In the middle of college, John Samuel learned that he was going blind; he had a degenerative eye condition called retinitis pigmentosa. At first, Samuel was ashamed and didn’t want others to know he was […]
Calling all Triangle startups: here’s a chance to help future tech entrepreneurs while establishing a strong talent pipeline. The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM) is now accepting applications—with a Jan. 10 deadline—for […]
Veera is a word meaning “brave” in Hindi. It’s a word that UNC juniors Varun Jain, Nicholas Ashcraft and Grant Everist used to name their startup, encapsulating the idea that their cold storage unit boxes, […]
Imagine that monitoring your health was as easy as sitting down on—or standing at—the toilet to pee. Now it can be. With Raleigh-based startup Intake’s in-toilet sensor that tests your urine to monitor your diet […]
Within the span of three months about a decade ago, the unthinkable happened in Alyssa Cherry’s life: she found out two of the closest people in her life had cancer. The first bad news hit […]
Max Leisten envisions a professional utopia. As Founder and CEO of his Raleigh-based startup Protopia, he strives to do just that, serving universities with AI technology that allows the schools to reach alumni where they […]
Lifelong friends Will Newman and Trey Hicks met while growing up in the same High Point, N.C., neighborhood a few thousand feet away from each other. Twenty-five years later, the duo runs a startup together, […]
As the co-owner of The Hat Factory, a music venue in Richmond, about a decade ago, Ben Wingrove was in the perfect position to envision his current startup SchedulePop. But we’ll get to that in […]
Co-Founders Brendan Szulik and Daniel Caldwell first developed the idea for Raleigh-based Silbo around five years ago when an umpire ruined CEO Szulik’s younger brother’s baseball game. “My Co-Founder looked at me and instead of […]
Being a single, working parent—or a parent, period—has its challenges, including the frustrating inability to be everywhere at once. This is one struggle Stacy Shannon knew well as the then-single mom of three children: she […]
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