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There are an increasing number of successful and emerging companies in the Triad. Listed below is a partial list of companies and projects underway. If you know of another high growth startup that is not listed, please let us know.
Apex Analytix is the fastest growing provider of audit technology and services. APEX Analytix serves 76 of the Fortune 500, 34 of the Fortune 100, and 11 of the Fortune 25 as clients. APEX Analytix audit and technology customers have included more than 130 companies who produce goods, deliver services, or operate large national and multinational retail businesses.
Batanga is a media and entertainment company reaching Hispanics across multiple platforms, including the cool online entertainment destination you are on right now, nationwide events, and magazines targeted for the New Generation Latino. Batanga headquarters are in Miami(Coral Gables), Florida and maintains offices in New York, Los Angeles and Greensboro, North Carolina where it all started!
Inmar is a leader in providing technology-driven logistics management solutions to retailers, wholesalers, and manufacturers in the consumer goods and healthcare markets. The Inmar family of companies includes CLS, Carolina Supply Chain Services, CLS MedTurn, CMS, Carolina Services, VSI Targeting, Winston Data and Stratapult.
ISP Sports is “America’s Home for College Sports.” But ISP’s home is Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The company was founded in this peaceful yet energetic city 15 years ago and takes great pride in sharing its growth since 1992 with the community that has watched and applauded its development.
LabCorp - Laboratory Corporation of America® Holdings (LabCorp®) is much more than a routine clinical laboratory. As a pioneer in genomic testing and the commercialization of new diagnostic technologies, LabCorp is one of the world's largest clinical laboratories, with annual revenues of $3.6 billion in 2006. Headquartered in Burlington, North Carolina, LabCorp has approximately 25,000 employees and offers a broad range of genomic/esoteric tests.
New Breed is a third-party logistics company that brings new levels of visibility and control to complex logistics operations. We combine methodical analysis of your material flows with the intelligent application of systems to reduce and automate process steps - across your supply chain or in your distribution center. Some of the world's most respected companies rely on New Breed minds to streamline logistics operations in support of manufacturing, distribution, returns, refurbishment & repair, service parts logistics, and transportation management.
Piedmont Pharmaceuticals LLC is a Greensboro, N.C. - based specialty pharmaceutical company focused on human and animal health therapeutics in such select areas as parasitology and the treatment of infection. The company's currently commercialized products and advanced development program leverage unique modes of action and proprietary delivery technologies. Piedmont Pharmaceuticals develops new formulations, uses and delivery vehicles for known active pharmaceutical compounds for human and companion animal health markets.
RFMD - In 1991, William J. Pratt, Powell T. Seymour and Jerry D. Neal founded RFMD® in Greensboro, North Carolina. Since our inception, we have grown from a small design shop into a global leader in wireless technology and proven world-class component supplier. We provide the world's leading wireless manufacturers the critical components that enable wireless devices to transmit and receive signals. Essentially, we help the world's communications devices communicate.
SilkRoad - SilkRoad technology, inc. specializes in talent management solutions that offer a unique blend of systems and services that enable companies to gain competitive advantage through optimum alignment of employee performance with organizational goals. SilkRoad technology is a privately held company based in Winston-Salem, NC with offices around the globe.
Targacept - Targacept, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the design, discovery and development of NNR Therapeutics(TM), a new class of drugs for the treatment of multiple diseases and disorders of the central nervous system. Our NNR Therapeutics selectively target neuronal nicotinic receptors, or NNRs. NNRs are found on nerve cells throughout the nervous system and serve as key regulators of nervous system activity. Targacept is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
TransTech Pharma - TransTech Pharma is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of small molecule and protein therapeutics to fill unmet medical needs. TransTech Pharma is located in Highpoint, North Carolina.
Tengion - Tengion Inc., is a clinical stage biotechnology company and a leader in developing neo-organs and tissues, such as bladders, that are derived from the patient's own (autologous) cells. Tengion's proprietary approach to regenerative medicine has the potential to enable people with organ and tissue failure to lead healthier lives without donor transplants or the side effects of current therapies. Headquartered in East Norriton, PA, Tengion also has a research and pilot manufacturing facility located in Winston-Salem, NC.
C Change Biosciences Inc. A medical device development company that actively factors cost management into its innovations. C Change Biosciences Inc develops clinical devices filtered through an economic lens. The company adds functions that will improve clinical performance to solve clinical problems for hospital customers while at the same time lowering usage costs and waste. In addition the company reduces inventory requirements that will benefit the purchasing supply chain.
CRE8 3D FILMS A Winston Salem, NC based LLC single purpose company created to develop, fund and produce a full length, G rated animated film ( MAGISTICAL ). This 90 minute feature film was completed in the fall of 2007 and is in the process of being distributed in the US market.
