Who is building in the Triangle
Founders of companies in the active directory, with their role, company, and background.
314 founders across 12 sectors
SaaS
99Adil Asif
Co-Founder & Chief Architect
Virnika
Akash Ganapathi
Co-founder and CEO
Opine
Alex Scruggs
CEO
ThermaTech
North Carolina State University
Amit Sharma
Co-Founder & CEO
CData Software
Amy Gardinier
Co-Founder
Givefinity
Andrew Stickney
Co-Founder
Keebler Health
Ardis Kadiu
Founder & CEO
Element451
New York University
Austin Armstrong
Founder & CEO
Syllaby
Austin Kelleher
Co-founder
Opine
Austin Melonie Carroll
Co-Founder & CEO
Warrant
Duke University
Austin Webb
Co-Founder & CEO
Troupe
Ben Hartmere
CEO
Map My Customers
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Billy Marshall
Co-Founder, Strategic Advisor to Board
ServiceTrade
Braden Champion
Co-Founder
ChampOS
NC State University
Brian Smithwick
Co-Founder, CTO
ServiceTrade
Cameron Long
Co-Founder & CRO
Virnika
Carlos Penzini
Co-Founder
Serv Technologies
Duke University
Charles Douthitt
Co-Founder & CEO
Virnika
Charlie Duong
Co-founder
Opine
Chris Chuang
Co-Founder & CEO
Relay
Dave Sonders
CEO
RO-bot
David Baxter
Founder
Teela
Derek Conlin
COO & Co-Founder
ReFiBuy.ai
Dirk Nicol
Founder & CEO
Majentics
Dominic Giacona
Co-Founder
Reslink
George Mason University
Doug Neumann
Co-Founder and CEO
Arpio
Doug Schepers
Founder & CEO
Fizz Studio
Dustin Allen
CEO & Co-Founder
Trinitite
Dustin Amrhein
CEO
Revcast
Eric Boduch
Co-Founder
Pendo
Carnegie Mellon University
Eric Boduch
Co-Founder
Revcast
Erik Peterson
CTO and Co-Founder
Powerband.ai
Erik Troan
CTO & Co-Founder
Pendo
North Carolina State University
Erkang Zheng
CEO & Founder
Ariso
North Carolina State University
Erkang Zheng
Founder
JupiterOne
Hakjae Kim
Co-Founder & CTO
Pellucid Network
University of Michigan
Hearsch Jariwala
CTO & Co-Founder
Trinitite
Helen Gu
PhDFounder, CEO, and Chief Scientist
InsightFinder
North Carolina State University
Hersh Tapadia
Co-founder & CEO
AllStacks
Igor Jablokov
Founder, CEO & Chairman
Pryon
Pennsylvania State University
Isaac Park
Co-Founder and CEO
Keebler Health
James Avery
Founder and CEO
Kevel
Janie Hughes
Co-Founder
Bingo Bard
Jason Brown
CEO and Founder
Deliveri
Jasper Svenson
Co-Founder
Serv Technologies
Duke University
Jeremy Mays
Founder
ArenaCX
Jesse Lipson
Founder & CEO
Levitate
Duke University
John Armin
PhDFounder & CEO
Utilyst
Jon Reifschneider
Co-Founder
Inquisite
Josh Guter
Founder
Elephants
Jud Bowman
Founder & CEO
Sift Media
Karl Murphy
Co-founder & CEO
Spiffy
Kevin Hill
PhDCo-Founder
Keebler Health
Kit Zhang
Co-Founder
Scale Social AI
Lauren McCullough
CEO
Tromml
Lee Jacobs
Co-Founder
InsightStack
Lia Reich
Co-Founder & CEO
Cloneable
Logan Whitehouse
Co-Founder & CTO
Virnika
Marc Minor
Co-Founder & CEO
Higharc
New York University
Matthew Sniff
Founder, Chief Product & Strategy Officer
Map My Customers
Mavis Gragg
CEO
HeirShares
Max Heckel
CTO & Co-Founder
Ariso
Michael Bergin
Co-Founder, VP of Special Projects
Higharc
Michael Schank
Founder
Insight Twin
Mike Capps
PhDFounder
Howso
Carnegie Mellon University
Mike Hughes
Co-Founder
Bingo Bard
Mitch Heath
Co-Founder
Teamworks
Duke University
Nate Almond
Co-Founder
Powerband.ai
Nathan Hambelton
CTO
ThermaTech
North Carolina State University
Nick Miller
Founder & CEO
Pellucid Network
Johns Hopkins University (Carey Business School), NC State University (ME, Electrical Engineering)
Nolan Osborn
Co-Founder
Duler
Oz Merchant
