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Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge Winner Simple Mills Acquired by Flower Foods for $795 Million

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

It's Time to Get Hardcore About Your Core Values

Taking Portable Sinks to New Heights: How This Couple is Building a Thriving Family Business Through ETA

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'You Start with a Problem and Ambition': One PhD Student's Journey to Quantum Startup Founder

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

16 UChicago Researchers Awarded $7.2 Million from Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago

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Small Business Spotlight: How Diversity Connected Helps Companies Turn Chaos into Clarity

10 Entrepreneurs Graduate from E-Commerce Learning Lab

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10 Startups to Compete for Over $1 Million in 29th Annual Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge Finals

5 Chicago Booth Students Honored with 2025 Student Entrepreneurship Awards

Chicago Booth Team Heads to Oxford for Private Equity Case Challenge Global Finals

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Private Equity Insights: Raymond Svider Returns to Chicago Booth for Fireside Chat with Steve Kaplan

From Discovery to Dissemination: How a New Collaboration is Helping Get Knowledge ‘Out the Door’

Corporate Collision: Bridging the Gap Between Corporates and Startups

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Wednesday, August 4, 2021

UChicago Spin-Out Gives Researchers a Genome-Wide View of Cell Transcription

A University of Chicago spin-out company, AccuraDX is developing next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies that enable researchers to map the location of single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) on the genome. The innovation came…

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Researchers to Know: UChicago Professors Kunle Odunsi and Rama Ranganathan Recognized for Groundbreaking Work

The Illinois Science and Technology Coalition (ISTC) this year has named University of Chicago Professors Kunle Odunsi and Rama Ranganathan as among its 2021 Researchers to Know. "Research activity at…

Monday, August 2, 2021

ETA Spotlight // Andrei Papayanopulos, MBA ’14, Cofounder of Arpa Capital

Andrei Papayanopulos started at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business with the aspiration to raise a venture capital fund in his native Mexico, where at the time, he…

Friday, July 30, 2021

Multifunctional Nanomedicine Developed Using Novel UChicago Tech Gets FDA Nod to Initiate Clinical Trials

Coordination Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (CPI) recently announced that the FDA has approved the company's Investigational New Drug (IND) application to initiate a first-in-human Phase 1 clinical study of its novel cancer…

Friday, July 23, 2021

Kin Insurance To Go Public, Expand Nationally, With Aim to Save Homeowners Time and Money

Kin Insurance this week announced plans to go public and expand across the U.S., supercharging its efforts to make homeowners insurance more convenient and affordable by cutting out the agent.…

Thursday, July 15, 2021

Duality Quantum Accelerator Accepts Six Startups into Inaugural Cohort

Duality, the nation’s first accelerator exclusively for quantum companies, has accepted six startups for Cohort 1. Duality is led by the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University…

Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Polsky Announces 2021 Founders Fund Fellows, Who Receive Support While Working Full-Time on Their Ventures

The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2021 Polsky Founders Fund Fellowship (PF3), a resource for graduating students who are committed to…

Thursday, July 1, 2021

Booth’s Student Entrepreneurship Awards Honor Budding Leaders in Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital and Private Equity

Chicago Booth last month recognized six outstanding MBA students who demonstrated leadership in entrepreneurship, venture capital or private equity during their time at school. The annual Student Entrepreneurship Awards…

Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Polsky Accelerator Debuts Two Tracks — Build and Launch — and Selects 17 Teams Amid Soaring Applications for the Summer Program

The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is pleased to announce the 17 teams selected to participate in the 2021 Polsky Accelerator, a competitive 10-week summer program that for the…

Tuesday, June 22, 2021