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This Atlanta-based software startup is helping building contractors move away from spreadsheets and whiteboards to track their equipment. YARDZ is the brainchild of Jason Perez and Josh Schuyler, former construction managers. They launched the startup in 2018 after witnessing first-hand the inefficiencies in managing rented equipment from multiple suppliers. “Things
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From vitamins to minerals to weight loss pills, consumers have thousands of dietary supplements to choose from. But what if you could find a formula made just for you? Enter Rootine, a Nashville-based precision health startup. Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to look at individual DNA, blood, and lifestyle test results,
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"As the economy reopens in the wake of the COVID pandemic, employers face a new challenge: Finding enough people to hire," says Adam Robinson, CEO of Hireology. The NFIB reports that 46 percent of small business owners have job openings they cannot fill even while raising pay. Against
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This Raleigh startup on a mission to end asthma attacks and chronic lung disease is pushing ahead after landing $2.14 million. VitalFlo, a startup that has developed a lung analytics platform, secured seed funding from the Texas-based Geekdom Fund after growing “17 times over the last 12 months.” Elevate
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This Nashville healthcare data startup is getting ready to scale after landing $75 million in funds. XSOLIS (pronounced similarly to “excellence’) this week confirmed it secured a “minority growth” investment from Brighton Park Capital, a Connecticut-based firm specializing in growth-stage healthtech firms. "This investment will be a catalyst as
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Ransomware, malware, denial of service attacks are just some of the constant threats plaguing today's cloud infrastructures. But this North Carolina B2B software startup says it’s putting an end to that. Arpio, headquartered in Durham, has created a SaaS platform that it says protects and eliminates “catastrophic
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A month after President Biden signed an executive order effectively mandating companies to disclose their climate risk, one Durham-based cleantech startup is poised to lead the charge. “[We’ ve] been scaling to prepare for this very moment,” says The Climate Service (TCS) co-founder James McMahon. “Our mission is to embed
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This North Carolina startup says the key to teaching financial literacy to Generation Z is simple: games and incentives. Meet Zogo Finance, a Durham-based fintech startup founded by a Gen Zer himself, recent Duke University grad Bolun Li. Since launching its gamified financial literacy app back in 2019, it has
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Shyft Auto founders say they didn’t have a pandemic in mind when they originally developed a tech platform to help car dealerships go “contactless.” Then COVID-19 hit, just as they were launching, and it became even more relevant. “When repair shops closed their waiting areas, our contactless tool for
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This software firm is getting ready to further disrupt the construction market after landing $190 million in funding. Meet Prescient, a Charlotte-based digital design-build company that is leveraging offsite manufacturing and lightweight steel construction to lower costs and save time for architects and general contractors. This week, against the backdrop
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Durham’s Black Wall Street may be long gone, but a team of local angel investors is working on a comeback of sorts. Meet Resilient Ventures, a new fund “inspired by [its] legacy,” specifically targeting African American-led startups from around the country. This month, two years after its launch and
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GetSpiffy is now a franchise. After a bumpy year weathering the impact of COVID-19, the Raleigh-based on-demand car care, technology, and services company is firmly on the rebound, rolling out its first batch of franchise locations as part of a massive expansion plan. Four of the seven new markets are