News Where Are They Now? Unlisted is Opening the Doors to Off-Market Homes Historically, less than 5% of homes in the U.S. are listed for sale at any given time. Combine that with the well-documented housing shortage and record-high costs of purchasing a...
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 Small Business Spotlight: Larry’s Barber College Stays a Cut Above With New Walmart Shop Angela Harvey had never cut hair before she enrolled in Larry’s Barber College. Her first time wielding clippers, after months of classroom instruction, “I was shaking like a leaf,” she...
News Startup Spotlight: Eternity Gardens Darrell Hill shares how the Polsky Center has had a role in the development EternityGardens.com and where the company is headed in the future.
News Improving Precollege Education Last October, top-ranking representatives from McGraw-Hill spent a day on campus meeting with the authors, researchers and administrators responsible for creating some of the best, most widely used preK-12 math...
News Alumni New Venture Challenge Awards First Place to UNLISTED, a Startup Connecting Home Buyers with Off-Market Properties The winner of the Polsky Center’s 4th annual Alumni New Venture Challenge (ANVC) is a Midwest startup that helps home buyers find their dream home with a secret weapon: cookies....
Program Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) Experience the venture capital process firsthand through the world’s largest venture capital investment competition.
News Celebrating Chicago’s Black Tech Innovators: ‘Leverage the Digital World’ The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in partnership with the Chicago Chapter of the National Black MBA Association recently hosted the virtual panel “Celebrating Chicago’s Black Tech Innovators.” Moderated...
News 21 Teams Tackling Innovations in Quantum, Healthcare, AI, and More Take First Steps Toward Commercialization Twenty-one teams from across the University of Chicago and local institutions participated in the Polsky Center I-Corps program this year – identifying and addressing real-world problems in seven weeks, work...
Technology Diagnostic For Predicting Hospital-Acquired Infections And Identifying Causative Organisms The technology is a fecal microbiome metabolite profile that can predict hospital-acquired infections and identify the causative organisms. This method efficiently measures specific chemical metabolites produced by bacteria in the…
Technology A Micro-RNA Approach for the Treatment of Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 6 (SCA6) Spinocerebellar ataxia type 6 (SCA6) is a rare, dominantly inherited disease that causes Purkinje cell degradation and results in: loss of coordination, tremors, and uncoordinated muscle movement. Current therapies only…
