News How Rayni Turned Scientific Frustration Into a Victory at the 2025 New Venture Challenge Sakshi Nag came to Booth with a clear goal: start a company that helped scientists. “I worked in the controls department at Fermilab, writing software for particle accelerators,” said Nag,...
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 3 Episode 3: BenchPrep April 29, 2021 Ashish Rangnekar, MBA ’11, grew up in a sleepy town in India where success looked like a white-collar job, not entrepreneurship. But early on...
News Tribetayling and Pronto Advance to GNVC Finals On January 29, MBA teams competed at the semi-finals of the 2017 Global New Venture Challenge (GNVC) in Chicago. Waverly Deutsch, clinical professor of entrepreneurship at Chicago Booth and the...
News FuSure and Project Gardener Advance to GNVC Finals On February 11, five MBA teams competed at the semi-finals of the 2017 Global New Venture Challenge (GNVC) in Hong Kong, China. Waverly Deutsch, clinical professor of entrepreneurship at Chicago...
News KinderMate, TAINA, and Tusome! Advance to GNVC Finals On February 25, MBA teams competed at the semi-finals of the 2017 Global New Venture Challenge (GNVC) in London, England. Waverly Deutsch, clinical professor of entrepreneurship at Chicago Booth and...
Program Chicago Booth and Polsky Center Private Equity Council Members The Booth Polsky Private Equity Council is comprised of some of the world’s leading private equity investors who provide ongoing guidance and support to the Polsky Center’s Svider Private Equity...
News UChicago Docs Develop Content for New Web App for Physicians Three UChicago physicians (left to right) Adam Cifu, MD, Scott Stern, MD, and Diane Altkorn, MD, developed the content for a new Web app diagnosis tool licensed by startup Agile...
News Quevos, the ‘Better for You’ Chip, Expands in the Snack Aisle Nick Hamburger and his company, Quevos – a low-carb, high-protein egg white chip brand – are taking the world by storm. The idea arose from Hamburger’s original business partner and...
News Climate Neutral Certified, Open Water Eyes Retail Space for Aluminum Canned Water In 2009, Nicole Doucet, MBA ’16, and Jess Page watched a documentary on ocean pollution that inspired them to co-found Open Water (previously Green Sheep Water), the first bottled water company...
News NIH Funds Preclinical Testing of Proposed Anti-COVID Therapy Patented By UChicago Researcher University of Chicago researcher Raphael Lee, MD, ScD, the Paul and Allene Russell Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Surgery and Medicine, has patented the methods and use of...
Program UChicago Private Markets Program Explore careers in private markets through workshops, theory, case studies, and networking opportunities.
News Rattan L. Khosa SeedCon 2024: Innovating Amongst Giants in a Down Economy Last week, the Polsky Center and Chicago Booth’s Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital (EVC) Group co-hosted Rattan L. Khosa SeedCon 2024, Booth’s annual flagship entrepreneurship and venture capital conference. Through keynote...
