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Triangle

NC TECH Hosts Inaugural “Tech Fest North Carolina” in Durham

May 15, 2026 David Schwartz
A new conference arrived on the spring slate in the Triangle this week, with NC TECH hosting its inaugural “Tech Fest North Carolina” event at The Armory and The Durham […]
Triangle

NALA Membranes Named Semifinalist in $119M Global XPRIZE Competition

May 12, 2026 David Schwartz
This morning it was announced that Morrisville’s NALA Membranes has been selected as a semifinalist in the XPRIZE Water Scarcity Competition. For more than 30 years, XPRIZE has designed large-scale, […]
Events

A Giant Grepmalgamation of RDSW Recaps and Insights

April 30, 2026 David Schwartz
Alright. So: Has Raleigh-Durham Startup Week 2026 already been over for almost a week? Yes. Was it packed with 100+ events and thus impossible to cover in a comprehensive manner? […]
Charlotte

Charlotte’s StreetFair Announces Acquisition by Thumbtack

April 28, 2026 David Schwartz
Charlotte startup StreetFair has announced that it will officially be joining Thumbtack, a San Francisco platform built to streamline home improvement efforts. The announcement marks the culmination of five years […]
Triangle

Chapel Hill’s Truentity Health Closes Oversubscribed $3.5M Series A

April 28, 2026 David Schwartz
This morning, Chapel Hill startup Truentity Health announced that it has closed an oversubscribed $3.5M Series A to, per release, “scale a tech-enabled clinical care delivery network that turns community […]
Events

GrepBeat and The Seed List Host “College Night” During RDSW

April 24, 2026 David Schwartz
On Thursday night, to help cap off another packed day of Raleigh-Durham Startup Week, GrepBeat joined forces with The Seed List to host a second-ever “College Night” at Boxyard RTP. […]
Triangle

GrepBeat Hosts Annual Mega Happy Hour With Raleigh-Durham Startup Week

April 22, 2026 David Schwartz
One might ask if the title means that we were mega happy or that the event was mega. And the answer, naturally, is both. GrepBeat partnered with Raleigh-Durham Startup Week […]
Triangle

What’s New at RDSW26? Climate Tech Day, Bad Pitches, The Founder’s Clinic, and So Much More

April 16, 2026 David Schwartz
Happy Week Before Raleigh-Durham Startup Week, everybody! Two things are true this year: The first is that the RDSW team has done an excellent job laying out a massive agenda […]
Housekeeping

GrepBeat Newsletter: Lucid Bots in the Bazaar and Launch/KPMG Demo Day

April 14, 2026 David Schwartz
Hello there! This article was originally created because technical difficulties with our email software of choice (Mailchimp) rendered us temporarily unable to send the April 14th GrepBeat newsletter. When those […]
Triangle

Duke I&E’s 2026 Startup Showcase Features 35 Startups and $115.5K in Prizes

April 10, 2026 David Schwartz
On Thursday evening, Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship hosted its annual “Startup Showcase” event at the Fuqua School of Business on Duke’s West Campus. The event marked the culmination of a […]

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