Tech Firms Chosen For Southeast Venture Event From Staff And Wire Reports Wednesday, December 13, 2006
RALEIGH -- The organizers of the first annual Southeast Venture Conference, a regional technology venture capital conference that highlights tech firms in the southeast, announced that they have chosen the first round of companies that will present at the event on January 31st and February 1st, 2007.
"Industries ranging from wireless technology and life science to new media and energy are represented in the 16 companies chosen," said Eric Gregg, publisher of TechJournal South, which is organizing the event.
The event may be one of the largest venture capital events in the Carolinas and is cosponsored by Bank of America Securities, NC Technology Association, and dozens of other technology firms and groups in the Southeast.
Each company will give a presentation to an audience of investors and executives from around the southeast who are attending the event. The organizers say that over $17 billion under management is represented by the investors already registered for the conference.
The first round of technology companies chosen include:
Agarigen - Durham, NC
Brightdoor Systems - Cary,NC;
Brightview Technologies - Morrisville, NC;
buySAFE - Arlington, VA;
Campus Management - Boca Raton, FL;
CoalTek - Tucker, GA
Cohda Wireless - Orlando, FL,
Market10 - McLean, VA;
Metabolon - Durham, NC;
mVisible Technologies - Deerfield Beach, FL;
RadarFind - Research Triangle Park, NC;
rPath - Raleigh, NC;
Submachine Corp - Providence Forge, VA
Therasim - Durham, NC;
ViTrue - Atlanta, GA;
More About The Event
The event, which does require a fee, will be held at the new five star Umstead Hotel and Spa on the SAS software campus in Cary, North Carolina just miles from Research Triangle Park. Dr. James Goodnight, the Chairman and CEO of SAS, will be one the speakers at the event.
The organizers say that the final round of selected companies will be announced in the coming days.
As a matter of disclosure, the TechJournal South publication was started by the same founder of the Raleigh Chronicle, but he is no longer associated with the TechJournal and the papers are separate entities. ::: |