News Small Business Spotlight: How Diversity Connected Helps Companies Turn Chaos into Clarity For more than two decades, Sara Gregory has been the head of Diversity Connected, a boutique consulting firm that specializes in operational excellence, project management, event execution, and data analytics....
News Data Shows Chicago Startups Making Progress in Increasing Diversity The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation partnered with Chicago:Blend, an organization dedicated to bringing diversity to the Chicago business sector, to compile data on Chicago’s increasing diversity in startups....
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 8 Episode 8: PrettyQuick June 3, 2021 Coco Meers’ career has centered on helping women look and feel their best. When she caught the entrepreneurship bug and looked for a pain...
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 Tovala Raises $1.6 Million for its Connected Oven, Goes on Sale March 1 In March, Tovala launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund its connected oven and its Blue Apron-like service. Since then, approximately 1,000 ovens have been purchased. This expression of interest has attracted the attention...
News Startups Are Bringing a ‘Fresh Perspective’ to Clinical Trials Several startups supported by the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago are addressing challenges in clinical trials – such as enrollment, workforce development, and patient...
Technology Adaptive Microbial Platform For Gut Health, Biofuel, And Soil Productivity A novel biomaterial platform designed to enhance microbial modulation, featuring tunable chemical, mechanical, and optical responsiveness for applications in health, agriculture, and industry. The Unmet Need: Current clinically deployable materials…
News Chicago Tech Leaders Weigh in on How to Navigate COVID-19 The Executives’ Club of Chicago recently held a conversation discussing what differentiates Chicago as a place to found and grow a company – and the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic...
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 6 Episode 6: Power2Switch May 20, 2021 As a Black founder, Seyi Fabode, MBA ’10, has experienced the challenge of investors taking him seriously. Fabode, an immigrant from Nigeria, recalls an...
News ‘You Start with a Problem and Ambition’: One PhD Student’s Journey to Quantum Startup Founder Like most entrepreneurs, for Shankar Menon, the journey to launching his first company started with a problem and ambition. A quantum science and engineering graduate student at the University of...
News Know Your Worth: Female Investors Provide Advice for Breaking Boundaries How to break boundaries in the investment world? We caught up with two female investors-in-residence to discuss how the industry has evolved, the importance of women supporting women, and their...
News Booth Team Wins Oxford Global Private Equity Challenge for Second Consecutive Year For the second year in a row, a team of Chicago Booth students took the top prize at a global private equity competition, a success the winners credit to the...
