News The Polsky Center Welcomes the 2025 Market Navigator Cohort The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is welcoming the newest cohort of the Market Navigator program, a 10-week customer discovery and market insight initiative designed to help growth-stage B2C...
News Fireside Chat with Perplexity AI’s Aravind Srinivas Offers Look into the Future of AI Last week the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation welcomed Aravind Srinivas, CEO and cofounder of Perplexity AI, for a fireside chat on the future of artificial intelligence, the acceleration...
News NVC@30 Fireside Chat with David Rabie Spotlights Tovala’s Journey from NVC to a Profitable, 9-Figure Revenue Business The Polsky Center continued its NVC@30 Fireside Chat series with David Rabie, MBA ’15, founder and CEO of Tovala and winner of the 2015 Edward L. Kaplan, ’71 New Venture...
News Midwest Biotech Startup Showcase Brings Next Wave of Innovation to San Francisco More than 35 high-growth biotech startups from across the Midwest gathered in San Francisco this week for the Midwest Biotech Startup Showcase, co-hosted by the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and...
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 Duality Corporate Collision April 1, 2026 Corporate Collision provides an opportunity for corporate partners to discover, connect, and collaborate with some of the nation’s top quantum startups. Select corporations will have the opportunity to present a...
Event Application Deadline: Commercialization Fellows Program March 31, 2026 The Polsky Commercialization Fellowship offers PhD STEM students at the University of Chicago the opportunity to build ventures around promising research while developing leadership skills. This structured, milestone-driven, 8-month program...
Event Application Deadline: Polsky Science and Technology Associates May 15, 2026 The Polsky Science and Technology Associates Program is an opportunity for current University of Chicago PhD students to work with the Polsky Center’s technology and business development teams. Associates will...
Program AI Research Commons Midwest Fellows Program Accelerate AI startups through technical resources, mentorship, investor connections, and commercialization support.
Event Distinguished Entrepreneur Series: Greycroft and Apax Partners Cofounder Alan Patricof February 23, 2023 Join the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago for a Distinguished Entrepreneur Speaker Series Event featuring Apax Partners Founder and Greycroft Cofounder, Alan Patricof, in...
News George Shultz Innovation Fund Awards $250K to Parasol Medtech and Signl The George Shultz Innovation Fund has selected two University of Chicago startups, Parasol Medtech and Signl, for an investment of $250,000 each. This year’s finals marked 15 years of the...
News 8 Students Receive 2026 Polsky Founders’ Fund Fellowships to Work on Their Ventures Full Time The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation announced the eight recipients of the 2026 Polsky Founders’ Fund Fellowship (PF3), a program that supports graduating University of Chicago students who are committed to working full time on their startups.
