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How Rayni Turned Scientific Frustration Into a Victory at the 2025 New Venture Challenge
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Zenblen’s Smooth Rise from Office Blender to Robotic Smoothie Bar
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Where Are They Now? Beacon Takes Aim at Eliminating Airborne Transmission
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Inertial Secures Phase I STTR Grant Ahead of Pre-Seed Round
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Harper Court Ventures Launches with $25M to Support UChicago Startup Ecosystem
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'You Start with a Problem and Ambition': One PhD Student's Journey to Quantum Startup Founder
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Small Business Spotlight: How Diversity Connected Helps Companies Turn Chaos into Clarity
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Three UChicago Startups Receive Investment from the George Shultz Innovation Fund
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AI-Driven Psychiatry Platform Takes First Place at 18th Annual Global New Venture Challenge
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The Power of a Shared Ecosystem: 27 Midwest Startups Pitch at Deep Tech Demo Day in San Francisco
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From Discovery to Dissemination: How a New Collaboration is Helping Get Knowledge ‘Out the Door’
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Polsky Weekly 10 // September 11

2020 ANVC finalists | New class for solving DoD challenges | Quantum's Chicago roots

Illinois Ignite: Researchers to Showcase Breakthroughs in Healthcare, Computing, and Advanced Manufacturing

Illinois Ignite 2020 will feature technologies and startups from the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois-Chicago, and Illinois Institute of Technology. The virtual…

UChicago Alumni From Around the Globe Pitch for Investment at 2020 ANVCs

The Polsky Center is pleased to invite you to the 2020 Alumni New Venture Challenge (ANVC), the alumni track of the nationally-ranked Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge,…

Climate Neutral Certified, Open Water Eyes Retail Space for Aluminum Canned Water 

In 2009, Nicole Doucet, MBA ’16, and Jess Page watched a documentary on ocean pollution that inspired them to co-found Open Water (previously Green Sheep Water), the first bottled…

New ‘Hacking for Defense’ Class Looks to Solve Mission-Critical Operational Issues

The Hacking for Defense class was started by Steve Blank at Stanford University and has spread to more than 30 universities. Now, the class is coming to the University of…

Patent of the Week: A More Accurate Cancer Diagnosis for Improved Treatment Planning

Two cancer researchers at the University of Chicago in 1995 hypothesized that there was an intermediate state for patients with metastatic cancer. They called this state "oligometastasis," which is…

AI, Measurements Workshop to Explore the Intersection of Machine Learning and Physics

The University of Chicago’s Office of Research and National Laboratories Joint Task Force Initiative earlier this year awarded a second round of AI + Science grants to three projects and…

Polsky Weekly 10 // August 28

Chicago's new $115M quantum centers | Pandemic collaborations | Prof. Deutsch on changing biz relationships

Patent of the Week: A Universal Microfluidic Culture System

Microfluidic chips are useful in several applications, such as drug discovery, because of their ability to automatically replicate various cellular environments. As opposed to traditional dish-and-pipette techniques – which…

Polsky Weekly 10 // August 21

Prof. Kaplan on VC's COVID-19 resiliency | New quantum discovery | $200M more for Impossible Foods

Venture Capitalists to See ‘Small Overall Losses’ During COVID-19: Report

SNVC Alum KitcheNet Talks Pivoting Business Models

Trista Li, MPP ’16, MBA ’18, co-founded KitcheNet as a policy student at the Harris School participating in the 2016 John Edwardson, ’72, Social New Venture Challenge (SNVC). Today,…
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