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The Collective Workshop

Royal Animal Refuge

Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta

Georgia Advancing Communities Together

Atlanta Writers Club

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Jewish Fertility Foundation

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CEAg World Conference and Expo

Why Talent Planning Breaks in Startups

Connect to Capital AMA (Virtual)

GRO12 Demo Day

NC IDEA Summit

Triangle Startup Collective with Eric Boduch

Coffee & Cornhole

Give

Announcing the Fall 2026 Startup TNT Associate Cohort!

Breaking Barriers for Founders: Wells Fargo Invests $20,000 in NC Entrepreneurs Through CED’s FORGE Program

A New Era of Growth for the Triangle Startup Ecosystem, CED Releases 2025 Impact Report

GRO Is Back and Better Than Ever: Meet the 11th Cohort

Meet the VC26 Company Lineup

A Year of Sectoral Transformation: North Carolina’s 2025 Venture Report by CED

Inspiring Innovators, Elevating North Carolina Emerging Businesses: CED receives $100,000 Regions Foundation grant benefiting GRO Incubator

Announcing the Fall 2025 Startup TNT Associate Cohort!

What Seed Looks Like Now: Notes from Carta’s “State of Seed”

Startup TNT - Wrapping Up an Incredible Semester with Our Associates

Read the 2025 Venture Report

Read the latest Impact Report

Abha Bowers

Alex Bloom

Elaina Bade

Jay Bigelow

JP Maloney

Katelin Wheeler

Preet Mankad

Jed Carlson

Kelli Luginbuhl

Tyson Nargassans

Anika Suman

Charles Murphy Jr.

Kennedy Cook

Giles Shih

Hunter Young

✨🎤 FOUNDER, RALEIGH NATIVE, BEST SELLING AUTHOR @jess_ekstrom is our next Strength in Numbers speaker!!! ✨🎤 Jess is joining us for our Strength in Numbers Fall event @junctionwestnc. She will be kicking off with a keynote followed by breakout sessions, time for networking, and a book signing of her latest 📕 Making It Without Losing It, included in your ticket purchase. We’ve got a limited number of tickets available, get yours today! We sold out last year with @alisonfragale and we’re so glad to bring another likeable badass into the CED community.

☕ Fuel up for the big week ahead! CED is kicking off Raleigh-Durham Startup Week with a casual coffee and cornhole meetup — the perfect way to get energized, meet fellow founders, and ease into all the sessions and programming #RDSW26 has in store. No agenda. No programming (this time!). Just good vibes, great coffee, and an excuse to finally show off your cornhole game. 🌽 Come grab a cup, say hi, and connect with the Triangle startup community before the week gets rolling. All are welcome! Register in bio.

What a time at VC26! 👏 Thank you to our Speakers, Sponsors, incredible lineup of Presenting Founders, and the Triangle Ecosystem for showing up to @dpacnc this week. We’ll see you soon (after some rest) but mark your calendars for VENTURE CONNECT MARCH 22-25, 2027 🥳 -Alex, Jay, Hunter, Abha, Katelin, Elaina, Sanjana, Preet, Yash, and JP

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