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Aug 8, 2025

Startup Launches New Website to Support Family Conversations on Puberty and Relationships

Teen Health Research – an edtech startup with ties to North Carolina State University – recently launched a new website to recruit families for its innovative digital learning platform, Let’s…
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May 6, 2025

Student Entrepreneurs Leverage I-Corps to Turn Software Project into Successful Exit

QuikCal, a startup founded by undergraduate engineering students at Duke University, was recently acquired by MOCA Systems, Inc., a leading provider of construction planning software, for its artificial intelligence-driven tool…
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Jan 8, 2024

Ship Repair Startup Forging Its Way to Market

What if an app could get more U.S. Navy ships back to sea sooner? The co-founder of startup company Washington’s Hammer knows just how hard it can be to get…
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Dec 21, 2023

NC State to Serve as Clemson’s Mentor Institution for New NSF ART Program

NC State University has been chosen as Clemson University’s mentor for a brand-new program launched by the National Science Foundation to address “a long-standing gap between academic research and the products,…
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Nov 20, 2023

Modified DNA Startup Awarded Competitive Seed Grant

NC State startup DNAli Data Technologies was one of six startup companies announced as a recipient of NC IDEA’s SEED grant for its Fall 2023 cycle. A private foundation that…
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Aug 31, 2023

NC State Stealth Materials Team Completes NSF I-Corps Teams Program

A research team from North Carolina State University's Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering recently completed an intensive National Science Foundation program to assess the commercial viability of a next generation stealth material technology.

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May 16, 2023

NC State startup Vetletics receives $50K in SEED Grant from NC IDEA

NC IDEA, a private foundation committed to supporting entrepreneurial ambition and economic empowerment in North Carolina, announced today that the organization has awarded a total of $300,000 in grants to…
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Jan 20, 2023

NC State Innovation Showcased at CES 2023

The NC State Office of Research Commercialization (ORC) attended the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in January to promote NC State innovations and startup companies in the…
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Jul 22, 2022

Fathom Science’s Metocean Forecasting Technology Wades Into Uncharted Territory

When a storm’s coming, you want to know as soon as possible — especially at sea. Whether it’s a hurricane or an ocean “tornado” headed your way, extra time to…
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Sep 9, 2021

NSF Awards the Inaugural NSF I-Corps Hubs

NC State University, in partnership with nine other leading research universities, has been selected by the National Science Foundation to be one of the five national I-Corps Hubs, a program that seeks…