RALEIGH – Thirteen North Carolina companies will participate in next month’s Venture Atlanta 2021 event.

In what the organization said was its most competitive selection process in its history, North Carolina companies comprise 30% of the firms participating, said Allyson Eman, CEO of Venture Atlanta in an interview with WRAL TechWire.

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“We’re proud of the North Carolina companies that were chosen,” said Eman.  “They represent their state well and validate that its startup ecosystem is thriving.”

Selected companies come in three categories, said Eman, those who will showcase at the event, early-stage companies, and growth-stage companies.

“It’s an incredible honor to be chosen for Venture Atlanta, a conference that has a proven track record of finding and supporting the best in tech,” said Sonja Ebron, co-founder of Courtroom5, a Durham-based startup company that will showcase at the event.  “We’re proud of what we’ve created at Courtroom5 and the number of people we’ve been able to assist in what can often be a very confusing and expensive civil court process.”

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More than 50 percent of this year’s companies have a founder, co-founder, or CEO from an underrepresented community, including women-led businesses and companies with founders of color, Venture Atlanta confirmed to WRAL TechWire.  This includes women-led businesses and diverse companies with founders of color.  Six of the 13 North Carolina companies are led by people from underrepresented communities, the organization noted.

More than 400 companies applied to Venture Atlanta, the organization said.

The North Carolina companies are:

  • biospatial
  • Courtroom5
  • Freeman Capital
  • ImpactKarma
  • K4Connect
  • Klearly
  • Nufabrx
  • Peoplelogic.ai
  • RepVue
  • Second Nature
  • The Diversity Movement
  • Tyrata, Inc.
  • Zoee

“Organizations are transforming workplace culture through innovative technologies that deliver results,” said Donald Thompson, CEO of The Diversity Movement, who is also a contributor for WRAL TechWire.  “Our goal is to change the world for the better through our Employee Experience solutions that offer companies a DEI journey built on digital tools, conversational AI, analytics, and a MicroVideo library that enables scalable learning across the organization.”

The event occurs on October 21 and October 22.  Jason Caplain, general partner and co-founder of Bull City Venture Partners, is a board member of Venture Atlanta, and is the only board member based in North Carolina, according to the organization.