RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Recapping a busy week of startup and entrepreneurial community news from Sept. 20-25:

First Flight, RIoT, and KickStart Venture Services each win a $50,000 SBA prize

Ask an Innovator: Free, digital tool through Innovate Carolina offers source for startup advice

Raleigh’s EDJX is bringing edge computing to the battlefields

Southeast, North Carolina, see growing activity in venture capital, 2019-2021

Tipping point ahead: company valuations are increasingly influenced by environmental, social, and governance considerations

How early-stage investing changed, in the Triangle, after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic

$2.2B Downtown South project is making ‘slow’ progress, developer says

Durham’s Velocity Clinical Research continues expansion, buys two more firms

Equitable entrepreneurship? What the pandemic response taught us

Artificial intelligence startup in Raleigh has the smarts to be a billion dollar company

Opus Genetics, launching from Raleigh-based Retinal Degeneration Fund, raises $19M

Despite pandemic we’re celebrating entrepreneurs at the StartUp Summit

Chapel Hill startup mesur.io raises $900K in ‘Seed-2’ round

Better job descriptions attract higher-quality candidates: Here’s how to write them

Durham cooling tech startup Phononic unveils ‘Tote,’ plans global expansion

Enact Holdings in Raleigh closes IPO; shares rise more than 4%

Startup advice: Why you should build every new product feature like an ‘MVP’

Face to face: Startup Summit aims to help entrepreneurs share wisdom in person

New software can spot racial bias within company, startup says

NC shatters record for new business creation with 129,000+ so far this year

Triangle Startup Guide’s angel funds list now includes 50+ funding sources