Connect across the EVC community

Founder & CEO · Piedmont Pennies

Turned her grandmother's cheese cracker recipe into a Charlotte manufacturer, started it as an MBA class project, generous with founder advice

EVC Faculty Advisor; Entrepreneurship Career Coach · UNC Kenan-Flagler

Our faculty advisor and the entrepreneurship career coach, easy to talk to and a strong sounding board well beyond career questions

Co-Founder & General Partner · Bull City Venture Partners

Seed and early-stage software across the Southeast, Naval aviator turned VC, longtime VCIC judge

Professor of the Practice · UNC Kenan-Flagler / RTP Angel Fund

Runs the VC/Angel Program, co-founded RTP Angel Fund, former ShopperTrak CEO

General Partner · Primordial Ventures

Writes pre-seed checks into Triangle software companies, co-founded LiLa for women in angel investing, deep NC IDEA ties

Instructor, VC Valuation · UNC Kenan-Flagler

Teaches VC valuation and goes out of his way to support students

Investment Director · Volvo Group Venture Capital

Past EVC Club president, teaches Business Plan Analysis, VCIC 10-timer judge, always says yes to students

Partner · IDEA Fund Partners

Early-stage NC investor, sits on RTP Angel Fund's board of managers, great for intros to local founders

Founder & CEO · EATS2SEATS

Started it sophomore year, now 50+ venues and Forbes 30 Under 30, just opened HQ at The PITCH on Franklin Street

Clinical Professor, Director of Venture Initiatives

Built VCIC from the ground up, very well-connected in venture capital space

T.W. Lewis Clinical Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship

Founded and ran multiple companies, builds entrepreneurial tools and frameworks, teaches several entp classes, knows everyone

Professor of Management & Corporate Communication · UNC Kenan-Flagler

Teaches business writing and communication, wired into the local startup scene, liaison to Launch Chapel Hill

Managing Partner · Cofounders Capital

Most active seed investor in NC, helps run the VC/Angel Program, Kenan-Flagler MBA so he picks up the phone

Instructor, Managing Growing Enterprises · UNC Kenan-Flagler

Seasoned entrepreneur, teaches Managing Growing Enterprises, good on the messy middle of scaling a company