News Industry Experts Give Biomarker Researchers a ‘Reality Check’ Eileen Dolan, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Chair of Committee on Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacogenomics at the University of Chicago, says she learned a lot at the Translation Event covering...
News Phase II Teams Selected for the Social New Venture Challenge The Social Enterprise Initiative has announced the 14 teams accepted into phase II of the 2017 John Edwardson, ’72, Social New Venture Challenge (SNVC). The SNVC is the social impact...
News Origin Ventures Raises $80 Million to Lead Investments Startups Origin Ventures, an 18-year-old venture capital firm based in Chicago, has closed an $80 million fund, it announced Thursday. This is the Series A-stage firm’s fourth fund and its largest yet,...
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...
News Booth ETA Hopefuls Pitch at the Third Annual Search Fund Summit “This is why I believe I will be a good CEO and partner, and why I think you should invest in my fund.” You don’t often hear phrases like this...
News Thanks to Grubhub, You Can Now Order Food on TripAdvisor After having inked a series of deals with different hotels, TripAdvisor signed its first partnership with a food delivery service. The Needham, Ma.-based travel company announced on Monday an agreement...
News Americas Online Alternative Finance Market Grows to $35 Billion in 2016 CHICAGO (May 25, 2017) – The alternative finance market continued to grow across the United States (US), Canada and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in 2016 to a total...
News Innovation Fund Invests $500,000 in Microbiome Research and Energy Companies The University of Chicago Innovation Fund announced plans to invest up to $500,000 into three companies—AVNovum, ClostraBio, and SwitchedSource—that are working in the health and energy fields, respectively. These latest...
News In Era of Research Cuts, Romance Blossoming Much Earlier Between Universities and Big Pharma Engineering new pharmaceuticals is risky, achingly slow and astronomically expensive. While the estimates of how much it costs to get a drug into patients’ hands vary and are often disputed,...
Program Rattan L. Khosa SeedCon Hear from entrepreneurs and investors sharing lessons on startup growth, leadership, and venture creation.
Program Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) Experience the venture capital process firsthand through the world’s largest venture capital investment competition.
Program College New Venture Challenge (CNVC) Launch your startup as an undergraduate with mentorship, guidance, and hands-on support to build, test, and refine your idea.
