Partners Directory

 NEUP funds nuclear energy research and equipment upgrades at U.S. colleges and universities. The program plays a key role in helping the Department of Energy accomplish its mission of leading the nation's investment in the development and exploration of advanced nuclear science and technology

3F, Inc. provides research and engineering services for makers and users of technical textiles, advanced composite materials and structures, and their applications.

6fusion was created by a group of IT professionals to help other IT and telecommunications service providers enter and adapt to the new and profitable world of managed or hosted technology services by co-creating value and providing a single Utility Computing platform from which they can build, launch and license profitable long-term revenue initiatives.

ABB is a global leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve their performance while lowering environmental impact. 

ABB is a global leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve their performance while lowering environmental impact.

 All Systems Broadband is a leading North American manufacturer and supplier of central office and customer premise connectivity products. 

Bandwidth is among the nation's largest and fastest-growing communication technology companies. It operates four divisions -- inetwork, Phonebooth, Broadband and republic wireless -- that all share a mission of transforming the communications industry. Across the four divisions, Bandwidth provides a full range of communications services, including wholesale voice origination and termination, a full suite of 9-1-1 services, hosted VoIP and internet connectiveity service for SMBs, and a consumer wireless business.  

The Eastman Innovation Center is a research and development center for the Eastman Chemical Company. Eastman is a global specialty chemicals company that produces a broad range of advanced materials, additives and functional products, special chemicals, and fibers that are in products people use every day. As a world leader in the diverse markets it serves, Eastman is focused on delivering innovative technology-based solutions while maintaining its commitment to safety and sustainability. 

Founded in 1997, the mission of Environmental Banc & Exchange  is to be the leader in restoring our nation's ciritical ecosystems. We accomplish this by bringing capital, experience, and expertise ecosystem mitigation and restoration challenges. 

Professional services firm devoted to Advanced Analytics

 Green Energy Corp is a technology company that provides software engineering services to communications, utilities and energy companies and delivers software products to enable the smart grid of the future. 

GridBridge was formed in order to offer solutions that will modernize the electrical grid, therefore avoiding costly overhauls that would ultimately result in rate increases to consumers. The founders combine expertise with electric utility products, world-renowned proficiency in advanced technology, and executive-level experience.  

Grifols is a biological products R&D lab focusing on new drug discovery and development of new technologies for protein manufacturing.

Based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Hanesbrands Inc. is a global consumer goods company with more than a century of history and a portfolio of leading appare essentials including T-shirts, bras, panties, men's underweat, kids' underwear, socks, hosiery, casualwear and activewear.

M.C. Dean, Inc. is the nation's premier electrical design-build and systems integration firm for complex, mission-critical organizations. 

Ming Yang Wind Power is a China-based wind turbine manufacturer that focuses on designing, manufacturing, selling and servicing megawatt-class wind turbines. 

Growing North Carolin'a defense and homeland security economy is the Foundation's sole business. The Foundation executes this mission by leveraging the collective wisdom and influence of the Board to identify emerging military and homeland security requirements, and then partner with industry, academia and government to capitalize on them. 

Oryx Bio. Inc. is in the business of developing and selling state-of-the-art cost effective solutions for the manufacture and purification of therapeutic biological products.  The Company does this by designing and developing tools, supplies and reagents that process and purify biopharmaceuticals.

 As the global leader in swimming pool, spa and aquatic equipment, Pentair has built a reputation as the innovation leader, providing high performance, reliable and energy-efficient products that pool owners and operators can depend on to make their pools more inviting, easier to maintain, and extraordinary…from the smallest backyard pool to the largest water environments.

STEM Early College High School is a 5 year program, part of WCPSS, that allows students to earn a high school diploma and up to 2 years college credit.  The NCSU program has a STEM focus.

Telos MedTech engages in research, design and manufacture of patient-specific dental and maxillofacial reconstruction implants. 

 TopQuadrant's mission is to enable enterprises to be agile through practical application of Semantic Web technologies. The company believes the global economy requires enterprises to become more agile in order to survive and thrive. Applications built using traditional approaches don't adapt well to changes and are not sustainable over time.