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As Ventureprise begins to conclude our summer programming, we are following up with some of our program alumni. After graduating this summer’s cohort, 275 teams have participated in our customer discovery program, Ventureprise Launch. We will begin our coverage with six teams that focused these last 18 months on reaching some major...
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From pre-seed-stage startups to multibillion-dollar tech firms, the Fire Awards are a peek at what set these companies ablaze over the last year — things like new funding rounds, product launches and pandemic pivots that not only saved the business, but benefited customers along the way. They're companies that have expanded, inked major acquisition deals and started the sometimes...
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UNCC Ventureprise and City Startup Labs are collaborating on an accelerator program aimed at drawing in a new batch of mentors for local entrepreneurs.
The program, called the Inclusive Innovation Leadership Academy, was created to diversify the leaders and mentors who work alongside founders and entrepreneurs, said Ventureprise Director Devin Collins.
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Davidson-based Grocery Shopii has raised a $1 million seed round that comes on the heels of a partnership with Microsoft.
Grocery Shopii, founded in 2018 by Katie Hotze, is a meal-planning application that helps...
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Local tech startup BatteryXchange seems to have hit its stride.
The startup announced last week that it recently closed on an investment from local venture capital firm ...
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Persistence and grit are two things that any successful startup founder possesses. For Abi Olukeye and ...
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DURHAM, NC – April 26, 2021 – NC IDEA, a private foundation committed to supporting entrepreneurial ambition and economic empowerment in North Carolina, announced today that the organization has awarded nearly $200,000 to nineteen North Carolina startups in its sixth NC IDEA MICRO grant cycle. Since the inaugural cycle in Spring 2018, NC IDEA MICRO has awarded nearly $1...
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Last week, Ventureprise — UNCC's innovation and entrepreneurship center — was named one of 10 recipients of a nationally recognized award.
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Abi Olukeye, the founder of Charlotte-based Smart Girls HQ, began her journey through Ventureprise, the University’s center for innovation and entrepreneurship. She participated in...
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Dr. Victor Chen, Associate Professor of International Management in Belk College of Business and Ventureprise Launch National Science Foundation I-Corps alumnus, has designed a course for students to assist startup ventures with global potential. At its core, the Global Launch course will focus on training business majored students’ theories and practices for global market assessment, global...
