News Energy Tech Leaders Take to the National Stage at DOE Pitch Competition >> UPDATE: Team Rise Reforming from the University of Chicago took First Place at the event and was awarded $50,000. Since this article originally ran, Rise Reforming has switched its...
News Exactics Wins 2025 College New Venture Challenge, Securing $115K for Innovative Rapid Diagnostic The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and The Grainger College of Engineering announces Exactics as the winner of the 13th Annual College New Venture Challenge (CNVC). Exactics, a biotechnology...
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...
News 13th Annual College New Venture Challenge Announces Competing Undergraduate Teams The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, in partnership with the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is pleased to announce the 15 teams selected for...
News 6 Startups Vie for Investment at the 2025 College New Venture Challenge The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and The University of Illinois’ Grainger College of Engineering are pleased to announce the six finalists selected to compete in the College...
Page 2025 Companies Traditional // Rayni ($835,000) Hestus ($350,000) Lumina AI ($250,000) Bera ($220,000) MycoWorks Health ($175,000) Vantage Robotics ($150,000) Clover Labs ($110,000) Veyda ($75,000) Northline Energy ($52,000) Synova ($50,000) College // Exactics...
News NVC Alums Rise Interactive and InContext Solutions make the Inc.’s 5000 2016 List for Fastest Growing Companies Inc. Magazine published their annual list of the fastest-growing private companies in America, which is based off of a company’s percentage revenue growth from 2012 to 2015. The list includes Edward...
News Transform Participant The Dev Difference Wins TechRise Season 5 Kickoff Pitch Competition Cofounded by Jolene Bernagene, Jovanay Carter, and Moyosore Okeremi, The Dev Difference is an AI-powered mock interview platform that helps job seekers prepare for technical interviews through a combination of...
News Chicago Booth MBA Fights Plastic Pollution with her Social Enterprise 1,500 plastic bottles are used in the US every single second. 70% never make it to a recycling bin. Instead, most go to landfills and end up in our oceans....
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...
Event College New Venture Challenge (CNVC) Finals March 7, 2025 Join us for the finals of the 13th Annual College New Venture Challenge (CNVC). Throughout the afternoon, the CNVC finalists will present to a panel of judges comprised of investors,...
News DeepTechU Day 3: Navigating Lab to Launch, Deep Tech Investment, and a Culture Shift Toward Commercialization “The best companies we see have deep venture experience,” said Beckett Jackson, investing director, Boeing HorizonX. But they also have a grand vision about how the technology will become a...
