News Fireside Chat: Booth Alums Rattan L. Khosa and Son Neel Discuss Bootstrapping, Running a Family Business, and Weathering COVID-19 Growing up in the family business, Neel Khosa, MBA ’07, sometimes felt that the company his father founded was his “little brother.” “I had a bit of a sibling rivalry...
Program Rattan L. Khosa Student Entrepreneurs Program Hear from entrepreneurs and investors sharing lessons on startup growth, leadership, and venture creation.
News Small Business Spotlight: OjaExpress, Designed By and For Immigrants, Brings Same-Day Delivery to Ethnic Grocery Stores When Boyede Sobitan worked as a healthcare consultant, traveling four or five days out of every week, his return home to Chicago was often met with a request from his...
Program Rattan L. Khosa SeedCon Hear from entrepreneurs and investors sharing lessons on startup growth, leadership, and venture creation.
News Tanda Biotech: Revolutionizing Bioproduction for a Sustainable Future Tanda Biotech is a participant in cohort 2 of Resurgence, a cleantech accelerator led by the University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in partnership with the Pritzker...
News Same-Day Ethnic Grocery Delivery Provider OjaExpress Connects People with Food, Each Other Boyede Sobitan is the CEO and co-founder of OjaExpress, the same-day ethnic grocery delivery platform. Sobitan and his co-founder, Fola Dada, are first- and second-generation Nigerian immigrants. Their difficulty in...
News Rattan L. Khosa Took a Risk to Build Something New and Now Helps NVC Founders Do the Same Rattan L. Khosa speaks to the students at SeedCon 2025. As part of the NVC@30 celebration, Rattan L. Khosa, ’79, reflected on his entrepreneurial journey, his connection to Booth, and...
Technology Reversible Gene Editing System For Site-Specific Large DNA Integration And Excision The Unmet Need: Methods for efficient, reversible integration and excision of large DNA Genome engineering is a rapidly advancing field with immense potential for synthetic biology and gene therapy. The…
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...
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 1 Episode 1: The Story of NVC April 15, 2021 When it launched 25 years ago, the University of Chicago’s New Venture Challenge (NVC) was a pioneer in helping business school...
News Polsky Announces Finalists for the 2021 Alumni New Venture Challenge The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is pleased to announce the finalists of the 2021 Alumni New Venture Challenge (ANVC), a global program dedicated to supporting all University of...
News Chicago’s Rumi Spice is Heading Into the Shark Tank Another Chicago startup is set to make an appearance on Shark Tank, the second showing for a Windy City tech company in less than a month. Rumi Spice, a startup that sources...
