The Center of Rural Innovation Investing In A Gig East Exchange Company

CORI Innovation Fund is leading the investment round in ShyftAuto, a company currently housed at the Gig East Exchange. CORI Innovation Fund is a Qualified Opportunity Fund that invests in high-growth technology companies supporting job creation and revenue generation in small towns across America. They are leading this funding round in order to provide ShyftAuto with capital to expand its sales and growth strategy. ShyftAuto will open a new headquarters in an Opportunity Zone located in Wilson, North Carolina, and will become a Qualified Opportunity Zone Business.

Member Highlight – WRAL Digital Solutions Strategic Business Development

Operating at the intersection of economic development, business intelligence, and social change, WRAL Digital Solutions’ Strategic Business Development is a team of “intrapreneurs” who specialize in design thinking and innovative marketing campaigns. They bridge the gap between marketing, media, and technology, and resonate with WRAL’s loyal statewide audience and/or target audiences regionally and nationally - reaching the right people, in the right place, at the right time. WRAL Digital Solutions has been a partner with Gig East for some time now but we are happy to say their team will physically have a space at the Exchange come May 2021 and they will be able to offer our members some additional services through their brands:

WRAL TechWire

WRAL TechWire is the only technology-specific news publication and multimedia brand in the Triangle, and is a comprehensive source of timely, daily coverage of innovation, technology, and disruption in the Carolinas.

Hometown Carolina

Hometown Carolina is a digital platform from WRAL.com and WRAL Digital Solutions. It celebrates life, work, and play in North Carolina and helps everyone connect more deeply with the Old North State and the 500+ hometowns that dot our rolling landscape from the mountains to the coast.

Capitol B Creative Studios

Capitol B Creative Studios is a creative shop based in Raleigh, North Carolina. We were born out of a parent company that built major communications platforms from the ground up, innovated in every industry it touched and created a celebrated legacy. Our very foundation is storytelling and community connection, and that DNA informs our agency’s comprehensive strategy, bold ideas, and unique creative executions. We’ve worked with scrappy start-ups, small business owners, community leaders, scientists, real estate giants, lawyers, and tech nerds. Our team combines national agency experience with southern hospitality. We identify what makes your brand unique, then amplify it in ways that make people take notice.

“In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.”

– Jiddu Krishnamurti

Exchange Businesses Working Together

Gig East prides itself on being collaborative. We love to watch our members flourish in the Exchange and find ways to help each other. ShyftAuto and North State Consulting have recently started working together to grow their businesses. As a tech consulting company, North State scouts potential leads for ShyftAuto, saving Shyft time and providing them with a head start in the industry. This is the kind of energy that Gig East is all about.

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