TechWire rewind: Top stories of 2019; record holiday spending; startup funding rounds
Here’s a recap of the past week’s headlines as reported by WRAL TechWire – 36 stories across the breadth of tech and life science.
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Building a life science hub: NC Biotech Center celebrates 35 years of visionary leadership
The North Carolina Biotech Center celebrated 35 years of visionary leadership that helped propel the state to the top tier of biotech hubs in the U.S. and globally.
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Elinvar exec Patti Gillenwater is new chair of NC IDEA
NC IDEA, a private foundation committed to supporting entrepreneurial ambition and economic advancement in North Carolina, announced today the election of Patti Gillenwater as Board Chair.
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These make $ense: Why startups should seek federal grants as a source of capital
Seeking capital? There is a solution that takes a little more sweat equity and time that could lead to from $150,000 to $300,000 in the first round and serve as validation of the product innovation to attract large investors. Here is a look.
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Triangle headliners: CED Tech & Life, TEDxUNC, Black Wall Street & more in Feb.
Our latest exclusive events wrapup summarizes the must-attend happenings across the Triangle in February, including a handful of industry-specific meetups, informative workshops, conferences, panels, and more.
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Photo shoot: Celebrating opening of BioLabs NC at Durham’s Chesterfield
A big, diverse crowd of life science movers and shakers from across the country gathered April 18 to mark the grand opening of BioLabs North Carolina at The Chesterfield in downtown Durham.
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RxMaker helps growers monitor field health and practice precision agriculture
Farmers today use technologies such as GPS-equipped harvesters with crop-yield monitors, geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing and variable-rate systems to help them practice precision agriculture. Yet many still lack digital high-resolution soil maps to optimize the use of their advanced technologies. Rx Maker, a Durham spinoff from Ag...
Read MoreDurham-based Ag Techinventures raising equity
Durham-based agriculture technology startup accelerator AgTechinventures is seeking more than $700,000 in an equity raise, according to a regulatory filing. http://agtechinventures.com/index.html The company filed to raise $1.5 million in 2014, but the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission document does not indicate any was sold. The current filing is for an offering of $741, 425 in equity, a rather unusual number. Ag Techinventures develops promising intellectual property in agbiotech, infotech/precision agriculture, and bio-renewables to form new spin-off companies to address the unmet needs of the agricultural industry. It uses a broad scouting and evaluation process to identify promising ag tech from...
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CED formally names chairman, adds 16 new board members
Richard West, the new chair of the board for the Council of Entrepreneurial Development, will be joined by a host of new board members as the CED sets its leadership for 2016-17. One of its first tasks will be finding a new CEO. Joan Siefert Rose, the CED’s leader...
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