Kirsten Barber

Triangle TechBreakfast provides innovators with a platform to share, whether it’s a new app, physical product or IT solution. Check out highlights of two startups that pitched at the September 2016 event at Research Triangle Park.   DivvyCloud  DivvyCloud leverages public and private cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS), OpenStack, IBM SoftLayer, Eucalyptus and others, to provide customers with a cloud management platform (CMP) that can be customized to meet business goals.    While on stage, VP of Business Development Jeremy Snyder (pictured top) demoed how a business could utilize DivvyCloud to locate and remove unnecessary firewalls. He also walked through a...

Triangle TechBreakfast is part of the overarching TechBreakfast meetup group that travels to major cities and brings innovators, creative talent, businesses and investors together for a morning of networking and sharing. Besides the Triangle, the TechBreakfast team travels to Boston, New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Wilmington (DE), Baltimore, Columbia (MA), Washington DC, Austin, Silicon Valley and Northern VA, to hold events.  Anyone who wants to present can send in a request to be added to the schedule. Traditionally, around four presenters are given time to present, each one receiving seven minutes, with time extended at the end for questions. The...

Who says learning can’t be fun? That’s the thought of the team members behind the education startup SkillPop.    Originating in Charlotte in September 2015, SkillPop offers classes for anyone who wants to learn something new, whether it be developing a professional skill for work (like blogging or social media) or exploring a creative avenue they’ve never tried before (like cookie decorating or calligraphy). SkillPop is a continuing education business that strives to pull people in a community together to learn outside of a digital environment.    Founder Haley Bohon saw the need for a community-centric education movement when she...

Everyone has a story. Jared Plummer’s story starts with ice cream. As a young boy in Stokesdale, North Carolina, family gatherings in the summer always held one thing: hand-cranked ice cream. Plummer spent many days on his granny’s front porch churning out the frozen treat. “Nothing beats peach ice cream in the summer,” Plummer smiles as he thinks back to the early days laboring over a classic rock salt ice cream machine under the watch of the two black rooster cut outs that framed his grandma’s front door. These roosters eventually became the face of his Raleigh-based ice cream...

Imagine an online environment where you can instant message and video chat with anyone in the world live, create a forum around a sporting event or news broadcast and purchase an assortment of goods—all on a single website.   A team of Ravenscroft High School grads wants to make this concept a reality with a new social media network called HangBee.    HangBee, as described by founder Will Christman, is an organic, living social interface where users can interact in multiple ways beyond what is available through today’s social networks. Christman, a 2014 graduate of the private school in North...