Press Release
Contact: Rosalyn Gell |
Phone: 919-549-7500 ext.107 |
Six Companies Selected for CED’s Venture 2006
Final Application Deadline is Jan. 31
January 24, 2006, Research Triangle Park, NC – The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) has selected six companies to present at Venture 2006, and encourages other interested companies to apply by January 31 for consideration in the final selection round. Venture 2006, set for May 2-3, 2006, at Pinehurst Resort in Pinehurst, NC, will showcase North Carolina's top investment opportunities to hundreds of venture capitalists and financiers from throughout the United States.
The North Carolina-based companies recently selected to present at Venture 2006 include the following:
- Advanced Liquid Logic (RTP, NC, www.liquid-logic.com) is developing patented microfluidic technology for portable lab-on-a-chip systems. This technology offers the opportunity for miniaturizing and automating an enormous array of liquid-based laboratory, medical, and other analyses.
- Bright View Technologies (Morrisville, NC, www.brightviewtechnologies.com) is a leading developer of innovative, microstructure based, optical films for the global display industry. Bright View is leveraging a unique and proprietary platform technology, X-LAMPS, that enables the creation of highly engineered plastic films with superior light management characteristics.
- Broadwick Corporation (Durham, NC, www.broadwick.com) is a provider of leading email communications software. Broadwick’s flagship product, IntelliContact, allows small businesses and associations to easily create, send, and track permission-based email newsletters, promotions, announcements, and surveys. Its enterprise-level offering, IntelliCampaign, allows Fortune 500® and public to build stronger relationships with their customers and prospects and manage one-to-many corporate email communications.
- Emu Software (Cary, NC, www.emusoftware.com) is a Linux Server Configuration Management Software Provider. The company’s NetDirector product allows businesses to easily migrate to Linux - without adding additional staff or expertise. NetDirector enables enterprises and service providers alike to benefit from the power of Linux with the simplicity of Windows.
- Ercole Biotech (RTP, NC, www.ercolebiotech.com) creates and develops drugs that direct splicing of messenger RNA. Ercole’s therapeutics are designed to alter pre-mRNA splicing and can be used to up-regulate or downregulate protein expression, switch gene expression from one protein isoform to another, and restore function to defective genes.
- Visitar (Raleigh, NC, www.visitar.com, formerly AppCentrex) provides leading, affordable hosted services for communications-enabled business applications. The company’s “Solutions as a Service” model includes a robust suite of software applications that can be configured by the end user to optimally fit their unique business needs.
“Venture 2006 will once again spotlight presenting companies from a broad spectrum of industries, stages and regions in North Carolina,” said CED President Monica Doss. “I am confident that the final round will continue the selection of the best and brightest high-growth companies in North Carolina.”
The Venture 2006 Selection Committee, which includes active venture capitalists and angel investors from throughout the Southeast, is seeking high-growth companies from across North Carolina, and from an array of industries and stages, that are looking to raise either initial or subsequent rounds of private equity capital. For more information on applying to present and to complete the online application by Jan. 31, visit www.cednc.org/conferences/venture/2006/presenters/application_to_present/
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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