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Triangle

Your Full Guide to the Inaugural Raleigh-Durham Climate Week

October 29, 2026 David Schwartz
As you may have heard, GrepBeat has connected with Carolina Climate to serve as the official media partner for the inaugural Raleigh-Durham Climate Week (RDCW). As such, it is our […]
Triangle

Kevel’s $52M Raise: Doubling Down On “Transparent AI” And Building Globally From Durham

October 27, 2026 David Schwartz
Last week, Kevel, a Durham-based retail media infrastructure company, announced a $52M Series D raise. Per the initial release, this pushes the company’s total funding north of $100M. The round […]
Wilmington

Megan Rowe Tells Us “What’s Good” With AI-Powered Event Discovery, “Doing It Scared” As A Founder, And Her Belgian Malinois

October 26, 2026 David Schwartz
GrepBeat last wrote about What’s Good (then as “Check What’s Good”) in October of 2024. At that time, it was a newly launched event discovery platform designed to pool information […]
Triangle

Launch Powered by KPMG Accelerator Holds Demo Day For 4th Cohort

October 21, 2026 David Schwartz
Jump to the startups Jump to photos from the event (courtesy of Launch/KPMG) Tuesday night marked the culmination and celebration of another cohort in the Launch Powered by KPMG accelerator […]
Triangle

Return Game: Exited Founder Is Back To Level Up Your Tennis With ShotSpin AI

October 15, 2026 David Schwartz
Anil Chawla has done the whole founder journey in the Triangle before. Many readers will remember him as the Founder and CEO of Durham’s ArchiveSocial, a social media archiving platform […]
Triangle

Pendo’s New Game Teaches AI Agent Training… in Liminal Spaces

October 12, 2026 David Schwartz
Early last week, the Pendo.io LinkedIn account teased a game release. “We once made keeping a pixelated pet alive our entire personality,” the post read. “We checked in daily. We […]
Triangle

Seed List’s Student Networking Night Builds Momentum

October 9, 2026 David Schwartz
This week saw the return of Student Networking Night (formerly “College Night”) for the second consecutive fall and the second time this year. The event was organized and hosted by […]
Charlotte

Meridian’s Josh Kohn on Computer Vision in Real Estate, NFL Connections, Veteran Status, and “Earning the Right to Scale.”

October 6, 2026 David Schwartz
GrepBeat last wrote about Meridian Performance Systems in May of 2025, when it was implementing advanced computer vision technology primarily to enhance training for golf putting. Today, Meridian is an Charlotte-based startup […]
Wilmington

Ocean Innovation Conference Makes the Case for NC’s Blue Economy

October 1, 2026 David Schwartz
On Tuesday, the UNC-Wilmington Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Alliance for the Blue Economy held the latest iteration of the Ocean Innovation Conference. The all-day event took place […]
Charlotte

Innovate Charlotte, LaunchCLT Join Forces To Strengthen Charlotte Ecosystem

September 29, 2026 David Schwartz
This morning, Innovate Charlotte and LaunchCLT announced that they are formally joining forces. As of October 1st, the two entities will become a single, combined organization. That organization will retain […]

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