The Download

Cara Borenstein is co-founder and CEO at Bytebase.io – the engineer’s notepad. Before Bytebase, she was an engineer at Twilio. [Editor’s Note: GrepBeat first profiled Cara and Bytebase in February, 2021.] What is in your […]

Justin Benson joined Spreedly as CEO in 2011. He has driven Spreedly’s dramatic expansion through a successful pivot and evolution of the company’s go-to-market strategy. He led the company’s fundraising of $75 million from Spectrum […]

Justin Senkbeil is CEO and Co-Founder of Raleigh-based CompostNow Inc., a company that offers subscription services and products for composting. Since 2012, Justin has championed CompostNow’s mission of empowering community members to divert their compostables […]

Michael Walden, Ph.D., is a William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor Emeritus at NC State University and President of Walden Economic Consulting.  During his 43 years on the faculty at NC State, Walden became recognized as […]

Mike Tindall leads the product development and engineering teams at Commio. While attending Clemson University in 1998, he started his career when he co-founded Tsoft Solutions—a technology company that provided a host of networking services […]

Rachael Classi is the Founder and CEO of Tiny Earth Toys, an educational toy rental company curated by early childhood experts. Prior to founding Tiny Earth Toys, Rachael spent seven years building the women’s bicycle […]

Ted Zoller is T.W. Lewis Distinguished Clinical Scholar and Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Dr. Zoller also serves as senior fellow […]

Oliver Schabenberger is chief innovation officer at SingleStore.  He is a former academician and seasoned technology executive with more than 25 years global experience in data management, advanced analytics, and AI. Oliver formerly served as […]

Evan Neal is a serial entrepreneur working to simplify cryptocurrency for the non-expert user. Evan began his work in cryptocurrency and blockchain during the earliest stages of the technology. His work has always focused on […]

Greggory Bordes has nearly 20 years of experience across venture capital, private equity and public markets. Gregg is the Managing Partner of Front Porch Venture Partners in the Triangle, which he co-founded to help individual […]