Articles by Pete McEntegart

About Pete McEntegart

I've worn many hats, but my current chapeau* is as Managing Editor of GrepBeat, which covers the Raleigh-Durham tech scene, especially tech startups. Sign up for our Tuesday-Thursday email newsletter at grepbeat.com. Hope to see you around the Triangle! (*chapeau is French for "pretentious")

Spiffy Turbocharges Dallas Growth With Acquisition Of NuWash

July 30, 2019 Pete McEntegart

Spiffy hasn’t wasted any time in tapping some of the $10M it raised last month to help spur its growth. The Durham-based, on-demand car services startup announced this morning that […]

Fresh $10M Funding Enables Spiffy To Expand To Fleet Management (FMaaS)

June 26, 2019 Pete McEntegart

Spiffy continues to clean up in the on-demand car-care space. Today the company announced a $10M funding led by New York’s Tribeca Venture Partners, with local participation from existing investors […]

Lipson’s Latest Trick: Raising $6M Series A For Real Magic

June 20, 2019 Pete McEntegart

Jesse Lipson knows better than most that a startup doesn’t necessarily need to raise money to be successful. After all, he bootstrapped his first company, ShareFile, to a $93M sale […]

Imagicode Duo Offers Kid-Friendly Coding Classes In Triangle

May 16, 2019 Pete McEntegart

When Justin Leonard and Adam Bowker teach their coding classes to kids, there is one hook above all others to get the youngsters interested. “They love their Minecraft,” says Leonard. […]

Cofounders’ $31M Fund II Better Enables Them To Double-Down On Bets

March 19, 2019 Pete McEntegart

The Triangle tech ecosystem may not be strutting around quite as confidently these days after the still-too-fresh double sting of both Apple and Amazon turning up their noses at the […]

CED Tech Conference: Day One Roundup

February 26, 2019 Pete McEntegart

As we head into Day 2 (really, Morning 2) of the CED Tech Conference at the Raleigh Convention Center, let’s take a quick look back at Day 1 (Monday). Here […]

1s, 0s, Xs and Os—Infinia ML’s Robbie Allen Combines His Passions

January 24, 2019 Pete McEntegart

Robbie Allen is a serial entrepreneur, the youngest Distinguished Engineer in Cisco history, and a big UNC hoops fan—and not necessarily in that order. After Cisco (or during it, really), […]

GrepBeat’s 18 Most-Read Stories of 2018

January 3, 2019 Pete McEntegart

Welcome to 2019! Before we get too far into the new year, we want to take a quick look back at the 18 most-read stories on GrepBeat.com for 2018. Caveat: […]

Teamworks Academy Helps College Athletes Transition From Field to Office

December 18, 2018 Pete McEntegart

Ashley Hughes connected on 86.4% (38-for-44) of the free throws she took during her four-year career with the University of Tulsa women’s basketball team, the second-highest mark in school history. […]

Innovate Durham Wraps Up 12-Week Embedding With Demo Day

December 5, 2018 Pete McEntegart

This fall, Dr. Allison Mathews met a young woman who had fallen in love. But there was a complication: her partner was HIV-positive and didn’t have access to medication. Mathews […]