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[ May 19, 2026 ] Meet the Startups Competing in the $5K Grep-a-Palooza Pitch Competition Triangle
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[ May 18, 2026 ] Charlotte’s Build-A-Bookie Offers No-Money Social Gambling Platform Charlotte
[ May 18, 2026 ] Monday Mix: GrepBeat Downstairs, Seed the South, and More! Monday Mix
[ May 15, 2026 ] NC TECH Hosts Inaugural “Tech Fest North Carolina” in Durham Triangle

Meet the Startups Competing in the $5K Grep-a-Palooza Pitch Competition

May 19, 2026 David Schwartz

It’s that time of year again. As we barrel toward Grep-a-Palooza 2026 and put the final touches on our preparations, we are ready to announce the slate of startups that […]

NC TECH Hosts Inaugural “Tech Fest North Carolina” in Durham

May 15, 2026 David Schwartz

A new conference arrived on the spring slate in the Triangle this week, with NC TECH hosting its inaugural “Tech Fest North Carolina” event at The Armory and The Durham […]

NALA Membranes Named Semifinalist in $119M Global XPRIZE Competition

May 12, 2026 David Schwartz

This morning it was announced that Morrisville’s NALA Membranes has been selected as a semifinalist in the XPRIZE Water Scarcity Competition. For more than 30 years, XPRIZE has designed large-scale, […]

Chapel Hill’s Swik AI: An Intelligence Layer For Small Business Loan Underwriting

May 8, 2026 Michael Melton

Yogi Nishanth spent much of his career in financial services, working for banks such as JP Morgan, Chase, and Capital One. In the back of his mind, he always wanted […]

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 […]