News Harper Court Ventures Launches with $25M to Support UChicago Startup Ecosystem Led by Chicago Booth alum, Karthee Madasamy, MBA ’06, and managed by MFV Partners, a leading Silicon Valley deep tech fund, Harper Court Ventures will be a new engine of innovation for the Midwest—and...
News The Power of a Shared Ecosystem: 27 Midwest Startups Pitch at Deep Tech Demo Day in San Francisco The University of Chicago, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Northwestern University came together to bring 27 deep tech startups in front of investors on the West Coast. The private, invite-only...
Event Fireside Chat featuring David Shapiro, MBA ’89, KPS Capital Partners October 23, 2025 Join us for a fireside chat featuring David Shapiro, MBA ’89, Cofounder and Managing Partner, KPS Capital Partners. This conversation will be moderated by Steve Kaplan, Neubauer Family Distinguished Service...
News Fall 2025 Collaboratorium Connects Researchers and Business Expertise Connecting researchers and scientists with business expertise, the Fall 2025 Collaboratorium will feature teams participating in the Polsky I-Corps program in addition to startups from other areas of the...
Event Student Networking: Alchemist Chicago Startup Accelerator October 27, 2025 Join us for an engaging evening showcasing 27 emerging deep tech startups from the Alchemist Chicago accelerator! Who is invited to attend? Students from the University of Chicago, Northwestern, the...
Event Investing Essentials: Fireside Chat with a First-Year Venture Capitalist November 11, 2025 Join Polsky Entrepreneur-in-Residence Doug Monieson, MBA ’89 and Ilana Habib, MBA ’25 in a fireside chat about being a first-year venture capitalist. Ilana Habib is a principal at Cintrifuse Capital....
News Bluefors Opens Shared Lab Facility at the UChicago Science Incubator, Expands Bluefors Lab Chicago Bluefors, the world leader in cryogenic cooling systems for quantum technology, has opened a second Chicago-based lab facility at the UChicago Science Incubator located at Hyde Park Labs. The additional...
News The Polsky Center Collaborates with the India Deep Tech Alliance to Launch the India Deep Tech Accelerator The new collaboration will help deep tech founders in the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) translate breakthrough innovation into globally competitive companies through the newly established India Deep Tech Accelerator...
News How Kivira is Improving Mental Health Diagnosis More than half of mental health diagnoses are incorrect – an unfortunate reality documented by institutions such as the National Institute of Mental Health and supported by research. These errors...
News UChicago Science Incubator to Provide ‘On-Ramp’ Facilities to Accelerate Tenant Entry into IQMP Quantum Ecosystem The Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park (IQMP), a first-of-its-kind park built for quantum technology scale-up and advanced microelectronics research and development, has announced that the University of Chicago Science Incubator...
Team Nadya Mason, PhD Vice President for Research and Robert J. Zimmer Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago Vice President for Research and Robert J. Zimmer Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
