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Taking Portable Sinks to New Heights: How This Couple is Building a Thriving Family Business Through ETA
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New Tissue-Like Hydrogel Semiconductor is 'a Significant Step in Material Design'
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Taking Portable Sinks to New Heights: How This Couple is Building a Thriving Family Business Through ETA

For Ray Chery and his wife Dana, entrepreneurship has always been in their DNA. Both grew up in families where business ownership was a way of life—Ray in a Haitian…

Exactics Wins 2025 College New Venture Challenge, Securing $115K for Innovative Rapid Diagnostic

The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and The Grainger College of Engineering announces Exactics as the winner of the 13th Annual College New Venture Challenge (CNVC). Exactics, a biotechnology…

Where Are They Now? Unlisted is Opening the Doors to Off-Market Homes

Historically, less than 5% of homes in the U.S. are listed for sale at any given time. Combine that with the well-documented housing shortage and record-high costs of purchasing…

Polsky Center and Chicago Booth Private Equity Group Host 24th Annual PE Conference

The conference brings together investors, students, and entrepreneurs to network and share insights into the dynamics of investing in a constantly changing economy. The conference began with opening remarks…

6 Startups Vie for Investment at the 2025 College New Venture Challenge

  The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and The University of Illinois’ Grainger College of Engineering are pleased to announce the six finalists selected to compete in the…

New Tissue-Like Hydrogel Semiconductor is ‘a Significant Step in Material Design’

Researchers at the University of Chicago have developed an entirely new material that functions both as a hydrogel and a semiconductor – overcoming longstanding challenges in bioelectronics. With a significant…

Winter 2025 Collaboratorium Brings Together Business Expertise and Science

Connecting researchers with business expertise, the Winter 2025 Collaboratorium will feature teams participating in the Polsky I-Corps program in addition to startups from the Duality and Transform accelerators. >>…

25 Teams Advance to Classroom Portion of the 2025 Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge

Today, the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation announced the 25 teams advancing to the classroom portion of the 2025 Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge (NVC), the…

Transform Data Science and AI Accelerator Accepts 6 Startups into Latest Cohort

The University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Data Science Institute today announced the six early-stage companies accepted into the fourth cohort of the Transform accelerator…

Asters: Leveraging AI to Elevate Emergency Preparedness

Asters is a participant in Cohort 4 of Transform, a data science and AI startup accelerator powered at the University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and…

Legion Space: Making Satellite Operations Smarter and More Efficient

Legion Space is a participant in Cohort 4 of Transform, a data science and AI startup accelerator powered at the University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation…

Slideflow Labs: Transforming Disease Diagnostics with AI-Driven Biomarker Discovery

Slideflow Labs is a participant in Cohort 4 of Transform, a data science and AI startup accelerator powered at the University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and…
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