Partnerships

Public Relations and Marketing Partnerships

RF Binder

New York-based PR firm, RF Binder, brings additional international and national-level PR experience to Crossroads' clients. RF Binder provides a wide range of communication services such as corporate reputation management, capital markets communication, analyst relations, lead generation, public affairs and more. They have been recognized through a multitude of awards including PRSA's Big Apple Awards, "Standard of Excellence" Web Award, Silver Sabre Awards and The Publicity Club of New England, Bell Ringer Award. Crossroads currently works with RF Binder on the rPath account, provider of the first platform for creating and maintaining software appliances.

Signal Design, Inc.

Signal provides a comprehensive suite of integrated design, marketing and technology services and solutions to help clients tell their story with ink or pixels. From Fortune 500 corporations to pioneering start-ups, Signal uses creative power to help clients deliver their message in creative and intelligent ways. Offering a diverse menu of integrated services and solutions, Signal can assist with every aspect of planning, design and delivery of your marketing programs. Established in 1992, Signal has studios located in Raleigh and Wilmington, North Carolina, and has evolved into one of the region's largest full-service design and interactive marketing companies.

M-pact Marketing

Committed to providing entrepreneurial and emerging growth companies with results-oriented marketing services needed to grow their business, M-pact Marketing, uses a full circle approach - and it is our passion to provide not only strategic insight, but the execution needed to ensure success. M-Pact Marketing staffs an experienced team of marketing professionals with more than 30 years in marketing, design and communications. Combining the unique abilities of some of the top marketing talent in the Triangle area, M-Pact Marketing is based in Raleigh, North Carolina.

iMarketingMix

A boutique marketing consultancy specializing in Sales-Aligned Marketing for small to medium-sized businesses, iMarketingMix guides organizations to find untapped efficiencies and develop a repeatable and integrated marketing plan. The iMarketingMix Integrated Marketing Audit identifies gaps and proposes structure that enables marketing departments to achieve higher goals by improving diversification of activities, prospect reach, and frequency and relevancy of communications.

Myriad Media

A "Digital Media Agency" catering to clients' digital needs, Myriad Media helps clients promote and educate using DVD, broadcast and internet media. Myriad Media provides a wide range of digital media needs such as: creative message development, video & film production/editing, interactive DVD/CD authoring, motion graphics, and digital video encoding. Myriad Media has worked with a variety of customers including IBM, Duke University, First Citizens Bank, the United States Environmental Protection agency and United Way.

Entrepreneurial Partnerships

Council for Entrepreneurial Development

CED provides an interactive forum for Crossroads' entrepreneurial, service, academicians and researcher clients. CED is available to help entrepreneurs in a wide range of industries and at all stages of development. The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) is a private, non-profit organization formed in 1984 to identify, enable and promote high growth, high impact entrepreneurial companies and to accelerate the entrepreneurial culture of the Research Triangle and North Carolina.

PlazaBridge

Countless studies have shown that inventors are lone eagles', often to their own demise. PlazaBridge, by developing a unique working relationship with start-up companies on the cusp of commercialization, will become the premier provider of sales, marketing and commercialization expertise in the country. Together PlazaBridge and the companies we engage with will reap the rewards of our market development skills and the underlying asset they worked so hard to get to a commercialization stage of development. Our mutual results will be the result of hard work, superior skills and shared risk.

Larta Institute

Larta's mission is to vastly improve the transition of scientific and technological breakthroughs from the laboratory to the marketplace, where they can solve problems, enhance economic opportunities and better people's lives. As a professional services firm, we design and manage commercialization programs on behalf of clients. These range from federal agencies in the U.S. to national governments and regional authorities across the globe, from public-private partnerships to universities. We increase the market- and investor-readiness of emerging entrepreneurs supported by these institutions.   

Other Partnerships

Business Wire

A wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Business Wire is the global market leader in commercial news distribution. Thousands of member companies and organizations depend on Business Wire to transmit their full-text news releases, regulatory filings, photos and other multimedia content to journalists, financial professionals, investor services, regulatory authorities and the general public worldwide. In fact, Business Wire has the most comprehensive news and disclosure network in the world. Business Wire originates hundreds of thousands of news announcements each year, with a dramatic impact on capital and commercial markets around the globe and in virtually every industry sector.