Average $50k
Per Startup
Applications Open through June 30, 2021
New Ventures Accelerators
Health, Wellness & Nutrition
The Health, Wellness and Nutrition accelerator leverages Flywheel’s interaction with the major healthcare systems and academic medical centers in the core region North Carolina and our partnership with the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis. We are specifically interested in digital health and wellness software, nutraceuticals, and other wellness products focused on nutrition and the social determinants of health.
AgTech
The AgTech accelerator is powered by Flywheel, Greenworks and the NC Food Innovation Lab. We are looking for innovative and commercially scalable ideas in the plant sciences arena. We are specifically interested in sustainability, plant extracts and processing for commercial application in food, health, nutrition and wellness products, cultivation processes, vertical grow process, and other applications that leverage the regional AgTech knowledge assets. Companies will receive the support of the Greenworks facility in Lexington, NC opening in 2022 which Flywheel will design and operate in partnership with SouthX Capital and anchor tenant SIGS.
B2B
Software
The New Ventures B2B Accelerator looks for the intersection of software startups that intersect with our regional verticals including but not limited to the future of Manufacturing, Logistics and Supply Chain, Financial and Insurance Services, Textiles, Buildings, Healthcare, Aviation, Food, Agriculture, and Automotive.
New Ventures Mentors
Health, Wellness & Nutrition
Tom Hearn
Partner
FCA Venture Partners
Cam Cruickshank
President
Cabarrus College of Health Sciences
John Quinn
CEO/Founder
Wellnecity
Adam Orsborn
CEO/Founder
Orbital RX
Bill Aimutis
Executive Director
North Carolina Food Innovation Lab
AgTech
Bill Aimutis
Executive Director
North Carolina Food Innovation Lab
John Jackson
Ricardo Hernandez
Assistant Professor of AgTech
NC State University
CoFounder
Sustainable Indoor Growing Systems Inc.
William Fusselbaugh
Founder & Managing Director
Greenworks, LLC
Director and President
Southern Cross Management Inc.
Richard Delmerico
President and Owner
RD Consulting Associates
B2B
Software
Ben Gilman
Principal
Dualboot Partners
Mike Buckovich
Founder
VerticalCurve LLC
Barrett Pack
VP Client Development
Dualboot Partners
Patrick Turner
Fractional CTO
Concord CTO
Ken Brower
Interim CEO
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