News NVC@30 Fireside Chat with 2017 Winner Kyle Swinsky Explores the Journey from Startup to Scale The Polsky Center continued its NVC@30 Fireside Chat series with Kyle Swinsky, MBA ’19, cofounder of AMOpportunities and winner of the 2017 Edward L. Kaplan, ’71 New Venture Challenge (NVC)....
News NIH Funds Preclinical Testing of Proposed Anti-COVID Therapy Patented By UChicago Researcher University of Chicago researcher Raphael Lee, MD, ScD, the Paul and Allene Russell Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Surgery and Medicine, has patented the methods and use of...
News Global Private Equity Challenge Winner Announced They came, they saw, and, they conquered. For the second year in a row, Chicago Booth was awarded first place of the Oxford Chicago Global Private Equity Challenge for their...
News nuBorn Medical to Pitch Their Preemie-Saving Technology at the 2018 Fall George Shultz Innovation Fund Finals Chicago researchers are trying to deal with one of the preemies’ most vexing problems: Choking while bottle-feeding.
News George Shultz Innovation Fund Invests $600,000 in Biotech Companies The Fall Finals took place on Thursday, December 6.
News AMOpportunities Becomes the Fifth Venture Investment Through the UChicago Startup Investment Program A University program dedicated to investing in startups that are raising Series A funding.
News Polsky Center Names 13 Companies Participating in the 2019 Summer Accelerator Program The latest cohort of the Polsky Accelerator, a 10-week intensive summer program designed for both for-profit and not-for-profit startups, is announced.
News Debate it Forward Takes Home Top Prize and $60,000 at the 2019 John Edwardson, ’72, Social New Venture Challenge Finals Winners of the ninth annual SNVC received a total of $140,000 in venture funding, the most prize money ever awarded at the startup competition.
News Digital Adventures Wins ‘Crowd Favorite’ at the 2019 Polsky Accelerator Demo Day For the past 10 weeks, 13 companies have participated in the 2019 Polsky Accelerator program. The annual program is designed for both for-profit and not-for-profit startups to develop their ventures....
News Startup Spotlight: Memento Memento founder Chelsie Patterson caught up with the Polsky Center and talk about Memento’s future, favorite Polsky moments, and more.
News AMOpportunities Launched to Help International Medical Students Secure U.S. Clinical Training Slots. Now it is Focused on Creating More Slots to Tackle a Global Physician Shortage. Dr. Romeen Lavani, chief medical officer at St. Anthony Hospital in Chicago, was skeptical when AMOpportunities first approached him about bringing international medical students to the hospital for clinical training....
