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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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Don Flow and Stan Parker recognized as 2023 Triad Power Players
Triad Business Journal reveals the 80 leaders selected as Power Players of 2023.

Winston Starts Chairman Don Flow awarded North Carolina’s top honor
In addition to running his automotive business, Don Flow chairs the Winston-Salem Open ATP tournament, the Winston-Salem

WSPR Fund Invests in STEMZ
The Winston-Salem Partners Roundtable, an angel investment fund that offers capital to early-stage growing companies in Winston-Salem

Rebeca Segebre Wins Enterprising Woman of the Year at Triad Minority & Women’s Business Expo
We’re thrilled to announce that Rebeca Segebre, one of our esteemed founders, has been honored as the

Winston Salem Named One of Top 23 Best Places to Live in the Southeast
These 25 Southeastern cities each have something special to offer.
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Unleashing the Power of AI

How AI Empowered Ventures Will Become the Most Promising Investment Opportunities


NCIDEA Fall 2023 Grants Info Session
