Eligibility & Application

For more details on how your company can obtain a UCGo! Startup License, please see the UCGo! Startup License Guidelines.

View a copy of the UCGo! Startup License.

To qualify for a UCGo! license, a startup company must:

• Be licensing UChicago intellectual property
• Be dependent on this intellectual property for company formation
• Have at least one UChicago faculty, student, or staff member as a founder of the company
• Be incorporated at the time the UCGo! Startup License is signed
• Have at least 2 team members
• Receive conflict of interest approval from UChicago
• Have founders waive their inventor share of any success fee received by the University
• Adequately complete detailed questions relating to the startup’s business plans
• Sign the license without modification

Applicants may be required to participate in educational programming from the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, or other on and off-campus resources.

To initiate the process, please contact the Polsky Center (polskylicensing@uchicago.edu).