The Download

Drew Schiller is the Co-Founder and CEO of Durham-based Validic, a leading digital health platform for personal health data. He is Board Chair of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) Health Division and a member of […]

Brian Reale is the CEO & Co-Founder of Durham-based ProcessMaker, a leading low-code process automation software company. Brian is a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience managing high-tech companies. Prior to co-founding […]

Chip Andrews is the Managing Member of Andrews Ventures. Earlier in his career, Chip and his young partners joined Dr. Emol A. Fails, a professor at NC State, to help build FMI Corporation. Dr. Fails […]

James Avery is the founder and CEO of Kevel. He was the Co-Founder of TekPub, which helped developers learn from high-quality screencasts. He has been writing code and starting companies for the past 20 years. […]

Ursula Mead is the CEO and founder of InHerSight, an anonymous company reviews platform where women rate the woman-friendliness of more than 150,000 companies. InHerSight gives women an inside look at how companies promote gender […]

Peter Zaitsev leveraged both his technical vision and entrepreneurial skills to grow Durham-based Percona from a two-person shop 15 years ago to one of the most respected open-source companies in the business. A serial entrepreneur, […]

Krista Covey is the President of Research Triangle-based First Flight Venture Center. It supports the development and growth of high-science, high-impact entrepreneurial companies by providing tailored resources, offices, prototyping aid, guidance, connections, and support. First […]

John Cowan is co-founder and CEO of Raleigh-based EDJX, Inc. (“EDJX”), a pioneering edge computing startup. Before founding EDJX, Cowan created 6fusion. Under his leadership, 6fusion raised over $30M in venture capital, completed the acquisition […]

Velvet Nelson is the director of Launch Chapel Hill. Velvet manages the accelerator and coworking space. After working in higher education for six years and earning her master’s degree in education from NC State University, […]

David Jones is a Co-Founder and General Partner of Bull City Venture Partners and a Partner at Southern Capitol Ventures. He serves on the boards of Reveal Mobile, Biospatial, and Attila Security and as a […]