Laura Baverman

With a background in nonprofits, the arts and marketing, Tim Scales had plenty of opportunity upon graduation with an MBA from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business in May. But Groundwork Labs offered the chance to combine a passion for civic engagement and entrepreneurship formed during his years at Duke....

Each week, we’ll round up startup news from the UNC journalism students behind North Carolina Business News Wire. To read all of the students’ work covering public and private companies around the state, sign up for the daily newsletter. ————————————– Digital health company Analytics 4 Life raises $25 million By Taylor...

Sara Kiley Watson, Amy Huffman and Shannon Cuthrell contributed. For the second year in a row, ExitEvent interviewed more than 50 startup founders over two days at the CED Tech Venture Conference. It was all-hands-on-deck effort leaving us with pages of interviews, insights and news to share in coming...

Each week, we’ll round up startup news from the UNC journalism students behind North Carolina Business News Wire. To read all of the students’ work covering public and private companies around the state, sign up for the daily newsletter. ————————————– Durham-based SpokeHub raises $140,000 By Addison Lalier A Durham-based tech company...

Pendo is looking more like a San Francisco startup these days. From the stage at the CED Tech Venture Conference Wednesday, CEO and co-founder Todd Olson announced plans to move his 108 local workers into two floors of downtown Raleigh’s 30-story Wells Fargo tower. Besides a rooftop patio with...

Mark Fernandes’ first venture capital deal at Sierra Ventures was in a Columbia, Maryland startup called Sourcefire. The network security company was headquartered in the founder’s basement, but within four years filed an IPO and eventually became the largest employer in Columbia before it was sold to Cisco for...