CED’s Venture Connect 2025 is nearly upon us—and if you’re looking to do some final prep for the conference, we’re here to help.
Following a kickoff party in the evening on March 25th, this year’s event will see an even 100 startups making pitches on March 26th and 27th at the Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts in Downtown Raleigh. In this cheat sheet, we’ll help introduce you to the (many) presenting startups we’ve previously covered at GrepBeat.
As you know if you’re a regular GrepBeat reader, our coverage typically excludes biotech/life sciences startups. But here’s a rundown of the Venture Connect 2025 tech startups we’ve written about, should you want to learn more about them either in advance of or following their presentations:
- Anumá Aerospace
- Atlantic Fish Co.
- Baby Bumps
- BlueRecruit
- Breva (formerly Cadence Cash)
- Bristles AI
- Celestic
- CivicReach
- Couplet Care
- Elroi
- Epic Hire
- Focus Cubes
- InviteJet
- IX Studio
- Jobvious
- Mapt (formerly Undecided)
- MuukTest
- Nearby Nearby
- No Show Hero
- Nuream
- Ooga Technologies (also one of GrepBeat’s 2024 “Startups to Watch”)
- Scale Social AI
- SenterME
- Skillmaker.ai
- SneakPeek Technologies
- Social Cascade (also one of GrepBeat’s 2024 “Startups to Watch”)
- SonoVoice
- StreetFair
- Theralinq
- Truentity Health
- Ver Coaching
- Virnika
- Voltest (formerly ScoutIt, which was one of GrepBeat’s 2024 “Startups to Watch” as well).
You can also find interviews with a number of founders presenting at Venture Connect on a number of past episodes of The GrepBeat Podcast.
Past appearances on The Friday Nooner:
- Victoria Fritz of Baby Bumps
- Rich Camacho of BlueRecruit
- Andrea Inokon of Breva (formerly Cadence Cash)
- Tina Tang of Bristles AI
- Rachel Cash of Elroi
- Henry Woodbridge of Mapt (formerly Undecided)
- Ivan Barajas Vargas of MuukTest
- Lucy Kosturko of Social Cascade
- Charles Douthitt of Virnika
Past appearances on In The Soup:
- Chip Kennedy of CivicReach
- Charlotte Louis of SenterME
- Lucy Kosturko and Scott McQuiggan of Social Cascade
- Lauren Goodell of Zinnia
Finally, keep an eye out in the coming weeks for pending GrepBeat features on additional presenting startups including (but not limited to!) the following:
- Citrus Oncology
- Helian
- Tarka
- The Artificially Intelligent Enterprise
- Trayecto
- Valuable, Inc.
We hope this is a helpful resource as you seek to learn more about the startups that will be pitching in Downtown Raleigh on March 26th and 27th. For a full list of the startups (including those life sciences and biotech companies we don’t cover), check out CED’s outstanding directory for the event.
