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Specialized Focus

Targeted investment funds that support specific sectors or business types, providing capital and expertise to advance industry-specific goals.

Specialized Equity Investors


Female Focused Access capital from funds dedicated to empowering female entrepreneurs and advancing women-led businesses.
Jemison Alexander
Location
Chapel Hill
About
We believe the future is female.​
We back early-stage companies (pre-seed, seed, series A) with at least one founder who identifies as female.​
Our typical first check size is $125k-$500k.
Website
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xElle Ventures
Location
Multiple Locations
About
xElle Ventures is made up of women entrepreneurs, executives, founders, and investors. Our Mission is to provide loans to female founders, allowing her to keep ownership intact. We are dedicated to helping founders build their businesses, products, and services.
With a broad range of experiences and expertise, our Members can offer support to new founders both financially and professionally.
Website
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Life Sciences, Biotech, and HealthTech Access capital from funds focused on life sciences, healthcare, biotech, and other health technology innovations.
Alexandria Venture Investments
Location
RTP
About
Alexandria Ventures® is the company's strategic venture capital platform. Since our inception in 1996, we have invested in disruptive life science companies that are advancing transformative new modalities, platforms, and innovative medicines to meaningfully improve human health.
Website
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Excelerate Health Ventures
Location
Durham
About
We are creating the nation’s premier Digital Health fund for early-stage companies. Digital Health is the evolutionary progression of healthcare software and technology-enabled services to vastly improve patient outcomes and reduce healthcare costs. We use the interdisciplinary knowledge and experience of our extended team to identify and create highly valued healthcare companies in a shortened time frame to a sale while maximizing investment return.
Website
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Hatteras Venture Partners
Location
Durham
About
Proven, Trusted Investors in Healthcare Innovation.
With over two decades of experience as early stage VC company builders, Hatteras Venture Partners has constructed a risk-mitigated, replicable value creation model. The cutting-edge companies we focus on range from those delivering therapeutic or diagnostic benefits to patients to companies disrupting the status quo in healthcare and accelerating the pace of innovation.
Website
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NovaQuest Capital Management
Location
Raleigh
About
NovaQuest Capital Management, located in North Carolina’s Research Triangle, is a life science investment firm with a specialization in biopharmaceuticals. Founded in 2010, and with more than $2.5 billion raised across multiple asset classes, NovaQuest provides tailored capital solutions that fund innovation in biopharmaceutical development and invests in compelling healthcare companies with products and technologies aimed at helping humans and animals live healthier, longer, more productive lives.
Website
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Pappas Capital
Location
RTP
About
or 30 years Pappas Capital has been investing in and building innovative companies that are developing the next generation of life science products and technologies. We’ve invested in more than 90 companies across the United States, Canada and Asia – in fields that span the range of human disease. The products our companies have brought to market – for treating such conditions as melanoma, ovarian cancer, and hemophilia, to name a few – have been used throughout the world to treat tens of thousands of patients and account for billions of dollars of revenue.
Whether you’re looking for capital or have capital to invest, contact us and learn how we can put our expertise to work for you.
Website
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Rex Health Ventures
Location
Raleigh
About
Rex Health Ventures (RHV) enables groundbreaking work by investing in and fostering companies and technologies that advance the future of health.
We are dedicated team of experienced investors who help to enable groundbreaking work by investing in and fostering companies and technologies that advance the future of health.
Website
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Sustainability and Renewable Energy Connect with investors dedicated to funding sustainable and clean energy ventures.
Leyline Renewable Capital
Location
Durham
About
The team at Leyline has been there, and done that – both as investors and as renewable energy developers ourselves. With decades of combined industry experience, and close to 200 projects under our belt, we’re uniquely positioned to help hard-working renewable energy developers take advantage of today’s opportunities.
In 2020, the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association named Leyline as the Clean Energy Innovator of the Year for “exemplifying true leadership that has already impacted North Carolina’s clean energy market in a significant way” and “demonstrating exemplary vision to create a new path forward in the clean energy industry.”
Website
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Modern Energy
Location
Durham
About
Modern Energy offers a home to early-stage asset development platforms like no other in our industry. Our combination of agile capital, distinctive culture, and differentiated capabilities enables our platforms to scale quickly and efficiently.
Website
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SJF Ventures
Location
Durham
About
SJF Ventures invests in high-growth companies creating a healthier, smarter and cleaner future. Our mission is to catalyze the development of highly successful businesses driving lasting, positive changes.
Website
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University-Affiliated Funds Discover university-linked funding opportunities for startups connected to local academic institutions, often with support for alumni-founded ventures.
Carolina Angel Network
Location
UNC Chapel Hill
About
Focused on partnering with entrepreneurs, the management of the Carolina Angel Network is fully aware of the funding gap for early stage startup businesses and is committed to being part of the solution for Carolina-affiliated entrepreneurs. The Carolina Angel Network curates and provides visibility to the best UNC startup deals and our best founder talent anywhere in the United States.
Website
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Duke Capital Partners
Location
Duke University
About
Duke Capital Partners leverages the power of the Duke network to support the university’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. We seek the most audacious Duke founders, investors, and students to build the boldest startups solving the world’s most pressing challenges.
Website
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TiE University
Location
Multiple Locations
About
TiE University is the college-age sister program to TiE Carolinas Young Entrepreneurs (TYE). Like TYE, TiE University is empowering our university students to become the next generation of entrepreneurs by educating, mentoring, and inspiring university students to plan and take intelligent risks in starting a business.
The teams get mentored by real-world entrepreneurs and compete in a mock/practice round and a qualifying round in Q1. The final teams then go on to compete for cash prizes at TiE Finals, a pitch competition held every Spring. The winning team then goes on to the TiE University Global Pitchfest Competition held in Silicon Valley in May to compete with other TiE University teams from around the globe for the top prize of $50,000 and a cash prize pool of $100,000, plus in-kind awards of $500,000. The TiE-U Global Pitchfest event is held in conjunction with TiECON Silicon Valley in Santa Clara, California.
Website
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Towerview Ventures
Location
Duke University
About
We are a venture capital firm that provides accredited investors & institutions with access to professionally-managed, diversified venture portfolios. Our network is among the largest and most well-connected in the industry.
Website
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Wolfpack Investor Network
Location
NC State University
About
The Wolfpack Investor Network (WIN) brings together the NC State entrepreneurial community, NC State alumni network, and innovative private companies to empower the businesses that drive our future. Our mission is to support the global NC State entrepreneurial community with an angel investing platform that engages and leverages the power of the NC State alumni network.
Website
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Faith Driven Partner with faith-driven investing companies looking to invest in organizations that can achieve a measurable social or spiritual impact in North Carolina while also delivering financial returns.
Triangle Impact Network
Location
RTP
About
We believe that market returns and social impact are not mutually exclusive, but we know it can be difficult for entrepreneurs to find investors that value both impact and performance.
We created the Triangle Impact Network to partner with faith-driven entrepreneurs on compelling business ideas that advance human flourishing. The teams we look to invest in are leading organizations that can achieve a measurable social or spiritual impact in North Carolina while also delivering financial returns.
Website
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