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A specialty food business based in Alamance County was among 15 startups statewide that will each get a $10,000 grant to help them grow.
Haw River Mushrooms in Graham grew out of what started as a produce business but in recent years switched to focus on mushrooms. Owners Ches and Laura Stewart were awarded Entrepreneur of the Year by the Alamance County Chamber of Commerce in 2022 and won Specialty Outstanding Food Innovation awards from the Specialty Food Association in 2020.
NC IDEA, a private foundation committed to supporting entrepreneurial ambition, announced the grants this week, its 11th NC IDEA MICRO grant cycle. Since the inaugural cycle in 2018, NC IDEA MICRO has awarded nearly $1.8 million to 177 young companies across the state.
The program, piloted in spring 2018, was created to expand the foundation’s long-standing SEED grant program to provide funding to younger, promising startups not yet positioned for the Foundation’s traditional $50,000 grants.
The NC IDEA MICRO grant recipients were chosen after a three-month competitive application and selection process that drew 170 applications from across the state. The other 14 recipients.
· Allergood, LLC — Chapel Hill, NC
· Alles IoT — Charlotte, NC
· Cadence Financial Group LLC — Raleigh, NC
· DiffyQ — Durham, NC
· Elaka Treats — Greensboro, NC
· Elroi Enterprise Inc. — Durham, NC
· ExstoBio — Chapel Hill, NC
· Findicia — Raleigh, NC
· GreySun Technologies, Inc. — Raleigh, NC
· Hayti — Durham, NC
· iDream Enterprise, LLC — Charlotte, NC
· Robert Rust Foods — Winston-Salem, NC
· SonoVoice, Inc. — Raleigh, NC
· WheelPrice — Charlotte, NC
