Latest edition
Edition 20 · Aug 17–Aug 23, 2026
Slate Medicines heads for the Nasdaq six months after launching
Slate Medicines
139
signals
$727.0M
capital
48
new companies
20 of 20 editions
Edition 20 · Aug 17–Aug 23, 2026
Slate Medicines heads for the Nasdaq six months after launching
Slate Medicines
2
signals
$245M
capital
Edition 19 · Aug 10–Aug 16, 2026
Anthropic's implementation venture picks Raleigh, and a new agtech fund writes its first check
Ode · Utilyst · Theralinq · Upstream Biotechnology
6
signals
$2.5M
capital
Edition 18 · Aug 3–Aug 9, 2026
Sustaera takes direct air capture onto a law firm's podcast
Sustaera
1
signals
—
capital
Edition 17 · Jul 27–Aug 2, 2026
Freight Hero closes a $5M seed, and Scale Social AI pivots to the Fortune 500
Freight Hero · Scale Social AI · The Alchemy Lab · Climbit · Teamworks
6
signals
$5M
capital
Edition 16 · Jul 20–Jul 26, 2026
Merakris wins a $2.2M NIH award to take MTX-001 into diabetic foot ulcers
Merakris Therapeutics
1
signals
$2.2M
capital
Edition 15 · Jul 13–Jul 19, 2026
410 Medical raises $12M, and SelSym takes its first equity check
SelSym Biotech · Trybl · 410 Medical
6
signals
$12M
capital
Edition 14 · Jul 6–Jul 12, 2026
Flathead Forge takes a first check into NALA Membranes
NALA Membranes
1
signals
—
capital
Edition 13 · Jun 29–Jul 5, 2026
Higharc closes a $95M Series C; SAS turns 50 the same week
Higharc · Students Who Sit · ChampOS · SPRTN Technologies · Extellis
8
signals
$101.8M
capital
Edition 12 · Jun 25–Jun 28, 2026
Nine Triangle rounds surface, led by DG Matrix and Slate
DG Matrix · Pendo · Micropep Technologies · GreySun Technologies · Kevel
15
signals
$239.2M
capital
Edition 11 · Jun 16–Jun 22, 2026
Validic sells to ChartSpan, and the milestones stack up
Validic · Equity Shift · Merakris Therapeutics · Atsena Therapeutics
5
signals
—
capital
Edition 10 · Jun 9–Jun 15, 2026
TARGAN signs to Merck, and a research-grant cycle names Triangle threads
TARGAN
3
signals
—
capital
Edition 9 · Jun 2–Jun 8, 2026
Arpio raises $15M, and Bullhouse opens a Durham founder space
Arpio
2
signals
$15M
capital
Edition 8 · May 26–Jun 1, 2026
NC IDEA opens its Spring cycle as June's demo calendar fills
NC IDEA
2
signals
—
capital
Edition 7 · May 19–May 25, 2026
Chapel Hill lands a robotics headquarters over Austin
Blue Sky Robotics · Sennos · Keebler Health · InsightFinder · Truentity Health
7
signals
$54.5M
capital
Edition 6 · May 12–May 18, 2026
SEED closed the watch
Warrant · NC IDEA · Phaseshift · Rooted-in-tech · Ver Coaching
9
signals
$200K
capital
Edition 5 · May 5–May 11, 2026
ReFiBuy made the week
ReFiBuy.ai · Swarm
4
signals
$13.7M
capital
Edition 4 · Apr 28–May 4, 2026
The quiet week was not quiet
Sennos · Cloneable · Truentity Health
6
signals
$28.1M
capital
Edition 3 · Apr 21–Apr 27, 2026
NC IDEA wrote almost every check
Carolina Instruments · NC IDEA
22
signals
$700K
capital
Edition 2 · Apr 14–Apr 21, 2026
A quiet week before a loud one
Raleigh-Durham Startup Week · NC Tweener Fund
7
signals
$2.0M
capital
Edition 1 · Apr 7–Apr 14, 2026
The plumbing and the product
Lumius · Six Wing Studios · Incyclix Bio · BeamRail · OOGA Technologies
26
signals
$5.1M
capital