Page Where Are They Now? Episode 3 Episode 3: BenchPrep April 29, 2021 Ashish Rangnekar, MBA ’11, grew up in a sleepy town in India where success looked like a white-collar job, not entrepreneurship. But early on...
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 10 Episode 10: Andes STR June 17, 2021 Growing up in Chile in a family of entrepreneurs, Sebastian Rivas since childhood has been on the lookout for problems that need solving....
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...
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 9 Episode 9: Grubhub June 10, 2021 Matt Maloney admits he had a bit of an ego when he entered the New Venture Challenge. He had already launched Grubhub, had a...
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...
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 7 Episode 7: Braintree May 27, 2021 Growing up in a small, religious town in Utah, Bryan Johnson felt he existed in a video game where the rules were all mapped...
News Health Diagnostics 2021: ‘Everything Has Changed’ The annual Entrepreneurial Outlook series continued last week with a discussion about health diagnostics and the state of the industry in 2021. The discussion was moderated by Christine Karslake, MBA...
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 StepStone Cofounder and Booth Alum Tom Keck Talks Investment Trends, Industry Evolution Cofounded by University of Chicago Booth School of Business alumnus, Tom Keck, MBA ’97, the StepStone Group is a global private markets investment firm that last year went public with...
News Negotiating in Times of Change In the wake of Coronavirus, the Polsky Center has organized its first virtual Small Business Bootcamp in the hopes of helping small business owners and entrepreneurs navigate these difficult and...
News Cancer’s Achilles’ Heel? UChicago Startup Secures $7 Million to Develop ‘Game-Changer’ Treatments Onchilles Pharma recently closed its Series A funding round, bringing in approximately $7 million, including a $500,000 investment from the University of Chicago’s Startup Investment Fund. Cofounded by UChicago Associate...
