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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; line-height: inherit;"></span><span styleThe University of Chicago provides various programs to help entrepreneurs begin implementing their startup ideas</span><br/><span id="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); fontdocs-internal-family: Arial; fontguid-size: 15px; white6274f678-space: pre3c2a-wrap; line5acc-height: 1.15; backgroundc8ee-color: transparent;768b362901b5">The University of Chicago provides various programs to help entrepreneurs begin implementing their startup ideas</span>Incubators and Accelerators</span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-6274f678-3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5">Polsky Center Accelerator Program - The Accelerator Program helps student teams </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Incubators work on their businesses and Acceleratorssocial enterprises in a collaborative and dynamic environment.</span></span><br/><span idstyle="docsfont-internal-guid-6274f678-3c2asize: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-5accalign: baseline; white-c8eespace: pre-768b362901b5"><span style="fontwrap; background-sizecolor: 15pxtransparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white">Chicago Innovation Exchange -The Chicago Innovation Exchange provides entrepreneurs with a space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"to translate their ideas and technologies into startups.</span></span>Polsky Center Accelerator Program - The Accelerator Program helps student teams <<br/span><span styleid="fontdocs-internal-size: 15px; fontguid-family: Arial6274f678-3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5"><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">work on their businesses and social enterprises in a collaborative and dynamic environment.</spanbackground-color: transparent;"></span><br/><span id="docsARCH Venture Partners New Venture Incubator -internal-guid-6274f678-3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5">This incubator provides the winners of the New Venture Challenge with space to build up their products and services.</span></span><br/><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Chicago Innovation Exchange 1871 - This co- The working facility provides Chicago Innovation Exchange provides entrepreneurs -area startups with a space and amenities to translate incubate their ideas and technologies into startups.companies</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-6274f678-3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-familycolor: Arial; color: rgbrgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">ARCH Venture Partners New Venture Incubator University Technology Park at IIT - This incubator provides the winners of the New Venture Challenge with space to build up their products and services.</spantechnology park </span></span><br/><span id="docsstyle="font-internalsize: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-guidalign: baseline; white-6274f678space: pre-3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5wrap;"><span style="font-sizeprovides more than 300,000 square feet of wet and dry </span>[http: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical//www.universitytechnologypark.com/incubator/floor-alignplans.php <span style="font-size: baseline15px; whitefont-spacefamily: pre-wrapArial; background-color: transparent;">1871 rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical- This coalign: baseline; white-working facility provides Chicagospace: pre-area startups with wrap;">lab and office space and amenities to incubate their companies</span>]</span><br/><span idstyle="docs-internal-guid-6274f678-3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5"><span style="fontfont-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; colorcolor: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">University Technology Park at IIT - This technology park 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.</span></span style><br/><span id="fontdocs-internal-guid-size: 15px; font6274f678-family: Arial; 3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5"><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">provides more than 300,000 square feet of wet and dry Seed Funding</span>[http:</span><br/www.universitytechnologypark.com/incubator/floor-plans.php ><span styleid="fontdocs-size: 15px; fontinternal-familyguid-6274f678-3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5"><span style="font-size: Arial15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">lab and office space</span>]<span style="fontbackground-sizecolor: 15pxtransparent; font">Midway Ventures -family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); verticalMidway Ventures is a student-align: baseline; whiterun venture capital group that connects undergraduate entrepreneurs with world-space: pre-wrap;"class investors</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.</span</span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-6274f678-3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5"></span><br/><span idstyle="docsfont-internal-guidsize: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-6274f678align: baseline; white-3c2aspace: pre-5accwrap; background-c8ee-768b362901b5color: transparent;"><span style="fontUncommon Ventures -size: 15px; fontUncommon Ventures is a student-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); fontrun venture capital group that provides undergraduate entrepreneurs with seed funding</span></span><br/><span id="docs-weight: bold; verticalinternal-align: baseline; whiteguid-6274f678-3c2a-space: pre5acc-wrap; backgroundc8ee-color: transparent;768b362901b5">Seed Funding</span></span><br/><span idstyle="docsfont-internal-guid-6274f678-3c2asize: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-5accalign: baseline; white-c8eespace: pre-768b362901b5"wrap; background-color: transparent;">Innovation Fund - </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(035, 031, 032); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Midway Ventures - Midway Ventures The Innovation Fund is a studentuniversity-run operated venture capital group philanthropy fund that connects undergraduate entrepreneurs provides grants to faculty and university affiliated persons with worldbusiness ideas to prototype and develop proof-of-class investorsconcept models for these ideas</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-6274f678-3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); verticalfont-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Uncommon Ventures - Uncommon Ventures is a student-run venture capital group that provides undergraduate entrepreneurs with seed funding</span></span>Tech Transfer Office</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-6274f678-3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Innovation Fund UChicagoTech - UChicagoTech works with university faculty members to help them develop and launch their research and technology into the market</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">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 ideas</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-6274f678-3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tech Transfer Office</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-6274f678-3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">UChicagoTech - UChicagoTech works with university faculty members to help them develop and launch their research and technology into the market</span></span>

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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; line-height: inherit;"></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15; background-color: transparent;">The University of Chicago also offers several programs to help entrepreneurs (primarily faculty members) fully develop their startup ideas into companies.</span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Product Creation and Prototyping Resources</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">CIE Fabrication Lab (Chicago Innovation Exchange) - A new fabrication lab equipped with a 3D printer to help entrepreneurs prototype their product ideas</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Hack Arts Lab - </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Hack Arts Lab (HAL) provides an open-access laboratory for creative digital fabrication and visualization. &nbsp;This </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">makerspace</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">-styled workshop is designed to support a breadth of activity ranging from undergraduate projects to faculty-led exploration. HAL resources include 3D printers, laser cutter, advanced graphics, and microcontroller workbenches, all offered at minimal cost.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Research and National Labs - The University of Chicago boasts numerous, state-of-the-art scientific research facilities both on and off campus. Examples include the Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery, Argonne National Laboratories, and the Marine Biological Laboratory</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Regional Sources of Capital</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Hyde Park Angels</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Lightbank</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Hyde Park Venture Partners</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">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 ideas</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Advisory Networks</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Chicago Innovation Mentors - The Chicago Innovation Mentors support university-based and local new technology ventures through the use of mentor teams.</span></span></span>

<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(35tahoma, 31geneva, 32); verticalsans-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparentserif;"></span></span><span style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.2272686958313; background-color: transparent;">Chicago Innovation Exchange - The Chicago Innovation Exchange holds office hours for its members to discuss business ideas and issues in startup development</span></span>

<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship - The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship holds office hours for entrepreneurs on campus to discuss business ideas and issues in startup development</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">UChicagoTech - UChicagoTech hosts Executives-in-Residence who help faculty members in the development of their technologies</span></span></span>