News UChicago Deep Tech Demo Day to Spotlight 22 Emerging Ventures During TechChicago Week The event will showcase next-generation deep tech ventures working across quantum and hardtech, healthcare, and data and AI.
Page 2016-2017 I-Corps Teams Autumn 2016 Clarix Imaging Corporation: develops compact medical imaging devices and software for improving surgical oncology outcomes and reducing cost. ClostraBio,Inc.: a biopharma company developing therapeutics for food allergies. The company will...
News DeepTechU Day 2: Industry Insights, Platform Tech Potential, and Advice for Attracting VC Funding Day two of the DeepTechU conference saw top executives discuss how deep tech innovation is transforming industries and featured a panel discussion between founders and investors who talked through the...
News Phase II Teams Selected for the 17th Annual Global New Venture Challenge 22 teams from across the world are advancing to Phase II of the Polsky Center’s 2024 Global New Venture Challenge (GNVC). The GNVC is the global track of the...
News 22 Teams From Across Campus Explore Commercial Potential of New Ideas More than 20 teams participated in the Polsky Center I-Corps program this academic year – all with new research and ideas addressing challenges across various industries. The goal of the...
News Legion Space: Making Satellite Operations Smarter and More Efficient Legion Space is a participant in Cohort 4 of Transform, a data science and AI startup accelerator powered at the University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Innovation...
News 26 Teams Advance to Classroom Portion of the 2026 Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge Today, the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation announced the 26 teams advancing to the classroom portion of the 2026 Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge (NVC), the University...
News Shark Tank Veteran LuminAID Launches Kickstarter Campaign for New Product LuminAID, the Chicago company that found success on “Shark Tank” two years ago, is turning to Kickstarter to fund the launch of its latest product. Co-founders Anna Stork ⇒ and Andrea...
News Water No Match for New Self-Healing Sticky Gel Scientists can now manufacture a synthetic version of the self-healing sticky substance that mussels use to anchor themselves to rocks in pounding ocean surf and surging tidal basins. A patent...
News Building on University of Chicago Connections Rifat Pamukcu, MD, has been greatly influenced by his work at the University of Chicago. While he was a Fellow in Digestive Diseases at the Pritzker School of Medicine, one...
News Crystallizing the Problem Cory Gerdts, PhD, is glad he was a part of Rustem Ismagilov’s lab in 2003, although sometimes he had to spend extra time thinking about one of his professor’s requirements....
News Coming Clean in Chicago The energy was palpable: Solar, wind and battery. Ideas, vigor and power. Sponsored by the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship at Chicago Booth, the new Chicago-based Clean Energy Trust and Arete, the fourth annual Midwest Energy...
