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...
Event Driving Growth: A Speaker Series on Operating in a PE/ETA Context April 18, 2023 Join the Polsky Center as we explore topics on operating and CXO within private equity and entrepreneurship through acquisition. The first lecture in the Driving Growth Speaker Series will feature...
News Polsky Center Teams Up with $15 Million Great Lakes Innovation Hub to Catalyze Innovation in the Midwest The University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation has joined the Great Lakes Innovation Corps Hub, which was established by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support innovation...
News NanoPattern Receives $1 Million NSF Grant: ‘A Validation of Our Vision,’ Says Cofounder NanoPattern Technologies recently received a $999,428 grant from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant program. Cofounded by Dmitri Talapin, Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service...
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 Foxtrot Announces $100 Million Series C Funding; UChicago Ups Investment in the NVC Alum Foxtrot on Tuesday announced $100 million in new funding and plans to open 50 stores over the next two years, a huge expansion for the Chicago Booth-born startup as it...
News NanoPattern Closes $1.5M Seed Round to Scale Quantum Dot Ink Production NanoPattern Technologies has raised $1.5 million in a seed round to scale its photopatternable quantum dot ink, which enables the commercialization of next-generation displays. Cofounded by Yu Kambe, PhD ’19,...
Event Fireside Chat featuring David Shapiro, MBA ’89, KPS Capital Partners October 23, 2025 Join us for a fireside chat featuring David Shapiro, MBA ’89, Cofounder and Managing Partner, KPS Capital Partners. This conversation will be moderated by Steve Kaplan, Neubauer Family Distinguished Service...
News Hands-on Financial Literacy Program Looks to Encourage Growth Beyond the Classroom In an era where high school-aged students are susceptible to facing some of life’s most difficult financial decisions, researchers at the University of Chicago and the Magnetar Capital Foundation have...
News Small Business Spotlight: Larry’s Barber College Stays a Cut Above With New Walmart Shop Angela Harvey had never cut hair before she enrolled in Larry’s Barber College. Her first time wielding clippers, after months of classroom instruction, “I was shaking like a leaf,” she...
News If You’re Serious About Creating Value for Your Business, This is the Mindset You Need The following article was written by Duane Jackson, investor-in-residence at the Polsky Center and founder and managing partner at Author Capital Partners, and Nick Brand, partner at Author Capital Partners,...
