Babcock Demon Incubator

The co-founder of Raleigh-based venture capital firm Southern Capitol Ventures will hear pitches from Triad startups at an event August 18 at the Nussbaum Center for Entrepreneurship business incubator. The event with Southern Capitol's Jason Caplain is billed as an opportunity for entrepreneurs to"practice pitch" their companies to an active venture capitalist. Southern Capitol was founded in 2000 and is currently on its second fund, making initial investments ranging in size from $75,000 to $1 million.

08/20/2009 - CED’s Grants Workshop, in partnership with Small Business Technology Development Center (SBTDC), is a three-part program focused on starting and growing a company via local and federal grant funding. The program provides entrepreneurs with the relevant knowledge and resources needed to attract grant funding in today’s tough business environment.

The program series is designed to offer value to entrepreneurs across diverse industry sectors. The first session is focused on connecting with local and federal granting sources. The second session will provide tips on preparing a grant proposal, identifying funding sources and an entrepreneur’s perspective on grants. The third session will offer one-on-one consulting sessions with expert grant writers and specialists.

Charlotte region's most dynamic early-stage business development competition kicks off January 22, 2009 and will conclude at the Five Ventures® Conference on April 9, 2009. Over $100,000 in cash and donated services are up for grabs during the competition! Produced by the Charlotte Research Institute at the UNC Charlotte, Five Ventures® is a FREE competition offering training, seminars, matchmaking, one-on-one coaching and cash to entrepreneurs interested in starting a high-growth business.

Conference is state’s first to address merging of drugs, devices, biologics. Combination Products include everything from coated stents, pre-filled syringes, inhalers with drugs, medicated patches, nanoparticles and viruses as drug delivery vehicles to tumors, miniaturized implants, computerized devices, and organs and other tissue grown on biodegradable and implantable scaffolds. It is a coming-together of engineering, medical devices, biotechnology and pharmaceutical sciences. This important new business sector will be the focus of a statewide meeting on Thursday, April 9, at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center’s headquarters in Research Triangle Park from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Winston-Salem, N.C - Two minutes on an elevator is all they’ll get, but members of 29 teams from 23 top universities, including Wake Forest University, will use that slice of time to deftly talk up their business ideas, as they compete in the Babcock Graduate School of Management’s10th Annual Elevator Competition on Friday and Saturday, March 27 and 28, in Winston-Salem.

A study on how best to support and use the Triad’s creative community for economic development will be presented Thursday in Greensboro. The study was funded by the Piedmont Triad Partnership through its federal Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development or “Wired” grant.

Creativity: Worlds in the Making, is part symposium, part festival of the imagination, organized by the Program for Creativity and Innovation and the Office of Entrepreneurship and Liberal Arts at Wake Forest University, March 18-20, 2009. The Early Registration Deadline is February 1, 2009: www.wfu.edu/creativity/symposium_registration.htm.This dynamic event will engage a range of cutting edge perspectives from visionaries on the creativity imperative in today's challenging global environment. Scholars, artists, entrepreneurs, students, community leaders and creative citizens will highlight emerging creative research, public outcomes and practice across disciplines and in collaboration between academe and the broader communities that they serve.

SEMDA's annual conferences have become known as the premier regional gathering for the medical device industry. The first conference drew more than 240 attendees, and 2008 registration hit 350, with participants including investors, researchers, established and emerging medical device companies and industry professionals.

Over the past 25 years, CED’s Venture conference has created business opportunities for hundreds of entrepreneurs and investors across North Carolina and the Southeast. As the nation’s longest running financing event, CED’s Venture 2009 showcases the region’s most promising companies to an audience of top tier investors and entrepreneurial leaders.