Dental Safe, Inc. is a dental products company that has developed and successfully tested a nanotech based consumer product that will be used to sterilize dentures. Using a similar technique to Polident or Efferdent tablets, the Dental Safe wafer will be placed in a container with the denture and will provide true sterilization within a matter of a few minutes. The currently available tablets only clean the surface of a denture but make no claims about eliminating all bacteria present in a denture. The denture market consists of 60M units in the U.S. and growing at the rate of 2M per year and projected to continue at this rate for the next 10 years.
Effectur is a technology-based solutions provider focused on the IRS resolution industry. Effectur resolves IRS problems by providing relief from enforced collection activities and settling outstanding tax debts for clients through the use of its proprietary software tools. (Greensboro)
GET Interactive TIVO/DVR are dramatically changing the traditional ad revenue models by allowing users to bypass current product commercials. Product placement is moving to unique new areas such as product integration with the show, storyline or character. GET Interactive has designed and developed a system that allows consumers to identify and purchase items seen on television or broadband broadcast shows. The company’s ability to make this available exponentially expands product placement opportunities and provides multiple new revenue streams to networks.
Great Wall Systems is a new startup company making advanced high througput firewall systems (Winston-Salem).
Kucera Pharmaceutical Company started with a drug delivery approach that combined or conjugated delivery molecules with therapeutic molecules as a platform technology, both to improve the properties of the attached therapeutic molecules (making them orally available and improving distribution) and to extend patent life. (Winston-Salem)
Live Cargo, Inc. is a leading secure messaging software company with proprietary and patent-pending software designed for secure electronic transfer of digital media and information. The company possesses technology that is both horizontal and vertical market specific.
Ocular Systems, Inc. helps to improve patient outcomes, restoring vision through innovative cornea transplant services with emphasis on preparing donor corneal tissue for DSEK/endothelial keratoplasty. This promising surgical technique is becoming widely used among surgeons across the United States. (Winston-Salem)
Optivia Medical is a NC biotech company founded in 2004 that develops and commercializes patented products for use in endoscopic medicine. The first product, a hysteroscope with an introducer, steerable working channel, and visually guided dilator has reached the final stage of prototype production. (Winston-Salem)
Plureon Corporation is a privately owned biotechnology company located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Plureon was founded in early 2002 in order to develop technologies originating at the Laboratory for Cell Therapy and Tissue Engineering of Children's Hospital Boston, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. (Winston-Salem)
Sandbox Learning, Inc. is a Cornelius, NC based company founded in 2003 as a web-based company that supplies educational products to parents and professionals working with children with developmental disabilities.
Sensory Analytics ( SA ) is a 'New' Company built on more than twenty years of innovative measurement & control experience. The company possesses technology for the non destructive, non-contact and highly precise thickness measurement area which include
The company’s patented information technology solutions increase manufacturing yields and reduce costs. SA owns a portfolio of proven applications designs and systems which have generated demonstrable results and blue chip success stories.
SpringMed Group The resources necessary to transform a medical device concept into a commercially viable reality are enormous. Appropriate funding in addition to Food and Drug Administration ( FDA) experience, engineering and rapid prototyping are essential in order to have any reasonable chance for success. To this end, SpringMed Group is a medical device business accelerator that has been designed and organized around core competencies that will substantially improve the development time line and successful launch of new and innovative medical devices.
X1 Communications is a wireless Internet service provider (WISP) that has built a wireless infrastructure that can service the Piedmont Triad market. The company’s technology is based on a fixed wireless and based on the IEEE 802.16 standard. Radiocommunications systems using this standard are referred to as WiMax which allows WISPs to build data delivery systems that can deliver high bandwidth datacommunications for customers. (Winston-Salem)
AKARI is a project to commercialize significant research findings from the WFU Lipid Sciences Research Group. The effort is very early stage.
Clinical Ink is an early stage company offers an eSource solution for clinical trials that provides cleaner data more quickly — saving money by reducing your time to market. .
Commerce-Web International Inc. has developed services and technology that will allow business-to-consumer (B2C) businesses and customers to move to a single, universal loyalty card which allows shoppers to receive quality promotional offers. It will also provide the B2C businesses with customer-specific sales information without the expense of having their own loyalty card. (Greensboro)
Creative Bioreactor Design is an early stage company which will design and sell equipment to support the manufacturing of tissue and organs for regenerative medicine.The company is being incubated in collaboration with scientists at the Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine.
DiscountWhitley.com will provide an accessible, user-friendly Web site where users can comparison-shop the prices of groceries in their local geographic areas. (Winston-Salem)
Eco Everyday is a lifestyle retail store that offers everyday household items that make a healthier impact on the planet and its people. It also offers colorful clothing and accessories made free of sweat-shop labor. (Greensboro)
FiberCell and PlexiLight These companies will move from the labs of Wake Forest's Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials where their technologies were developed into the Piedmont Triad Research Park's Albert Hall to begin the commercialization process. The companies will attempt to fill niches on both the supply and demand side of the growing alternative-energy business. They will be led by Daryl Boudreaux during the startup phase.
