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Wake Forest’s Phaseshift Makes Sense of the Messy Data Behind Clean Energy

October 14, 2026 Hail Zulueta

Big batteries that store power from the sun and wind are complicated machines unto themselves. They generate a flood of data, including thousands of measurements every second about temperature, voltage, […]

Raleigh’s ExpertTheory Uses AI To Rapidly Scale Simulation Games

October 13, 2026 Michael Melton

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross is an author, professor and counterterrorism expert who began experimenting with simulation games while teaching at Georgetown University in 2013. He found that putting students into interactive scenarios […]

Pendo’s New Game Teaches AI Agent Training… in Liminal Spaces

October 12, 2026 David Schwartz

Early last week, the Pendo.io LinkedIn account teased a game release. “We once made keeping a pixelated pet alive our entire personality,” the post read. “We checked in daily. We […]

Monday Mix: Venture Atlanta, PitchBreakfast, a Founder’s Clinic, and More!

October 12, 2026 Katelyn Crespo

Welcome back to your Monday Mix for the week of October 12th! This week we are zooming out to Atlanta for a conference and providing multiple opportunities to work on […]

Seed List’s Student Networking Night Builds Momentum

October 9, 2026 David Schwartz

This week saw the return of Student Networking Night (formerly “College Night”) for the second consecutive fall and the second time this year. The event was organized and hosted by […]

Friday Fix: HurriLab, The Seed List’s Student Networking, a Meridian Catch-Up, and “The Download”

October 9, 2026 Katelyn Crespo

We cover as much startup- and tech-related content as we can here at GrepBeat.com—but we know you can’t always catch it all in the course of your week. On the Friday Fix, […]

The Download: Hersh Tapadia, Co-Founder and CEO, Allstacks

October 7, 2026 Brooks Malone

Hersh Tapadia is the Co-Founder and CEO of Allstacks, an AI-powered platform helping product and engineering organizations improve how they plan, build, and deliver software. He has spent his career […]

Meridian’s Josh Kohn on Computer Vision in Real Estate, NFL Connections, Veteran Status, and “Earning the Right to Scale.”

October 6, 2026 David Schwartz

GrepBeat last wrote about Meridian Performance Systems in May of 2025, when it was implementing advanced computer vision technology primarily to enhance training for golf putting. Today, Meridian is an Charlotte-based startup […]

Wilmington’s HurriLab is Building an Analysis Layer for Hurricane Decisions

October 6, 2026 Michael Melton

Wallace Hogsett has spent more than two decades working in weather, from studying hurricane modeling and developing software at the National Hurricane Center to working with insurance companies on weather […]

Monday Mix: The Seed Lists’ College Night, LiLa’s Founder to Funder Panel, and More!

October 5, 2026 Katelyn Crespo

Welcome back to your Monday Mix for the week of October 5th! We’ve got a week that seems to have honed in on Thursday. There is something for everyone happening, […]