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Final Round of Companies Selected for CED’s Venture 2006
28 Companies from Across North Carolina Will Present at CED’s 23rd Annual Venture Conference
February 23, 2006, Research Triangle Park, NC – The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) has selected the final 22 companies to present at Venture 2006. Scheduled for May 2-3, 2006, at Pinehurst Resort in the Village of Pinehurst, NC, CED’s 23rd annual Venture conference will showcase North Carolina's top investment opportunities to hundreds of venture capitalists and financiers from throughout the United States.
The 22 North Carolina-based companies recently selected to present at Venture 2006 include the following:
- Argos Therapeutics (Durham, NC - www.argostherapeutics.com)
- Arrendale Associates (Cornelius, NC - www.aaita.com)
- Bioptigen (Durham, NC - www.bioptigen.com)
- Bandwidth.com (Cary, NC - www.bandwidth.com)
- Centice Corporation (Durham, NC - www.centice.com)
- Humacyte (RTP, NC - www.humacyte.com)
- INI Power Systems (Cary, NC - www.inipower.com)
- Integrian* (Morrisville, NC - www.integrian.com)
- Kyma Technologies (Raleigh, NC - www.kymatech.com)
- Liquidia Technologies (RTP, NC - www.liquidia.com)
- Nextreme Thermal Solutions (RTP, NC - www.nextremethermal.com)
- Nitronex Corporation (Raleigh, NC - www.nitronex.com)
- Optotrack (Cary, NC - www.optotrack.com)
- Overture Networks (Morrisville, NC - www.overturenetworks.com)
- Phase Bioscience (Durham, NC - www.phasebio.com)
- Piedmont Pharmaceuticals (Greensboro, NC - www.piedmontpharma.com)
- Pique Therapeutics (Durham, NC - www.piquetherapeutics.com)
- rPath (Raleigh, NC - www.rpath.com)
- SCYNEXIS (RTP, NC - www.scynexis.com)
- TranS1* (Wilmington, NC - www.trans1inc.com)
- Teotten Diagnostics (RTP, NC - www.teotten.com)
- Xsira Pharmaceuticals (RTP, NC - www.xsira.com)
During the first selection round in January, CED chose six other companies to participate in the conference:
- Advanced Liquid Logic (RTP, NC - www.liquid-logic.com)
- Bright View Technologies (Morrisville, NC - www.brightviewtechnologies.com)
- Broadwick Corporation (Durham, NC - www.broadwick.com)
- Emu Software (Cary, NC - www.emusoftware.com)
- Ercole Biotech (RTP, NC - www.ercolebiotech.com)
- Visitar (Raleigh, NC - www.visitar.com)
More details on all of the Venture 2006 presenting companies are available online at www.cednc.org/conferences/venture/2006/presenters/.
The asterisk (*) beside Integrian and TranS1 denotes that each is a Venture 2006 “Showcase Company,” specifically selected to highlight the strengths of the region.
“Venture 2006 will feature a strong line-up of high-growth companies from across North Carolina,” said CED President Monica Doss. “The final presenter pool is both incredibly strong and diverse, further cementing the high quality of companies presenting at Pinehurst in May.”
In addition to company presentations, Venture 2006 will also include leading industry speakers, extensive networking opportunities and exclusive investor-only events. Venture 2006 conference co-chairs are Linda Markus Daniels of Daniels Daniels & Verdonik, P.A., and Mark Larson of Grant Thornton LLP.
About Venture 2006: CED's 23rd annual Venture conference Where Great Minds Meet Smart Money is scheduled for May 2-3, 2006 at Pinehurst Resort in Pinehurst, NC. Last year's conference, Venture 2005, drew a crowd of more than 675 investors, service professionals, entrepreneurs and others involved in the entrepreneurial funding process from throughout the United States. www.cednc.org/venture
About CED: The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) is a private, non-profit organization formed in 1984 to identify, enable and promote high growth, high impact entrepreneurial companies and to accelerate the entrepreneurial culture of the Research Triangle and North Carolina. CED is the largest and oldest entrepreneurial support organization in the nation with more than 4,000 members representing over 1,100 entrepreneurial companies, financiers and professional firms. In July 2005, Wilmington’s Coastal Entrepreneurial Council merged with CED to create CED-Coastal, a divisional office focused on entrepreneurial development in Wilmington and throughout North Carolina’s entire coastal region. CED provides education, mentoring and capital formation resources to new and existing high-growth entrepreneurs through annual conferences, seminars, workshops and programs on entrepreneurial management and finance. www.cednc.org
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