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....
Event Beverage Tasting and Innovation & Brand Transformation Talk with Greg Hughes, President and CEO of Suntory Global Spirits April 16, 2025 Join us for an exclusive evening of innovation with Greg Hughes, president and CEO of Suntory Global Spirits. Hosted by the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the Kilts...
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 10 Small Businesses Graduate from Polsky Center’s Small Business Growth Program Last month at the Polsky Exchange, mentors, sponsors, and participants gathered to celebrate the graduation of the latest cohort of the Polsky Center’s Small Business Growth Program (SBG). Over the...
News Five Chicago Booth Students Honored with Entrepreneurship Awards Chicago Booth School of Business recently recognized five outstanding MBA students who demonstrated leadership in entrepreneurship, venture capital, or private equity during their time at school. The annual Student Entrepreneurship...
News Record $1.6 Million Awarded in the 25th Anniversary Finals of Chicago Booth’s New Venture Challenge; First-Place Winner Andes STR Lands More Than $660,000 The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University if Chicago has announced a record-breaking investment of $1.6 million in the winners of the 2021 Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New...
News Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge Investment Pool Swells to $1.73 Million After Additional Funding Rolls In; First-Place Winner Andes STR Gets $681,000 The record investment pool in the 25th annual Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge (NVC) jumped to $1.73 million this week after investors put additional money into the finalist...
News 2020 NVC Finals Awards Record $1 Million Investment for Student Startups, Pippin Title Named Winner The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation has announced winners of the 24th annual Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge (NVC), which awarded a record $1 million to 11 student-run startups....
News Polsky Accepts Record-Breaking 20 Teams for Summer Accelerator Program The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation has accepted 20 teams, the most ever, for its Polsky Accelerator, a 10-week intensive summer program designed for both for-profit and not-for-profit ventures....
News Duality Quantum Accelerator Announces First Corporate Supporters Duality, the nation’s first accelerator focused exclusively on supporting quantum science and technology companies, has announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is among its first corporate supporters, along with Caruso Ventures, Lathrop GPM LLP, McDonnell Boehnen...
News Autonoma: Making Modernizing Legacy Code Easy Autonoma is a participant in Cohort 3 of Transform, a data science and AI startup accelerator powered by Deep Tech Ventures at the University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for...
