== <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; line-height: inherit;">Entrepreneurial Pursuit</span> ==
The University of Chicago provides various programs to help entrepreneurs begin implementing their startup ideas === Incubators and Accelerators<br/> === Polsky Center Accelerator Program - The Accelerator Program helps student teams work on their businesses and social enterprises in a collaborative and dynamic environment.</span> Chicago Innovation Exchange - The Chicago Innovation Exchange provides entrepreneurs with a space to translate their ideas and technologies into startups.</span> ARCH Venture Partners New Venture Incubator - This incubator provides the winners of the New Venture Challenge with space to build up their products and services. 1871 - This co-working facility provides Chicago-area startups with space and amenities to incubate their companies</span> University Technology Park at IIT - This technology park provides more than 300,000 square feet of wet and dry <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">lab and office space</span>for growing companies focused on materials and life sciences, biomedical engineering, medical devices and diagnostics, green and clean technology, food safety, information technology and many other fields.
Seed Funding
Midway Ventures - Midway Ventures is a student-run venture capital group that connects undergraduate entrepreneurs with world-class investors
Uncommon Ventures - Uncommon Ventures is a student-run venture capital group that provides undergraduate entrepreneurs with seed funding
Innovation Fund - The Innovation Fund is a university-operated venture philanthropy fund that provides grants to faculty and university affiliated persons with business ideas to prototype and develop proof-of-concept models for these ideasTech Transfer Office UChicagoTech - UChicagoTech works with university faculty members to help them develop and launch their research and technology into the market</span>
== <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: inherit;">Entrepreneurial Spin-Out</span></span> ==