???I’m excited to share the 2nd of our 4-part Chicago Booth Women’s Network ANVC Spotlight Series conversations with this year’s Alumni New Venture Challenge winners!
Next up,?UpTrials?— the first AI-enabled software solution to help clinical research employers hire, upskill, and supercharge their workforce.
Whether you’re a recruiter, a hiring manager, or a team member, you’re sure to have experienced the burden of an open position remaining unfilled. And, in most cases, operations continue. In the clinical trial industry, staffing issues pose a significant risk to successfully completing studies. In some instances, vacancies result in the termination of a trial or study altogether, contributing to delays in medical advances and lost value of investments.
Tune in to learn how UpTrials is helping clinical trial and research leaders address this problem by quickly finding the right talent and about founder and CEO?Renuka Agarwal’s journey and decision to elevate entrepreneurship from a side hustle to her main hustle.
0:40 Industry Overview
2:45 How UpTrials Is Helping to Solve Understaffing
5:00 Going All In — Why Now?
6:00 Building the Two-Sided Marketplace
8:45 Prioritizing Features for Product Roadmap
9:55 How You Can Get Involved?
12:08 Advice for New Entrepreneurs?
12:49 Advice for ANVC
13:48 Tech Tools to Try
UpTrials?is one of four alumna-led startups that swept top prizes in 2024’s ANVC. Stay tuned for upcoming spotlights of?Panacea?with?Ariadne Souroutzidis, and?Familial?with?Eleanor Jacobs.?And check out the spotlight of?p!ng?with?Jane Lo?in August . ??
The Alumni New Venture Challenge (ANVC) is the track of the Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge supporting all University of Chicago alums launching early-stage ventures. The ANVC supports alums from across the globe.
Polsky Center at the University of Chicago,?The University of Chicago Booth School of Business