Filigree Nanotech, Inc. is a development-stage company that has a proprietary technique for producing nanomaterials including nanowires and nanocubes using silver blended with copper, gold and even aluminum. This results in compounds with more durability, increased conductivity and lower manufacturing costs for the electronics market. The company is currently further developing the technology with the assistance of the the WFU Nanotech Center. (Winston-Salem)
Jaction Realities is consumer products development stage company that has developed and tested a unique role playing board game that could become a new cult hit similar to Warcraft. The game will be sold initially through independent game and comic book dealers.
King Concepts will create an Internet platform to allow unknown musical talents to reach an audience not restricted by industry judging. (Winston-Salem)
Longfiber enGINeering, Inc. has invented and is commercializing a revolutionary technology that is the first major innovation to the cotton gin since Eli Whitney. The machine increases ginned cotton yield by removing more fiber from the seed and increases quality by retaining the fiber's length. With a dynamic team, excellent business plan, tremendous support network from NCSU and WFU, as well as ongoing and high level interest from potential partners and investors, this start-up is positioning itself for success. (Winston-Salem)
NanoMed Corporation is developing technologies that will provide a reliable, portable and efficient method for the detection of pathogens, and chemical and biological markers at the point-of-care and point-of-test. (Greensboro)
North Carolina Greentech LLC will recycle waste tires, disposing of them in an environmentally sound manner that produces valuable byproducts for resale. (Winston-Salem)
Otothera Corporation is an early stage medical device company developing products to to diagnose and treat the more than seven million severe tinnitus (constant ringing in the ears) sufferers in the US. The company was originally named AudioFusion. The company was a 2006 PTEN Growth Accelerator (GAP) winner.
OpenMedis Corporation will develop an Internet-based community for the imaging-center market which brings together independent imaging centers, health-care providers, billing and insurance providers, and patients. OpenMedis will provide the infrastructure and services to help imaging centers manage their health-care IT service needs. (Winston-Salem)
Poll-A-Room's ClassPAR, an Internet-based polling program, provides a more advanced and lower-cost product than the classroom engagement systems currently used in over 850 schools across the nation. (Winston-Salem)
Record Solutions Notebooks will provide coordinated products and services allowing lab workers to easily record the results of their research in a way that documents their procedures and verifies the timing of their work for patent applications. (Winston-Salem)
Retina Software is a computer and video game development company. It will generate the design, programming, music, and artwork necessary to create games. Once the game is developed, Retina will partner with an established publisher, such as EA or Activision, to create physical copies of the game for distribution. The company is a 2007 PTEN Growth Accelerator (GAP) winner.
Salzburg Therapeutics Inc. is developing Cytotoxamer™ and Genotoxamer™ technologies for treatment of prostate cancer and other malignancies. (Yadkinville)
Saura Pride is a “farm-to-table” food processor. It grows its unique Stokes Purple Sweet Potato from which it makes a variety of value-added products. Saura Pride’s development plans emphasize conservation of the marvelous natural resources of its home base in Stokes County, NC and its region and preservation of the family farm. Strategic partners in this effort include StokesCORE and several other non-profit economic development organizations.
SharingArt.com promises a “virtual” marketplace for event-dated and out-of-print cultural, biographical and historical information produced and published by museums, galleries and artists about their collections, exhibitions, creative works and acquisitions. SharingArt.com will consolidate the complete booklists of both museums and trade publishers on its customized Web site so that anyone can search a single-source database. (Winston-Salem)
Smart Perfusion LLC designs and manufactures organ perfusion and transport systems, using technology that will significantly improve organ preservation quality and increase the transport and storage lifetime of kidneys and other precious organs during transplantation. (Greensboro)
Survival Skills Education & Development Inc. (SSED) has created programs that increase competence and confidence in the workplace, allowing individuals to increase job retention and advancement potential by further developing interpersonal and other soft skills. (Greensboro)
Trend Funnel
Trend Funnel™ has developed online software programs that organize home furnishings, flooring, paint and accessories by style and trend, allowing users to find desired products more efficiently and with the assurance that products will coordinate and match. (Greensboro)
Talon, Inc. is an early stage company that is a spin off of Bald Eagle Technologies, Inc. and is developing web based video patient eduction systems to improve increase patient knowledge and satisfaction as well as increase the profitability of physician practices.
Translational Capital is a new initiative being incubated at the BDI to provide early funding to companies in the biosciences and nanotechnology industries located in the Triad.
VivaTest is an investigational effort between the BDI and the WFU Primate Center to determine the commercial feasibility of establishing a contract research organization to provide services to test solutions for infectious diseases.