Suzanne Blake

Former Sageworks CEO’s New Startup Working To Replace Paper In Clinical Trials

June 28, 2022 Suzanne Blake

Too much of anything can kill you. That’s one of the reasons why the work in clinical trials—analyzing precise blood samples as a study participant pushes a drug out of […]

Friday Nooner: Allstacks’ Hersh Tapadia Is Final Guest Before Summer Hiatus

June 24, 2022 Suzanne Blake

On this week’s episode of The Friday Nooner—which is the last episode of the season before a summer hiatus—Pete, Joe and guest co-host Suzanne (me) had the opportunity to pick […]

Burned-Out Healthcare Pros Increasingly Launching Their Own Ventures

June 23, 2022 Suzanne Blake

As the pandemic brought intense pressure for all frontline workers, healthcare employees particularly faced an incredible amount of burnout and uncertainty. Since then, there’s been a reckoning of sorts. Overall […]

Durham’s Higgs Boson Health Seeks To Transform Patient Surgery Journeys

June 23, 2022 Suzanne Blake

Durham-based Higgs Boson Health is not Co-Founder Rajeev Dharmapurikar’s first rodeo. The startup, which made this year’s Triangle Tweener List, is actually the result of a conversation Dharmapurikar had with […]

Not Playing Around: Teamworks Lands $50M For “Operating System For Sports”

June 21, 2022 Suzanne Blake

While the pandemic initially brought college and professional sports to a screeching halt—and then kept fans away and revenues slashed for even longer—it obviously did little to slow down Durham-based […]

Samuel Saw His Way Clear To Blazing A Path For Those With Disabilities

June 21, 2022 Suzanne Blake

When John Samuel was only a college freshman at NC State, he received some life-altering news: He was going blind. He was diagnosed with a degenerative eye condition called retinitis […]

The Friday Nooner: Hello, Green Places CEO Alex Lassiter; Goodbye, Carbon

June 17, 2022 Suzanne Blake

Today’s Friday Nooner episode featured Green Places CEO and Founder Alex Lassiter. He describes Green Places as an “end-to-end sustainability software company.” It helps other companies calculate their carbon footprint […]

Wingo Holds Triangle Tweener Event To Celebrate Newest Additions, Deals

June 17, 2022 Suzanne Blake

Startup founders across the Triangle tech community gathered at Lonerider Brewery in Raleigh on Thursday night for a celebration of the annual Triangle Tweener Awards. Heavy rains forced the event […]

Scot Wingo Unveils His 2022 Triangle Tweener List, With 37 New Startups

June 16, 2022 Suzanne Blake

Spiffy’s CEO Scot Wingo unveiled his 2022 Triangle Tweener List today, and 37 new startups joined the list of 251 startups overall in the region that fit the “Tweener” criteria. […]

Kinetik’s Simulations Help Businesses With Complex Decision-Making

June 16, 2022 Suzanne Blake

One startup from Launch Chapel Hill’s spring accelerator hopes to change the game when it comes to businesses’ go-to-market forecast models. After all, Kinetik Founder David Hughes is no stranger […]