Samir Mayekar Named Managing Director of Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Samir Mayekar, an accomplished leader with a track record of driving innovation and impact across the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors, has been named managing director of the University…

Veteran, Teacher, Business Owner: Meet the New Leader of the Polsky Exchange’s Small Business Development Center

The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation recently welcomed Vince Beachum as senior program manager and director of the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at the Polsky Exchange. …

Private Equity Conference Spotlights Industry Uncertainty

Speakers from throughout the industry recently gathered to discuss the challenges – and opportunities at the 22nd BPOC Private Equity Conference. When David Rubenstein JD ’73 appeared on stage, the…

How Technology Commercialization Teams Are Thinking Differently

Traditional technology commercialization operations teams are being asked to do more – an expanding scope of work that includes an increasingly diverse group of stakeholders. A panel of operations experts,…

UChicago Launches Polsky Deep Tech Ventures to Support Startups Bringing Science, Tech to Market

The $20M initiative will include a new venture fund and a series of sector-specific accelerators to provide startups with technical and market expertise.   The Polsky Center is…

2021-2022 Annual Report Highlights Polsky Center’s Successes and Progress

The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation last year launched several new initiatives – expanding access to its entrepreneurial training and programming, and setting records across the board. The…

Q&A With Steve Kaplan, Co-author of New Academic Book on Private Equity

Private equity has become an increasingly popular investment vehicle as it outperforms other asset classes and access expands to the broader investing public. What’s been missing, said Steve Kaplan, one…

Looking to Advance New Drugs to the Clinic, UChicago Spinout Pyxis Files for $100M IPO

The University of Chicago spinout Pyxis Oncology has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) after earlier this year signing a worldwide licensing agreement with Pfizer and raising $152 million…

UChicago Spin-Out AccuraDX Launches KAS-seq Research Kits: ‘A New Way to Study Important Biological Processes and Regulatory Pathways’

A University of Chicago spin-out company AccuraDX this week has launched its KAS-Direct™ single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) Labeling and Enrichment Kit. Founded in 2020, the company, which is headquartered in Natick,…

‘It’s the American Dream’: Polsky Exec Talks Family-Owned Businesses, Innovation, and Education

Family businesses are the engine that runs the economy, says Polsky executive Dan Sachs, who speaks to the importance of supporting those contributors. We caught up with Sachs, who is…

Tech Industry Veteran Joins Polsky Center as New Executive Director

A seasoned business and technology executive from the telecommunications industry, Bill Payne recently joined the University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation as the new executive director…

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