GrepBeat Hosts (Massive) Happy Hour With Raleigh-Durham Startup Week

April 9, 2025 David Schwartz Triangle

Crowd filling into the happy hour space. [Photo: Kaitlyn Dang]

If you happened to pass through Durham between 5-7pm on Tuesday evening and witnessed throngs of startup-y networkers amassing in numbers reminiscent of medieval armies in fantasy films… that was us.

For a fourth year running, GrepBeat capped off the first full day of Raleigh-Durham Startup Week with an enormous Happy Hour. The festivities took place at Bull McCabe’s in Downtown Durham and was sponsored by Hutchison (which also covered registered attendees’ first drinks).

We on Team GrepBeat were thrilled to see so many of you turn out, and look forward to seeing more of you throughout the week. RDSW continues today (Wednesday) in Durham and will slide on over for Raleigh on Thursday and Friday. See the full agenda here.

Here, in the meantime, are some photos from Tuesday’s Happy Hour. Enjoy!

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David is the Managing Editor at GrepBeat covering Triangle tech startups and entrepreneurs. Before pivoting to journalism, he worked for a London-based digital agency, where he wrote roughly one quarter of the content you see on the internet. Outside of work, David enjoys sports and movies a little too much.