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Nine Companies to Present at CED’s Opportunity 2006
Emerging Growth Companies from Across the East Coast Will Pitch to Early-Stage Investors in Wilmington on Dec. 5
October 26, 2006, Research Triangle Park, NC –The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) has selected nine companies from across the East Coast to present at CED’s Opportunity 2006 Conference, scheduled for December 4-5 at the Hilton Wilmington Riverside in Wilmington, N.C.
CED accepted applications from emerging growth companies across the region seeking early-stage funding. A review committee of area angel investors recommended finalists from the competitive application process.
Starting the afternoon of December 5, selected companies will make presentations to an audience of angel investors and other conference attendees. Presenting companies include:
- Autonomic IT / PicotaG (Belmont, Mass., www.picotag.com)
- Diakine Therapeutics, Inc. (Charlottesville, Va., www.diakine.com)
- ITAnyplace (Rocky Mount, N.C., www.itanyplace.com)
- Jenken Biosciences, Inc (Research Triangle Park, N.C., www.jenkenbio.com)
- Merlyn Software, LLC (Cary, N.C., www.merlynsoftware.com)
- ServusXchange, LLC (Pompano Beach, Fla., www.ServusXchange.com)
- Teotten Diagnostics, Inc. (Research Triangle Park, N.C., www.teotten.com)
- Zumatek, Inc. (Chapel Hill, N.C., www.zumatek.com)
- ZyCare, Inc. (Chapel Hill, N.C., www.zycare.com)
“We continue to see strong demand from promising startups seeking seed and early-stage capital,” said CED President Monica Doss. “The presenting companies at Opportunity 2006 represent unique investment opportunities from a range of industries, growth strategies and regions.”
In addition to presenting companies, CED’s fourth annual conference will also feature previously announced keynote speakers, including Don deBethizy, president and CEO of publicly-traded Targacept, and John McConnell, a successful entrepreneur who has started, grown and sold several companies.
Opportunity 2006 will present workshops that address both new business formation and practical guidance for business operation, as well as three highly-targeted pre-conference workshops. Entrepreneurs can also request one-on-one “curbside consulting” appointments with seasoned business professionals.
For more information on Opportunity 2006 presenting companies and other conference highlights, visit www.cednc.org/opportunity.
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. Headquartered in the Research Triangle with a divisional office in Wilmington, 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. 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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