Build log
RSSWhat ships on Triangle Startups, newest first. New surfaces, data landing in the record, fixes, and editorial. The site is built in the open, so the changes are too.
191 changes logged since June 2026
Kevel's $52M in new capital, announced October 21 and reported as a Series D, is on its funding history with Fulcrum Equity Partners, dunnhumby Ventures, Iberis Capital and ORIX USA Growth Capital. The $33M total, which summed only two recorded rounds, is removed; Kevel reports lifetime capital above $100M.
A company can send a role at /hiring for $99 for 30 days. Each request is checked as a Triangle startup and answered with a payment link, and the role goes live once paid.
A sweep of every 2025 quarter, plus the first and third quarters of 2026, adds nine unrecorded rounds for directory companies, including Pelthos Therapeutics ($50.1M), Cycle Labs ($5.0M), NALA Membranes ($1.0M), Ramona Optics, Dignify Therapeutics and AER Therapeutics. Allstacks' Form D, $4,049,995 sold to four investors, is on its funding history.
DUMAC is an investor, linked to Precision BioSciences and Teamworks. Alievio's profile drops a "Duke Endowment Fund" co-investor that no original source supports and names the investors from its 2017 and 2018 coverage.
Thirty events from Raleigh-Durham Climate Week (November 2 to 6) are on the events page with speakers and featured companies. Three Innovate Carolina events join them: Tommy Sowers on October 27, an AI workshop on November 3 and Ronit Freeman on November 5.
Fifty companies from Scot Wingo's 2015 Tweener List and his later wind-down lists are on the record with sources, including Brightly Software, Prometheus Group, TransLoc, WebAssign and Ansible as exited companies and Lulu Press, Netsertive, eTix and Vertical IQ in the directory. Junxure, sold to AdvisorEngine in 2018, and five other exits above $20 million are traced to original documents; Adwerx leaves the active directory after its 2025 asset sale.
A signal records Pellucid Network (Cary) reporting its first beta clients, with its platform listed on AWS Marketplace at $19,500 for a 12-month contract.
Thirty-one NIH grant histories are on company funding records: $29,894,829 for Baebies, $14,591,959 for Dignify Therapeutics and $838,404 for SimplusDx. Seven more grant families ($16,398,189) followed, and four Baebies amounts were corrected down to HHS net award actions.
A signal records Vulcan Elements' partnership with UNC-Chapel Hill on magnet-design simulations, funded on the university side by a $600,000 North Carolina Collaboratory award. Another records Launch Powered by KPMG's fourth cohort finishing with an October 20 Demo Day in Chapel Hill.
iSimcha and InGateyGen are active directory companies, and iSimcha's $416,944 NIMHD grant (August 2023) is on its funding history. Quellios is based in Cary per NC IDEA, and Lukera Energy's $20,000 Department of Energy EPIC prize is recorded.
Josh Miller is on Gradient Health's record as co-founder and CEO, with its 2022 $2.5M seed, its 2023 $2.75M round, three dated signals and three investors, from his October 22 NC Tweener Talks episode and original sources.
Filter Easy, which has operated as Second Nature since an August 2019 rebrand, leaves the active directory, and its investor links move to Second Nature. Abrigo's profile records its Sageworks origin, with a founding year of 1998.
Triangle Angel Partners, RTP Angel Fund and angel investor Jan Davis are on the record with sourced portfolio links, including Kevel, Second Nature, Roobrik, OraLiva and NALA Membranes. Seal the Seasons, founded at UNC-Chapel Hill, joins the directory.
Thirty-seven companies were updated, 146 founders gained biographies, ten founders and 33 education ties were added, and 30 funding records were added with eight corrected and one duplicate removed. Merakris's two NIH records became one NIDDK award.
A duplicate investor row under the fund's old name, Triangle Tweener Fund, is retired; its portfolio links already sat on NC Tweener Fund, and the old name can't be inserted again.
UNC's Office of Technology Commercialization is listed on /ecosystem under a new University Office kind, and its two Commercialization Manager openings (apply by November 16) are on /jobs.
Sixty-eight One North Carolina payments, 52 NCBiotech award reports and five other reports, each checked against its original source, are verified signals. ShotSpin, Priovant, Clarus, Vetta and SimplusDx join the directory, and Vogenx joins the exited companies.
