Angel Investor Retreat
Invitation-only session held in conjunction with a CED conference that offers networking, deal flow and educational opportunities for active, accredited angel investors in North Carolina and across the Southeast.
Finance and Funding
Biotech Conference
NEXT CONFERENCE February 16-17, 2009 at the Convention Center in downtown Raleigh, NC. An annual industry conference where entrepreneurs, investors, and scientists learn about life science industry trends and discover new business and partnership opportunities.
Biotech Forum
An interactive forum where entrepreneurs, and university and corporate scientists and executives discover new and growing life science markets, potential partners, customers and growth opportunities.
CFO Roundtable
A monthly roundtable discussion format that provides peer-based interaction, focused networking opportunities and participant-generated issue topics for financial executives of entrepreneurial growth companies.
Entrepreneurs Only Workshop™
Lunchtime meetings that provide current and potential entrepreneurs with practical and applicable "know-how" on a wide range of start-up issues.
Please note: Entrepreneurs Only Workshops are designed for entrepreneurs in innovation-based industries.
FastTrac® TechVenture™
A ten-session comprehensive training program led by successful entrepreneurial coaches, for entrepreneurs starting, growing or seeking to sustain innovation-based, high impact companies.
Innovators Workshop™
A quarterly workshop in which innovators and prospective entrepreneurs come to a "go/no-go" decision on starting a new business by evaluating the business feasibility of their ideas and the commercial viability of their technologies.
MedTech Forum
Bi-monthly program on the trends connecting a broad sector of the medical technologies industry, including research, development, and manufacturing firms, suppliers, service companies, hospitals, clinics, and educational institutions.
STREAK
An entrepreneurial mentoring program that prepares start-up companies for potential presentation to angel and venture capital investors.
TECH Conference
NEXT CONFERENCE October 29-30, 2008 at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill, NC An annual industry conference where entrepreneurs, innovators, executives, investors and intermediaries explore the technology sector's latest trends and preview demos of the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions' hottest new technologies.
University Innovation Showcase
CED's University Innovation Showcase, in partnership with NC State University, NC IDEA and the North Carolina Biotechnology Center will connect university innovators with industry leaders. This event will provide 5-8 NC State University researchers the opportunity to showcase their technologies and findings to an audience of investors, entrepreneurs and corporate level executives.
Venture Conference
NEXT CONFERENCE April 22-23, 2009 in Pinehurst, NC. An annual venture conference which showcases the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions' best and most diverse investment opportunities, as well as offers expansive entrepreneurial and investor networking.
Venture Capital for Entrepreneurs
CED’s Venture Capital for Entrepreneurs is a two-part program focused on starting and growing a venture-backed company. The program provides early stage entrepreneurs with the relevant knowledge and resources needed to attract funding and create value in today’s business environment.