Suzanne Blake

Durham Startup Built Story Selected For Google For Startups Latino Founders Fund

July 11, 2022 Suzanne Blake

A Durham-based startup that operates as a marketplace for self-guided tours was selected by Google for the company’s Google for Startups Latino Founders Fund. The homegrown startup, Built Story, was […]

NALA Membranes Lands $1.5M To Commercialize Its Breakthrough Tech

July 7, 2022 Suzanne Blake

Durham-based NALA Membranes has secured $1.5 million in funding from several investors, the startup announced yesterday. The investors include Raleigh’s Oval Park Capital, Good Growth Capital, Fulcrum Financial Services, and […]

Magneta Health Is CityPT Founder’s Ultimate Plan To Improve Healthcare

July 7, 2022 Suzanne Blake

Andrew Shirk has more than just one startup under his name. The founder and CEO of Durham-based CityPT, which leverages technology to improve quality of care and speed of access […]

Welcome To The Metaverse: Raleigh’s Transmira Envisions A New Meta World

July 7, 2022 Suzanne Blake

Imagine, in the middle of the night “here” in the Triangle—more specifically, in a 3D metaverse digital twin of a Crabtree Valley Mall store—a single mom from the Philippines can […]

Triangle Tweener Fund Adds Robbie Allen As GP, Makes 14 Q2 Investments

July 6, 2022 Suzanne Blake

Serial entrepreneur Robbie Allen—who founded, built and and sold Durham-based Automated Insights—will now play a key role in Scot Wingo’s Triangle Tweener Fund. Allen is joining Wingo as a General […]

Man In A Hurry: How Erkang Zheng Made JupiterOne A Unicorn In Just Two Years

July 5, 2022 Suzanne Blake

If you asked Erkang Zheng what he wanted to be as a kid, tech founder didn’t top the list. Growing up in China and then immigrating to the United States […]

Demos Over Zoom Not Going Well? Raleigh’s Demostory Is Your Answer

July 5, 2022 Suzanne Blake

Some startup stories go way back to the founders’ roots. Chris Colburn and Alec Robinson met in high school while growing up in Raleigh. Now they have built a startup […]

With VC Funding For Women Founders So Low, How’d These Women Defy The Odds?

June 30, 2022 Suzanne Blake

Women founders received only 2 percent of venture capital funding in the United States last year, according to a report by Pitchbook. It’s a gender gap that has long prevailed […]

Meet Sheryl Waddell, The New Face Behind UNC’s Innovation Hub

June 30, 2022 Suzanne Blake

Sheryl Waddell is the new face behind UNC’s Innovation Hub, which plans to open a space on East Rosemary Street in early 2023. As Innovate Carolina’s newly anointed Director of […]

A Housing Shortage Grows, But How Will It Impact The Triangle’s Tech Ecosystem?

June 28, 2022 Suzanne Blake

North Carolina communities will face a gap of around 900,000 housing units by 2030 if nothing changes, an executive at the North Carolina Budget & Tax Center said in April. […]