Why Attend

CED's annual venture conference has been nationally recognized as the Southeast's premier venture financing conference since 1984. The annual event showcases the best of the region's high-growth entrepreneurial companies. Since 2001, Venture presenters have raised over $1.2 billion in venture capital. Current and past Venture presenters raised $355 million in 2005, which is over 67% of the $530 million total raised in North Carolina.

In addition to company presentations and exhibits, the conference includes featured speakers, extensive networking opportunities and investor-only events.

A sampling of investor firms that will be represented at Venture 2007 include:

• ABS Capital Partners
• Accuitive Medical Ventures
• Adena Ventures
• Advanced Technology Ventures
• Alliance Technology Ventures L.P.
• Antares Capital Corporation
• Arcapita Ventures
• Ascent Venture Partners
• Aurora Funds
• Ballast Point Venture Partners
• BASF Venture Capital America, Inc.
• Battery Ventures
• Bluecrest Capital
• Boston Financial & Equity Corporation
• Brook Venture Partners
• Burrill & Company
• Calvert Research Institute
• Canaan Partners
• Chrysalis Ventures
• CNF Investments
• Compass Capital
• Contender Capital
• Core Capital Partners
• Court Square Ventures
• Crossbow Ventures
• Delta Capital Management, LLC
• Dogwood Equity
• Eastern North Carolina Investor Network
• Edison Venture Fund
• Fletcher Spaght Ventures
• Frontier Capital, LLC
• Fulcrum Venture Partners
• Globespan Capital Partners
• Golden LEAF Foundation
• Goldman Sachs
• Grotech Capital Group
• Harbert Venture Partners
• Harbor Island Equity Partners LLC
• Hatteras Venture Partners
• H.I.G. Ventures
• In-Q-Tel
• Inception Micro Angel Fund
• Intel Capital
• Intersouth Partners
• Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation
• Leader Ventures
• Lighthouse Partners
• Massey Burch Capital Corp.
• MB Venture Partners
• Mid-Atlantic Venture Funds
• New Enterprise Associates
• New World Ventures
• NC IDEA
• Noro-Moseley Partners
• Novak Biddle Venture Partners
• Osage Ventures
• Oxford Bioscience Partners
• Oxford Finance Corporation
• Pappas Ventures
• Parish Capital Advisors
• Petra Capital
• Piedmont Angel Network
• Quaker BioVentures
• RCT BioVentures
• River Cities Capital Funds
• RiverVest Venture Partners
• Sigma Partners
• SJF Ventures
• Southern Capitol Ventures
• Spring Capital Partners, LP
• SSM Partners
• SunBridge Partners
• Tall Oaks Capital Partners LLC
• Technomark Group USA
• Telecommunications Development Fund
• Tobin Solitario Investment Banking Group
• Triarch Partners
• Triangle Accredited Capital Forum
• Tri-State Investment Group IV
• Updata Partners
• UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund
• Wakefield Group
• Westlake Ventures
• Wilmington Investor Network

Investor firms represented at past CED Venture conferences include:

• Academy Funds
• Accuitive Medical Ventures
• Adena Ventures
• Advanced Technology Ventures
• Alliance Technology Ventures 
• Arcapita Ventures
• Armada Venture Group
• Ascent Venture Partners
• Atlanta Technology Angels
• Avansis Ventures
• Avocet Ventures, LLC
• Ballast Point Venture Partners
• Battery Ventures
• BlueRun Ventures
• Boston Millennia Partners
• Boulder Ventures Ltd.
• Burrill & Company
• Canaan Partners
• CapitalSouth Partners
• Carlyle Venture Partners
• Charles River Ventures
• Charleston Angel Partners
• Charlotte Angel Partners
• CHL Medical Partners
• Chrysalis Ventures
• Cimarron Capital Partners,
• Cogene Ventures
• Columbia Capital
• Cordova Ventures
• Core Capital Partners
• Council Ventures
• Cross Creek Capital
• Dogwood Equity
• Domain Associates
• Emergent Growth Fund LLC
• Equitek Capital
• Fairview Capital
• Frontier Capital
• Fulcrum Financial Services,
• General Catalyst Partners
• GrandBanks Capital
• Grotech Capital Group
• H.I.G. Ventures
• Harbert Venture Partners
• Hatteras BioCapital
• Healthcare Capital Partners
• Highland Capital Partners
• IDG Ventures
• Inception Micro Angel Fund
• Intel Capital
• Intersouth Partners
• JMI Equity Fund
• Johnson & Johnson Development Corp.
• KT Venture Group
• Landmark Capital Corporation
• Lighthouse Capital Partners
• Massey Burch Capital Corp.
• MB Venture Partners
• MetaCapita
• MetaTech Ventures
• Mid-Atlantic Venture Funds
• Motorola Ventures
• Nanotech Capital 
• NC IDEA
• New Enterprise Associates
• Noro-Moseley Partners
• Novak Biddle Venture Partners
• Oxford Bioscience Partners
• Oxford Finance Corporation
• Pacific Rim Ventures
• Paladin Capital Group
• Pappas Ventures
• Parish Capital Advisors 
• Petra Capital
• Pfizer Global Research & Development
• Pharos Capital Group
• Piedmont Angel Network
• Polaris Venture Partners
• Quaker BioVentures, Inc.
• Quellos Group
• QuestMark Partners
• RedShift Ventures
• Research Triangle Ventures 
• Ridgewood Capital
• River Cities Capital Funds
• Seaboard Ventures
• Sevin Rosen Funds
• SJF Ventures
• Skyline Ventures
• Southern Capitol Ventures
• SSM Ventures
• Tall Oaks Capital Partners 
• Technology Venture Partners
• TGap Ventures
• The Atlantis Group
• The Aurora Funds  Inc.
• The Carlyle Group
• The Grosvenor Funds
• The Trelys Funds
• Triangle Accredited Capital Forum
• Triarch Capital Partners
• Triathlon Medical Ventures
• Trinity Ventures
• Tri-State Investment Group IV
• truePilot 
• Updata Partners
• Wakefield Group
• Wilmington Investor Network

Past Venture Conference Highlights

Find out more about past Venture conferences and their line-up of speakers and presenting companies:

• Venture 2006
• Venture 2005
• Venture 2004
• Venture 2003