Recent Sponsors
HeskethCarrboro Creative Coworking
Viget Labs
Calvert Holdings, Inc.
Teach for America
Hesketh.com is an user experience agency focused on providing Web solutions for organizations with a mission! We focus on a niche of Web challenges and solutions for clients in the non-profit, education and social entrepreneurship segments. Our team is passionate about building quality, useful Web applications that automate and transform our clients’ organizations.
Carrboro Creative Coworking is a professional shared workspace with a community atmosphere. It is designed to be a welcoming environment for microbusiness owners such as: freelance professionals, home-office workers, entrepreneurs, start-up business owners, tech workers, graduate students, writers, architects, civil engineers, designers and others.
Viget Labs is a web consulting firm. And, a web design firm. And, a web development firm. And, a web marketing firm. Being all of these things allows us to provide the best possible web solutions through a full-service process that offers the most value (and least headache) to our clients. We do it all with a dedicated (and growing) staff from our headquarters just outside of Washington, DC, as well as our new office in Durham, NC, for clients across the country.
Calvert Holdings is a company that helps others succeed. We take emerging products and services and apply innovative business models and expert support to accelerate their growth and multiply their value. We are business creators, investors, developers, and marketers who specialize in assisting entrepreneurial endeavors across a variety of fields.
Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates and professionals of all academic majors and career interests who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools and become leaders in the effort to expand educational opportunity. Our mission is to build the movement to eliminate educational inequity by enlisting our nation’s most promising future leaders in the effort.
Located on Chapel Hill’s bustling Franklin Street, West End Wine Bar is an escape from the ordinary. Three floors of distinctive style create the ideal setting for a private party or a night on the town. At the wine bar, you’ll find over a hundred wines available by the glass, an unrivaled bottle list, and a friendly staff to help make sense of all the choices. West End also offers a nightly menu of light, wine-inspired fare, perfect for appetizers or late-night dining. All food is prepared to order and can be enjoyed in the Wine Bar, in the Cellar, or on the rooftop.
Blackwell Interactive is part of Duke’s Office of Information Technology (OIT), the central technology group at Duke University. Blackwell is an in-house web services group, providing leadership, strategy, design, and development (web and application) for groups across the Institution. OIT is located on Durham’s American Tobacco Campus.
Ogilvy Durham is a local ad agency with an international name, servicing the needs of small and large clients alike. The agency works in all media and has a fast-growing interactive department. Ogilvy Durham‘s goal is to help clients build stronger businesses by building stronger brands.
iContact is the leading email marketing software company with more than 20,000 businesses, non-profit organizations and associations worldwide. Customers such as AT&T, Vonage, International Paper, Re/Max, Centex Homes, and Symantec use iContact to easily create, publish and track their email newsletters, blogs, surveys, autoresponders, and RSS feeds.
Bronto Software is a leading SaaS-based email marketing service provider based out of the American Tobacco Campus. We have an advanced, yet easy-to-use interface for performance, segmentation and deliverability combined with an amazing client support team for a full range of marketers, from small business to full scale e-commerce transactional marketing.
Shoeboxed is a receipt organization and social shopping site based out of Brightleaf Square in Durham, NC. We allow people to organize all e-mail and paper receipts on our platform. People can also organize the items contained in their receipts, add photos to those items, and share them with a global community of shoppers. A fun stereotyping feature lets people give feedback to other users about their items. Organize your receipts, strut your stuff, and love what you buy with Shoeboxed.
Want to sponsor Refresh?
It's simple. You agree to provide what you can for an event: refreshments (required), facilities for the meeting (if needed and if possible), and where you take it beyond that is up to you. In exchange, your logo will appear on the Refresh home page for 3-4 weeks, permanently on the sponsors page (with a brief company description), and you'll be given 5 minutes at that month's Refresh meeting to speak about your offerings. Get yourself in front of the best and the brightest in the industry. Contact Refresh to express interest in sponsorship.
