News Mayor Lightfoot Addresses the Future of Chicago During a fireside chat at the Economist’s Innovation Summit 2020, City of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot discussed the future of the city, including the opportunities and challenges to transforming neighborhoods...
News ‘This is What the Future Looks Like’: Celebrating Quantum Innovation in Chicago Last week, World Business Chicago and the Chicago Quantum Exchange (CQE) hosted leading innovators in celebration of Chicago’s quantum and deep tech ecosystem. The event doubled as a ribbon-cutting ceremony...
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...
News Led by mHub, Clean Tech Economy Coalition Secures $500K from the Build Back Better Regional Challenge The 2025 Clean Tech Economic Coalition (CTEC), led by mHUB, a Chicago-based hardtech and manufacturing innovation center, has been recognized by the US Economic Development Administration for its potential to...
News Small Business Spotlight: Cakewalk Chicago Helps Bakers Turn Their Skills into Income For many people who walk into Cakewalk Chicago, a cake is more than something to bring to a party. It is an order to fill, a customer to keep, and...
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 5 Episode 5: Foxtrot May 13, 2021 Foxtrot cofounder and CEO Mike LaVitola, MBA ’14, has become expert at hearing “no.” He was not initially accepted into the New Venture Challenge,...
News CNVC Alum Quevos to Appear on Shark Tank on Jan. 22 at 8 p.m. EST/7 p.m. CST Quevos cofounders, Nick Hamburger and Zack Schreier, will appear on ABC’s entrepreneurial reality show, Shark Tank, this Friday, January 22 at 8:00 p.m. EST. In the pre-taped episode, the cofounders...
News Eight Graduating Students Receive Polsky Founders’ Fund Fellowships to Work On Their Ventures Full-Time The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is pleased to announce the eight recipients of the 2023 Polsky Founders’ Fund Fellowship (PF3), a program that provides funding to graduating UChicago...
News Rattan L. Khosa SeedCon 2026: Beyond the Hype Last week, the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Chicago Booth’s Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital (EVC) Group hosted the Rattan L. Khosa SeedCon 2026, the University of Chicago’s flagship...
News The Polsky Center Welcomes the 2026 Market Navigator Cohort The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is welcoming the newest cohort of the Market Navigator program.
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