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...
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 8 Midwestern Universities Launch Third Coast Foundry to Connect Startups with Bay Area Venture Capital The University of Chicago, in partnership with seven other leading Midwestern universities, today announced the launch of Third Coast Foundry, a new San Francisco–based hub designed to strengthen the collective...
News University of Chicago Announces Partnership with AI Research Commons, Microsoft, and NVIDIA to Accelerate Midwest AI Startups Inception-stage startups to receive Microsoft for Startups’ technical and go-to-market support, up to $350K in Startup credits on eligible services, and AI model access; benefits from the NVIDIA Inception program for...
Technology AI Pipeline For Predicting Oral Cancer Progression An AI-driven system analyzes histopathology images of oral lesions using deep learning, self-supervised learning, and attention methods to predict cancer progression risk with explainable and uncertainty-quantified outputs that inform treatment…
Technology PMO-Based RNA-Degrading Chimeras For Targeted Degradation Of α-Synuclein mRNA In Neurodegenerative Diseases Phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomer (PMO)-based RNA-degrading chimeras reduce α-synuclein protein by degrading its messenger RNA preventing protein aggregation and propagation associated with neurodegenerative diseases. The Unmet Need: More potent and selective…
Technology SCALES: A System For Predicting Interaction And Function In Bacteria Using Co-Variation The current understanding of how proteins interact to create collective functional groups (e.g., complexes, pathways, meta-pathways) is incomplete and difficult to elucidate. Therefore, the current methods used to characterize/identify the…
Technology Granulobot: a modular and morphable robotic platform The development of autonomous and efficient agents that can adapt to a variety of environments and perform different functions by reconfiguring their body is one of the frontiers in the…
News The Polsky Center Announces the Inaugural AI Research Commons Midwest Fellows Program Cohort The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation today announced the inaugural cohort of startups selected to participate in the AI Research Commons (ARC) Midwest Fellows Program, a highly selective initiative designed...
News 40 Startups to Present at Midwest Deep Tech Demo Day in San Francisco The inaugural Deep Tech Demo Day in 2025, held at Pear VC in San Francisco. The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation today announced the 40 startups from leading Midwest...
News Kompass Diagnostics Points the Way to Better Fertility Care with Novel Finger-Prick Hormone Testing [Update: Since this article was published, Kompass Diagnostics was selected to receive the 2026 Association for Diagnostics and Laboratory Medicine (ADLM) Disruptive Technology Award. The team also took home the...
Event Polsky Exchange Member Breakfast: Arts and Entertainment September 23, 2026 This month’s Exchange member breakfast brings together a community of entrepreneurs and innovators in the arts and entertainment industry for an exchange of ideas, networking, and collaboration. Connect with fellow...
