mHUB Chicago (EXT-001)
Summary 🟡 ~
- Owner Unit: External partner organization
- Sub-unit: mHUB Chicago (hardtech / product innovation incubator)
- Content Type: partnership
- Campus/Location: Off-campus (Chicago)
- Last Verified: May 30, 2026
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
- Level: yellow (
Negotiated Access) - 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 (
~) - Confidence: 86/100
- 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: May 28, 2026.
Contacts (resource-level)
- Website: mHUB Chicago
- Email: mHUB membership
People & contacts
Named contacts from the people registry when publicly documented.
- Haven Allen (Director)
- Jason Coleman (Director)
- John Welin (Manager)
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).
Linked Relationship IDs
- EXT-002 - 1871
- UNI-002 - Coleman Entrepreneurship Center (CEC)
- CDM-013 - Innovation & Development Lab (iD Lab)
- UNI-008 - Partnerships with Chicago incubators (index)
Notes
Former combined entry UNI-008; split into per-partner EXT pages for May 2026 external-partners unit.