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GrepBeat’s 2025 Startups To Watch: Meet This Year’s Honorees

September 19, 2025 David Schwartz

On Thursday night, GrepBeat hosted its fifth annual “Startups To Watch” event, showcasing and honoring some of the most promising early-stage startups from around—for the first time—the entire state of […]

Friday Fix: Hive Science, Msg2AI, and Ultisim

September 19, 2025 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 […]

Ultisim Co-Founder and Chairman Richard Boyd Talks Digital Twins, Pythagoras, and Making Grappa

September 18, 2025 David Schwartz

GrepBeat last wrote about Ultisim in the fall of 2022. Ultisim is a Chapel Hill-based startup leveraging a team of experts in AI and simulation to create digital twins and learning simulations […]

Exit Stories: Building the Brand w/ Allison Wood

September 18, 2025 Katelyn Crespo

Welcome back to Exit Stories and thank you for joining us for the third episode of our fifth season! On today’s episode, host Kevin Mosley is sitting down with the […]

In The Soup: Funding Strategies from Founders

September 17, 2025 Katelyn Crespo

Happy In The Soup 🍲 Wednesday! Hosts Jenn Summe and Melissa Crosby are back with another episode between many a GrepBeat event (*cough cough* Startups to Watch tomorrow, anyone…?) and are excited […]

Charlotte’s Msg2AI Uses AI To Remove Friction From Event & Venue Texting

September 16, 2025 Temiloluwa Alagbe

Entrepreneur Bart Cant moved to the U.S. from Belgium in 2000, settling in Charlotte to work for IBM and various consulting firms. He started Rethink Labs, his own blockchain consulting […]

Durham’s Hive Science Decodes Human Decision-Making For Business Growth

September 15, 2025 Michael Melton

Durham- and Minneapolis-based Hive Science was born from two former US Bank colleagues’ shared vision of applying behavioral science in a practical, impactful way. Co-founders Julie O’Brien, a behavioral scientist, […]

Monday Mix: Startups to Watch, Solopreneur Bootcamp, and a Summit for Women in Tech

September 15, 2025 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: Nonprofit Announcement, College Night, and Much More!

September 12, 2025 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 […]

GrepBeat Is Now Officially A Nonprofit

September 11, 2025 David Schwartz

Today we are excited to announce to the public, and our beloved readership, that on September 3rd, GrepBeat officially became a nonprofit entity. This company got started just over seven […]