Triangle
Meet… Jed Carlson, CEO, Adwerx
Jed Carlson isn’t a new name in the Triangle startup community. His current venture is Adwerx, which found initial success providing advertising tools that allow real estate agents and brokerage […]
Month: June 2019
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Tennis, Everyone? Raleigh Startup Works To Make Sport More Accessible
Tennis has long been Tennisbloc Founder and CEO Lee Kincheloe’s passion. But growing up in a working-class family, he noticed hurdles that such families faced when hoping to play what, […]
Funding
Fresh $10M Funding Enables Spiffy To Expand To Fleet Management (FMaaS)
Spiffy continues to clean up in the on-demand car-care space. Today the company announced a $10M funding led by New York’s Tribeca Venture Partners, with local participation from existing investors […]
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Plasma Games Makes Chemistry Fun For Students With “Sci-Ops: Global Defense”
There is a problem in high school chemistry classrooms. It goes beyond limited funding or a textbook crisis. It’s something teachers must battle every day: a lack of engagement from […]
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UNC Campus Corner: Fred Stutzman, Founder and CEO, Freedom
[Editor’s Note: Campus Corner is a new feature in which one of the four major Triangle universities—UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke, NC State and NC Central—will feature someone from its entrepreneurial community, […]
The Download
The Download: Mitch Mumma, Managing General Partner, Intersouth Partners
Mitch has primary responsibility for venture capital firm Intersouth Partners’ technology portfolio. He joined Durham-based Intersouth in 1989, shortly after its founding. Mitch has extensive full-cycle venture investment experience and […]
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Raleigh-Based Patient Satisfaction App Feedtrail Joins Cedars-Sinai Accelerator
Patients who have a bad experience in a hospital’s emergency department are bound to complain to anyone who will listen. But they usually don’t do so until after they leave […]
Funding
Lipson’s Latest Trick: Raising $6M Series A For Real Magic
Jesse Lipson knows better than most that a startup doesn’t necessarily need to raise money to be successful. After all, he bootstrapped his first company, ShareFile, to a $93M sale […]
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Cloud Giants Uses Salesforce Expertise to Elevate Its Customers’ Bottom Line
A cloud giant, in the Dungeons and Dragons game universe, stands 18 feet tall and has milky white or light-sky-blue skin. This race of giants prefers to live in the […]
Postcard From...
Postcard From Wilmington: Startup Updates From The Beach
[Editor’s Note: This is the first of a series (hopefully) of periodic “Postcards” with updates from startup ecosystems across the state.] In 2013, UNC Wilmington Chancellor Gary Miller wanted the […]