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 Polsky Center and Chicago Booth Private Equity Group Host 25th Annual PE Conference Investors, students, and industry leaders gathered last week for the 25th Annual Chicago Booth Private Equity Conference, a day-long event exploring the evolving dynamics of private equity investing and value...
Technology Granulobot: a modular and morphable robotic platform The development of autonomous and efficient agents that can adapt to a variety of environments and perform different functions by reconfiguring their body is one of the frontiers in the…
News Shape-Shifting Robot Swarms Self-Assemble, Adapt to the Unfamiliar A new robotic platform developed at the University of Chicago can adapt to its surroundings in real time for applications in unfamiliar environments. The platform, dubbed the Granulobot, consists of...
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 Polsky Supports 13 Teams in Spring Quarter I-Corps Cohort The Polsky Center ran its National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported I-Corps program virtually during the Spring quarter and accepted the largest number of teams of any cohort managed to-date. Polsky supported...
News 40 Startups to Present at Midwest Deep Tech Demo Day in San Francisco The inaugural Deep Tech Demo Day in 2025, held at Pear VC in San Francisco. The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation today announced the 40 startups from leading Midwest...
News PE Conference Highlights the Investment Thesis Evolution On March 6, the Polsky Center, together with the Private Equity student group at Chicago Booth, hosted the 19th annual Beecken Petty O’Keefe & Company Private Equity Conference. This event...
News Incorporation/Organization Day Helps Local Entrepreneurs Form Legal Business Entities The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation recently hosted Incorporation/Organization Day, a first-of-its-kind event in Chicago that connected West and South Side entrepreneurs with attorneys from local law firms to...
Technology Embedding-Space Harmonization for Robust Foundation Model Deployment University of Chicago researchers have developed FEATMAP, a computational framework that improves the reliability and interoperability of foundation-model embeddings by reducing unwanted technical or domain-specific signatures. This technology enables more…
News Zenblen’s Smooth Rise from Office Blender to Robotic Smoothie Bar As a college athlete at the University of Chicago, Tom Zhang always made health and wellness a priority. A track and field runner who later competed in triathlons, he became...
News New Biopharma Manufacturing Company Founded by Booth Alum Robert Nelsen Raises $800 Million RESILIENCE (National Resilience, Inc.) is a new company founded by University of Chicago Booth School of Business alum Robert Nelsen, MBA ’87 – with a commitment to tackling some of...
