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Jul 19, 2018

‘Explorer’ Wingo Talks Challenges, Choices in Growing Spiffy with $9M in New Funding

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Just as explorers once raced to find cities of gold, entrepreneurs like Scot Wingo are battling each other to win the race to market dominance for on-demand…

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Jul 17, 2018

Spiffy Secures $9m Funding Led by Bull City Venture Partners

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., July 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Get Spiffy, Inc. (Spiffy), an on-demand car care, technology, and services company, today announced the closing of a $9m fund raise led by Bull City…

Jun 27, 2018

Alumni Investors Boost Wolfpack Businesses

Alumni Investors Boost Wolfpack Businesses June 27, 2018  |  Elizabeth Beal A growing number of students come to NC State looking to start their own businesses, and for good reason. Here, they have…

Jun 19, 2018

Reveal Mobile Names New Executives

RALEIGH – Reveal Mobile, a mobile marketing company, has named two new executives. John Haws is replacing Jared Dean as chief technology officer and Jason Crocker has been named vice president…

Jun 14, 2018

This Startup Identified An Undertapped Equipment Rental Market Worth $50B

Finding affordable equipment rental options for work in the environmental testing, farming, surveying, laboratory and medical industry can be difficult, if not impossible. Robert Preville came upon the gap in this…

Jun 12, 2018

Will Durham’s Emergo Therapeutics be fourth big startup hit for Moise Khayrallah?

DURHAM – Moise Khayrallah, Ph.D., is a serial entrepreneur with a Midas touch. Three biopharmaceutical start-ups he co-founded in recent years were quickly sold to larger companies for more than $400…

May 31, 2018

Learn Why Investors are Closely Watching These 20 Companies

Investors and incubators share the most brilliant companies that have caught their attention this year. What are investors most excited about? Entrepreneurs want to know, so… we asked them! We…

May 25, 2018

Wilmington tech startup to pitch to investors in Silicon Valley

WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) – A Wilmington-based tech startup is gearing up to pitch to investors in Silicon Valley next week. KWIPPED, an online marketplace offering equipment rental, was selected out of…

May 22, 2018

Will location-based marketing change in the era of GDPR?

Despite some disruption and confusion thanks, in part, to GDPR’s arrival, the benefits could outweigh the negatives for marketers. The use of location-based marketing is on the rise in the…

May 21, 2018

KWIPPED: How One B2B Marketplace Changed The Industrial Leasing Game

Sometimes, the job — and the revenue stream — depends on an autorefractor, or cosmetic lasers. Labs need freezers, warehouses need forklifts and oilfields need mud buckets. And that’s where…