Resources
Early Stage Capital & Resource Mapping
Entrepreneurial/Industry Support and Incubators
- American Underground (Durham)
- BD Technologies
- Blue Ridge Entrepreneurial Council/Advantage West
- Council for Entrepreneurial Development
- Entredot
- First Flight Venture Center
- Hamner Institute
- HQ Raleigh
- Innovation Funds of North Carolina (Catawba Valley Community College/Kauffman Foundation)
- ImpactU/Queen City Forward (Charlotte)
- Launch Chapel Hill
- NC Biotechnology Center
- NC IDEA/Groundwork Labs
- NC Sustainable Energy Association
- The Start-up Factory
- Wake Forest Innovation Center (Winston Salem/Wexford Science & Technology)
- Wireless Center of Wake Forest
Angel Investment Funds/Networks
- 8 Rivers Capital
- IMAF – Triad
- IMAF – Charlotte
- IMAF – Western
- IMAF – Cape Fear
- IMAF – RTP
- IMAF – East
- IMAF – Sandhills
- Investors Circle
- Piedmont Angel Network
- RTP Capital
- Triangle Angel Partners
- Wilmington Investor Network
Active Venture Capital Funds with Offices in North Carolina
- Acorn Innovestments
- Bull City Venture Partners
- Hatteras Venture Partners
- Idea Fund Partners
- Intersouth Partners
- Noro-Moseley Partners
- Pappas Ventures
- River Cities Capital Funds
- SJF Ventures
- Synergy Life Science Partners
University Resources
- Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, UNC-Wilmington
- Duke University Technology Transfer Office
- ECU’s Entrepreneurial Initiative
- NC Entrepreneurship Center at UNC-Greensboro
- Technology Licensing Office: University of North Carolina; North Carolina State University, North Carolina A&T
- Wake Forest Technology Transfer Office