Founder & CEO
Futureproof
Patrick Lohman
Co-Founder and CRO
Cloneable
Paul Greenham
Co-Founder & CTO
Scale Social AI
University of Pennsylvania
Peter Boyer
Co-Founder, CTO Emeritus
Higharc
Brown University
Rachel Cash
Founder and CEO
Elroi Enterprise
Rahul Jain
GM, VP Corporate Development & Co-Founder
Pendo
Georgia Institute of Technology
Renee Hoyle
Co-Founder
LabRunner
Runbin Dong
Founder & CEO
Scale Social AI
Duke University
Ryan Walsh
Founder & CEO
RepVue
Scot Wingo
Co-founder & CEO
Spiffy
Scot Wingo
Co-Founder
ReFiBuy.ai
Shaunak Patel
Co-Founder
Duler
Shaw Terwilliger
Co-Founder
Arpio
Shivani Sharma
Founder and CEO
Tulsi Cybersecurity LLC
Sreedhar Peddineni
Co-Founder & CEO
GTM Buddy
Sudha Meghan
CEO & Co-Founder
Rozie Synopsis
Taylor Wrice
Founder and CEO
DocuLingo
Terrell Bacchus
Founding Chief Medical Officer
Keebler Health
Thomas Holt
Co-Founder, VP of Visualization
Higharc
Todd Olson
CEO & Co-Founder
Pendo
Carnegie Mellon University
Travis Almond
Co-Founder
Powerband.ai
University of Utah David Eccles School of Business; Westminster University
Trevor Champion
Co-Founder
ChampOS
NC State University
Tucker Hawkinson
Founder
Console Innovations
Tyler Collins
Co-Founder and CTO
Cloneable
Vijay Dheap
CSO & Co-Founder
Rozie Synopsis
Will Shearin
CMO and Technical Director
ThermaTech
North Carolina State University
Y.B. Carr
Founder
VoxIntel AI
Duke University
Zachary Maurides
Founder & CEO
Teamworks
Duke University
Biotech
47Akira Matsuno
Co-Founder, President & CFO
Tune Therapeutics
Anjani Jha
PhDFounder, President and CEO
MAA Laboratories
Pennsylvania State University
Aravind Asokan
PhDScientific Co-founder
StrideBio
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bruce Donald
PhDFounder, James B. Duke Professor
Ten63 Therapeutics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Charles Buchen
Chief Executive Officer
Persistence Therapeutics
Charles Gersbach
PhDCo-Founder, Acting Chief Scientific Officer
Tune Therapeutics
Georgia Institute of Technology
Chase Beisel
PhDScientific Co-Founder
Locus Biosciences
Damon Race
CEO
GeneVentiv Therapeutics
Daniel Delubac
PhDCo-Founder
iOrganBio
Dave Ousterout
PhDCo-Founder
Locus Biosciences
David Hsu
PhDCo-founder
Xilis
Duke University
Ed Breitschwerdt
PhDCo-founder
Galaxy Diagnostics
North Carolina State University
Fraser Wright
PhDCo-Founder
Kriya Therapeutics
Fyodor Urnov
PhDCo-Founder, Scientific Advisor
Tune Therapeutics
Brown University
Gianpietro Dotti
Co-founder
Persistence Therapeutics
Gregor Horstmeyer
Co-Founder / Chief Executive Officer
Ramona Optics
Princeton
Gregory Oakes
CEO
Slate Medicines
Jared Resnick
Founder and CEO
Sennos
Jay Stevens
Co-founder
Galaxy Diagnostics
Joshua Pierce
PhDFounder
Synoxa Sciences
North Carolina State University
Katie Warner
PhDCo-Founder / Chief Scientific Officer
Ribometrix
University of Cambridge
Marcel Frenkel
PhDCo-Founder & CEO
Ten63 Therapeutics
Duke University
Margaret Aery
Chief Operating Officer
Ramona Optics
Mark Hallen
PhDCo-Founder & CTO
Ten63 Therapeutics
Duke University
Mark Harfouche
PhDCo-Founder / Chief Technology Officer
Ramona Optics
Nancy Miller-Rich
Co-Founder
Ten63 Therapeutics
Neil Buckley
Co-Founder, President & COO
Slate Medicines
Norman Sharpless
Co-Founder
G1 Therapeutics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Patrick Ritschel
CEO
Atsena Therapeutics
Paul Garofolo
Co-Founder and CEO
Locus Biosciences
Philip Hughes
Executive Vice President of Chemistry
EydisBio Inc.
