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by Abbey Slattery May 21, 2021 .
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Thanks to resources like Launch Chapel Hill and the Kenan-Flagler Entrepreneurship Center, Chapel Hill has an established reputation as a hotspot for startups. But as the startups fostered in the town grow, it’s also becoming a base for nationally recognized companies, as well.
Take Sweetie Pie Organics, for example. After working with several instant formula and baby food companies, founder Liliana Cantrell recognized a need for organic, functional foods for breastfeeding moms. While she started her business in Chapel Hill, it has since grown to a nationwide level, with distribution in Target, Walmart, Harris Teeter and more, as well as on Amazon.
Stanford and Duke join certification program to boost diversity education with investors and the C-suite
A partnership between the University of North Carolina’s Kenan Flagler Entrepreneurship Center, the Opportunity Hub and 100 Black Angels and Allies Fund, set up to improve representation and support of diverse founders in the tech industry, is getting more heavy-hitting partners from Duke and Stanford.
As part of the partnership, faculty affiliated with Stanford and Duke will join educators to staff the DEIS Practicum Certificate and Black Technology Ecosystem Investment Certificate programs, which, respectively, try to address ways in which management can engage in diversity and inclusion in a systemic way beyond simply human resources hires and equity in compensation and ways in which more Black investors can become involved in backing startups.
WRAL TechWire keeps tabs on the latest and greatest meetups, panels, workshops, conferences, application deadlines and all things happening in the North Carolina startup/tech world. “The Headliners” is a multi-part weekly roundup of upcoming events to add to your calendar.
Following is a list of January events in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and the greater Triangle area. To find out what’s happening this month in cities outside of the Triangle, check out part two of the “Headliners” column. Another post highlights events coming up in February. Meetups that occur regularly are listed here.
If you’d like your event to be included, feel free to send me an email.
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – A “launching pad” to link universities and businesses is coming to The Frontier in RTP.
In a partnership announced Tuesday, the UNC Kenan-Flagler Entrepreneurship Center will open an office at The Frontier startup-focused campus that is operated by the Research Triangle Foundation. The RTF oversees the Park.
The office will serve as a place where UNC faculty and students can work with RTP companies.
“This will be a launching pad for strengthening collaboration between universities and businesses,” said Scott Levitan, CEO of the RTF.
Added Doug Shackelford, dean of UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School: “With this partnership, the Entrepreneurship Center will serve as a direct connection point to companies in RTP for our student talent and our expertise and thought leadership. This close connection with leaders in industry will be a key leverage point for both our school and those companies.”