CED- Igniting Entrepreneurial Success Through Know-How and Networks

The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) is a private, non-profit organization founded in 1984 to identify, enable and promote high-growth, high-impact companies and accelerate the region’s entrepreneurial culture. Headquartered in the Research Triangle Park, CED is the oldest and largest entrepreneurial support organization in the nation with more than 5,500 active members. CED provides know-how, networking, mentoring and capital formation resources to new and existing high-growth entrepreneurs through annual conferences, programs and web-based resources. CED has helped entrepreneurs, investors, service partners, researchers and public policy makers in diverse emerging industries and at all stages of development – from high-tech, production-based organizations to service companies, from one-person start-ups to 1000-person businesses.

• More than 7,800 entrepreneurs, investors and service partners participate in its programs annually.
• Some of the successful companies that have benefited from CED's programs and services include Targacept, Red Hat, ChannelAdvisor, Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Lending Tree, iContact, Ganymede Software, OpenSite Technology and a number of others.
• Each year more than 175 entrepreneurs are provided the opportunity to showcase their company to investors through CED’s Venture conference and FastTrac® TechVenture™ program.
• More than 550 companies have presented at CED's Venture conference since 1984. In the last fours years alone, presenting companies have raised over $732.31 million in venture capital.
• More than 600 companies have graduated from FastTrac® TechVenture™ since 1999 and have raised more than $400 million in funding.

Additional Information about CED may be found within CED's Media Kit, including company history, videos, logos and more.

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