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 […]
Ideas need protection. Patents have long existed for this purpose, but they often involve long, arduous and financially draining journeys to legally protect an idea. Around a year ago, Founder and CEO Eli Sheets quit […]
Helping build early-stage startups into great companies is quite a task, but it has been the goal of RTP Capital ever since four Triangle residents brought the angel investor group to life. The story begins […]
There’s a new name in town, specifically in Durham.ID’s WeWork location. New York-based Kustomer opened its Durham office this spring, creating a second headquarters for the company that aims to bring superior customer support services […]
College students know the struggle of registering for classes. Three Duke students worked through their own frustrations on that front by building ClassRanked, a website that helps students during this process. ClassRanked allows users to […]
Growing up as a female engineer, Cindy Foy-Uhlir often felt she was trying to exist in a man’s world. But now Foy-Uhlir, with 15 years experience in business consulting, is bringing Fierce Female Founders (F3), […]
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