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Foxtrot Announces $100 Million Series C Funding; UChicago Ups Investment in the NVC Alum
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Foxtrot Announces $100 Million Series C Funding; UChicago Ups Investment in the NVC Alum
Small Business Spotlight: OjaExpress, Designed By and For Immigrants, Brings Same-Day Delivery to Ethnic Grocery Stores
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Small Business Spotlight: OjaExpress, Designed By and For Immigrants, Brings Same-Day Delivery to Ethnic Grocery Stores
CRISPR-Modified Skin Grafts to Treat Addiction? ‘The Opportunities Are Endless,’ Says CEO
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CRISPR-Modified Skin Grafts to Treat Addiction? ‘The Opportunities Are Endless,’ Says CEO
Small Business Spotlight: ReformedSchool's Handmade Wearable Art Has Something to Say
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Small Business Spotlight: ReformedSchool's Handmade Wearable Art Has Something to Say
AbbVie and UChicago Extend Collaboration to Support Preclinical Oncology Research
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AbbVie and UChicago Extend Collaboration to Support Preclinical Oncology Research

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Three Teams Selected for Spring 2021 George Shultz Innovation Fund

The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago has announced the companies selected for the 2021 spring cohort of the George Shultz Innovation Fund. The program…
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ANVC Alum Safe Rate Launches New ‘Coffee Chat’ and Closes Total $3 Million in Mortgage Loans

University of Chicago Booth School of Business alums Dylan Hall, MBA ’13, and Shima Rayej, MBA ’13, launched Safe Rate in 2018. The company offers a mortgage that doesn’t…
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2019 Spring Cohort Selected for the George Shultz Innovation Fund

The Polsky Center has announced the four companies moving on to the spring finals of the 2019 George Shultz Innovation Fund.
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Polsky Center’s Innovation Fund Renamed to Honor George P. Shultz

The UChicago Innovation Fund will be renamed the George Shultz Innovation Fund in recognition of the honorable George P. Shultz.

UChicago Innovation Fund Invests $200K in Fintech Startup Safe Rate

Safe Rate is a new mortgage product for low down payment borrowers that reduces monthly payments in times of housing market distress.
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Sokowatch Closes $2 million Seed Round to Modernize Africa’s B2B Retail

A Multi-million-dollar Fund that Invests in Promising Startups

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This UChicago Startup is Developing a Cure for Food Allergies

Chances are we all know someone allergic to any one of either milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, wheat, soy, fish, or shellfish, which are the eight most common type of…
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Can Entrepreneurship Help Revive Syria? This Polsky Center Leader is Training Teens in Business

Chicagoan Steve Lehmann has taken his expertise in early business development nearly 6,000 miles away to the Turkish border town of Reyhanli. His mission: to teach Syrian teens how to…
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This Startup Wants to Make Your Utility Company More Efficient and Reliable – And Reduce Your Power Bill

Think back to the last time you experienced a power outage. Ever looked across the street to another house or apartment building, and seen their power remained unaffected, or experienced…
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25 Chicago Startups That Are Fighting Cancer

There are more than 100 types of cancer, and about 40% of men and women will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lifetime, according to the National…
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Innovation Fund Invests $500,000 in Microbiome Research and Energy Companies

The University of Chicago Innovation Fund announced plans to invest up to $500,000 into three companies—AVNovum, ClostraBio, and SwitchedSource—that are working in the health and energy fields, respectively. These latest…
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