A Triangle company's roles in the counties bordering Wake, Durham, Orange and Chatham, such as Vulcan Elements' Benson factory, now qualify for /jobs; Charlotte and farther stay out. Core-county towns like Holly Springs, Carrboro and Pittsboro now count as Triangle locations.
Company profiles include roles found on the employer's live job board, and an empty roles section describes the site's coverage rather than saying the company isn't hiring; 14 profiles had been hiding every role. Résumé reads show only reviewed, sourced company activity, once per event.
Ariso is on the record as the second Triangle company in TechCrunch's 2026 Startup Battlefield 200, and ARGOS Biosystems' first place and $10,000 at Carolina Pitch Fest is a signal. CData's Connect AI Gateway launch and Element451's Bolt Fraud Detection announcement are signals as well.
A signal records Wolfspeed's conditional commitment for up to $1.5 billion in Department of War loans, dated October 7 from its 8-K exhibit; no funding round is added because nothing has been drawn. Signals sourced to an SEC filing or a press report now publish as verified when they're added.
Every Triangle role on Vulcan Elements' Greenhouse board has its own job page and shows on the company profile, which had listed 3. Thirty-seven of the 38 carry the posting's "US persons only" requirement.
Four responses, the redirects to and from /login, markdown views and rate-limit replies, now keep a refreshed sign-in cookie that could otherwise sign a member out later. Responses that set sign-in cookies also carry no-store cache headers.
Rownd (Raleigh), which builds autonomous drones for defense customers, and RxActuator, with a seed investment from Waypoint Ventures, are in the directory. A signal records co-founder Billy Marshall's return as ServiceTrade's CEO.
A job seeker or student can begin signup with "Start with your résumé" and a line on what they want, and about a minute later gets three to five Triangle companies, one next step and the roles to open. The matches stay on their dashboard.
Onboarding orders companies by their connection to a member's projects, background and goals, then by confirmed openings, and ends on one shortlist with a Follow all action. Dashboard role suggestions follow the role and experience level saved in setup, and the phone save button no longer sits under the tab bar.
LaunchPad sessions on October 8, 22 and 29 and the October 27 Mentorship Meetup, from NC State's Entrepalooza materials, are on the events page.
Under the rule that a company started elsewhere counts when its founder and headquarters are both here, ExpertTheory (Raleigh) and Freight Hero (Durham) join the directory. Subeca (Cary) leaves public view until a source places its founder in the Triangle.
CED appears as the Center for Entrepreneurial Development, the name on its own site, across /events and /ecosystem. The /services fine print says Triangle Startups doesn't charge for introductions and that a project can include them when the people involved agree.
Ten verified roles at Bandwidth and Epic Games are on /jobs. Sixteen listings no longer at their source were closed, among them Pluto Health's and Lindy Biosciences' roles, and 23 were confirmed still open.
Hoofprint Biome's NSF award 2507155 is on its funding history at $312,390 obligated, with the $1,244,095 estimated total noted separately.
Calidar, a 2022 Duke start-up in RTP building an X-ray diffraction mammography add-on, is in the directory with its logo and cofounders Stefan Stryker (CEO) and Joshua Carpenter (CTO).
/investors lists UNC Health Ventures (Morrisville) with the Triangle-based investors. Lumira's G1 Therapeutics rounds and GTM Buddy's round leads now rest on original sources.
Newsletter email, from the confirmation and welcome messages to the digest, carries one-click unsubscribe headers, so Gmail and Yahoo can show a working unsubscribe button.
Every role on /jobs and on its own page has Share role, which opens the phone share sheet or copies the link, and Copy for an agent, which copies the full role as markdown.
New visitors sign up with Google, LinkedIn, GitHub or an emailed code, then step through goals, background, interests and company suggestions, with an exit on every screen and every answer optional.
Archaius (Morrisville), a defense-technology company, is in the directory with its logo, products and leadership. Its October 9 Form D reports $8.463 million sold to 26 investors in a $14.463 million equity offering that includes converted SAFEs, and Charlotte Angel Fund is linked as an investor.
The résumé page and read screen say AI models read the résumé, where they had said "frontier models."
Dated ClinicalTrials.gov record updates for trials whose sponsor exactly matches a directory company are read every Monday. An update reports the sponsor's current registry status, not a change in the trial.
Gradient Health's funding history adds two Form D equity offerings, with $3,000,000 and $2,132,720 sold. The filings don't name a stage.
