2024 Investor Forum

The Winston Starts Investor Forum is an annual event designed to provide Winston Starts founders an opportunity to pitch to investors from across North Carolina and the Southeast.

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2024 Winners

Founder Leah Wyrik and Three Strands Recovery Wear took first place honors and $4,000 in the pre-revenue stage competition. Three Strands is dedicated to uplifting surgery patients’ recovery one garment at a time.

The revenue stage competition was won by Beam Dynamics and founders David Kaszycki and Ryan DeMars who also took home $4,000 in prize money. Beam helps media and entertainment companies increase the ROI of their production technology.

Featured Companies

Pre-Revenue Stage

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Shane Parreco

Founder & CEO

Eva Mueller

Head of Product & Innovation

Robert Boyce

CEO

Jonathan Williams

Founder & CEO

Daniel Yohannes

CEO

Harvest Smith

Co-Founder

Leah Wyrick

Founder & CEO

Revenue Stage

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David Kaszycki

Co-Founder & CEO

Josh Cooper

Co-Founder & President

Rebeca Segebre

Founder and President

Kiernan Heine

Co-Founder & CEO

Jeffrey Dietrich

Founder & CEO

Jon Bagg

Founder & CEO

Amy Dunlap

Founder & CEO

Thomas Conrad

Founder

Q. Nicole Vanderhorst

Founder & Owner

Josh McGee

Co-Owner & Sauce Boss

Master of Ceremony

Allan Younger

Senior Director of Programs, NCIDEA

Keynote Speakers

Sam Chason, Founder & CEO
& Matt Gronberg, Co-Founder & COO Storage Scholars

From their college dorm rooms at Wake Forest University to a Winston Starts startup to Shark Tank winners, learn how Sam, Matt and the Storage Scholars team are successfully scaling a company that is transforming the student moving experience at more than 70 colleges and universities in 32 states.