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Wake Forest Startup Is Creating AI Avatars For The Future

July 24, 2025 Michael Melton
Jason Clark, founder of Wake Forest-based Craine Technology Labs, envisions a future of agentic AI systems that are more human—one specifically in which AI systems take the form of avatars. […]
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Asheville-Based Agenda Keeper Organizes Meeting Agendas

June 24, 2025 Taylor Motley
Since 2023, Shane Parreco has run Aktiga, a software development firm he founded to help clients create everything from web applications to virtual reality experiences. While helping clients build custom […]
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Asheville’s Arclet Provides Easy-to-Use Health Communications Tools

May 29, 2025 Taylor Motley
Having spent her entire career in health communications, Adrienne Ammerman recognized the growing problems in the field over the past few years, from the field not keeping up with new […]
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Winston-Salem’s Troodie: A Social Commerce Platform For Dining Out

May 15, 2025 David Schwartz
When Taylor Davis was in business school in Ithaca, New York during the pandemic, she spent a chunk of her free time watching Food Network shows and scrolling through restaurants […]
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Winston-Salem’s Beam Dynamics Helps Entertainment Venues Get Organized

May 6, 2025 Tori Newby
Sports arenas and concert venues have a lot of moving parts to manage: thousands of pieces of equipment, expensive technology and hundreds of employees. Entrepreneurs David Kaszycki and Ryan DeMars […]
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Friday Nooner: David Cummings Shares His Vision For Atlanta

September 27, 2024 David Schwartz
On today’s Friday Nooner, GrepBeat Godfather Joe Colopy and “Survivor” Melissa Crosby opened with a few words about Hurricane Helene and the storms pelting the Southeast (and the very nice […]
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Exit Stories: AssureSign’s Brinkman Recalls The Hard Choices Of Being A CEO

September 26, 2023 Kaitlyn Dang
Welcome back to another episode of Exit Stories, proudly sponsored by Robinson Bradshaw. This week, host Kevin Mosley speaks to David Brinkman, the Founder and former CEO of Atlanta-based AssureSign, […]
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Friday Nooner: Talking Rats And Grep-a-palooza Discounts With Jon Birdsong

May 12, 2023 Pete McEntegart
Smell a rat? It might have been coming from this week’s edition of the Friday Nooner, sponsored by Hutchison law firm. To be clear, we’re not blaming Hutchison for the […]
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Friday Nooner: SVB’s No Good, Very Bad Week; Guest Vasant Kamath

March 17, 2023 Suzannah Claire Perry
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! If you missed Joe and Pete’s attire on this week’s Friday Nooner, fear not—we can confirm that neither of the green-clad duo are getting pinched. The […]
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For Starters: How Rigor’s Hyde Found The Perfect Consumer For Its Product

January 31, 2023 Sierra President
Anil Chawla returned this week to host another inspiring episode of For Starters (sponsored by law firm Robinson Bradshaw) where he met with Atlanta-based entrepreneur, Craig Hyde, founder and former […]

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