Thank you for your interest in the UCGo! Startup License program!
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).