GRO11 Demo Day
📅 Thursday, June 25, 2026
🕔 4:30 - 8:30 PM
📍 NC Central University's School of Business | 829 E. Lawson Street, Durham, NC 27701
What is GRO Demo Day?
Over twelve weeks, our GRO11 Incubator founders have been heads-down — building, iterating, and pushing their startups forward. GRO Demo Day is the moment they come up for air and share what they've built.
Join us to hear their pitches, connect with rising entrepreneurs, and celebrate this milestone alongside our Impact Investor, Regions Foundation. Thanks to their support, participating GRO companies will compete for $25,000 in cash prizes for the first time ever! The stakes have never been higher.
Whether you're an investor, founder, or simply someone who loves a good origin story, this is your chance to be part of their journey.
Here's What to Expect:
🎤 Pitches — 5-minute pitches from our graduating companies
💰 Cash Prizes — Two GRO founders walk away with checks in hand
🎙️ Panel — A spotlight on the next gen of the startup ecosystem
🤝 Networking — Connect with fellow innovators & community members
🍷 Happy Hour — Light bites & drinks to keep the energy flowing
A special thank you to NC Central University, our Venue Sponsor, for generously hosting us in their School of Business theater.
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Presenting Companies
Carolina Instruments
Eye tracking has always meant cameras. We eliminated them. Our platform brings research-grade gaze and pupil data to XR wearables without the battery drain or privacy tradeoffs -- unlocking attention insights that weren't possible before.
Foundation
The hardest part of scaling software isn't writing code, it's maintaining it. Foundation uses AI to help small teams build and manage large, complex systems without the overhead that usually demands a much bigger engineering org.
Ensembled
Every sorority woman knows the moment before a chapter event: ‘What’s the vibe?’ Ensembled gives chapters a private space to coordinate looks, and Buy, Borrow, or Rent outfits from sisters — all in one place built specifically for how chapters actually work.
InsightStack
Lean product teams make roadmap decisions based on whoever argues loudest — not on what customers actually want. InsightStack automatically maps every customer conversation, support ticket, and email to your existing backlog, so your PM can walk into any roadmap meeting with quantified evidence instead of gut feel.
Insight Twin
What if you could see your entire organization the way you see a dashboard? Insight Twin creates a living digital replica of your enterprise, surfacing inefficiencies and predicting risks. It gives leaders the visibility to act before problems compound.
Kinove Lab
Hand pain shouldn't mean months of frustrating, forgettable PT. ThumbCore makes recovery engaging with a gamified at-home device that strengthens the right muscles and stabilizes your joint. Get back to doing what you love, faster.
Levita Health
Millions of Americans manage fatigue and circulation symptoms with compression gear that simply doesn't work well enough. Uplift changes that with patent-pending adjustable compression that actually delivers therapeutic pressure. And unlike anything else out there, you can wear it all day.
Sensible
Your menstrual cycle is telling you something. Sensible helps you hear it. We combine science-backed biomarkers with everyday products to turn cycle data into personalized health insights that put you in control.
SonoVoice
ENT clinics are leaving money on the table and settling for outdated voice assessment tools. SonoVoice fixes both with a modern platform that delivers objective, AI-assisted voice evaluations and unlocks an underutilized billing code you're already entitled to.
Teela
Your business data has answers. Your team just can't access them without a data analyst. Teela lets anyone ask questions in plain English and get real answers in under a minute, directly from your existing spreadsheets and databases.
