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The Download: Joe Sinsheimer, Wolfpack Investor Network

December 10, 2018 Brooks Malone

Joe Sinsheimer is the Managing Director of the Wolfpack Investor Network (WIN), the NC State-affiliated angel group. Sinsheimer has been involved in angel investing for 25 years. He has been […]

Lost Your Credit Card? Chill: WalletFi Will Keep Your Netflix Coming

December 6, 2018 Rebecca Ayers

Alain Glanzman found that whenever he lost a credit card, not only did he have to deal with the normal logistical issues of having it replaced, but he also had […]

Innovate Durham Wraps Up 12-Week Embedding With Demo Day

December 5, 2018 Pete McEntegart

This fall, Dr. Allison Mathews met a young woman who had fallen in love. But there was a complication: her partner was HIV-positive and didn’t have access to medication. Mathews […]

Bright Wolf Brings Teeth to Industrial IoT Solutions

December 4, 2018 Pete McEntegart

Bright Wolf, which bills itself as an “industrial connected product solutions” company, happens to have its headquarters in the same building in downtown Durham as GrepBeat, the old SouthBank location. […]

Teamworks HQ: Where The Walls Actually Talk

December 4, 2018 Pete McEntegart

The sports memorabilia collection that covers seemingly every wall, countertop, and exposed surface area at Teamworks’ Durham headquarters started innocently enough. A few years back, CEO Zach Maurides asked for […]

Machine Learning Symposium Aims To Put Buzzwords Into Action

December 3, 2018 Rebecca Ayers

Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) weren’t always the hot buzzwords they’re known as today. But over the past decade, business leaders and entrepreneurs have come to realize the […]

Durham’s Precision Fermentation Helps Triangle Breweries Make Better Beer

November 29, 2018 Rebecca Ayers

Brewing beer is an art form of its own — the taste, the consistency and the color are all ways that a brewer can sense the quality of the beer. […]

Led By 3 College Students, Vade Seeks To Redefine Parking

November 27, 2018 Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

Vade’s three college student founders — Ritwik Pavan, Matthew Schaefer and Christian Burke — are betting that the future of technology isn’t so much in the software or hardware, but […]

The Download: Matt Tormollen, CEO, Devada

November 27, 2018 Brooks Malone

Matt Tormollen joined Devada as its new CEO in April to guide the company’s expansion, including launching new developer-focused software capabilities and driving growth through expanded product lines, increased sales […]

NC State, Raleigh’s Malartu Team Up To Study Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

November 20, 2018 Rebecca Ayers

North Carolina State University and Raleigh-based Malartu have teamed up and received a two-year grant for more than $400,000 from the Kauffman Foundation to research insights about how entrepreneurs operate […]