A Winston-Salem entrepreneur is being recognized in Ernst & Young’s annual Entrepreneur Of The Year® competition. Justin W. Strickland, CEO of Strickland Brothers 10 Minute Oil Change, was named an Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2022 Southeast Award winner. Entrepreneur Of The Year is one of the preeminent competitive business awards for entrepreneurs and leaders of… Read More »
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Justin W. Strickland of Strickland Brothers 10 Minute Oil Change is an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2022 Southeast Award Winner
Greater Winston-Salem, Inc. Announces Weaver Fire Grant Fund
Greater Winston-Salem, Inc. is announcing a grant program intended to provide financial support to small businesses impacted by the Weaver Fertilizer Plant fire that occurred starting on January 31, 2022. Small businesses located within one mile of the plant, with 25 or fewer full-time equivalent employees, are eligible to apply for a Weaver Fire grant.… Read More »
Dr. Anthony Atala Awarded by the American College of Surgeons for Pioneering Work in Regenerative Medicine
Anthony Atala, MD, FACS, is the recipient of the 2022 Jacobson Innovation Award of the American College of Surgeons (ACS). He is currently the George Link, Jr. Professor and Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) and the W. H. Boyce Professor and Chair of Urology at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. The international surgical award from the ACS honors living surgeons who are innovators of a new development or technique… Read More »
UNCSA Selects Design Team for Stevens Center Renovation
Little Diversified Architectural Consulting and Steinberg Hart to lead Phase One of Comprehensive Renovation The University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) has announced the selection of the nationally recognized firms Little Diversified Architectural Consulting, based in Charlotte, and Steinberg Hart, based in Los Angeles, as the design team that will lead Phase One of… Read More »
NC Named Top State for Economic Development
North Carolina tops Site Selection Magazine’s Prosperity Cup Awards for the second year in a row North Carolina has been named the top state for economic development in Site Selection Magazine’s 2022 Prosperity Cup Awards, which recognizes state-level economic development agency success. The awards index considers capital investment project activity and other criteria from the… Read More »
Two Local Startups Receive WSPR Funding
The WSPR Fund, a Winston-Salem based angel group with over 70 members, has closed its fourth and fifth investments in local early-stage companies. Since WSPR began accepting applications in September 2021, the fund has invested over $770,000 in four companies. The latest funding includes an initial investment in Smoodi, Inc. and a follow-on investment in NVOLVE, Inc.… Read More »