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When: Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Date TBD)
Where: Duke or UNC (TBD)
Who: Graduate students from NCSU, UNC and Duke
MBA, Engineering, Sciences, Mathematics, Public
Policy, Medicine, Environment, Architecture, etc.
How Much: Free for students and entrepreneurs
TEAM-UP is for entrepreneurial graduate students of all disciplines from Duke, NCSU and UNC. Students are grouped into multi-disciplinary, multi-university teams that play the role of angel
investment groups. The purpose of the event is to:
- Provide a high-impact, fun activity for graduate students of all disciplines to learn about financing new ventures;
- Build multidisciplinary entrepreneurial teams of students from diverse backgrounds (see student diversity).
- Connect tomorrow’s innovators.
GREAT ENTREPRENEURS! Over half of the early-stage ventures who have presented at TEAM-UP have gone on to get
funded or acquired.
- Liquidia Technologies (received $6M VC funding)
- Refense Technologies (acquired by P4 Performance)
- Clinication (acquired in 2007)
- Campbell Science Group (received angel funding)
- Emu Software (presented at Venture 2006 and featured in CED’s “On the Up”)
- Hydrologics (now Blue Sahara)
- TradeSpectrum
- Axitare
- RiverData Systems, Inc.
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