Academic science can feel like a narrow track. If you trained in a lab and you are starting to ask what exists outside the university, the Triangle is worth a real look.
Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill sit on top of three research universities and RTP, and the startup base shows it. Biotech and drug discovery, medical devices, diagnostics, agtech, a lot of it founded by people who came out of the same kind of lab you are in now. The work is here. It is just hard to see from the outside.
Triangle Startups is where you can see it. More than 200 companies in one place: who founded them, who funded them, and what each one just shipped. You search it the way you would a reference: biotech in Durham, the companies that raised this quarter, the teams spinning out of a UNC or Duke lab. No login, and no need to know anyone first.
It is not a job board. It is the map you use before you have a network here, so you can find the few companies actually worth a conversation and reach out to them yourself. If you are moving to North Carolina, or you just want to know what is here, start with the directory. If something stands out, reach out. Adam built this and reads what comes in.