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Winston Starts helps entrepreneurs successfully scale their businesses to new heights. We provide a development framework, valuable resources and the long runway you need to grow your business and realize your dreams.

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As a city of over 360,000, Winston-Salem is known for its diversity of business and community with a strong and unwavering commitment to the arts, excellence in healthcare research and technology, and opportunities for specialized and advanced education. In recent years Winston-Salem has moved from a manufacturing-based economy (tobacco/textiles) to an information and technology-based powerhouse, especially in the areas of medicine, research and finance.

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Unleashing the Power of AI

In this session, Klaus Werner, who served as CMO at Global Industrial, CDO at HD Supply and Head of eCommerce at Lowe’s Home Improvement will share his thoughts on how AI will unleash the next wave...
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How AI Empowered Ventures Will Become the Most Promising Investment Opportunities

Join us on September 11th to hear David Gardner speak on how Artificial Intelligence...
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Founders Forum

Winston Starts will host the Greater Winston-Salem, Inc. Founder...
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NCIDEA Fall 2023 Grants Info Session

Join us on Thursday, July 27th at 12:00pm at Winston Starts to gain valuable insight into the 
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Winston Starts 2023 Investor Forum

Join us March 23, 2023 to hear our early and growth stage companies pitch to investors from across the Southeast.
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