Triangle Pulse
What moved recently
Fresh signals first.
374Water names Chuck Weiser chief financial officer
ServiceTrade acquires Mura to add AI invoicing and collections to the Stella suite
Students Who Sit, Duke babysitting startup, expanding to UNC
SonoVoice joins the CED GRO Incubator 11th cohort (June 25 Demo Day)
Repeated signals
Companies showing up more than once
374Water names Chuck Weiser chief financial officer
Arpio raises $15M Series A for cloud recovery automation
Carolina Instruments wins $5,000 Crowd Favorite prize at CED GRO11 Demo Day
CData launches Connect AI Developer Edition, an open-source Python SDK, and a CLI
Companies
268
54 with disclosed funding
Tracked funding
$4.6B
$8M median round
Investors
90
332 co-investment pairs
Founders
252
63 university-linked companies
Regional read
The current shape is broad, early, and city-concentrated.
Read 01
Durham accounts for 35% of tracked companies (94), followed by Raleigh.
Read 02
SaaS leads by company count (88), while Biotech carries the most disclosed capital at $1.9B.
Read 03
59% of staged companies are pre-seed or seed, which keeps follow-on capital and founder support central to the market.
Sector mix
6 leading sectors
Stage mix
147 staged rows
Capital
Disclosed rounds
Geography
Where the density sits
$2.4B tracked funding
$676.5M tracked funding
$160.7M tracked funding
$710K tracked funding
$1.3B tracked funding
Investor map
Most connected captured investors
AgTech · Biotech · Climate · Consumer
AgTech · Biotech · Healthtech · MedTech
Climate · Consumer · GovTech · Healthtech
Biotech · Climate · DeepTech · Healthtech
Healthtech · SaaS
SaaS
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