The Big Ideas Raleigh Meetup, organized by the City of Raleigh Office of Strategy and Innovation, introduced that office to the startup community and unveiled the City of Raleigh’s strategic plan.
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Company founders from all industries found connection Tuesday at the opening of Raleigh-Durham Startup Week. The three-day event, hosted by Techstars, across venues in Raleigh and Durham, is free and open to anyone, with learning tracks on startups, legal and finance technology and design. One-on-one: ‘Startup Whisperer’ Chris Heivly talks...
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DURHAM – Resultid, Inc., a Durham-based, Techstars-backed startup, has raised more than $3.2 million in equity financing from six investors, according to an SEC filing. The company, which according to its website, enables “better business decisions, curated data-driven insights,” is led by CEO Aditya Badve, also a company cofounder. Badve,...
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Newly formed agricultural startup 5Metis aims to develop novel modes of action to change how farmers protect their crops, and has raised $10 million in capital to grow its efforts.
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Durham-based EnMass Energy has raised more than 3 million in the last six months. The company’s software platform helps waste-to-energy companies manage their supply chains.
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Moving forward, Terazo will anchor southeastern operations in Durham, not Richmond, and will open a Charlotte office. That’s in part fueled by $10.5 million in investment, including funding from Twilio.
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“We are clearly a top 10 start-up ecosystem,” says Chris Heivly, a lifelong entrepreneur and managing director of the Startup Factory in Durham. “I call us the best-kept entrepreneurial secret.”
The region’s success may not be a secret for much longer. Both cities made WalletHub’s list of the 10 best large cities to start a business. So did Charlotte, making North Carolina one of just two states to have three cities in the top 10.
When WedPics co-founder and CEO Justin Miller sat down with ExitEvent in September, he could only hint at the company’s future scaling, fundraising, hiring and money-making plans. This week, the Raleigh startup announced its largest round to date of $4.25 million including high profile investor Adam Draper and Chicago’s OCA Ventures. Shark Tank’s Barbara Corcoran plans to join the round later, according to today’s story by WRAL TechWire. WedPics released the news in a TechCrunch article yesterday. But you can hear the background to the company and insight into the brains of Miller and co-founder Idan Koren in the video interview below. And for...
Read MoreThis series features companies chosen to showcase at next week’s CED Tech Venture Conference. The 18 startups were chosen because, according to CED’s selection committee, they are “highly disruptive in their industries, demonstrating significant promise and traction by attracting high-profile customers and investors, and being led by founders with a compelling personal story and track record of previous entrepreneurial success.” CrowdTunes Update: In the months since CrowdTunes won a prestigious NC IDEA grant (original story below), the Duke University-founded startup has its digital jukebox playing in 15 local venues, and has clients lined up in Chicago, San Francisco, Boston...
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