News Chicago Booth-Led Startup Punchh Closes $40 Million Series C Round Marketing platform Punchh just closed a $40 million series C round. Founded in 2010 by Shyam Rao, MBA ’08, and Sastry Penumarthy, MBA ’00, Punchh has grown from an online...
News Phase II Teams Selected for the New Venture Challenge The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business has officially announced the 30 teams moving on to the next phase of the...
News 22 Teams From Across Campus Explore Commercial Potential of New Ideas More than 20 teams participated in the Polsky Center I-Corps program this academic year – all with new research and ideas addressing challenges across various industries. The goal of the...
Technology Engineered Mutator tRNAs For Correcting Missense Genetic Defects And Inducing Cancer Cell Death Engineered tRNAs with altered anticodons and chemical modifications deliver the correct amino acid at mutated codons to restore protein function in genetic diseases or induce lethal mistranslation in cancer cells,…
News The University of Chicago and the Grainger College Of Engineering Partner to Expand Undergraduate Track of UChicago’s Accelerator Program The College New Venture Challenge is expanding to partner with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
News Finalists Announced for the University of Chicago’s College New Venture Challenge Finals The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago has officially announced the seven teams moving on to finals of the 2020 College New Venture Challenge (CNVC). The CNVC is...
News Subli, a peer-to-peer subletting marketplace, wins $25,000 at the 2020 College New Venture Challenge The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago is pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 College New Venture Challenge (CNVC). The CNVC is the College track of...
News Phase II Teams Selected for the 16th Annual Global New Venture Challenge From Chicago, Singapore, and London, 19 teams are advancing to Phase II of the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation’s 2023 Global New Venture Challenge (GNVC). The GNVC is the...
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News Polsky Center Announces Spring 2019 I-Corps Program Cohort The Polsky Center has announced the latest cohort of the Polsky I-Corps program.
News From Idea to Impact // February 2019 The George Shultz Innovation Fund awards $600K, Tao Pan develops tRNA sequencing technique, Thomas Gajewski talks immunotherapy treatments, and Bozhi Tian to create new kind of pacemaker.
News UChicago Startup 4SR Biosciences Selected to Participate in Illumina Accelerator A University of Chicago startup, 4SR Biosciences participated in the Polsky Center’s Compass Deep Tech Accelerator Program and is now set to participate in the prestigious Illumina Accelerator. “The Compass...