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Where Are They Now? Beacon Takes Aim at Eliminating Airborne Transmission

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New Money: InContext Solutions Raises $15M to Bring Virtual Reality to Retail
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NVC Alums Rise Interactive and InContext Solutions make the Inc.'s 5000 2016 List for Fastest Growing Companies
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ExplORer Surgical, Chicago-based Health Tech Startup, Raises $1 Million
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New Money: InContext Solutions Raises $15M to Bring Virtual Reality to Retail

InContext Solutions has raised $15.2 million in equity funding, according to an SEC filing. Founded in 2009, InContext uses virtual reality to help retailers simulate real in-store shopping situations in…

NVC Alums Rise Interactive and InContext Solutions make the Inc.’s 5000 2016 List for Fastest Growing Companies

Inc. Magazine published their annual list of the fastest-growing private companies in America, which is based off of a company’s percentage revenue growth from 2012 to 2015. The list includes…

ExplORer Surgical, Chicago-based Health Tech Startup, Raises $1 Million

Explorer Surgical, which aims to be an interactive playbook for surgeons and staff, has raised a $1 million to bring it a step closer to use in operating rooms. Read…

Research from Steven N. Kaplan: The Most Important Personality Trait for CEOs

If you’ve ever waded into the business section of a Barnes & Noble or gotten “thinkfluenced” by any number of LinkedIn influencers, you may have become aware of the fact…

Want to Found a Venture-Backed Startup? Go to These Illinois Schools

If you want to create a venture-backed company, recent data suggests attending University of Chicago, Northwestern University or University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign could boost your odds. Read more.

Melissa Harris Joins U of C’s Entrepreneurship Center

Melissa Harris, the former Chicago Tribune columnist who wrote about innovators and innovation, is now helping promote that work. Read more.

8 Fall Internships That Can Help You Break into Chicago’s Tech and Startup Worlds

College and university students will be heading back to school in the coming weeks, but it's not too late to line up an amazing internship opportunity at one of Chicago's…

AbbVie, University of Chicago Collaborate to Advance Cancer Research

The University of Chicago and AbbVie, a global biopharmaceutical company, have entered into a five-year collaboration agreement designed to improve the pace of discovery and advance medical research in oncology…

New Gift from Michael Polsky Creates Expanded Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

$50 million commitment establishes premier entrepreneurship and innovation center at UChicago. Read more.

New Chief Marketing Officer Takes Strategic View

While Divya Varshney attended the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, earning her master's of business administration in 1999, she was not even aware of UChicagoTech. Recently named…

University Spinoff Puts Research Results into Practice

One year ago, as the University of Chicago’s first not-for-profit spinoff, UChicago Impact was conducting just one pilot project in Michigan City, Indiana. Today it has sold its educational tools…

Ice Slurry Research Pays Off for a Cleaner Environment

“Twenty years ago, Argonne and the DOE must have had a crystal ball to develop an environmentally friendly refrigeration system that could meet today’s urgent demand for ‘green’ technologies,” says…
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