News Supply Chain Software Startup Takes First Place at 2024 Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge as Judges Award Record-Breaking $1.9M in Total Investments FreshX, a startup developing a supply chain software that helps food companies and freight brokers easily book and manage cold chain transportation and storage, has won first place in the...
News NVC Alum elphi Closes Funding Round and Announces Advisory Board Less than a year after launching its software, elphi has closed a funding round and formed an advisory board of mortgage industry veterans as it looks to being a new,...
Technology A Method for Fast Adapting Similarity Searches Based on Variance Aware Quantization With the explosive growth of high-dimensional data, approximate methods emerge as promising solutions for searching for similar data pairs. Quantization methods have gained prominence due to their low storage costs…
News Meet the Inaugural Alchemist Chicago Cohort Alchemist Accelerator and the University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation are thrilled to announce the inaugural cohort of Alchemist Chicago. Alchemist Chicago Cohort 1 is made up...
News ‘The ETA Model Works’: Booth Alum, Professor Talk ‘Grand Slam’ Investment and Their Path to Success University of Chicago Booth School of Business alum, Shamus Hines, MBA ‘15, and Steve Morrissette, a visiting professor of business administration at Booth, first met in 2013 when Hines was...
Team Benjamin Cox, PhD Senior Manager, Intellectual Property | Medical Device Engineer Senior Manager, Intellectual Property | Medical Device Engineer
News Five Chicago Booth Students Honored with Entrepreneurship Awards Chicago Booth School of Business recently recognized five outstanding MBA students who demonstrated leadership in entrepreneurship, venture capital, or private equity during their time at school. The annual Student Entrepreneurship...
News Polsky Center and Chicago Booth Private Equity Group Host 25th Annual PE Conference Investors, students, and industry leaders gathered last week for the 25th Annual Chicago Booth Private Equity Conference, a day-long event exploring the evolving dynamics of private equity investing and value...
Page Student Groups The entrepreneurial ecosystem at the University of Chicago is extremely diverse and that is evident by the long list of student groups representing multiple areas of study, interests, and disciplines....
Program Elfman-Wareham Private Equity and Venture Capital Lab (PE/VC Lab) Gain hands-on investing experience through internships, coursework, and mentorship with leading PE and VC firms.
News UChicago-supported Startup, SnapGene, Takes Next Step with Acquisition Announcement SnapGene, a leading molecular biology software company based in Hyde Park, which announced it has been acquired by Insightful Science.
News Clinical Trials Software Startup Takes First Place at 2024 Alumni New Venture Challenge Finals Four startups received investment at the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation’s 2024 Alumni New Venture Challenge (ANVC) finals. The ANVC, which launched in 2019, is the alumni track of...
