An Introduction to CED
November, 2012
Who We Are
• Member-driven, nonprofit organization
• Since 1984…
– 700+ companies have gone through FastTrac®
» raised $400 million in funding
– 600 companies have presented at major
conferences (Life Science and Tech Venture)
» raised $1.1 billion
• Promise: Knowledge, network and
access to capital
• AlphaVax, Inc.
• Altometrics, Inc.
• Asklêpios
BioPharmaceutical
Inc., (“AskBio”)
• Cell Microsystems
• Ercole Biotech, Inc.
• Impulsonic, Inc.
• InnerOptic Technology
Inc.
• Inspire Inc. (Acquired)
• Liquidia Technologies
• NextRay Inc.
• Novan, Inc.
• Oriel Therapeutics
(Acquired)
• Qualiber, Inc.
• Science Learning
Resources, Inc.
• Synereca
Pharmaceuticals
• Vascular
Pharmaceuticals
• Viamet
Pharmaceuticals®
• XinRay Systems LLC
• Patent-pending technology
• Enables fast, efficient analysis of vast amounts of
archived and current data.
• The Passive Application Response Time (PART)
Monitor software
– measures application response times from network
traffic.
• Sir Robert Burbridge, Founder/CEO
– Decade of entrepreneurship, software
design/development
– 5 years software engineering at Cisco Systems, Inc.
• Jeff Terrell, PhD, Founder/CTO
– PhD in Computer Science from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill,
– Research on anomaly detection methods became the
prototype of Altometrics’ data analytics platform.
Additional programs/events
• First tenant of the American Tobacco
Campus-- Underground
• Partner in Blackstone Network
• CED-Venture Mentoring Service (MIT
Model)
• Coordinator of 40+ “entrepreneurial
support organizations”
– Resource Map Coming Q1 2013
• Meet the investors
• Pitch Scrub
Select up-coming events
• Clean Tech Forum- “Investing in Cleantech”
– Nov 14th – ATC Classroom
• “State of Venture Capital” (JOBS act)
– Nov 29th – RTP Foundation
• Biotech Forum- “Anatomy of a deal”
– Dec 5th– NC Biotech Center
• Life Science Conference
– February 27/28th – Raleigh Convention Center
• See www.cednc.org/calender
Membership
• If your UNC department is member
– free “umbrella” membership
• If student
– $35 annual membership
• If entrepreneur
– $195 annual membership
• Specific events may have additional
fees
• See www.cednc.org
– Contact Jane Royall, jroyall@cednc.org
An Introduction to CED
November, 2012
Jay Bigelow,
Director of Entrepreneurship
jbigelow@cednc.org