chicago-Area Founders Learned From Working in Silicon Valley Anyone who is familiar with Chicago’s startup scene knows that innovation and opportunity abound – even if Chicago doesn’t quite have Silicon Valley’s level of clout. What does it have? Tons of...
News Phase II Teams Selected for the Social New Venture Challenge The Social Enterprise Initiative has announced the 14 teams accepted into phase II of the 2017 John Edwardson, ’72, Social New Venture Challenge (SNVC). The SNVC is the social impact...
News UChicago Food Allergy Startup Raises $3.5 Million Bunning Food Allergy Professor Cathy Nagler had been researching the physiological origins of food allergy and potential treatments for over 30 years without ever considering the possibility of translating that...
Page 2017 Companies Traditional // 4Women ($20,000) AMOpportunities ($100,000) AnySpace AutoMech Banyan ($15,000) ClostraBio ($40,000) ezza ($75,000) FA Specialty Foods Galilexo HelloHealthy Lancealot ($10,000) LemonBox MediLinx MoveSimple OpenPAC Part Analytics ($10,000) Phyt ($10,000) Portefini RWEDI Solutions Sinsal SmarterCloud ($20,000) Spiff SwitchedSource ($80,000) TaoDrinks...
News Polsky Center Brings in Artist to Add Playfulness to Co-working Spaces Luckily for those who work at the Polsky Center, an artist named Kara Cobb Johnson is adding a bit more fun to Polsky's Hyde Park co-working space.
News SNVC Alum BallotReady is Helping Prepare Voters for the 2020 Election To celebrate Women’s History Month, an annual declared month that highlights the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society, the Polsky Center is highlighting women in its...
News The 10 Days of Polsky: Looking Back at 2020 The past year was unlike any we’ve experienced before. Despite the many challenges caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic, we stayed focused on advancing our Polsky Center mission. We authored...
News Special Report >> Deep Tech Deep Dive: In the Lab, On the Market, and What Comes Next What is deep tech? Defining a relatively nascent space is difficult as those involved grapple with finding a common language – this is an issue even in well-established industries. However,...
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...
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 7 Episode 7: Braintree May 27, 2021 Growing up in a small, religious town in Utah, Bryan Johnson felt he existed in a video game where the rules were all mapped...
News 3 Novel Disease-Fighting Technologies You Should Know About Ahead of BIO 2022 Researchers at the University of Chicago have developed methods to increase the clinical efficacy of immunotherapies, provide long-lasting immune tolerance for autoimmune or transplantation therapy, and treat breast and ovarian...
