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Startups To Watch

GrepBeat’s 2026 Startups to Watch: Meet This Year’s Honorees

September 28, 2026 David Schwartz
Below is a description of the event and relevant recognitions.Click here to jump to the 2026 honorees.Click here to jump to photos from the event. On Thursday night, GrepBeat hosted […]
Triangle

Front Porch Venture Partners Releases First-Ever “Southeast Startup Founder Pulse Survey”

September 22, 2026 David Schwartz
On Tuesday, Durham VC firm Front Porch Venture Partners released its first-ever Southeast Startup Founder Pulse Survey. The project was designed as a “first-of-its-kind, founder-side companion” to the firm’s existing […]
Charlotte

Botsi’s $1.5M Raise Will Improve, Expand Personalized Subscription Solutions

September 17, 2026 David Schwartz
Charlotte-founded startup Botsi was built to provide an alternative model to one-size-fits-all app subscriptions. GrepBeat first covered the company in October of 2025, with co-founders Jacob Rushfinn and Jason Schubert […]
Wilmington

NEW’s 2026 Investor Buzz In Shines Spotlight on Wilmington Ecosystem

September 14, 2026 David Schwartz
Last Thursday, the Network for Entrepreneurs in Wilmington (essentially comprised of the Wilmington ecosystem’s human megaphone, Jim Roberts) held its annual “Investor Buzz In.” The event took place at Cape […]
Wilmington

GrepBeat Hosts Wilmington Happy Hour to Cap Off NEW’s Investor Buzz In

September 11, 2026 David Schwartz
Well, this one was pretty cool…. Our patented GrepBeat Happy Hours are usually planned pretty well in advance, at familiar venues and with familiar crowds. This time around, things came […]
Housekeeping

Meet GrepBeat’s Executive Director: Katy Breitenbach

September 9, 2026 David Schwartz
This past May, we at Team GrepBeat put the word out that we’d begun a search for our first-ever Executive Director. The role was conceived as part of GrepBeat’s transition […]
Triangle

QuantumBloom Co-Founders on Proving STEM Retention Infrastructure, Expanding Reach, TopGolf and Thrifting Dates, and 4:45am Workouts

September 3, 2026 David Schwartz
GrepBeat last wrote about QuantumBloom in May of 2024, when it was still known as Launched2Lead. QuantumBloom is an Apex-based startup providing evidence-driven, employer-supported STEM talent retention and readiness infrastructure. For this […]
Elsewhere

Startups From the Southeast (and Beyond) Converge in Winston-Salem

August 31, 2026 David Schwartz
Last Thursday and Friday, startups from North Carolina, the broader Southeast, and even elsewhere (we even spoke to some Canadian founders) gathered at Winston-Salem’s Biotech Place for the 10th iteration […]
Charlotte

Path’s Nate Robert-Eze on Winning Invest Fest, Playing Four Instruments, and Approaching a $2.3M Seed Raise

August 25, 2026 David Schwartz
GrepBeat last wrote about Path Intelligence in July of 2025. Path is a Charlotte-based startup providing AI-driven solutions in the real estate industry, primarily through AI that acts as an agent […]
Wilmington

Wilmington’s XTND Announces Strategic Partnership With Clio

August 20, 2026 David Schwartz
This morning, Wilmington-based XTND announced that it has officially launched a strategic partnership with Clio, a global leader in legal AI. While XTND has integrated natively with Clio Manage “from […]

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