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===VC Backed=About==<onlyinclude>The New Venture Challenge is a Chicago, Illinois-based, non-profit university accelerator institution founded in 1996. It advertises two services, mentorship and education. NVC has four directors, three of whom have indirect entrepreneurship experience in the sector. Of the 293 startups which have enrolled in the NVC program, 15 have received venture capital funding. 13 companies which participated in the Station Houston program have been acquired and two have exited in an IPO. </onlyinclude>
| Alameda Winco Inc || Alameda Co || Hall || Alameda || Alameda Co || Alameda Co || First Advantage Corp Quanta Services Inc || np n || p || || 2004-10-13 7/1/08 || 2004-10-13 7/1/08 || Business Services Construction Firms || Business Services Construction Firms || Completed || Poway Houston || Alameda
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| Identity Corporation Ascent LLC || Identity Inc Ambulatory Care Centers || Hall np n || Identity Corporation p || Identity Inc || Identity Inc 10/1/10 || Airbee Wireless Inc 10/1/10 || 5.000 5 Business Services || .000 || 5.000 || 2005-05-02 || 2005-05-02 || Prepackaged Software || Machinery Business Services || Completed || Rockville Orlando || Rancho CordovaSaint Louis
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| Winco || Winco Inc || Hall || Winco || Winco Inc || Winco ReTel Technologies Inc || Quanta Services Inc ShopperTrak Corp || np n || p || || 2008-07-01 10/29/12 || 2008-07-01 10/29/12 || Construction Firms Business Services || Construction Firms Business Services || Completed || Houston Chicago || Chicago
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| Ascent || Ascent LLC || Hall || Ascent || Ascent LLC || Ascent SoCore Energy LLC || Ambulatory Care Centers Edison International Corp || np n || p || || 2010-10-01 6/25/13 || 2010-10-01 8/5/13 || Business Services Electric Gas and Water Distribution || Business Services Electric Gas and Water Distribution || Completed || Orlando Rosemead || Saint LouisChicago
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| ReTel Technologies || ReTel Bump Technologies Inc || Hall || ReTel Technologies || ReTel Technologies Google Inc || ReTel Technologies Inc || ShopperTrak Corp || np n || p || || 2012-10-29 9/16/13 || 2012-10-29 9/16/13 || Business Services || Business Services Prepackaged Software || Completed || Chicago Mountain View || ChicagoMountain View
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| SoCore Energy LLC || SoCore Energy LLC || Hall || SoCore Energy LLC Power2Switch || SoCore Choose Energy LLC || SoCore Energy LLC || Edison International Corp Inc || np n || p || || 2013-06-25 9/30/13 || 2013-08-05 9/30/13 || Electric Gas and Water Distribution Business Services || Electric Gas and Water Distribution Business Services || Completed || Rosemead Plano || Chicago
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| Bump Technologies ProOnGo LLC || Bump Technologies Inc || Hall || Bump Technologies || Bump Technologies Inc || Bump Technologies Inc || Google The Neat Company Inc || np n || p || || 2013-09-16 10/3/13 || 2013-09-16 10/3/13 || Business Services Computer and Office Equipment || Prepackaged Software || Completed || Mountain View Philadelphia || Mountain ViewChicago
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| Power2Switch || Power2Switch || Hall |Aquarius BioTechnologies Inc | Power2Switch || Power2Switch || Power2Switch || Choose Energy Matinas BioPharma Holdings Inc || np n 2.722 2 || p 1/0/00 || 2.722 || 2013-09-1/30 /15 || 2013-09-1/30 /15 || Business Services Drugs || Business Services Drugs || Completed || Plano Bedminster || ChicagoBedminster|} ==Directors=={| class="wikitable"! style="text-align:left;"| Name! Bio! Class
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| ProOnGo LLC Steven Kaplan || ProOnGo LLC || Hall || ProOnGo LLC || ProOnGo LLC || ProOnGo LLC || The Neat Company Inc || np n || p || || 2013-10-03 || 2013-10-03 || Computer Faculty Director, Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Office Equipment || Prepackaged Software || Completed || Philadelphia |Innovation| ChicagoD2
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| Aquarius Biotechnologies Ellen Rudnick|Executive Director, Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation| Aquarius BioTechnologies Inc D2|-| Hall || Aquarius Biotechnologies || Aquarius BioTechnologies Inc || Aquarius BioTechnologies Inc || Matinas BioPharma Holdings Inc || 2.722 2 || .722 |Rob Gertner| 2Joel F.722 || 2015-01-30 Gemunder Professor of Strategy and Finance, Chicago Booth |None| 2015-01-30 |Waverly Deutsch | Drugs Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship, Chicago Booth|D2| Drugs } ==Services Provided=={|class="wikitable"| Completed || Bedminster Education|-| BedminsterMentoring