(Editor’s note: Writer Sarah Bill talks with five promising businesses either born or further developed during an intensive six-months of ThinkHouse residence in this story as part the news partnership between WRAL TechWire and ExitEvent.)

DURHAM, N.C. – Startup accelerators aren’t new, but ThinkHouse gives new meaning to “entrepreneurial environment.”

The inaugural living-learning-company building program hosted eight entrepreneurs in a renovated house in Boylan Heights since last December. Last week, we recapped the experience and talked to the ThinkHouse founders about the future of the program.

Today, we highlight the five promising businesses either born or further developed during an intensive six-months of ThinkHouse residence. The fellows pitched their businesses at a Demo Day at HQ Raleigh last night, and ExitEvent sat in to get their take on a first-of-its-kind experience in the Triangle.

So here you go, the stories behind five startups we’ll be watching in weeks and months to follow.

The full story can be read online at ExitEvent.