CED- Igniting Entreprenuerial Success Through Know-How and Networks

The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) is a private, non-profit organization founded in 1984 to identify, enable and promote high-growth, high-impact companies and accelerate the region’s entrepreneurial culture. Headquartered in the Research Triangle Park, CED is the oldest and largest entrepreneurial support organization in the nation with more than 5,000 active members representing over 1,100 companies. CED provides know-how, networking, mentoring and capital formation resources to new and existing high-growth entrepreneurs through annual conferences, programs and web-based resources. CED has helped entrepreneurs, investors, service partners, researchers and public policy makers in diverse emerging industries and at all stages of development – from high-tech, production-based organizations to service companies, from one-person start-ups to 1000-person businesses.

CED achieves its mission by providing programs and events in four major areas: education, capital formation, mentoring and communications.

• More than 8,000 entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and service providers participate in its programs annually.
• Some of the successful companies that have benefited from CED's programs and services include Red Hat, Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Lending Tree, iContact, Ganymede Software, OpenSite Technology and a number of others.
• Each year more than 175 entrepreneurs are provided the opportunity to showcase their company to investors through CED’s Venture conference, FastTrac Tech program and many others.
• Of the 550+ companies that have presented at CED’s Venture conference since 2005, 47% have raised institutional funding on an average of $12.75 million per company.
• More than 454 companies have graduated from FastTrac® TechVenture™ since 2001.
• Overall, FastTrac® TechVenture™, Innovators Workshop and STREAK participants have raised more than $400 million.

Additional Information about CED may be found within CED's Media Kit, including company history, videos, logos and more.

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