Startups

The topic of police accountability has loomed especially large in nationwide social justice conversations since last summer’s protests spurred by the murder of George Floyd while in police custody. One of the aims of Off […]

Gathering the courage to admit you’d benefit from therapy and finding your first therapist can be a tremendous ordeal. Having worked in mental health in some capacity, whether in community or corporate mental health, since […]

Youth soccer players who look up to professional soccer players can now do something even more exciting than watching them live or through a screen. Now, they will have the ability to book a favorite […]

Can something made out of 100% steel weigh as little as aluminum? The answer is yes. And NC State Professor Afanseh Rabiei started Raleigh-based Advanced Materials Manufacturing once she figured it out. Now the startup […]

Amid a pandemic, a serial Triangle entrepreneur has built a new venture around breathable, protective workplace masks. Aries CEO Chris Evans, who is known for starting tech companies like Accipiter in the late ’90s—which was […]

The current bassinets in use at hospitals are used by new mothers, so why aren’t they designed for them? This was a question a UNC Chapel Hill researcher asked herself, and the answer she came […]

“Everyone loves doing taxes”—would be a false statement. Doing taxes all by yourself is laborious, which is why so many people prefer letting companies like TurboTax do it for them. That’s the basic idea behind […]

As former Duke football players, the co-founders of Protect3d—Kevin Gehsmann, Clark Bulleit and Tim Skapek—started their company after discovering the incredible benefits of 3D-printed custom protective devices for their teammates. The solution first came as […]

Being organized is important. For a scientist running experiments in a lab, keeping track of the 100,000 samples that can be done per day is a headache. And worse, spending time organizing that massive amount […]

For many people who had grand plans to travel the world and see new sights last year, 2020 was a major letdown. With stay-at-home orders and Covid-19 health restrictions forcing people to cancel plans and […]