Global Sponsors

Google for Startups

Google is committed to empowering entrepreneurs around the world through programs, partnerships, and our products.

Heroku

Heroku is a cloud-based, platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that gives startups a powerful solution for building, deploying, and operating their business-critical apps. The Heroku platform is fully-managed, meaning that we take care of servers, hardware, and infrastructure, so you can keep your team lean and focused on product. Heroku grows with your business — use a range of free services to get established and then scale up with increased usage.

Local Sponsors

Truliant Federal Credit Union

Truliant's mission is to enhance the quality of life of our members and become their preferred financial institution. We have more than 30 Member Financial Centers located in the Carolinas and Virginia.

Coder Foundry

Code camps and immersion training.

Looking Glass Services

VR Services

Wake Forest Innovation Quarter

230 acre urban innovation district.

Wexford Science and Technology

Real estate developer focused on innovation districts.

Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce

Chamber of Commerce

Forrest Firm

Statewide NC legal firm specializing in startups.

Dualboot Partners

Software development

The Variable

Advertising Agency

Sight Source

Software development

Lavoie CPA

CPA firm specializing in startups

Partners

New Ventures

Flywheel New Ventures 2016, LLC is a membership based investment organization of local entrepreneurs in the Triad Region of North Carolina. All members are active investors who select the competition winners and make subsequent investments. The funds raised by this organization are for the purpose of funding the New Ventures Challenge, the Flywheel New Ventures Accelerator, and for investing in selected startups.

Venture Cafe

Venture Café Winston-Salem helps enhance and accelerate the growth of innovation and entrepreneurship in our city through high-impact programming and events and by creating intentional spaces for individuals and organizations to gather, connect, and build relationships. Venture Café Winston-Salem is a member of a global network, with partner organizations in Boston/Cambridge, Massachusetts; St. Louis, Missouri; Miami, Florida; and Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Flywheel Foundation

The Flywheel Foundation exists to promote early stage entrepreneurship, create startup business resources, and accelerate technical training in software development in the Triad Region. We organize targeted educational programming and events designed to feed the idea pipeline and stimulate startup team formation in the region. The Foundation is interested in promoting startup culture and software development training targeted at minorities, women, and economically disadvantaged populations.

Flywheel Coworking

Flywheel is a coworking space located in the heart of the Wake Forest Innovation Quater in downtown Winston-Salem, NC. Our mission is to accelerate the sucess of our community of members. We help startups, freelancers, and consultants get connected to each other and globally through Startup Grind. Our membership plans are tailored to the specific needs of each of the over 100 companies that belong to Flywheel.