With an eight-month-old and a toddler, Kathryn Dunn was tired. She was tired of turning to Google and ending up doom-scrolling every time she had a simple question about breastfeeding, or toddler tantrums, or infant […]
The co-founders of the Durham-based startup Plantd, Josh Dorfman and Huade Tan, have cracked the code for how to make strong, sustainable homebuilding materials without using wood. The secret? Hemp. Hemp fiber is three times […]
Ten years ago, nurse Karen Tsang consoled a crying mother who couldn’t leave the hospital for a simple but debilitating reason: because her infant’s nostrils were filled with snot, the baby couldn’t eat. This conversation, […]
The process of flipping a house is already convoluted because it typically involves managing transactions between five different parties: homeowners, lenders, contractors, subcontractors and material providers. It becomes even more convoluted for someone flipping multiple […]
Many things that once had to be done in-person—like seeing a doctor or going to therapy—are now able to be done virtually. One Raleigh-based startup, Ratchit, aims to make visiting a mechanic a virtual experience […]
As more millennials and Generation Z families buy homes, one Raleigh startup is looking to help this tech-savvy generation of new homeowners. HomeCloud, founded by George Kirkland and Chan Namgong, will launch this winter with […]
Durham’s Fandex is bringing innovation to the digital sports community with a stock market-esque game of skill that also looks to NFTs for upcoming innovations. When two students brought the idea of a synthetic sports […]
Men are about two times more likely than women to get skin cancer in their lifetime. A mother-daughter duo from the Triangle is looking to change that with their Chapel Hill-based ecommerce startup, Get Mr. […]
Last year Shaswat Joshi, now a senior at UNC, began a small business on the side called SamosaBucket to sell homemade samosas—small, dumpling-like pastries with savory fillings—to other college students. Joshi relied on social media […]
Durham’s Tumult Labs is bringing collaborative change to differential privacy with revolutionary research that will soon help companies protect customers’ privacy without the price tag of hiring an in-house team. Tumult is a product of […]
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