New Venture Challenge (NVC) | The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

As a top-ranked
accelerator program in the nation,
the Edward L. Kaplan, '71

NEW VENTURE CHALLENGE
CELEBRATED ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY

The Polsky Center for
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
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TransparentC wins top honors at the 2016 New Venture Challenge

TransparentC, a start-up that provides crowdsourced compensation and job satisfaction information to job seekers and students, takes home first place and $90,000 at the University of Chicago’s nationally-ranked business accelerator.
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AccessArc and JoinGiving tie for first in the 2016 Social New Venture Challenge

A web platform for inmates who need help navigating the legal system and a start-up that works to help businesses partner with charitable giving organization through shared customers each receive $20,000 in prize money.
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Student Loan Payment Start-up, CommonCents takes home first place at the College New Venture Challenge

These University of Chicago undergraduates are working to solve the issue of student debt in the U.S. The team was awarded $15,000 for their first place victory.
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Appiness and ScienceTomorrow named co-champions of the Global New Venture Challenge

At the 2016 Global New Venture Challenge Finals in March, Appiness and ScienceTomorrow tied for first place and each received $7,500.
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