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mHUB Chicago (EXT-001)

mHUB Chicago is documented in the DePaul Resource Map as external partner at DePaul University, External partner organization, mHUB Chicago (hardtech / product innovation incubator), Off-campus (Chicago). Documentation is partial or indirect, so the listing is treated as likely current. Access: 🟡 Yellow — Needs an appointment or affiliation.

Summary 🟡 ~

  • College / school: External partner organization
  • Sub-unit: mHUB Chicago (hardtech / product innovation incubator)
  • Campus/Location: Off-campus (Chicago)
  • Last Verified: May 30, 2026

Access (availability): 🟢 Green — open or routine · 🟡 Yellow — appointment or affiliation · 🔴 Red — restricted · ⚪/⚫ White/Black — not yet classified

Verification: ✓ confirmed · ~ likely · ? needs review · ✕ archived

Organization

mHUB is a Chicago nonprofit hardtech and product-innovation center supporting physical-product startups through prototyping labs, mentorship, programming, and a member community focused on manufacturing-adjacent entrepreneurship.

Access status

  • Access: 🟡 Yellow — Needs an appointment or affiliation
  • Rationale: mHUB access is through external membership and partner programs; DePaul connection is documented as ecosystem membership, not DePaul-operated open access.
  • Access URL: www.mhubchicago.com
  • Contact name: mHUB membership
  • Contact email: membership@mhubchicago.com
  • Verification date: 2026-05-30
  • Source URLs:
  • www.mhubchicago.com

Relationship to DePaul

DePaul engages mHUB as part of the broader Chicago innovation ecosystem rather than as a DePaul-owned facility. Faculty, students, and alumni use mHUB for product prototyping pathways, design collaborations, and venture exposure—often in parallel with on-campus resources (IRL, Coleman Entrepreneurship Center, iD Lab). mHUB maintains its own reciprocal membership partnership with 1871 (see EXT-002); that agreement is between the incubators, not a standalone DePaul–mHUB MOU.

Known collaborations & connections

  • Referenced in DePaul resource-map translational pathways alongside 1871 for external commercialization and co-working (legacy map; see EXT-002).
  • Ecosystem tie to 1871 via discounted reciprocal shared-workspace memberships (mHUB announcement).
  • Student and alumni product ventures (for example design-supported hardware startups) appear at mHUB venues; DePaul campus deployments of partner products have been reported in regional innovation press.
  • Connected DePaul units: UNI-002 (CEC), CDM-013 (iD Lab).

Collaborative documents

Document type Scope Parties Status Source
University-wide MOU Formal DePaul–mHUB partnership DePaul ↔ mHUB Not publicly documented in sources reviewed Map verification (May 2026)
Reciprocal membership agreement Shared-workspace discount between incubators 1871 ↔ mHUB Active (incubator-to-incubator) mHUB blog

Verification

  • Status: ~ Likely current
  • Rationale: Major external partner maintains active public website and standard user/membership access pathways; DePaul relationship documented on map.
  • Last verified: 2026-05-30
  • Evidence:
  • Partner primary website reachable (May 2026)
  • DePaul cross-references and partnership notes in resource map (May 2026)
  • mHUB membership email published

Equipment

External incubator — member fabrication labs at mHUB; not DePaul inventory.

Last verified: July 29, 2026.

Contacts (resource-level)

People & contacts

Named contacts when publicly documented.

Source URL

Official links are listed under Contacts above.

Documented Relationships

Supports venture and hardtech pathways connected to CEC and iD Lab; ecosystem partner to 1871 (EXT-002).

Notes

Former combined entry UNI-008; split into per-partner EXT pages for May 2026 external-partners unit.