At an event held last night hosted in concert with Raleigh/Durham Startup Week, The Tweener List recognized the Top Exits and Fundraisers of 2023.
The 2024 Tweener List features: 54 new Triangle Tweeners, and a total of 300 Triangle Tweeners now being tracked and reported on.
The new 2024 Tweeners and 2023’s top exits and fundings represent over $350m of fresh capital injected into the Triangle startup ecosystem in 2023.
“I started the Tweener List in 2015 to shine a spotlight on our ‘goldilocks startups,’” said Scot Wingo, Tweener List founder. “The first list had 48 companies. Many of those like Pendo and Bandwidth have been our area’s current stars. Eight years later, we now have 300 – a 6X increase. To me, this is the strongest signal that the Triangle’s startup ecosystem is not only healthy but growing exponentially.”
Triangle Tweener award winners
2023 Tweener List Top Exits
1. Allobee – exited 1/31/23 to The Riveter
2. e-Emphsys – exited 5/1/23 to VitalEdge
3. 3Birds Marketing – exited 6/623 to DAS Technology
4. Playmetrics – exited 8/23/23 to BSIP
5. InfiniaML – exited 9/1/23 to Aspirion Health Resources
The Triangle Tweener Fund honored companies’ growth.
2023 Tweener list Top Fundings
1. Pryon raised over $100m on 9/19/23.
2. Teamworks raised over $65m on 4/12/23.
3. Certificial raised $15m on 7/12/23.
4. Levitate raised $14m on 4/27/23.
5. GreenPlaces raised $13m on 6/20/23.
6. Relay raised $13m on 4/26/23.
7. BotBuilt raised $12.4m on 12/27/23.
8. Plantd raised $10m on 7/1/23.
9. K4Connect raised $9m on 7/13/23.
10. Aprio raised $8.2m on 8/14/23.
2024 54 New Triangle Tweeners
Here are the 54 new Triangle Tweener companies (in alphabetical order): 1. /n software 2. 1336 Studios 3. Able Device 4. Agerpoint 5. Alo Enterprise Systems 6. Altis Biosystems 7. Anewgo 8. aPersona 9. Asimetrix 10.AURA Technologies 11.BallotReady 12.Betr Health 13.BlueArrow Telematics 14.Blueco 15.Callback Technologies 16.Centeredge 17.Cirrus Insight 18.Cicero Inc. 19.COZYROC 20.Dairy Records Management Systems 21.Dataedo 22.Device Magic 23.Epic Hire, Inc. 24.Epifany 25.Exit Intelligence 26.Galaxy Diagnostics 27.GTM Buddy 28.ImageQuix 29.Inn-flow 30.Keystone Systems 31.Lead Semantics 32.Lodgistics 33.Lucem Health 34.NovaDine 35.OperationsHERO 36.Phinite 37.Plantd 38.Pluto Health 39.PtEverwhere 40.Public Input 41.Revcast 42.Simply Easier Payments 43.SiteBridge Research 44.Sizeo.ai 45.Storeroom Logix 46.Suggestion OX 47.Syllaby 48.TopQuadrant 49.Trackx Technology 50.Trio Labs 51.Upswing 52.Vis Flow 53.Voxel Innovations 54.vTestify
About the Triangle Tweener List
The Triangle Tweener List was founded in March of 2015.
The Tweener List is a curated list of ‘goldilocks’ companies defined as: 1. Companies must be headquartered in the Triangle region of NC (aka Research Triangle). 2. Companies must be over 10 people or $1m in annual revenues. 3. Companies must be under 800 people or $80m in annual revenues. 4. Companies must be technology/venture fundable businesses.
The Triangle Tweener List and Fund is managed by two Triangle area serial entrepreneurs, General Partners (GPs): Scot Wingo and Robbie Allen.
In its first two years, The Tweener Fund invested over $6m across 114 investments in Triangle HQ’d high-tech early-stage startups. Unlike closed funds, the Tweener Fund is always open for new accredited investors.
More information can be found at www.tweenerlist.com and www.tweenerfund.com