Pritha Agarwalla
Co-founder and VP of Research
Persistence Therapeutics
Richard Spero
PhDCo-Founder & CEO
Redbud Labs Inc.
Richard Superfine
PhDCo-Founder
Redbud Labs Inc.
Roarke Horstmeyer
PhDCo-Founder / Scientific Director
Ramona Optics
Caltech
Robert Freeze
Chief Business Officer
EydisBio Inc.
Rodolphe Barrangou
PhDScientific Co-Founder
Locus Biosciences
Roger Jeffs
PhDCo-Founder
Kriya Therapeutics
Russell Taylor
Co-Founder
Redbud Labs Inc.
Scott Scarneo
CEO
EydisBio Inc.
Shankar Ramaswamy
Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO
Kriya Therapeutics
Shannon Boye
PhDCo-founder & CSO
Atsena Therapeutics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Shuibing Chen
PhDCo-Founder
iOrganBio
Timothy Haystead
PhDFounder & President
EydisBio Inc.
Xiling Shen
PhDCo-founder
Xilis
Duke University
Xiling Shen
PhDCo-Founder
iOrganBio
Yevgeny Brudno
Co-founder
Persistence Therapeutics
Healthtech
40Adam Schultz
CEO
mindr
Alan Rosenbaum
Founder and CEO
Cervu
Ben Neubert
PhDFounder
Toilemetry
Duke University
Bethany Darragh
Co-Founder
Theralinq
Bill Ssewanyana
Co-Founder
Helian
Duke University
Brandon Chaney
Co-Founder
Moments
Brennan Barber
Co-Founder & CEO
Theralinq
Cade Spector
Co-Founder & CEO
GreySun Technologies
North Carolina State University
Charlotte C. Louis
Founder & CEO
SenterME
Clark Bulleit
Co-Founder
PROTECT3D
Duke University
David Werry
Co-Founder, President & COO
Well
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ewan Bradley
Co-Founder
Jeani
Duke University
F. Scott Moody
Co-Founder & CEO
K4Connect
Gary Loveman
PhDCo-Founder
Well
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Grant Kaley
CEO and Co-Founder
NexStratus
Inna Marquart
Co-Founder
mindr
Jack Mulcrone
Co-Founder
GreySun Technologies
John Buxton
Co-Founder
Helian
Duke University
Jonathan Gould
Co-Founder
K4Connect
Justin Lechner
CEO
Harmony
Carnegie Mellon University
Kevin Gehsmann
CEO & Co-Founder
PROTECT3D
Duke University
Lucy Shores Kosturko
PhDCPO & Co-Founder
Social Cascade
North Carolina State University
Mark Piehl
Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer
410 Medical
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mark Sendak
Founder & CEO
Vega Health
Duke University
Mike Desai
CEO and Co-Founder
Truentity Health
Mike Halpert
Founder & CEO
Ver Coaching
Neal Shah
Founder & CEO
CareYaya
Duke University
Philippe Sabourin
CTO & Co-Founder
Social Cascade
Pramod Singh
PhDCo-Founder
Trialogix
Rajeev Tipnis
Co-founder and CTO
Truentity Health
Rajit Malhotra
Co-Founder
Truentity Health
Riya Jain
Founder & CEO
Voice Back
Duke University
Roston Rodriguez
PhDCo-Founder
SonoVoice
Duke University
Sabrina Percher
COO and Co-Founder
Teen Health Research
Saif Saleh
Founder and Software Engineer
DentalHold
North Carolina State University
Sandeep Bhatt
Co-Founder & CEO
SonoVoice
Scott McQuiggan
PhDCEO & Co-Founder
Social Cascade
North Carolina State University
Shayna Dahan
Founder
WeGotYou
Duke University
Tim Skapek
Co-Founder
PROTECT3D
Duke University
Victoria Chibuogu Nneji
Founder and CEO
AKALAKA
Climate
26Anthony Atti
Co-founder & CEO
Phononic
Barrett Ames
