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1 Million Cups RTP
ACA’s Angel Investor Foundation
ACCESS Center for Equity + Success
Access Warren
Alamance Community College, Small Business Center
American Underground
AMIA Works (Career Exploration and Training)
Array Community Development
Artists Designing Evolution (adé PROJECT)
Asheville-Area Food Guild
Aspire Career Foundations
ASPIRE Community Capital
Audacity Labs
B.The.Entrepreneur Consulting Agency
Black Business Expo USA
Black Wall Street Homecoming
BlackGirlMagicMarket
BLKTECHCLT
Boundless Impact
Bunker Labs
Cabarrus Economic Development
Campbell University
Career Development Center at Appalachian State University
Carolina Cyber Center
Carolina Small Business Development Fund
Carteret County Economic Development Foundation
Carteret County Public Library
Catawba County Chamber of Commerce
Catawba Valley Community College
Center for Creative Economy
Central Carolina Community College Small Business Center
Charlotte LGBT Chamber of Commerce
City of Asheville-Office of Economic Development
City Startup Labs
Cleveland Community College Foundation
Co-Active Capital
Code The Dream
Collective Hustle
Communities in Partnership
Corporation for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED)
CREATE
Crisp Small Business Resource Center
Davidson County Community College, Small Business Center
Digital Health + Transformation (DHIT)
Discovery Charter School
Dottie Rose Foundation
Durham Academy
Durham SOUP
Durham Success Summit
Durham Success Summit
E4 Carolinas
East Carolina University
Edmonds Tennis and Education Foundation
Elizabeth City Area Chamber of Commerce
Elizabeth City State University
Entrepreneurial Places
Fayetteville State University
First Flight Venture Center
Fourtee Acres
Freelance League of North Carolina
Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Gateway Community Development
Genesis Block Labs
Greensboro Community Development Fund
Grepbeat
GRIND
Halifax Community College Workforce and Economic Development, Small Business Center
Hatch AVL Foundation
Healthtech Women
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of the State of North Carolina
HQ Community
HUSTLE Winston-Salem
Hygge Coworking
ImagineHub
Innovate Charlotte
Innovate Raleigh
Innovative Networking Group
Institute of Emerging Issues of North Carolina State University
Jay Hurt Hub for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Davidson College
Junior Achievement Central Carolinas
Knox St. Studios
Launch Chapel Hill
Launch Greensboro
LaunchBio
LaunchLKN
LaunchUNCG at UNC Greensboro
Life Design Institute
Living Better Life
Manufacturing Solutions Center
Mayland Community College
MBCOI
Miles Enterprise Solutions
Mixxer Makerspace
Mountain BizWorks
Nash Community College, Small Business Center
NC A&T University Center of Excellence in Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEE&I)
NC Network of Incubator Kitchens (NC-NIK)
NCGrowth, UNC
Network for Entrepreneurs in Wilmington
New Hanover Regional Medical Center
North Carolina Central University
North Carolina Sustainable Business Council
NXT/CLT
Partner Community Capital (Formely NCIFund)
Patricia Taborn Modeling Agency
Piedmont Business Capital
Piedmont Food & Agricultural Services/ WE Power
PitchBreakfast
Pittman Elementary Leadership Academy
Prospera
Provident1898
Queens University Entrepreneur Leadership Circle
ReCity Network
Redirection
Redirection CDC
ResilNC
RIoT
RJRD Associates & Consultants
RTP AgBio+AgTech
S.G.A Community Development Corporation
Sankofa Farms
Saving Adolescent Girls Everywhere
SenterME
Sequoyah Fund
Shaw University
Small Business and Technology Development Center (SBTDC)
StartCharlotte
Startup High Country
Startup Summit
StepUp Durham
Stiletto Boss University
TechWorks Gaston
The Boost Pad
The ECHO Chamber
The Helius Foundation
The Institute of Minority Economic Development
The Nussbaum Center for Entrepreneurship
The Trade Show Manager
The Tulsa Initiative
Thomas Entrepreneurship Hub at UNC Pembroke
Thread Capital (NC Rural Center)
Training to Work an Industry Niche (TWIN)
Tri-County Community College
Triangle Entrepreneurial Leadership
Triangle Venture Alliance
U Launch
UNC Chapel Hill Institute for the Environment
UNC Kenan-Flagler’s Entrepreneurship Center
UNCW Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
University of North Carolina at Pembroke Foundation
Vance-Granville Community College, Small Business Center
Venture Asheville
Venture Cafe Winston Salem
Venture For America
Venture135
VentureAsheboro
Ventureprise at UNC Charlotte
Vision to Venture
Wake Technical Community College
Warren County Economic Development
WCU Corporation for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
WE Power Food
Wilkes Community College
Winston Starts
Winston-Salem State University
Women In Bio- RTP Chapter
Women’s Business Center of NC
WRAL TechWire/Gig East
Young Founders Institute
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