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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 […]

In The Soup: All Things Product Feedback!

April 21, 2026 Katelyn Crespo

Happy In The Soup 🍲 Tuesday! Today, hosts Jenn Summe and Melissa Crosby are joined by David Shaner of Offline and Ashlyn Greer of Fashivly. They are sitting down to share all […]

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 […]

Monday Mix: All Things RDSW

April 20, 2026 Katelyn Crespo

Start your week off right by tuning into your curated Monday Mix: a look at the week ahead in GrepBeat and the North Carolina tech communities. This show is a part […]

Friday Fix: GrepBeat Giving Programs, RDSW Preview, and Lucid Bots

April 17, 2026 Katelyn Crespo

We cover as much startup- and tech-related content as we can here at GrepBeat.com—but we know you can’t always catch it all in the course of your week. On the Friday Fix, […]

What’s New at RDSW26? Climate Tech Day, Bad Pitches, The Founder’s Clinic, and So Much More

April 16, 2026 David Schwartz

Happy Week Before Raleigh-Durham Startup Week, everybody! Two things are true this year: The first is that the RDSW team has done an excellent job laying out a massive agenda […]

The Download: Andrew Ashur, Founder and CEO, Lucid Bots

April 14, 2026 Brooks Malone

Andrew Ashur is the founder and CEO of Lucid Bots, 2024’s fastest-growing robotics manufacturer according to Inc. 5000. Lucid builds modular drones and robots that clean, paint, and coat infrastructure […]

GrepBeat Newsletter: Lucid Bots in the Bazaar and Launch/KPMG Demo Day

April 14, 2026 David Schwartz

Hello there! This article was originally created because technical difficulties with our email software of choice (Mailchimp) rendered us temporarily unable to send the April 14th GrepBeat newsletter. When those […]

In The Soup: Navigating Expectations as a Portfolio Company

April 14, 2026 Katelyn Crespo

Happy In The Soup 🍲 Tuesday! Today, hosts Jenn Summe and Melissa Crosby are joined by Dr. Shante Williams of Black Pearl Global Investments and Mahati Sridhar of Revolution Ventures. They are […]

Introducing GrepBeat’s Giving Programs

April 13, 2026 Joe Colopy

GrepBeat began in 2018 as a small initiative within Colopy Ventures with a simple goal of supporting Raleigh-Durham’s early-stage founders through a weekly email newsletter. Over time, it grew into […]