Suzanne Blake

Cloud Giants Uses Salesforce Expertise to Elevate Its Customers’ Bottom Line

June 18, 2019 Suzanne Blake

A cloud giant, in the Dungeons and Dragons game universe, stands 18 feet tall and has milky white or light-sky-blue skin. This race of giants prefers to live in the […]

Space-n-Thyme Connects Food Entrepreneurs to Commercial Kitchens

June 13, 2019 Suzanne Blake

For culinary visionaries, catering can be a dream career, but sometimes the lack of access to a commercial kitchen can stop them before they even start. This is a problem […]

Resilient Ventures Seeks To Close Wealth Gap By Backing Black-Owned Businesses

June 13, 2019 Suzanne Blake

Throughout his life as a software developer, Tom Droege has built a level of wealth and made philanthropy an important part of his life. But while he realized giving away […]

Raleigh’s Reborn Clothing Allows Surplus Threads To Embrace A New Life

June 11, 2019 Suzanne Blake

Very few launch a successful startup at age 19, but NC State rising senior Emily Neville did just that when she realized the potential that rests in the corner of […]

WAAM Connects Busy Bodies With Their Favorite Workout Trainers

June 6, 2019 Suzanne Blake

In the middle of yoga teacher training two years ago, Karly Pavlinac had an idea that could change the future of fitness. While planning her routines, she longed for a […]

NCSU Andrews Launch Accelerator Sets Wolfpack Startups On Upward Path

June 6, 2019 Suzanne Blake

There were days when Marcel Jara would be happy if his family-owned food truck, Arepa Culture NC, would get five or 10 customers. Jara, an immigrant from Costa Rica, became […]

Chapel Hill’s Quantworks Brings Big Data Analytics To Small Startups

June 4, 2019 Suzanne Blake

Machine learning, artificial intelligence and big data are hot current topics—and buzzwords—in the world of technology. But for Nick Ghitelman and Anthony Volpe, these tools are as familiar as old […]

Kuel Life Creates Online Community For Women Of A Certain Age

June 4, 2019 Suzanne Blake

Jack Perez, the founder of Chapel Hill-based Kuel Life, feels she’s lived—and is living—a big life. She abandoned corporate America early on in her career to open her own PR […]

The Manager Who Discovered Elton John Now Runs Raleigh-Based Startup

May 30, 2019 Suzanne Blake

In the excitement around tomorrow’s premiere of the Elton John biopic “Rocketman,” John’s famous songs, stage costumes and intriguing ascent to fame take center stage. But the man behind the […]

LineHire Pairs Automation With Personal Touch To Help Clients Find Talent

May 30, 2019 Suzanne Blake

Chance encounters guided the startup LineHire to become what it is today. LineHire, which offers businesses a more efficient method to fill open jobs with qualified candidates, launched its operations […]