Grep-a-Palooza was back in its fourth iteration last Thursday, June 5th at the Durham Convention Center. The team is proud to say that we saw our best attendance yet as guests from around North Carolina showed up to enjoy a full day of programming geared toward early-stage startups.
For a sense of what that programming entailed, you can still look back at this year’s conference agenda. Here, we simply want to give you a literal look back at the action—whether you attended and want to re-live it all, or you were unable to make it and curious what Grep-a-Palooza 2025 looked and felt like.
Please enjoy two slideshows below. The first consists of photos taken by the GrepBeat team and, of course, unofficial-but-prolific startup ecosystem photojournalist Jack Fleming of Phrayz. The second is a compilation of photos taken by attendees and collected by local startup Scale Social, which partnered with us to provide this service for the conference.
Photos from the GrepBeat Team (with help from Jack Fleming):
Attendee photos curated by Scale Social:
We want to once again thank everybody who attended, everybody who participated in the program, and of course all of our sponsors—Robinson Bradshaw, Dean Dorton, NC IDEA Engage, Hutchison, EisnerAmper, NC State Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the FCAT Fellowship, and Launch Chapel Hill Powered by KPMG—for making this the best Grep-a-Palooza yet.
And for a final thank-you, I’ll send it back to our keynote speaker, I-Sah Hsieh:
Until next year!
