The Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) is the world’s largest venture capital competition with over 70 universities competing. The University of Chicago participates in both the undergraduate VCIC (uVCIC) and MBA-level VCIC global competitions. The VCIC allows students to think and act as venture capitalists and helps the school identify top student representatives for regional and national intercollegiate competitions.
- uVCIC: UChicago undergraduate students can participate in the uVCIC, which is organized by UChicago Careers in Entrepreneurship. For more information on the program, contact Jerry Huang.
- VCIC: Since 2005, Chicago Booth has participated in the VCIC under the leadership of faculty coordinator Scott Meadow and with the support of the Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital (EVC) group at Chicago Booth and the Polsky Center. The Chicago Booth VCIC competition is sponsored by Energy Foundry. Winners from this competition head to the regional bracket with a chance of competing at the national and global finals. Learn more.
Participants
Nicole Staple
Sonali Lamba
Mike Shannon
Lenny Lebovich
Sally Bell
Gali Baler
Contact
Faculty Sponsor
Scott F. Meadow
Scott is a clinical professor of entrepreneurship at Chicago Booth and has been the faculty advisor for the VCIC since the program started in 2005. He is the only faculty member at Chicago Booth to have received the Phoenix Award for service to students outside of the classroom in four consecutive years. He has spent more than 25 years as a general partner in private equity, founding such projects as Sports Authority and Sunrise Assisted Living. He is currently an associate partner at Edgewater Funds.
Student Organizer
Greg Johnston
Greg is a first-year Full-Time MBA student at Chicago Booth. He is currently an Associate at Corazon Capital, a VC fund managed by Sam Yagan (co-founder of SparkNotes and OKCupid) and Steve Farsht (Former Partner at Norwest Equity and Board Member of TechStars Chicago). Prior to business school, Greg was a Senior Associate at LLR Partners, a $2.4 billion growth equity firm in Philadelphia, where he evaluated investments in the cybersecurity, intelligence, risk management and enterprise IT sectors. Greg graduated magna cum laude from Duke University with a BS in Economics and a BA in Art History.
Polsky Center VCIC Organizer:
Cerise Miller
Senior Program Manager
(773) 702-3998