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In The Soup – Reheated: Relationships in The Startup World

August 20, 2025 Katelyn Crespo

In the two years since its conception, In The Soup has brought on many experienced ecosystem leaders and supporters from across the Southeast to address the most pressing topics facing North Carolina’s […]

Charlotte’s Capwave Helps Founders Secure Seed Funding

August 18, 2025 Taylor Motley

After helping startups raise over $400 million in Series A and B funding through her own startup, ZWANET, Charlotte Ketelaar recognized that there was a lack of tools available to […]

Monday Mix: RIoT Underground Live, Andrews Launch Accelerator, FCAT Demo, and More!

August 18, 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 […]

Charlotte’s Summer Sanity Eases Scheduling Pain For Parents

August 15, 2025 Temiloluwa Alagbe

Megan Spivey and Megan Petrik met while their daughters were attending daycare. The business consultant and financial services professional bonded over their shared motherhood experience. And once their kids entered […]

Friday Fix: BrightView Technologies, Squadies, STEM PLUG, and Summer Sanity

August 15, 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 […]

Triangle Startup Advances STEM Education With Books And Robotics

August 14, 2025 David Schwartz

Rich Gilliam grew up in Philadelphia, in what he described as the inner city. When he later embarked on a career in STEM—two years as a scientist and eight as […]

BrightView Technologies CEO Jennifer Aspell Talks Ospreys, Pickleball, and a $7M Series B

August 12, 2025 David Schwartz

GrepBeat last wrote about BrightView Technologies in the summer of 2022. BrightView Technologies is a Durham-based startup originally founded in 2002 and acquired in 2010, when CEO Jennifer Aspell came […]

Raleigh’s Squadies Helps Parents Find Clean Public Bathrooms On The Go

August 12, 2025 Temiloluwa Alagbe

Ryan Brown recognized a need for a better way to find clean public restrooms when she had a particularly unpleasant experience changing her child’s diaper in a restaurant bathroom. Upon […]

Monday Mix: Breakfast Pitches, 1 Million Cups, and a Startup Ideas Seminar

August 11, 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 […]

Book Club Review: “Disrupted” by Dan Lyons

August 8, 2025 David Schwartz

On Friday (August 8th), the GrepBeat Book Club reunited for a seventh meeting after a brief summer break. Following last meet-up’s dive into pseudo-apocalyptic tech fiction (“The Future” by Naomi […]