PhDCo-founder & CTO
BotBuilt
Duke University
Brent Wadas
Co-founder & CEO
BotBuilt
Brian Worfolk
PhDCEO & Founder
Lukera Energy
University of Alberta
Cory Sanderson
Co-Founder & VP of Technology
Sustaera
Dustin Abele
PhDCTO & Co-Founder
Lukera Energy
George Washington University
Ginger Krieg Dosier
Co-Founder (former CEO)
Biomason
Cranbrook Academy of Art
Huade Tan
Co-Founder, Co-CEO & CTO
Plantd
Columbia University
Jason Massey
Co-Founder & CEO
ndustrial
Jeanine Fry
PhDFounder
LOOM3D
North Carolina State University
Jennifer Warrillow
Co-Founder
Fathom Science
John Starke
CEO
MyMatR
Joseph Zambon
Co-Founder
Fathom Science
Josh Dorfman
Co-Founder & CEO
Plantd
University of Pennsylvania
Josh Prueher
Founder
FlexGen Power Systems
Judy Riffle
Co-Founder
NALA Membranes
Justin Senkbeil
Founder
CompostNow
Marc Deshusses
PhDCo-founder & Director
374Water
Duke University
Michael Dosier
Co-Founder (former CEO)
Biomason
Nathan Silvernail
Co-Founder, Co-CEO & VP Engineering
Plantd
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Raghubir Gupta
PhDCTO & Co-Founder
Sustaera
University of Illinois
Ruoying He
Co-Founder & President
Fathom Science
Shantanu Agarwal
CEO & Co-Founder
Sustaera
Harvard Business School
Sue Mecham
Co-Founder and CEO
NALA Membranes
Tahira Pirzada
President and CEO
Soteria Formulations
Yaacov Nagar
Co-founder
374Water
DeepTech
22Alice Fulton
PhDCo-founder
Carolina Cloud
University of Cambridge
Andrew Lamm
PhDChief Scientific Officer and Co-Founder
Argoneta
Bhavya Jain
Founder
EnviraCell
Cheng Qian
PhDFounder
NCXtec
Daphne Earley
Co-Founder
Mentim
Dario Muller
CTO & Co-Founder
CN-Seamless
North Carolina State University
David R. Smith
PhDCo-Founder & CSO
Extellis
Derek Fulton
CEO
Carolina Cloud
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Haroon Inam
Co-Founder & CEO
DG Matrix
Ivan Francis
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Argoneta
James Tuck
Co-Founder
DNAli Data Technologies
Jeff Ludwig
COO
Extellis
Josh Cooper
CEO & Co-Founder
CN-Seamless
North Carolina State University
Ladson Brearley
Co-Founder
ARtx
Matthew Earley
Co-Founder
Mentim
State University of New York at Buffalo
Michael Boyarsky
PhDCo-Founder & CEO
Extellis
Rakesh Khan
Co-Founder
ARtx
Rob Creighton
Founder & CEO
Windlift
Sam Marcom
COO & Co-Founder
CN-Seamless
North Carolina State University
Subhashish Bhattacharya
PhDCo-Founder & CTO
DG Matrix
Tyler Keith-Pedersen
Founder
Windlift
Walid Mustafa
CEO
NCXtec
Consumer
21Abena Antwi
Founder
Ashanti Styles
Alex Slater
Co-founder
Shibumi Shade
Anthony Alers
Co-Founder
Bristles
Cape Chappell
CEO and Founder
Blean
Cary Wheelous
Founder and CEO
Hayti
Cooper Delo
Founder
PlugVerse
Dane Barnes
Co-founder
Shibumi Shade
Ferol Vernon
COO & Co-Founder
Written Word Media
Boston University
Gabe Huntsman
Founder and CEO
Afuse
Isabel Lehrman
Co-founder & Head of Operations
Students Who Sit
Katye Freelon
Co-Founder
Coco Fro
Kevin Barry
Co-Founder
Second Nature
North Carolina State University
Megan Aljian
Founder
Forest Found Products
Page Conway
Founder & CEO
Ensembled
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Raya Caldwell
