THE COMPANIES
Welcome to the 2025 Company Showcase! We are gearing up for another record-breaking year of innovation in the Southeast at Venture Connect. We’re calling on innovative companies to have the chance to pitch live, sharing your company goals for increased visibility and potential funding—all in under five minutes.
Selected companies to pitch will receive one complimentary ticket given to their presenter who will be given the spotlight on one of two stages, spanning two days of pitching. We also encourage startup teams to join us. Your participation is a fantastic way to network with peers and dive deep into the heart of the Southeast’s innovation space.
For those selected, attendees will have the chance to learn more about you and connect directly via our partnering app before the conference begins. It’s more than a pitch—it’s a stepping stone to your company’s next big leap.
Application Timeline
Company Applications Open
Applications to pitch at the best capital conference in the Southeast are open!
Company Applications Close
All applications must be submitted by January 10th.
Selection Notification
Each application is reviewed in detail and companies will be notified of the status of their applications no later than February 10th. CED will make rolling announcements of featured companies in February, as confirmations are received.
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Time to Pitch!
Investors That Have Previously Attended Venture Connect
- 10Edison Capital
- 11 Tribes
- 2ndF
- ACCELR8
- Accomplice
- Activate Venture Partners
- Alerion Ventures
- Alexandria Venture Investments
- Amex Ventures
- Arbour Way Investors
- Ardent Venture Partners
- ARTIS Ventures
- Atomic VC
- Avenue Growth Partners
- Baird Capital
- Ballast Point Ventures
- Because Ventures
- Bioventure Partners
- Blu Ventures
- Blue Heron Capital
- Bonaventure Equity
- BroadOak Capital Partners
- Bull City Venture Partners
- Camford Capital
- Celesta
- CFV Ventures
- CGC Ventures
- Circadian Ventures
- Clovis Point
- Cofounders Capital
- Cone Health Ventures
- Cowboy Ventures
- CreativeCo
- Cypress Growth Capital
- DCVC Bio
- Decathalon Capital Partners
- Deepwork Capital
- Delta-v Capital
- Eastside Partners
- Edison Venture Fund
- Excelerate Health Ventures
- FCA Venture Partners
- FINTOP Capital
- First Launch Capital Fund
- Flagstaff Ventures
- Flyover Capital
- FMC Ventures
- Foundation Fighting Blindness
- Frazier Life Sciences
- Freestyle Capital
- Front Porch Venture Partners
- Fulcrum Equity Partners
- Fulcrum Financial Partners
- Goldman, Sachs and Co.
- Good Growth Capital
- Gray Ventures
- Grotech Ventures
- Harbert Growth Partners, LLC
- Harbright Venture
- Hatteras Venture Partners
- HG Ventures
- Hockey Stick Investments
- IDEA Fund Partners
- Inclusive Capital Partners
- Insight Venture Partners
- Intel Capital
- JMI Equity
- Johnson & Johnson Innovation
- Jurassic Capital
- FMC Ventures
- KdT Ventures
- LabCorp
- Lakeland Capital Partners
- Landmark Capital
- Level Equity
- Lighter Capital
- LNC Partners
- Material Ventures
- MED1 Ventures, LLC
- Mercato Partners
- New Day Venture Capital
- Noro-Moseley Partners
- Osage Venture Partners
- Oval Park Capital
- Panoramic Ventures
- Pappas Capital
- Perceptive Advisors
- Prevail Partners
- Primordial Tech Ventures
- RA Capital
- Radian Capital
- Relevance Ventures
- Revolution Ventures
- RevUp Capital
- Rex Health Ventures
- River Cities Capital Funds
- Salem Partners
- Sanofi Ventures
- Signature Bank
- SJF Ventures
- Solas BioVentures
- Sopris Capital
- Sovereign’s Capital
- Spectrum Equity
- Spring Mountain Capital LP
- SSM Partners
- Staley Capital
- Stanley Ventures
- Susquehanna Growth Equity
- Sustainable Food Ventures
- Syngenta Ventures
- TDF Ventures
- Tech Square Ventures
- TechOperators
- The Venture Collective
- Tiger Management
- Tiverton Advisors, LLC
- Topmark Partners
- Triangle Tweener Fund
- Updata Partners
- Vocap Investment Partners
- Volvo Group Venture Capital
- VTC Ventures
- Xontogeny
Attend
Buy your tickets early and save. CED offers two ticket types: Startups and General Admission. Coming soon!
Agenda
Full agenda coming soon!
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“Very excited for the event. Got a chance to meet and network with lot of cool new and interesting people, that were supportive of our work at CareYaya and interested in collaborating with us. CED team did a great job organizing and running the event smoothly. The startups were cool and collaborative, and lot of new investor relationships were formed. I especially liked the opportunity to set up 1×1 meetings with people through the app. Overall, the best event I have been to since I started CareYaya!”
“Thank you for organizing such a fantastic event! I thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to pitch to the amazing venture capitalists in attendance and found their reverse pitches to be incredibly insightful.”
