Page Polsky Council The Polsky Council comprises many of the country’s leading entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and private equity investors, who provide ongoing guidance and support to the Polsky Center.
News Transform Accelerator for Data Science & Emerging AI Startups Launches New Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation program provides support to early-stage companies built on data science and AI technologies; applications are now extended to January 25th. The University of...
News Polsky Announces 10 Teams in the Winter 2021 I-Corps Cohort The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is pleased to announce the participation of 10 teams in the winter 2021 I-Corps cohort. Open to other Chicago-area institutions, the Polsky I-Corps...
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...
News UChicago to Partner in $25 Million National Science Foundation Quantum Information Institute The National Science Foundation established the new Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Hybrid Quantum Architectures and Networks (HQAN) with a $25M, five-year grant. The HQAN includes University of Illinois at...
News Sizing Up a Startup? Check Out the Founder The following article was written by Ale Breuer, adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and originally published in Crain’s Chicago Business on December...
News Winter Collaboratorium to Feature Research from Across the Data Science Institute, Biological Sciences Division, and Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering The Collaboratorium unites University of Chicago students with researchers and faculty who are exploring commercialization opportunities for their work. The program provides the opportunity for scientists and researchers who want...
News UChicago, Duality Teams to Pitch at 2021 Chicago Venture Summit Several teams from the University of Chicago and Duality – the world’s first accelerator focused exclusively on quantum technologies – pitched at the 2021 Chicago Venture Summit. The venture capital...
News For Founders, Venture Capital is a Trade-off, Not a Triumph The following article was written by Chris Sell, cofounder of GrowthLoop and entrepreneur-in-residence at the Polsky Center, and originally published in Crain’s Chicago Business on March 23, 2026. For first-time founders, raising...
News Duchossois Family Donates $100 Million for New U of C Wellness Institute Chicago investor Craig Duchossois, his wife, Janet, and his family foundation have donated $100 million to University of Chicago Medicine to establish a center focused on developing the science of...
News Spotlight on Biopharma Fellowships: AbbVie and Keck Graduate Institute Launch PharmD Fellowship Program
News Transform Accelerator Announces Data Science and AI Startups Selected for Cohort 2 The University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Data Science Institute today announced the seven early-stage companies accepted into the second cohort of its Transform accelerator for data science and AI startups. Housed...