Clicking a directory row expands it, with a separate Profile link, and readers choose 10, 20, 50, 100 or All rows with previous and next controls. On October 15 the controls above the list merged into one band, moving the first company 118px higher on a phone.
Define AI (Raleigh), co-founded by Eric Boduch and Dan Olsen, is in the directory, from NC Tweener Fund's Q3 2026 portfolio post. The fund's new investment in Define AI and its follow-on in Nimble Energy are signals, and the fund is linked to nine portfolio companies.
The reading screen reports each step the server completes: the Triangle record loading, the shortlist of companies, the writing step with an estimated progress bar, and the match to current roles and news. A failed read's error now scrolls into view on phones.
North Carolina WARN notices that name a directory company appear as signals, read weekly from the state's list and backfilled to 2014 by exact company name, for companies such as Epic Games, RTI International, AgBiome, Phononic and Wolfspeed. Parata Systems and Asensus Surgical join the exited companies with their acquisitions recorded.
Each application on /funding shows the directory companies that already received that program's money, as a logo strip with a count under the program name and a named list in the details, built from recorded funding rounds.
Published company deep dives end with a citation line: author, published and updated dates, canonical URL, accessed date, and Internet Archive snapshot and save links. A section on /about explains how to cite the coverage.
The Companies to explore step sorts picks into From your résumé, Hiring now, Raised in the last six months, In the news and Your interests, each showing five with a Show all control. Saved roles are grouped under their company.
Roles at startup support organizations list on /jobs beside startup roles, with a Support organization badge and Startups and Support organizations filters. The first is NC IDEA's 2027 Startup Analyst Associate.
Dignify Therapeutics (RTP) is a core directory company, with the FDA's October 7 clearance of its IND for DTI-117 and investor links to RA Capital Management and Eshelman Ventures. Vega Health's selection as one of six evaluators in Utah's healthcare AI sandbox, its first published model evaluation, and a Shell Ventures board observer joining Extellis are signals.
Each directory company's own careers page and the job boards it links are read every week, which added about 94 roles at 33 companies to /jobs. TraKid now displays as CheQRboard, and the four GridBridge roles taken from its parent's board are closed.
Trinitite's place in TechCrunch's 2026 Startup Battlefield 200 (enterprise tech), its hire of founding GTM lead Dharshan Pradeep, and Dustin Allen's appearance on Agora's Convo AI World Podcast are on the record.
The events page adds Duke VCIC's December 5 competition day with founder pitch slots at Fuqua, the CST & Investing Summit (December 1 to 3, Duke Divinity School) and the October 13 Triangle SEO Meetup x AMA Triangle session at Pendo. The NGEN RTP Student Entrepreneurship Conference listing (October 23, Frontier RTP) now carries its October 13 application deadline and guest speakers.
Three weekly editions covering September 21 through October 11 are published in the signal log archive, with edition 27 current through October 8.
Any signed-in member can run a résumé read at /resume again; reads had been closed to members since September 28.
Click anywhere on a week to open it, and anywhere in an open week or update to close it again. A soft light follows your pointer across each week, and the triangle beside the edition number lights up as you hover.
RDU Labs (RTP) is in the directory with founders Mark Bavisotto and Greg Boone, sourced to its June GrepBeat profile.
The top of /pulse reads as one sentence: how many active startups are headquartered in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and RTP, the two cities with the most, and how many have disclosed funding with a cited source. On October 8 it read 358, with Durham at 126 and Raleigh at 118.
Twenty-five more companies show their own mark, taking logo coverage from 270 of 355 rows (76%) to 295 (83%). Twenty-one low-quality logos were replaced with better first-party art.
Fifty-three signals were checked against their source pages and marked verified, among them NC IDEA grants, NCBiotech loans, company releases and SEC filings; three duplicates were rejected. RTI International's job cuts now cite Axios, and the Launch Chapel Hill cohort signals carry the date of their GrepBeat source.
FDA clearances for baebies' G6PD and Flu A&B tests and Basking Biosciences' Phase 2 trial (NCT06226805) are on their profiles, checked against FDA and ClinicalTrials.gov records. A same-day correction restored the earlier sourced financing context, including Avalo's $11 million Series A and its sugarcane relationship with Coca-Cola Europacific Partners.
