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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 […]

The Download: Robbie Hardy, Chairman, xElle Ventures

November 5, 2019 Brooks Malone

Robbie’s business experiences range from corporate strategies for Fortune 500 companies to founding, building, running and successfully exiting various technology businesses, as well as raising and managing an angel network. […]

Sports Official Startup Silbo Helps Those Who Whistle While They Work

November 5, 2019 Suzanne Blake

Co-Founders Brendan Szulik and Daniel Caldwell first developed the idea for Raleigh-based Silbo around five years ago when an umpire ruined CEO Szulik’s younger brother’s baseball game. “My Co-Founder looked […]

RepVue Empowers Sales Professionals To Find The Right Job For Them

October 31, 2019 Elizabeth Thompson

Despite the potential lucrativeness of sales jobs, the sales industry has a turnover rate almost twice that of the American workforce, according to statistics from the Harvard Business Review. Chapel […]

GoKart Provides The Kids’ Ride-Sharing App That Parents Need

October 31, 2019 Suzanne Blake

Being a single, working parent—or a parent, period—has its challenges, including the frustrating inability to be everywhere at once. This is one struggle Stacy Shannon knew well as the then-single […]

Raleigh’s VitalFlo Helps Keep Asthma Patients Breathing Easier

October 29, 2019 Laura Brummett

Picture a set on the movie Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. A scene of piles of chests filled with gold, jewels and other treasures. To Luke […]

IdeaBlock Uses Blockchain Technology To Give Innovators Protection

October 29, 2019 Suzanne Blake

Ideas need protection. Patents have long existed for this purpose, but they often involve long, arduous and financially draining journeys to legally protect an idea. Around a year ago, Founder […]