Venture Connect 2022

An experiment gone right—CED Venture Connect 2022 hits the mark

Posted by Sarah Glova | Apr 11, 2022

The landscape of the startup world is changing—too slowly, for sure, but there is progress. Ecosystems are amplifying more women and people of color in entrepreneurship, in funding, in community leadership. (Finally, and again, too slowly, but it’s happening.) Venture Connect 2022 captured all these changes. Here’s my analysis.

Raleigh startup’s alternative to ‘Impossible Burger’ makes case for $6M in funding at Venture Connect

Posted by WRAL TechWire | Apr 8, 2022

(Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of exclusive reports from the CED’s Venture Connect conference written by WRAL TechWire contributor Sarah Glova.) +++ RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Jellatech, a Raleigh-based startup that is creating animal-free collagen protein and gelatin, presented at CED Venture Connect stage on...

RTP startups tackle world’s food supply: Showcasing agtech at Venture Connect

Posted by WRAL TechWire | Apr 7, 2022

Food science took centerstage at CED Venture Connect on Thursday, with three startups on a panel discussing “feeding the world” through agtech. Check out what the panelists had to say.

Cary internet of things startup ProAxion looks for more ‘smart money’ to fund growth

Posted by WRAL TechWire | Apr 7, 2022

Cary-based startup ProAxion – which touts itself as a “global predictive maintenance company” – pitched from the CED Venture Connect stage this morning, sharing an update on their current fund raising.

Beam me up, CED: Venture Connect is off to a dynamic start

Posted by WRAL TechWire | Apr 7, 2022

Venture Connect is underway at Cisco’s campus in RTP. And Sarah Glova has the details about the opening pitch.

Pitching at CED’s Venture Connect: You need a lineup card to track 88 startups

Posted by WRAL TechWire | Apr 6, 2022

Startups from across the US will pitch from three different stages at CED’s Venture Connect: Check out our exclusive preview before you go.

Inside look at Venture Connect: Snapshots of the 88 presenting startups

Posted by WRAL TechWire | Apr 6, 2022

WRAL TechWire has an exclusive list of the startups that will be presenting, organized here by general category. Over a third of the startups are in biopharma or healthcare; the rest represent a diverse field of consumer goods, B2B platforms, materials science, food science, agtech, and more. Let’s take a look.

CED doubles down on in-person events for ‘completely different’ Venture Connect

Posted by WRAL TechWire | Apr 1, 2022

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – CED’s Venture Connect Summit is returning as an in-person conference for the first time since 2019. Venture Connect will run on April 6th and 7th, hosted at a new venue—the Cisco Systems Campus in RTP. According to Council for Entrepreneurial Development CEO Kelly Rowell, the venue...