Triangle Startups

Standout of the week

LoLo Care

Raleigh marketplace for non-medical home care

One-hour caregiver bookings launch in Wake County.

The company’s September 3 release lists a $30 hourly rate, with $27 going to the caregiver, and says service is initially available only in Wake County. Families can choose caregivers and coordinate scheduling, payments and visit updates. These are the company’s launch terms; the announcement does not establish service quality or completed bookings.

LoLo Care via Newsworthy.ai·Sep 3

Company profile

Fizz Studio

ParaCharts makes charts navigable through sound and speech.

GrepBeat profiles Doug Schepers’s bootstrapped Chapel Hill company, founded in 2018. ParaCharts lets blind and low-vision users explore chart data. The profile reports a six-person team; it is a company profile, not a newly announced financing or a claim that the product launched this week.

AccessibilityChapel Hill

GrepBeat·Sep 1

Deep dives

Capital

1 round

The total below is an issuer-reported amount sold as of the filing date. It does not include the separate LAUNCH syndicate vehicle.

Other

Scale Social AI

$737K

A new Form D reports $736,697 sold to seven investors, with a first sale on June 1. This is a filing-time snapshot, not an announcement of final round proceeds. The filing does not identify the investors. A separate syndicate SPV is excluded from this figure.

Aug 31

Infrastructure

Institutions

G20 ministers adopt the Carolina Principles in Chapel Hill

The September 2 principles call for policies supporting emerging-technology deployment and regulatory experimentation. The text is a policy framework; it does not assign a funded implementation project to a named Triangle startup.

G20 Research Group, University of Toronto (document text)·Sep 2

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