Capital Connects 2021

MARCH 10, 2021

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AGENDA

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SPONSORS

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TWO-MINUTE PITCHES

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SIX-MINUTE PITCHES

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EXPO/NETWORKING INFO

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ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR

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Agenda WELCOME Kelli Frazier, Launch Greensboro Advisory Board

TWO-MINUTE PITCHES ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR SIX-MINUTE PITCHES FIRESIDE CHAT

Ecosystem Grants & Updates Thom Ruhe President & CEO, NC IDEA Lou Anne Flanders-Stec Executive Vice President of Entrepreneurship, Greensboro Chamber of Commerce

ANNOUNCEMENT OF WINNERS CLOSING NETWORKING

Sponsors PLATINUM

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ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR

TABLE SPONSORS

Two-Minute Pitches Truentity Co-Founder, CEO Mike Desai Truentity helps build trust between patient and provider by giving patients the ability to take control of their health data by allowing them to select who to share their data with, for what purpose, and for how long.

Chef Natasha Ford Founder Natasha S. Ford The need for families to build stronger relationship bonds have never been greater. Our company creates cooking classes and experiences that helps families to improve on their communication, have fun and build lasting memories together. It is also a great employee team building activity. Let’s Get Cooking!

Eliz Creative Founder, CEO Eliz Harrison Eliz Creative helps organizations unlock their potential so they can grow.

After listening to clients’ goals and dreams and learning the brand inside and out, Eliz loves to save managers time by crafting authentic content and taking care of the marketing hustle.

ConvoRally Founder Stephen Batts

ConvoRally is building a technology solution to protect people during a contractual agreement, enabling clear communication of needs and expectations, providing a living document platform that combines docs, photos, and communication all in one to help customers and businesses get work done faster and smarter.

Three Strands Recovery Wear Founder, CEO Leah Wyrick 1 in 3 women develop post-operative complications after a mastectomy. In partnership with Dr. Samuel Roy, a plastic surgeon, Three Strands has designed the Resilience Bra that minimizes the risk of complications while offering a more comfortable, fitted, and fashionable bra for the patient post-surgery.

Minvera Lithium Founder Sheeba Dawood Minerva Lithium’s first innovative product utilizes a proprietary Nano Mosaic Membrane filter system for lithium extraction from crude oil, brine, and wastewater. The company is a university spinout based on licensed technology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering in Greensboro, NC.

NUfloss Inc. Founder CJ Mason NUfloss Inc.’s first initiative of revolutionary precision care focuses on fusing nature and technology creating care products and services that demonstrate precision-based luxury, superior strategies of sustainability, and technology claiming a NU sense of self-respect and self-care for yourself and the planet!

inStryde Founder, CEO Michael Schmid inStryde is a technology company leveraging software, data, and 3Dprinting to deliver hyper-customized shoe insoles right to your front door.

Fan Favorite Award Vote on hopin!

We’ll tell you when it’s time to vote. On the right hand side of your screen, click “Polls,” and then “Fan Favorite.” Vote for any of the 14 companies who’ve pitched today. You can only pick one, and only vote once. The winner will receive $1,000 cash! The opportunity to vote will remain live for five minutes.

Six-Minute Pitches Shyft Auto Founder, CEO Marcus Aman Shyft Auto provides a contactless service tool allowing automotive repair facilities to offer a complete service experience. Our data indicates that service facilities increase profits, retention, customer service scores and revenue by 35%.

Storage Scholars Co-Founders Sam Chason & Matt Gronberg

Storage Scholars provides a unique contactless approach to storage on college campuses. Students and parents no longer have to experience the pain of dorm-room/apartment moving – they just use our boxes, pack their things and that’s it. Items are moved out on the last day of the semester, stored, and returned ready and waiting in the student’s new room at the start of the next semester.

Beam Dynamics CEO David Kaszycki

Beam’s unique Product Relationship Management™ is a software platform helping product owners manage the lifecycle of high value capital assets critical to business operations. Beam PRM™ helps keep equipment in good working order for longer, with less downtime and lower total cost of ownership, while providing intelligent and actionable data.

CliniSpan Health Co-Founder, Head of Business Development Dezbee McDaniel CliniSpan Health is a software platform that accelerates and diversifies clinical trial recruitment. We leverage the high-trust relationship of nonprofits and their diverse supporters to educate and enroll people into clinical trials.

Point Motion CEO, Founder Kevin Clark Point Motion provides patient monitoring tools for Health specialists using embodied music interaction and cognition. The tools allow patients to engage in cognitive & motor function assessments, and empowers health specialists by simultaneously collecting valuable data on their patients. We bring music into healthcare challenges.

Blue Recruit CEO Rich Camacho

BlueRecruit is a talent sourcing software platform that connects skilled workers/tradespeople to companies desperate for their talent. With an innovative business model, we are working to provide America’s workers a revolutionary path to success.

Join the Conversation!

4-4:30 p.m. Expo Visit sponsor and start-up booths before the show begins. Click “Expo” on the left side of the bottom bar.

4:30-6:10 p.m. Pitches 6:10-6:30 p.m. Connection Sessions Meet the presenting companies in breakout rooms called Sessions. You can pop in, have conversation, then pop out and join another room to connect.

Make sure to turn on your camera and audio so that you can interact (there will be a blue video activation button at the top of the video screen).

6:30-7 p.m. Investor-Only Networking Accredited investors will have the opportunity to meet privately, one-onone with our presenting companies. Go to the “Networking” section on the left hand side of your screen.

Entrepreneur of the Year Watch the live broadcast for the reveal of this year’s honoree!

March 10 | 4 p.m.

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