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With VC Funding For Women Founders So Low, How’d These Women Defy The Odds?

June 30, 2022 Suzanne Blake

Women founders received only 2 percent of venture capital funding in the United States last year, according to a report by Pitchbook. It’s a gender gap that has long prevailed in VC circles—and one that’s […]

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Meet Sheryl Waddell, The New Face Behind UNC’s Innovation Hub

June 30, 2022 Suzanne Blake

Sheryl Waddell is the new face behind UNC’s Innovation Hub, which plans to open a space on East Rosemary Street in early 2023. As Innovate Carolina’s newly anointed Director of Economic Development and Innovation Hubs, […]

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A Housing Shortage Grows, But How Will It Impact The Triangle’s Tech Ecosystem?

June 28, 2022 Suzanne Blake

North Carolina communities will face a gap of around 900,000 housing units by 2030 if nothing changes, an executive at the North Carolina Budget & Tax Center said in April. It’s not the only time […]

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Former Sageworks CEO’s New Startup Working To Replace Paper In Clinical Trials

June 28, 2022 Suzanne Blake

Too much of anything can kill you. That’s one of the reasons why the work in clinical trials—analyzing precise blood samples as a study participant pushes a drug out of their system—is so vital. But […]

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Friday Nooner: Allstacks’ Hersh Tapadia Is Final Guest Before Summer Hiatus

June 24, 2022 Suzanne Blake

On this week’s episode of The Friday Nooner—which is the last episode of the season before a summer hiatus—Pete, Joe and guest co-host Suzanne (me) had the opportunity to pick the brain of Allstacks Co-Founder […]

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Burned-Out Healthcare Pros Increasingly Launching Their Own Ventures

June 23, 2022 Suzanne Blake

As the pandemic brought intense pressure for all frontline workers, healthcare employees particularly faced an incredible amount of burnout and uncertainty. Since then, there’s been a reckoning of sorts. Overall job dissatisfaction has led to […]

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Durham’s Higgs Boson Health Seeks To Transform Patient Surgery Journeys

June 23, 2022 Suzanne Blake

Durham-based Higgs Boson Health is not Co-Founder Rajeev Dharmapurikar’s first rodeo. The startup, which made this year’s Triangle Tweener List, is actually the result of a conversation Dharmapurikar had with neurosurgeon and Co-Founder Nandan Lad […]

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Not Playing Around: Teamworks Lands $50M For “Operating System For Sports”

June 21, 2022 Suzanne Blake

While the pandemic initially brought college and professional sports to a screeching halt—and then kept fans away and revenues slashed for even longer—it obviously did little to slow down Durham-based Teamworks for very long. Teamworks, […]

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Samuel Saw His Way Clear To Blazing A Path For Those With Disabilities

June 21, 2022 Suzanne Blake

When John Samuel was only a college freshman at NC State, he received some life-altering news: He was going blind. He was diagnosed with a degenerative eye condition called retinitis pigmentosa that would eventually claim […]

The Friday Nooner

The Friday Nooner: Hello, Green Places CEO Alex Lassiter; Goodbye, Carbon

June 17, 2022 Suzanne Blake

Today’s Friday Nooner episode featured Green Places CEO and Founder Alex Lassiter. He describes Green Places as an “end-to-end sustainability software company.” It helps other companies calculate their carbon footprint and tailor individualized strategies to […]

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