Watchfuly (RTP), Trashy (Raleigh) and Sable Fermentation (Wake Forest) are in the directory. New signals cover Blue Sky Robotics as a Venture Atlanta showcase company, Carolina Instruments on GrepBeat's Startups to Watch, and Sable's partnership with Saku Biosciences.
Ramona Optics' Series A is dated to its September 22 announcement at $25M, with the Form D noted on the round. Kingscrowd's city is corrected. Roles stranded at legacy companies are closed at the source.
After the onboarding questions, a signed-in member sees an editable summary of what they're looking for and five suggested companies, each with the sector or headquarters reason it was picked and a link to its profile.
Launch Powered by KPMG's Cohort 4 Demo Day (October 20), BCVP Founders First (November 17), Mentor Morning (October 8), Carolina Innovators Connect (October 28) and the Pitch to the Pack registration deadline are on the events page.
Job pages show the date a role was first seen rather than labeling a crawl date as Posted; 41 roles had carried a July 5 crawl date as their posting date. Live Greenhouse roles carry their employer publish date.
Agent requests for /jobs, a role page or a company profile return the roles the rendered page shows, and the /jobs share card shows the same count. On October 7 the page listed 201 roles and the markdown 93.
Event date handling in the homepage render fell from a median of 693ms to 17ms in local tests, with the event list unchanged.
An employer can submit a role at /hiring. A candidate's resume can be shared with a team on request, every read is logged, there is a review window, and roles are readable by agents.
InsightFinder's April 2026 Series B lists Yu Galaxy, and the signal log edition that named other participants carries a dated correction. Reselute's duplicated Form D row is removed, 410 Medical's latest round matches its July 14 $12M announcement, and Intel, Stellaris and Lumira are added as investors in K4Connect, GTM Buddy and G1 Therapeutics.
Directory search and company records are visible on the first screen.
Each company in the directory has a dropdown with its description, and signed-in members also see founder names and titles. Expand all and Collapse all open or close every row on screen.
The founders NC State named in its 2026 Andrews Launch Accelerator cohort announcement are on the record, including all six at Sylva Systems, which had none. Twelve founders already on file gain the LinkedIn links NC State published.
/about has a section, "Who runs Triangle Startups?", stating that the site is built and operated by Adam Schifferdecker from Chapel Hill, with a link to the operating manual. The markdown version of the page carries the same sentence.
The events page lists in-person events only.
TARGAN's acquisition by Merck is a published signal. Seven investor links to Hatteras and Bull City that no source supported were removed, as was an unsourced Hatteras link on Persistence Therapeutics, which gained Jupiter Bioventures and 2ndF as investors.
The directory and city pages count core and emerging companies as startups. The markdown version of the directory had reported 336 where the page said 329.
Open a week to scan its updates, then expand an item to read the original context and source. The archive has a wider layout, compact headlines, and separate links to full editions.
Organizations can describe what they need and reach a direct inquiry path at /services; the signup connects to member contact.
Device clearances and recalls from openFDA are checked weekly, as SBIR awards are. Every active company's homepage is fetched weekly and diffed for changes.
Long labels in the navigation drawer wrap instead of running into the next column.
Higgs Boson Health, InnAVasc, VitalFlo, SonoVol, Impulsonic, GrassRoots, GridBridge, and TARGAN had pages that returned 404; they are visible again, and the migration check now blocks the status that caused it.
Roles at enterprise employers are excluded at every layer. Exited companies keep theirs.
Every directory company with a known SEC CIK has its own Form D feed read on weekdays, and the quarterly Form D data set is swept on a schedule instead of by hand.
Ten63's investor edges, Pluto Health's payer signal and Duke affiliation, a Tune data signal, Shell Ventures on Extellis, a Carpe co-founder, and Cereius as an exited Durham spinout are on the record.
Agent-drafted editor notes on private deep dives no longer render to readers behind a badge; they stay out of view until approved.
Code the Dream is listed among the partners.
A public series at /building where Adam writes about building Triangle Startups: what shipped, what the numbers did, what did not work, and what he needs next. Each note is a page, an RSS item, and a markdown document; no email list is required to follow it.
The company question page is gone.
Safeli Shop is listed with both co-founders, its $35K Luby first place, and its App Store launch. The Sensible and PlugVerse Luby prizes and two missing co-founders landed in the same change.
