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Durham Startup Fillaree Fights Plastic Waste and Toxins With Refillable Soap

November 21, 2019 Suzanne Blake

Within the span of three months about a decade ago, the unthinkable happened in Alyssa Cherry’s life: she found out two of the closest people in her life had cancer. […]

Move Over, Bake Sales: MemberHub Makes PTAs More Efficient

November 19, 2019 Elizabeth Thompson

Parent Teacher Associations (PTAs) span across the United States, and through fundraisers and parent donations, each of them can raise thousands of dollars per year. But up until recently, many […]

The Download: Jud Bowman, Founder and CEO, Sift Media

November 19, 2019 Brooks Malone

Jud is a serial entrepreneur who has started three companies so far: Motricity, Appia, and now Sift Media. Jud co-founded his first company, Motricity, as a high school senior at […]

CEOs, Investors Talk Shop At Inaugural Growth and Investment Symposium

November 14, 2019 Elizabeth Thompson

When Relias CEO Jim Triandiflou and his executive team decided where to move their headquarters to in 2012, Cary was the perfect option. Its location at the heart of the […]

Protopia Connects Colleges With Alumni By Reaching Them Where They Are

November 14, 2019 Suzanne Blake

Max Leisten envisions a professional utopia. As Founder and CEO of his Raleigh-based startup Protopia, he strives to do just that, serving universities with AI technology that allows the schools […]

Raleigh’s Recruitify Scoring Points In Amateur Basketball World

November 12, 2019 Suzanne Blake

Lifelong friends Will Newman and Trey Hicks met while growing up in the same High Point, N.C., neighborhood a few thousand feet away from each other. Twenty-five years later, the […]

Durham’s GreenToGo Aims To Take The Trash Out Of Takeout Food

November 12, 2019 Laura Brummett

One night almost 10 years ago, Crystal Dreisbach abruptly sat up in bed. She had figured it out. She knew what the world needed: reusable takeout containers. After the idea […]

Spiffy Doubles Its Size Overnight With Acquisition Of Orlando’s YLL

November 8, 2019 Pete McEntegart

Many startups shoot for impressive year-over-year growth of 100 percent—for the math-challenged, that’s doubling in size. Spiffy just managed that feat day-over-day. The RTP-based mobile car-care service announced today that […]

SchedulePop Makes Scheduling Staff Easier—Including For The Blind

November 7, 2019 Suzanne Blake

As the co-owner of The Hat Factory, a music venue in Richmond, about a decade ago, Ben Wingrove was in the perfect position to envision his current startup SchedulePop. But […]

Postcard From The Triad: Startup Ecosystem Update From The Piedmont

November 7, 2019 Team Triad

[Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of periodic updates from startup ecosystems from around the state. Up today: Winston-Salem, Greensboro and the rest of the Triad. You […]