CED FastTrac Tech alumni, Cary-based Wisteme was the winner in the information-technology category in the seventh annual UNC Charlotte Five Ventures entrepreneurial business competition sponsored by UNC Charlotte's Belk College of Business, the N.C. Research Campus and the N.C. Biotechnology Center. Startup companies compete for a chance to win more than $100,000 in cash and in-kind services.
Other winners included IRealtyManager.com as service and retail winner and Virtual Officer in the student and nonprofit category, both of Charlotte, GOPS Group International in biotechnology, a Saluda-based company that conducts business under the name AlgaMax, and Filigree Nanotechnology Inc. from Winston-Salem in the field of nanotechnology.