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The Polsky Center Welcomes the 2025 Market Navigator Cohort
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The Polsky Center Welcomes the 2025 Market Navigator Cohort
Small Business Spotlight: Tati’s Floral is Bringing Beauty to Chicago’s South Side
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Small Business Spotlight: Tati’s Floral is Bringing Beauty to Chicago’s South Side
Remembering Ed Kaplan: A Legacy of Innovation, Generosity, and Lasting Impact
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Remembering Ed Kaplan: A Legacy of Innovation, Generosity, and Lasting Impact

The Polsky Center Welcomes the 2025 Market Navigator Cohort

The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is welcoming the newest cohort of the Market Navigator program, a 10-week customer discovery and market insight initiative designed to help growth-stage…

Small Business Spotlight: Tati’s Floral is Bringing Beauty to Chicago’s South Side

Tati’s Floral isn’t just a flower shop – it’s a symbol of love for Chicago’s South Side. Born in the middle of the pandemic, it started with a simple…

Remembering Ed Kaplan: A Legacy of Innovation, Generosity, and Lasting Impact

The Polsky Center and the entire University of Chicago community are mourning the loss of Edward Kaplan, MBA ’71, a visionary entrepreneur, generous philanthropist, and beloved member of the University…

8 Students Receive Polsky Founders’ Fund Fellowships to Work on Their Ventures Full Time

The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation announced the eight recipients of the 2025 Polsky Founders’ Fund Fellowship (PF3), a program that provides funding to graduating UChicago students who…

The Missing Piece: Epinoma Advances Novel Disease Detection Tech

An early-stage biotechnology company, Epinoma, has licensed a DNA methylation analysis technology from the University of Chicago as part of its work developing novel tools for early cancer detection and…

Polsky Exchange and Huntington Bank Help Secure Funding for South Side Entrepreneurs

An initiative led by the Polsky Exchange helped South Side entrepreneurs secure critical funding by preparing them to meet the specific criteria banks use to evaluate small business loan applications.…

UChicago Tech Ventures Demo Day Talks Solving Hard Problems, and Solving Them in Chicago

The importance of solving hard problems – and the benefits of solving them in Chicago – was a key theme during the UChicago Tech Ventures Demo Day, which brought…

The University of Chicago Partners with IBM to Strengthen Quantum Computing Startups in Illinois

Today IBM and the University of Chicago announced their intent to offer Duality startups resources and support to develop quantum software and explore algorithms and applications that could help unlock…

The University of Chicago Partners with Bay Area Accelerator to Launch Alchemist Chicago

Alchemist Accelerator, one of the world’s leading enterprise-focused startup accelerators, has joined forces with the University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation to launch Alchemist Chicago —…

Heather Walsh Joins Polsky Center as Assistant Vice President for Technology Ventures

Heather Walsh joins the Polsky Center as the Assistant Vice President for Technology Ventures beginning July 14. A seasoned leader in innovation and commercialization, Heather brings a wealth of…

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,…

The Power of a Shared Ecosystem: 27 Midwest Startups Pitch at Deep Tech Demo Day in San Francisco

The University of Chicago, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Northwestern University came together to bring 27 deep tech startups in front of investors on the West Coast. The private, invite-only…
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