March 2022 – Page 2

STEMedia Looks To Redefine What The STEM Workforce Looks Like

March 23, 2022 Suzanne Blake

At an early age, STEMedia Founder and CEO Nehemiah Mabry was encouraged by his father to go into engineering. After he completed a NASA internship in high school, Mabry was […]

“Fitbit For The Organization” Durham Workplace Startup Raises $1.9 Million

March 22, 2022 Suzanne Blake

Durham-based workplace software platform Peoplelogic announced today that it has raised $1.9 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by the North Carolina Venture Capital Fund (NCVCF) and San […]

CED’s Venture Connect Returns In-Person On April 7. Here’s What You Need To Know

March 22, 2022 Suzanne Blake

This year marks the first time in three years—since 2019—that CED’s Venture Connect will take place in person. When the pandemic first hit, it sparked a sudden conversion of CED’s […]

Williamson’s New Startup Makes Vacation Home Ownership More Accessible

March 22, 2022 Suzanne Blake

Matt Williamson is a familiar name on the Triangle tech startup scene. He was an early employee at Durham-based Bronto Software—which sold to Netsuite in 2015 for $200 million—and then […]

The Download: Ted Zoller, PhD, UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School

March 21, 2022 Brooks Malone

Ted Zoller is T.W. Lewis Distinguished Clinical Scholar and Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Zoller […]

The Friday Nooner: The Line Between Man And Bum, Plus Klearly’s Alex Krawchick

March 18, 2022 Jackie Sizing

Just a warning, the random rabbit holes in this episode are extreme. [Editor’s Note: Pete takes that as a compliment.] On this week’s episode of The Friday Nooner—sponsored by Dualboot […]

Wake Forest-Based Toggle Book Factory Hopes To Instill Lifelong Love of Reading

March 17, 2022 Suzanne Blake

Wake Forest-based Toggle Book Factory lets children interact with reading in a new way. This time, as the authors of their own stories. The startup, which will be presenting at […]

Spiffy Lands New $10M Investment To Lift Total Series B Round To $32M

March 16, 2022 Suzanne Blake

Durham-based, on-demand car care tech startup Spiffy announced today a new $10 million investment from New Jersey-based Edison Partners. The new cash infusion is an extension of the $22M that […]

UNC Professor Going From World Traveler To Out Of This World On Bezos’ Spaceship

March 15, 2022 Suzanne Blake

One of Jim Kitchen’s earliest memories is sitting on his mom’s lap and watching the launch of one of the Saturn rockets—which powered the Apollo space program—off the coast of […]

Seal The Seasons Connects Local Farmers To Consumers Craving Fresh Produce

March 15, 2022 Suzanne Blake

When Seal the Seasons CEO and Founder Patrick Mateer attended UNC-Chapel Hill, he rode his bike to the Carrboro Farmers Market every Saturday morning at 6:30 a.m. He ran the […]