Co-founder
Students Who Sit
Ricci Wolman
CEO & Founder
Written Word Media
Harvard Business School
Scott Barnes
Co-founder
Shibumi Shade
Sydelle Bernstein
Co-founder & CEO
Students Who Sit
Teresa Joerger
Founder
KindlySteps
Thad Tarkington
Co-Founder & CEO
Second Nature
North Carolina State University
Tina Tang
CEO & Co-Founder
Bristles
MedTech
19Adam Irving
CEO
Levee Medical
Ashutosh Chilkoti
PhDCo-Founder & Chairman
inSoma Bio
Bruce Choi
Executive Officer
Levee Medical
Cambre Kelly
President & CEO, Co-Founder
Reselute
Daniel Estay
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
SonoVascular
Ellora McTaggart
Co-Founder & CEO
Carolina Instruments
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jake Donovan
Co-Founder
Reselute
Joel Tapper
Founder & CEO
ARGOS Biosystems
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Juliet Wu
Co-Founder & CFO
Sensible
University of Pennsylvania
Ken Gall
PhDCo-Founder
Reselute
Ken Gall
PhDCo-founder
restor3d
Duke University
Kishen Mitra
Co-Founder
Levita Health
Duke University
Namita Lokare
Founder
Kinove Lab
Nandini Kanthi
Founder & CEO
Sensible
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Saba Kamal
President & CMO
Kinove Lab
Scott Hollenbeck
Co-Founder & Lead Medical Advisor
inSoma Bio
Stefan Roberts
PhDCo-Founder & CEO
inSoma Bio
Duke University
Vaishnavi Kode
Co-Founder & VP of Growth
Sensible
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Vrutika Soneji
Co-Founder & COO
Sensible
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
AgTech
15Brian Green
PhDCEO and CSO
5Metis
David Liu
PhDScientific Co-Founder
Pairwise
Feng Zhang
PhDScientific Co-Founder
Pairwise
Guilherme Tejada
Co-founder & CEO
Solvata
Haven Baker
PhDCo-Founder
Pairwise
J. Keith Joung
PhDScientific Co-Founder
Pairwise
Jeff Hampson
Co-Founder & CTO
Solvata
Jiarui Li
PhDCEO
Innatrix
Marshall Edgell
Founder
Innatrix
Qingshan Wei
PhDCo-Founder
Verdia Diagnostics
North Carolina State University
Ramin Karimpour
Founder & CEO
TARGAN
Steven Tuttle
COO
5Metis
Tom Adams
PhDCo-Founder & CEO
Pairwise
Yong Zhu
PhDCo-Founder
Verdia Diagnostics
North Carolina State University
Zach Hetzler
Co-Founder and CEO
Verdia Diagnostics
North Carolina State University
EdTech
9Adam Canosa
Founder and CEO
Algorhythmic Labs
Alex Pritchett
Co-Founder & COO
Upswing
Bennett Miller
Founder
nOS
Laura Tierney
Founder & CEO
The Social Institute
Maria Jankovics
Co-Founder & CTO
The Social Institute
Melvin Hines
Co-Founder & CEO
Upswing
Rich Gilliam
Founder and CEO
STEM PLUG
Shayna Heinrich
Co-Founder
The Social Institute
Tita Simmons
CEO
Team Genius Squad
GovTech
9Adil Asif
Head of Engineering
CivicReach
Chip Kennedy
Founder & CEO
CivicReach
Case Western Reserve University
Clark Dudek
Technical Advisor
CivicReach
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
James Gieszelmann
Co-Founder
Roboro
Jenny Bo
Co-Founder
Roboro
Jocelyn Howard
VP of Customer Experience
CivicReach
Columbia University
Lindsay Freeman Avagliano
COO
CivicReach
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Matthew Matos
Co-Founder & CEO
BeamRail
Paul Rava
Co-Founder and CEO
Roboro
