News Taking Portable Sinks to New Heights: How This Couple is Building a Thriving Family Business Through ETA For Ray Chery and his wife Dana, entrepreneurship has always been in their DNA. Both grew up in families where business ownership was a way of life—Ray in a Haitian...
News Will the “Golden Age” of Tech Investment Last? Three Venture Capitalists Dive In During a Conversation Moderated by the Polsky Center’s Steve Kaplan By all measures, 2021 has been a banner year for tech investment and returns. And money increasingly is flowing into markets like Chicago, thanks in part to a remote business...
News Chicago Booth Professor Steve Kaplan, a Top Private Equity and Finance Scholar, to Lead Executives’ Club of Chicago Tech Outlook with Prominent Entrepreneurs and Investors On November 20, The Executives’ Club of Chicago will present their Tech Outlook event, led by Neubauer Family Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago...
News Reflexion Holds a Mirror Up To Disease Reflexion Pharmaceuticals is an eclectic startup. In developing a novel process for making more effective protein therapeutics, it has employed University of Chicago expertise in chemical protein synthesis licensed protein-screening...
News A.M. Money Gets Google Grant and Expands Financial Support Services for Students Daniel Rogers graduated from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business with his MBA in 2013. He then worked in the finance and technology sectors. “[I] got to a...
Event Deep Tech Ventures (DTV): Corporate Collision April 9, 2024 Deep Tech Ventures Corporate Collision provides a unique opportunity for companies to discover, connect and collaborate with some of the nation’s top quantum, data science & AI, and cleantech startups....
News ‘Corporate Collision’ Sparks New Connections and Industry Collaboration The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation last week brought together industry leaders to discover, connect, and collaborate with some of the nation’s top startups. “The Polsky Center has a...
News 11th Annual Booth-Kellogg ETA Conference Hosts Record Number of Attendees Earlier this month, the Polsky Center, ETA Group at Chicago Booth, and Northwestern Kellogg Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative hosted the annual Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition Conference. The eleventh iteration of the...
Program Collaboratorium Showcase your research, technology, or ideas and develop a better understanding of the next steps to pursue a business opportunity.
News Meet Polsky Member of the Month: Christine Saffold Polsky Member Christine Saffold represents everything that makes the Polsky Exchange, as well as the South Side community as a whole, so strong.
News Building a Platform to Fight Disease Chances are you’ve never heard of lymphangioleiomyomatosis, a rare lung disease that mostly affects women in their thirties and forties. With this disease, which is also called LAM, patients get...