The directory, company profiles, home, and signal log pages are served from cache instead of running three to seven database calls per request.
Epic Games, SAS, Lenovo, Red Hat, Wolfspeed, Corevist, Coco Fro, Belhaven Biopharma, Tellus Therapeutics, and Higgs Boson Health are among the rows that now show a first-party mark. A company can no longer be added without a logo.
Twenty-nine generated company notes were checked against original sources, and 39 companies' opinions left their fact columns. Process text was scrubbed from 100 company notes and is now blocked at migration time.
Signals verified in the weekly runs of September 28 and October 4 are on their companies' records.
The April 2023 round is on the record.
Each funding round without a source now has one or is gone. Precision BioSciences' IPO moved to its exit fields.
Twenty founders, 16 funding rounds, 23 founding years or stages, and five company identity changes were added or corrected across 205 companies.
Signed-in company pages are addressed by name rather than by ID, old bookmarks still resolve, and the public company profile is shorter.
IMMvention is listed with its logo, and its Novo Nordisk signal is published.
Twenty-four organizer calendars (Meetup groups, CED, NC Military Business Center, Raleigh Veteran Connect, Luma calendars) are read every Sunday into the events page; the first sync added 92 upcoming events. CED, First Flight, Frontier RTP, and the NC Military Business Center joined programs and spaces.
Members can opt in to jobs and news updates from the companies they follow, read at the dashboard's updates page. No consent is assumed from an existing follow.
Wake Tech's Entrepreneurship & Small Business Center is the first business-support entry on the programs and spaces page, joined by Durham Tech, Central Carolina Community College, and the NC SBTDC, each from the organization's own pages.
Each role carries the structured data Google Jobs reads, and role URLs use words rather than IDs.
The company intelligence card renders as facets rather than one paragraph, for IMMvention and 34 other companies whose notes ran past 900 characters.
Any signed-in account could run a resume read on September 28, with a request on company and role pages to pass a candidate's information to the team. The read was closed to members again that evening; the request stays open. The read itself now runs in two steps, leads with the verdict, and requires an explicit submission.
Eleven founders, 36 funding rounds, and eight founding years or stages were added or corrected after a hand read of every proposed change.
Logos were sourced from each company's own site and checked at three sizes on both page backgrounds.
The jobs page was refreshed with verified sources and guarded retirements. The weekly check now uses a role's LinkedIn posting as evidence that it is still open or has expired: 31 roles checked, none retired.
WeGotYou, Fold Health, Vector, Flock AI, KelaHealth, Invaio Sciences, and Flux Hybrids left the directory after their locations were read from their own sites or SEC filings. The Cervu duplicate was merged, two cities and one URL corrected. Valencell moved to legacy because it no longer operates.
The signed-in account is two pages: a dashboard for your Triangle, and a profile for who you are.
Sign-up no longer waits on a beta approval. The approval list and the visible beta copy were removed.
Reviewed founding years were applied to 116 companies, and ten verified events were published to the calendar.
Each public role shows whether sponsorship is offered, not offered, or unknown, read from the employer's own posting.
Invicta Water is now Dallas-based Hexivon, and its SEC record places it in Burlington, NC from incorporation, so it was never a Triangle company.
A signal restated from SEC EDGAR, openFDA, or SBIR.gov, cited to the record on the producer's own site and matched to a directory company, is published on arrival. EDGAR citations now point at the filing itself rather than the issuer's filing list.
A submitted resume is kept for a bounded window and can be deleted by the person who submitted it. The privacy page states both.
Notes meant for the operator that had leaked into company descriptions across the directory were removed from reader-facing text.
Jurassic Capital's page carries its stated entry band at three points in time, the twelve thresholds it publishes and which changed since 2025, every announced investment with first and later checks, and the overlap with Primordial Ventures, which has its own page.
Twelve roles verified against their employers' postings were published to the jobs page.
Sign-up onboarding asks for goals first, can build a profile from a dropped resume, explains each company it suggests, and connects following a company to the suggestions.
UNC Health Ventures has an investor row with portfolio links. Arrivo BioVentures and its co-founders are on the record. Scot Wingo, Feross Aboukhadijeh, and Jan Ståhlberg are the first individual angel rows, narrowed to Triangle-based people.
Exit counts derive from the record, the funding and privacy pages are in the sitemap, jobs is in the footer, a duplicate menu link is gone, and founder lookups cover exited and enterprise companies.
