Program Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) Fellows Program Access mentorship, educational programming, and hands-on experiences as you prepare for a career in entrepreneurship through acquisition.
News ‘It’s Remarkable’: Deep Tech Ventures Summit Showcases Innovation in the Midwest Nearly 350 attendees, 23 speakers, and 22 startups came together to explore various topics across the quantum, data science and AI, cleantech, and life sciences space at the Deep Tech...
News The Polsky Center Welcomes the 2025 Market Navigator Cohort The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is welcoming the newest cohort of the Market Navigator program, a 10-week customer discovery and market insight initiative designed to help growth-stage B2C...
News Commercialization Fellowship Welcome Five New PhD Students to Further Develop Research The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation welcomes five new University of Chicago PhD students to its Commercialization Fellowship program, which offers students the opportunity to create new ventures around promising...
News Rattan L. Khosa SeedCon 2026: Beyond the Hype Last week, the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Chicago Booth’s Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital (EVC) Group hosted the Rattan L. Khosa SeedCon 2026, the University of Chicago’s flagship...
News Polsky Center and Chicago Booth Private Equity Group Host 25th Annual PE Conference Investors, students, and industry leaders gathered last week for the 25th Annual Chicago Booth Private Equity Conference, a day-long event exploring the evolving dynamics of private equity investing and value...
News 6 Local Entrepreneurs Form Legal Businesses at Incorporation/Organization Day Earlier this month, the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation hosted Incorporation/Organization Day, an event that connects South and West Side entrepreneurs with attorneys from local law firms to explore...
Technology Rad51 Inhibitors for Sensitization to Chemotherapy and Radiation Optimized small-molecule inhibitors of RAD51 that selectively suppress D-loop formation and homologous recombination The Unmet Need: Selective agents that suppress homologous recombination repair without off-target toxicity. RAD51 is a central…
Technology Wearable Microelectromechanical Sensing System For Integrated Respiratory And Physiological Signal Monitoring A wearable, wireless sensor that integrates flexible, capacitive, acoustic, and optical technologies to continuously monitor breathing, heart signals, and oxygen levels for accurate sleep apnea and respiratory condition diagnosis. The…
Program Our Process and Advisory Committee Program Structure The George Shultz Innovation Fund runs once a year in the Spring quarter. Our process is a hybrid: it pairs a hands-on readiness sprint with the rigorous due...
News The Polsky Center Welcomes the 2026 Market Navigator Cohort The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is welcoming the newest cohort of the Market Navigator program.
