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Launched in 1996, the Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge (NVC) is one of the nation’s premier business launch programs.
Location: Chicago
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🤖 AI Activity Report
Status: active
AI Reasoning: Polsky Center page documents that the University of Chicago New Venture Challenge awarded investments on June 6, 2025, with the first-place investment to Rayni (B2B SaaS) and other finalists funded the same date. From June 6, 2025 to the reference date used for classification is between 3 and 6 months, placing the last known investment in the 6-to-3-months-ago range. Therefore the appropriate tag is ‘active’.
Here are the thresholds established for the different statuses:
Not Active – No known investments in the last 12 months.
Low Activity – Only known investments between the last 12 and 6 months.
Active – Known investments between the last 6 and 3 months.
Very Active – Known investments in the last 3 months.
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