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Funding

Tar Heels Launch UNC’s First Student-Led VC Fund, Lux Libertas Ventures

April 22, 2021 Suzanne Blake

Some of the next unicorns will be Tar Heels. At least, that’s a goal for UNC’s student-run VC fund Lux Libertas Ventures. Student-run VC funds are not the norm, but […]

Allied Angels: The Triangle’s University-Tied Investing Networks Team Up

July 9, 2020 Elizabeth Moore

Rivals in basketball but not in business, the Triangle’s three major research universities are allies in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. UNC (Carolina Angel Network, or CAN), NC State (Wolfpack Investor Network, […]

Sherpa Collaborative Wants to Help Businesses Climb Their Own Everest

April 23, 2020 Suzanne Blake

In the dangerous, stunning feat of ascending Mount Everest, the Sherpa people of Nepal are often there to help others make it to the top. This is the metaphor that […]

Triangle VCs And Angels Dealing With New Normal Of Covid-19 Fallout

March 24, 2020 Laura Brummett

For Triangle-area venture capital firms and angel networks, not much has changed in the past few weeks. Except, portfolio companies are either really up or really down, and a lot […]

Fresh $10M Funding Enables Spiffy To Expand To Fleet Management (FMaaS)

June 26, 2019 Pete McEntegart

Spiffy continues to clean up in the on-demand car-care space. Today the company announced a $10M funding led by New York’s Tribeca Venture Partners, with local participation from existing investors […]

Lipson’s Latest Trick: Raising $6M Series A For Real Magic

June 20, 2019 Pete McEntegart

Jesse Lipson knows better than most that a startup doesn’t necessarily need to raise money to be successful. After all, he bootstrapped his first company, ShareFile, to a $93M sale […]

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 […]

CRE Venture Capital Targets Africa From Downtown Durham (And Elsewhere)

May 2, 2019 Jacquelyn Melinek

Pule Taukobong spends most of his time traveling globally, from Africa to Asia with the occasional stop in the United States. When Taukobong is in the U.S., he’s based in […]

Cofounders’ $31M Fund II Better Enables Them To Double-Down On Bets

March 19, 2019 Pete McEntegart

The Triangle tech ecosystem may not be strutting around quite as confidently these days after the still-too-fresh double sting of both Apple and Amazon turning up their noses at the […]

Durham’s écree Lands $1.5M To Keep Writing Its Own Story

November 6, 2018 Jacquelyn Melinek

Durham-based startup écree helps improve students’ writing with color-coded, real-time markups. But it likely put away the virtual red pen and brought out the gold stars for the check-writing of […]