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[ April 28, 2026 ] Charlotte’s StreetFair Announces Acquisition by Thumbtack Charlotte
[ April 28, 2026 ] Chapel Hill’s Truentity Health Closes Oversubscribed $3.5M Series A Triangle
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Charlotte’s StreetFair Announces Acquisition by Thumbtack

April 28, 2026 David Schwartz

Charlotte startup StreetFair has announced that it will officially be joining Thumbtack, a San Francisco platform built to streamline home improvement efforts. The announcement marks the culmination of five years […]

Chapel Hill’s Truentity Health Closes Oversubscribed $3.5M Series A

April 28, 2026 David Schwartz

This morning, Chapel Hill startup Truentity Health announced that it has closed an oversubscribed $3.5M Series A to, per release, “scale a tech-enabled clinical care delivery network that turns community […]

Carolina In My Eyes: Chapel Hill Startup Revolutionizes Eye-Tracking Technology

April 23, 2026 Ha Lien Gaskin

From its co-founders to its inception, Carolina Instruments is Carolina blue, through and through. The startup, which assumed its earliest form in the UNC Neuroscience and Engineering research labs, is […]

GrepBeat Hosts Annual Mega Happy Hour With Raleigh-Durham Startup Week

April 22, 2026 David Schwartz

One might ask if the title means that we were mega happy or that the event was mega. And the answer, naturally, is both. GrepBeat partnered with Raleigh-Durham Startup Week […]

Chapel Hill’s Swarm is Rethinking User Testing With AI-Generated Personas

April 21, 2026 Michael Melton

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill students Krish Vazirani and Aryan Aladar met about a year before the time of this writing. Both had experience building software, and together they […]

How Raleigh’s OneCare Aims To Transform Healthcare Practices

April 20, 2026 Ha Lien Gaskin

Joe Torres was first introduced to the healthcare industry in 2012, when he suffered a near-fatal accident. In 2020, Torres acquired a healthcare practice specializing in occupational and speech therapy […]

What’s New at RDSW26? Climate Tech Day, Bad Pitches, The Founder’s Clinic, and So Much More

April 16, 2026 David Schwartz

Happy Week Before Raleigh-Durham Startup Week, everybody! Two things are true this year: The first is that the RDSW team has done an excellent job laying out a massive agenda […]

Duke I&E’s 2026 Startup Showcase Features 35 Startups and $115.5K in Prizes

April 10, 2026 David Schwartz

On Thursday evening, Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship hosted its annual “Startup Showcase” event at the Fuqua School of Business on Duke’s West Campus. The event marked the culmination of a […]

Six Wing Studios’ Gabe Pappalardo on Self-Care Through Gaming, Fire Juggling, and a Reimagined “Amaru” Game

April 9, 2026 David Schwartz

GrepBeat last wrote about Six Wing Studios back in 2020. Six Wing Studios is a Raleigh-based startup that designs video games meant to double as exercises in mindfulness and self-care. They […]

Introducing the “Startup Bazaar,” a New Feature for Grep-a-Palooza 2026

April 7, 2026 David Schwartz

Grep-a-Palooza 2026 is just around the corner. In case you haven’t heard, registration is open and we’d love for you all to join us at the Durham Convention Center on […]