Archive cards are compact and show each edition's date and company logos.
DayOf is listed with founder Marc Eder. The row was corrected the same day with a missing co-founder, Durham confirmed as the city, and sourcing fixed.
The BIRD Foundation is the first binational program among the funding opportunities, beside 19 NC, federal, and national ones. Its title and submission dates were clarified the same week.
Secondary links prefetch on hover or focus rather than when they scroll into view, which had every page load pulling the footer, the closed menu, and the homepage marquee.
Four editions covering the weeks ending August 30 through September 20 are published.
A member who has selected nothing is no longer handed the first companies alphabetically, and the profile editor layout is fixed.
The signal log had not published since September 3: the daily run reported success while discarding every Triangle item it found. Fixed.
Each school page ranks its week by its own campus and leads with the school tie.
Each role on the jobs page shows its company's description and a snippet of the posting.
A job search is carried in the URL so it can be shared, and the controls are readable on a phone.
The map is gone. Its basemap had become key-gated and a re-tile was not worth the time.
A company can host a paid role on the site, and candidates apply on Triangle Startups rather than on a third-party board.
Directory filters apply correctly, and the progressive reveal walks the grouped order so every search match can be reached, with exited rows below the startups.
Companies that grew up as Triangle startups and reached an outcome now sit in an exited category, Bandwidth and Wolfspeed among them. SAS and Lenovo appear as large enterprise employers, counted apart from startups.
Pulse percentages are coherent and the detail interactions behave consistently.
A failed Greenhouse refresh no longer drops verified roles from the jobs page until the next successful run.
Founders were added across 43 companies that had none on record.
Shorter waits on data, and logos served without passing through the middleware.
The events page is shorter to scan, and the sign-up return path works again.
The personalized Pulse view no longer overflows its logos, and its feed is readable.
The jobs page gained filters, carried in the URL so a filtered view can be shared. Internships surface as their own group, and a partial board refresh is disclosed on the page.
The homepage hero picked companies whose logos could not render and squashed the ones that could. Both are fixed.
The contributor pilot takes applications on the site. The terms, set 2026-09-07: no payment, and the contributor keeps copyright.
Ten directory rows that rendered a lettered avatar now show the company's logo. Trinitite's website URL is corrected.
Where a company publishes an SVG mark, it is extracted, reviewed, and served first-party instead of a rasterized copy.
Boards hosted on Rippling are now read, so FlexGen's seven open Durham roles appear on the jobs page.
Neuroink moved out of the active directory.
Events, funding opportunities, and signals found on the NCBiotech site are on the record, including five current-week events verified live.
When a company's job board is unavailable, its roles are closed only when a posting itself says the role is gone, not because the board failed to load.
Verified website corrections were applied to active companies after a dedupe-first review of every stored URL.
Companies whose recorded rounds had never been summed now show a total, counting dilutive equity only. Secondary sales and business combinations are excluded from every company's total.
The featured stat no longer spills out of its tile, the capital header counts rounds correctly, the tranche bar is gone, and the quick-hits card renders.
A sweep of 25 organizer sources and their own calendar feeds added twelve events, each with a resolvable organizer source. Two drafts were resolved and eight stale drafts archived.
Three company pages that showed only a name, a sector, a city, and one sentence now have sourced notes, founders, and rounds.
The directory showed initials for 132 of 280 active companies although 99 of them had a logo in the repository. Those logos now render, sized by ink area so wide and square marks carry the same visual weight.
The Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, and RTP pages carry a fuller account of each city's startups.
Seven editions covering July 6 through August 23 are published, each over one calendar week, closing a 47-day gap. The date range each edition renders now matches the week it covers.
Sourced school ties were added for 59 founders across Duke, NC State, UNC-Chapel Hill, NC Central, and Saint Augustine's, the last two for the first time.
Company search matches founder names as well as company names, so a search for a person lands on their company.
The exits page lists Triangle companies that went public and still operate here, with sourced local and outside footprints.
Three more companies based outside the Triangle left the active directory, and the headquarters of 27 others were sourced from the companies' own sites or filings.
ServiceTrade's 2021 funding round is on the record. In the same pass, seven companies whose headquarters are outside the Triangle left the active directory.
