150%
Growth Since 2017
6
Consecutive Years Sold Out
525
Tickets Sold in 2021
86
Pitching Companies
Audience Diversity: CEOs, Executives & Managing Directors ● Presidents, EVPs & SVPs ● Startup Founders + Entrepreneurs ● Venture Capitalists, Angel Investors & Growth Funds ● Heads of Partnership, Innovation & Strategy ● Financial Advisors + Tax Partners ● Data Scientists + Engineers ● Tech Reporters ● MBA Candidates
Global Reach: The Venture135 2021 presenting companies represented 18 different States & 20 different Countries
The Premier Venture Conference
Past Speakers
2021 Keynote Speakers
Brian Savoy
Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Commercial Officer,
Duke Energy
2019 Keynote
Kathleen McGrow
DNP, MS, RN, PMP, Chief Nursing Information Officer
Microsoft
2018 Keynote
Steve Boehm
Chief Operating Officer
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Alejandro Cremades
Best-Selling Author & Serial Entrepreneur
Panthera Advisors
2021 Panelists
Marci Marra - Partner, Sia Partners
Michelle M. Young, FSA, MAAA - VP, Head of Underwriting Risk Management and Retrocession – US and Canada, SCOR
Michael Lee - Senior Associate, Bull City Venture Partners
Niki Chimberg - Head of Product, Skiptown
Jeffrey S. Merrifield - Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
Bahart Rajaram - Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer, Aflac Global Ventures
Marc Saab - Managing Director, BML Technology
Elise Franco - Tech and Startup Reporter, Charlotte Inno/Charlotte Business Journal
Desmond Wiggan - CEO & Co-Founder, BatteryXchange
Naeem Raza - Partner, Mighty Capital
Caroline Hudson - Reporter, Charlotte Business Journal
Michael Levy - Chief Executive Officer, Digital Health Institute for Transformation (DHIT)
Adam Scully-Power, CIMA, CPWA - Senior Portfolio Strategist,
Brighthouse Financial
Raki McGregor - Vice President, New Business Growth, Novant Health
Patricia Bradley - US Chief Commercial Officer, Huma
Mark Flickinger - General Partner and COO, Panoramic Ventures
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2020 Panelists
Monique Villa - Mucker Labs - Investor
Eller Mallchock - Jumpstart Foundry - Managing Director
James Barlia - Rise of the Rest Seed Fund - Investor
Rodney Morris - Valor Ventures - Associate
Emily Hak - Insperity - District Manager
John DuBois - Insperity - Regional Vice President
John Espey - Defiance Ventures - CEO & Co-Founder
Sid Chambless - Nashville Capital Network - Executive Director & Managing Partner
Jordan Teel - Brighthouse Financial - Head of Life Strategy Enablement
Josh Levine - Cake & Arrow - Founder & CEO
Tate Ficker - UNUM - Vice President, Corporate Business Ventures
Dr. Seth Rachlin - Capgemini - Executive Vice President & Chief Innovation Officer
Jason Williamson - Oracle for Startups and Oracle for Research - Vice President
Eric Kirsch - Mito Station - CEO
Kathy Tune - Odonata Health - CFO & COO
Dr. Uli Chettipally - InnovatorMD - Founder & President
Ana Gupte - AG Health Adivsors - Principal
2019 Panelists
Joyce Shen - Tenfore Holdings - Investment Director
Gardiner Garrard - TTV Capital - Managing Director
Tyler Kruger - Frontier Capital - Vice President
David Jones - Bull City Ventures - General Partner
Ned Daoro - Clocktower Ventures - Principal
Angel Rutledge - SignUpGenius - Founder
Scott Harkey - Levvel - Chief Strategy Officer
2018 Panelists
Johnson Cook - Greenlight Financial - President
K.C Brechnitz - EY - Senior Managing Director
David Hall - Rise of the Rest Seed Fund - Partner
Mac Lackey - Venture South - Partner
Richard Maclean - Frontier Capital - Partner
Matt Kennedy - Bank Street Partners - SVP
Chris Hart - Levvel - Founder/CEO
2017 Panelists
Rob Cummings - Deal Cloud - Co-Founder
Greg Brown - Cardinal Finance - Partner
Luke Timberlake - FV Fund -Partner
Gardiner Garrard - TTV Capital - Partner
Mike Praeger – AvidXchange - CEO/Co-Founder
Matt Potere - Sunlight Financial - CEO
Alumni Companies
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Venture Capital Firms That Attend
Acumen
AECTIC
Aflac Ventures
AI Patent Law
AIR Summit
Alerion Ventures
Alt Ridge Capital, LLC
Anthos Capital
Atlantic Avenues, LLC
Bank of America - Merrill Lynch
Banks Street Partners
Barings
BB&T Ventures
Birch Avenue Investments
Blackbaud
Blu Ventures
Bull City Ventures
Canapi Ventures
Candor
Capital Innovators
Cardinal Finance
CBRE
CED
CFV Ventures
Charlotte Angel Fund
Circadian Ventures
Citizens Bank
Clocktower Ventures
Cofounders Capital
Collective Capital
Connetic Ventures
Constellation
Cramer Mountain Growth Partners
CreativeCo Capital
Crowdfund NC
Cultivation Capital
Cypress Growth Capital
Data 360
Dextrus Advisory
DH AgRisk
Duke Angel Network
Dux Capital
Eaze
Eli Global & UNC Center for the
Business of Health
Engage Ventures
Excelerate Health Ventures
F10 Fintech Singapore
Falfurrias Capital
Fifth Third Bank
Fintech Ventures Fund
FINTOP Capital
Flyover Capital
FreshTracks Capital
Front Row Fund
Fulcrum Equity Partners
Good Growth Capital
Grotech Ventures
Hula LLC
IDEA Fund Partners
Impression Ventures
Information Venture Partners
InsurTech NY
Jurassic Capital
Kapor Capital
KeyBanc Capital Markets
Kian Capital
Krückeberg Family Office
Lightbank
Lowes Ventures
Miramar Capital
Mucker Capital
Multiplier Fund
Napier Park Financial Partners
Napier Park Global Capital
Nashville Capital Network
National Livestock Insurance Agency
NC Venture Capital
Neologix
Noro Moseley Partners
Northwest FST Inc
Oval Capital
Pilot Growth Equity
Portus Wealth Advisors
QED Investors
QP Global Family Offices
Real Ventures
Red Dog Ventures
Resilient Ventures
Revolution's Rise of the Rest
RevUp Capital
River Cities Capital Fund
RTP Capital Associates
SCOR
Self
Shoreline Investors
SixThirty Ventures
South Street Ventures
Squada Ventures
Stacked Capital
Startup-O PTE
State Farm
Synchrony
Task Force X Capital
TDF Ventures
Tenfore Holdings
TFX Capital
Triangle Angel Partners
The Lasik Center Medical Group, Inc.
The Riverside Company
Truist
TTV Capital
UNC Business School
Valor VC
VentureSouth
Vinaj Ventures
West Loop Ventures
Yates Ventures
+ many independent investors