News Liv Labs Lands SBIR Grant and Spot in Y Combinator as it Develops a Better Tool for Women Experiencing Urinary Incontinence Urinary incontinence is a common ailment among women that often goes unspoken – and therefore untreated. One in four U.S. women, and 40% of women over age 65, experience unwelcome...
News Psyonic Racks Up Accolades as its Bionic Hand Prepares for Nationwide Launch An Illinois startup that has developed a more affordable bionic hand has been racking up accolades as it prepares for the nationwide rollout of its high-tech prosthetic. Psyonic, which this...
News Phase II Teams Selected for the 16th Annual Global New Venture Challenge From Chicago, Singapore, and London, 19 teams are advancing to Phase II of the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation’s 2023 Global New Venture Challenge (GNVC). The GNVC is the...
News Four Startups Advance to Spring 2023 George Shultz Innovation Fund Finals Four startups innovating in the life sciences, energy, healthcare IT, and medical device spaces will each vie for up to $250,000 in co-investment as finalists in the Spring 2023 cohort...
News Where You Fit in Your Business Brand The following article was written by Abigail Ingram, executive director of the Polsky Exchange, and originally published in Crain’s Chicago Business on May 20, 2024. Read the original article. The founder’s...
News For Founders, Venture Capital is a Trade-off, Not a Triumph The following article was written by Chris Sell, cofounder of GrowthLoop and entrepreneur-in-residence at the Polsky Center, and originally published in Crain’s Chicago Business on March 23, 2026. For first-time founders, raising...
Technology Profitable Trading Strategies Devised Through Machine Learning Sentimental analysis for financial forecasting has been impeded by the ultra-high dimensional challenge of numerically representing huge troves of text. Prior efforts circumvented this bottleneck by reusing word scoring devised…
News Phase II Teams Selected for the 2020 New Venture Challenge 31 teams have advanced to the next phase of the 2020 Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge.
News Kin Insurance Closes $35 Million Series B Including Second Investment from UChicago Founded in 2016 by a University of Chicago alum, Kin Insurance today announced a $35 million Series B round with participation from the University of Chicago via its Startup Investment...
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...
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...
News Fem-Health Innovator Yarra Takes First Place Prize of $75,000 at the 16th Annual Global New Venture Challenge The 16th Annual Global New Venture Challenge (GNVC) has awarded first place to Yarra, a fem-health company working to commercialize a new type of menstrual cup that significantly improves women’s...
