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Scot Wingo’s 2017 List of Triangle “Tweeners”

Welcome to the 2017 Tweener list. 2016 was busy in the land of the Tweeners. Here are some highlights: Definition of Triangle Tweener Triangle Tweeners are companies based out of the Triangle with at least $1M in sales or 10 people. They generally are technology companies (mostly around software)...

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Lea(R)n lands $350K Gates Foundation Grant

Lea(R)n, creator of an award-winning online resource for educators, LearnTrials, which closed a seed round of funding of more than $800,000 from education technology investors across the United States in July, has received a $350,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The Raleigh-based company, which graduated from the first AT&T Aspire Accelerator class Thursday. equips educators and their organizations to know which learning technologies are best for their classrooms. “You can think of Learning Trials as educational technology management for school districts and states,” CEO and co-founder Karl Rectanus tells WRAL TechWire. Rectanus, who co-founded the company...

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