Every resolvable citation on the directory was checked. A Contego funding round that had dropped out was restored and a WRAL-sourced claim corrected. No duplicate funding rows and no broken logo references were found.
Sixteen checked founder ties across UNC, Duke, and NC State. UNC had none before this: it now covers Shibumi Shade, Redbud Labs, PlugVerse, and EydisBio. Alumni and faculty stay labeled separately, so a Duke professor who took their degree elsewhere is not listed as a Duke alum. Coverage is still partial and the directory says so.
Company profiles now show where the founding team studied, and the directory filters by school. Alumni and faculty are labeled separately, because a professor who earned their degree elsewhere is not an alum of the school they teach at. Ten Triangle schools are covered, including the HBCUs and the two community colleges. Coverage is partial and each surface says so.
A weekly read-only check now stages verified freshness updates and confirmed closures in a migration PR before any database change.
Vulcan's $65 million Series A, $545 million Form D offering, and $1.4 billion public-private partnership are now represented separately, replacing the misleading $1 billion venture-funding total.
Sustaera's $10 million Series A now appears as a sourced funding round, while its current Durham address replaces the older Cary label and grant capital remains separate.
The Raleigh marketing-software company's rounded $1.3 million pre-seed record is now tied to the Form D's exact $1,261,900 SAFE amount, 16 investors, and January 31, 2025 first-sale date.
Plantd's $22 million Series B now carries its September 29 close date, the company's cumulative $42.6 million funding figure, and its Oxford, North Carolina headquarters without attaching prior-round investors to the event.
Pendo's 2014 seed amount and date and its 2021 Series F date now match the company's own announcements, with the named lead and participating investors preserved.
The Raleigh education-software company's $175 million PSG investment is now represented as a strategic growth investment instead of an unsupported Series B label.
The Raleigh-grown restaurant-software startup joins the directory with co-founders Braden and Trevor Champion and a sourced launch signal that separates signed LOIs and verbal commitments from paying customers.
The Raleigh cultivated-seafood company's $1.2 million capital event is now recorded as a mix of seed financing and an NSF SBIR award, without presenting the full amount as equity.
The Raleigh poultry-automation company joins the directory, alongside its $100 million private-credit facility and announced agreement to be acquired by Merck Animal Health.
The Raleigh materials company enters the directory with a source-backed report on its first full-scale production line.
The signal record adds Smart Tech Prepare and ServiceTrade's native Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central integration from the company's first-party announcements.
Source-backed updates add a PROTECT3D debt round and financing signals for PROTECT3D, Galaxy Diagnostics, and NALA Membranes while preserving undisclosed or unresolved round details as unknown.
The Durham regenerative-medicine company joins the directory with its three founders and a current SEC-backed SAFE financing record.
The record adds Merakris and Atsena milestones, ChartSpan's completed acquisition of Validic, and GeneCentric's ExpressCT Rewind launch while refreshing the related company sources.
Two Raleigh companies move from verified research into the directory, with source-backed signals for Equity Shift's SteadyTrail asset acquisition and SPRTN's athletic-earbud waitlist.
Contego Medical and Adwerx gain source-backed historical funding rounds and signals that were missing from their existing company records.
Pathalys Pharma, Xilis, and Altis Biosystems gain source-backed historical funding rounds and signals that were missing from their existing company records.
The Durham fermentation company joins the directory with an SEC-backed capital-history record for its long-running equity offering.
A source-backed data backfill adds company, founder, investor, funding, and signal rows for Arpio, SonoVascular, Powerband.ai, Pappas Capital, Harbright Ventures, LOOM3D, PROTECT3D, Teamworks, and Element451.
A running record of what changes on Triangle Startups: new surfaces, data, fixes, and editorial, newest first. The git history already tracked all of this; now it has a reader-facing page.
The Launch Student Accelerator Demo Day (June 18, Chapel Hill) is on the events calendar alongside the rest of the Triangle's startup events.
Each company in the directory is individually crawlable, so a search for a Triangle startup can land directly on its profile. The structured data was also corrected so search engines stop reading funding totals as prices.
The directory now filters as you type. Matches surface above the rest of the list instead of waiting on a page reload.
The Grepapalooza 2026 lineup (Durham, June 4) brought eleven Triangle startups into the record, including PROTECT3D, Sustaera, and Voice Back. Nineteen founders were linked and ten existing profiles were enriched at the same time.