Suzanne Blake

NCSSM Entrepreneurship Fellowship Helps Students And Startups Alike

December 10, 2019 Suzanne Blake

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 […]

Veera Brings ‘Cold’ Comfort To Farmers In India To Reduce Food Waste

December 3, 2019 Suzanne Blake

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 […]

Bowl Season: Raleigh’s Intake Tackles Preventive Health In Innovative Way

November 26, 2019 Suzanne Blake

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 […]

Durham Startup Fillaree Fights Plastic Waste and Toxins With Refillable Soap

November 21, 2019 Suzanne Blake

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. […]

Protopia Connects Colleges With Alumni By Reaching Them Where They Are

November 14, 2019 Suzanne Blake

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 […]

Raleigh’s Recruitify Scoring Points In Amateur Basketball World

November 12, 2019 Suzanne Blake

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 […]

SchedulePop Makes Scheduling Staff Easier—Including For The Blind

November 7, 2019 Suzanne Blake

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 […]

Sports Official Startup Silbo Helps Those Who Whistle While They Work

November 5, 2019 Suzanne Blake

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 […]

GoKart Provides The Kids’ Ride-Sharing App That Parents Need

October 31, 2019 Suzanne Blake

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 […]

IdeaBlock Uses Blockchain Technology To Give Innovators Protection

October 29, 2019 Suzanne Blake

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 […]