Cooper Metts

Venture Connect 2024 — Day One Morning Highlights

March 21, 2024 Cooper Metts

[Editor’s Note: you can find our coverage of Day One’s afternoon sessions here.] CED’s Venture Connect summit kicked off Wednesday morning in the Citrix Building in downtown Raleigh with a […]

Cybersecurity Compliance Gets A Little Simpler Thanks To Trusted AI Solutions

March 14, 2024 Cooper Metts

The workforce gap in the U.S.’s cybersecurity industry is 1.2 million, according to the most recent study by The International Information System Security Certification Consortium. This gap means that many […]

Venture Connect-bound Verinetics Tackling Opioid Crisis With Tech

March 12, 2024 Cooper Metts

Dr. Jessica Smith Beaver started working as a pharmacist in 1995 after graduating from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy—the same year that the opioid oxycontin first hit the market. […]

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Speight Brings AxNano’s Pollution-Fighting Tech To Venture Connect

March 7, 2024 Cooper Metts

Like many, Doug Speight—the former Executive Director of Durham startup community American Underground—considered the direction he wanted his career to take when the world slowed down during Covid. “During COVID, […]

Alithia Power’s New Tech Looks To Charge Up Semiconductor Industry

February 29, 2024 Cooper Metts

Inefficient semiconductors caused the U.S. to lose $40.5 billion worth of electricity last year, and it took approximately one billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) to produce this electricity, according […]

Fresh Off Techstars Detroit, Chapel Hill’s SneakPeek Coming To Venture Connect

February 20, 2024 Cooper Metts

Growing up in the same Raleigh neighborhood, Michael Truesdale and Justin Kelly created a friendship that Truesdale says is more like brotherhood. Now, they’re business partners. And after just a […]

M.D. With Rare Background Tackles Common Problem—Doctors Taking Notes

February 13, 2024 Cooper Metts

When Dr. Rachel Draelos—the first person to earn both an M.D. and a doctorate in computer science from Duke University—was in medical school, a patient asked her to find a […]