After startup rockstar Paul Singh spoke at the DigSouth conference in Charleston, Jim Roberts was the first person in line to talk to him afterward.

Roberts, founder of the Network for Entrepreneurs in Wilmington (NEW) and Wilmington Angels for Local Entrepreneurs, wanted to talk to Singh about the speaker’s 2016 Results Junkies Tech Tour. Traveling in a Ford truck pulling an Airstream trailer, Singh has been connecting investors with startups and discussing entrepreneurial best practices at cities across the country.

Soon after that discussion in Charleston, Roberts had assembled enough sponsors to bring the Tech Tour to Wilmington.

Thanks to sponsors such as HutchLaw, Live Oak Bank, Adam Shay CPA, Williford Houston & Co. CPAs, Ironclad Brewery, InnovateNC, Carolina Commercial Properties, tekMountain and the University of North Carolina Wilmington Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Results Junkies Tech Tour is slated to be in Wilmington Oct. 3-7.

“It puts a spotlight on Wilmington,” said Roberts, who started NEW in 2015 after leaving UNCW’s CIE program. “He’s a very high-profile person.”

Singh is one of the co-founders of the acclaimed accelerator program 500 Startups.

“He is an angel investor, and he is a venture capitalist,” Roberts said of Singh. “He is looking for companies to invest $100,000-$250,000 in the startups that he likes. Someone like Paul meets thousands of people every year. It just takes that one introduction to lead to a new investor.”

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