News Phase II Teams Selected for the College New Venture Challenge The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business has officially announced the 10 teams moving on to phase II of the 2017-18...
News Eric Isaacs named as 2017 National Academy of Inventors Fellow Eric D. Isaacs, executive vice president for research, innovation and national laboratories at the University of Chicago has been named as a 2017 fellow of the National Academy of Inventors...
News UChicago Food Allergy Startup Raises $3.5 Million Bunning Food Allergy Professor Cathy Nagler had been researching the physiological origins of food allergy and potential treatments for over 30 years without ever considering the possibility of translating that...
News 2018 SNVC Phase II Teams Announced The Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation has announced the 17 teams advancing to the semifinals of the 2018 John Edwardson, ’72, Social New Venture Challenge (SNVC). The SNVC is...
News Quevos, a High-protein Snack Chip, Wins $15,000 at College New Venture Challenge The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago is pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 College New Venture Challenge (CNVC). The CNVC is the...
News 2018 Spring Cohort Finalists Selected for the UChicago Innovation Fund The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago has announced the five companies moving on to the spring finals of the University of Chicago Innovation Fund....
News 2018 SNVC Finalists Announced The Rustandy Center and Polsky Center are pleased to announce the 7 teams advancing to the finals of the 2018 John Edwardson, ’72, Social New Venture Challenge (SNVC). The SNVC is...
News Providers Aim to Build Engagement Tools that Actually Work NowPow, a Polsky Incubator company founded by UChicago’s Dr. Stacy Lindau, highlights partnership with Rush Medical Center to provide community-based resources for patients. Read the full article >>
News Polsky Center Announces 2018 Summer Accelerator Cohort The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is pleased to announce the latest cohort of the Polsky Accelerator, a 10-week intensive summer program designed for both for-profit and not-for-profit startups to...
News How NVC Finalist BrewBike Launched with the Help of Two Top Chicago Universities Conventional wisdom would lead most people to conclude there’s a coffeehouse on every corner, but Randy Paris, MBA ’18 isn’t a conventional thinker.
News nuBorn Medical to Pitch Their Preemie-Saving Technology at the 2018 Fall George Shultz Innovation Fund Finals Chicago researchers are trying to deal with one of the preemies’ most vexing problems: Choking while bottle-feeding.
News Meet Polsky Member of the Month: Kwaku Owusu Polsky member Kwaku Owusu joined the Polsky Center almost a year ago in the Spring of 2018 while building his startup, Ilerasoft.