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Megan Rowe Tells Us “What’s Good” With AI-Powered Event Discovery, “Doing It Scared” As A Founder, And Her Belgian Malinois
Posted Yesterday tl;dr What's Good is an AI-powered website that gathers events from hundreds of sources so people can see what's happening in a city, and it now works with tourism boards in about 20 cities after starting in Wilmington. Founder Megan Rowe says the company has grown a local audience of 100,000 without paying for ads, makes money from both its news site and its software, and pays for its growth with what it earns. Her next big challenge is growing to more cities while keeping the quality high, and she says her best advice to her younger self is to trust her instincts and "do it scared." |
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Monday Mix: Founder Horror Stories, Idea to Action, Wilmington Investor Roadshow, and Much More!
Posted Yesterday tl;dr This week's Monday Mix (October 26th) is full of spooky-themed fun and events for people who work in startups and technology, and you can also listen to it on the GrepBeat podcast. On Wednesday, October 28th, there are lots of events, including a workshop to turn startup ideas into real plans, a talk about staying flexible in the age of AI, and networking happy hours in places like Raleigh, Durham, and Charlotte. The week ends on Friday, October 30th, with a Halloween party in Durham where founders share their scariest business horror stories. |
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Friday Fix: Curated Clinical, Kevel’s $52M Raise, Launch KPMG’s Cohort 4, and More!
Posted Friday tl;dr GrepBeat.com is a website that covers startup and tech news, and every Friday a show called the Friday Fix helps people catch up on the week's biggest stories. In the October 23rd edition, host David Schwartz talked about features on two companies, Curated Clinical and Pellucid, plus a recap of a demo day where new startups showed off their work to the public. He also shared the big news that a company called Kevel raised $52 million to help it grow, and you can hear the whole thing on The GrepBeat Podcast. |
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Cary’s Pellucid Aims to Create “New Category of Tech” For Procurement
Posted Friday tl;dr Pellucid Network is a new startup, founded by Nick Miller, that helps big companies buy software through online marketplaces more easily by connecting the teams that find software with the people who approve the purchases. Miller got the idea from his work in the Army, at the venture firm In-Q-Tel, and with Amazon Web Services, where he saw that slow buying processes kept organizations from using new technology quickly. The small team of three has raised its first round of funding, plans to charge subscriptions starting around $20,000, and is focused on perfecting its product and winning customers before it expects to meet its revenue goals in 2027. |
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Launch Powered by KPMG Accelerator Holds Demo Day For 4th Cohort
Posted Wednesday tl;dr On Tuesday night, the fourth group of startups finished the Launch Powered by KPMG accelerator, a six-week program that helps new companies find customers, improve their products, and plan how to sell them. The companies presented their ideas to the public at a Demo Night in Chapel Hill. Their projects included an app that tracks food to spot inflammation, a business that turns trash like glass and styrofoam into concrete, and tools that use AI for health care, air quality, robotics, and medicine research. |
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Curated Clinical Uses AI To Bring Community Voices Into Clinical Trials
Posted October 19, 2026 tl;dr Allison Mathews started a company called Curated Clinical that uses an online platform to ask everyday people for their ideas on making health research, like medical trials, safer and more trustworthy, especially for communities whose voices are often left out. The platform uses crowdsourcing, which means asking the public to help solve a problem, and it has an AI tool that sorts people's answers into themes and helps companies and community groups turn the best ideas into real programs. Mathews, who has spent over ten years doing this kind of work around the world, says the platform keeps people's data private and safe, and it has already signed its first partners, with a test run planned for November 2026. |
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Monday Mix: A Startup House Block Party, AI Horror Stories, Cary’s Walking Masterminds, and More!
Posted October 19, 2026 tl;dr This week's Monday Mix (October 19th) highlights several local events, including a Saturday block party in Charlotte and some spooky Halloween-themed fun about AI gone wrong. On Tuesday there's a lunchtime event in Durham, and on Thursday you can join a walking and networking meetup in Cary in the morning, then an "AI Horror Stories" event in Charlotte that evening. The week wraps up on Saturday with the Founder Block Party at CLT Startup House from 5 to 9 p.m. |
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Friday Fix: ExpertTheory, Phaseshift, ShotSpin AI, and “Backrooms” Inspired Floor 404
Posted October 16, 2026 tl;dr GrepBeat.com shares lots of news about startups and technology, and their "Friday Fix" segment, hosted by David Schwartz, helps readers catch up on anything they might have missed during the week. This week's recap included a story about Pendo's new game called Floor 404, plus features on three cool companies: ExpertTheory, Phaseshift, and the tennis-focused startup ShotSpin. You can listen to the full podcast episode to hear all the details, and don't forget to subscribe so you stay updated on exciting startup news! |
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Return Game: Exited Founder Is Back To Level Up Your Tennis With ShotSpin AI
Posted October 15, 2026 tl;dr Anil Chawla, who previously built and sold a successful tech company called ArchiveSocial, returned to his childhood love of tennis after his business deal closed and found himself wanting better tools to improve his game. This inspired him to create ShotSpin AI, a new app that uses artificial intelligence to record tennis matches and provide detailed, professional-level analysis of a player's performance, going beyond basic stats to show patterns and trends. The app, still in development with a beta testing group, aims to help everyday players enjoy and improve at tennis by giving them insights once only available to professional athletes. |
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Wake Forest’s Phaseshift Makes Sense of the Messy Data Behind Clean Energy
Posted October 14, 2026 tl;dr Phaseshift, a startup founded by Brandon Zschokke and Anirudh Mulukutla, solves a big problem in the clean energy world: different battery, solar, and wind equipment all record data in their own "languages," making it hard to combine and understand. Their technology connects to all this equipment, organizes the confusing data into one consistent format, and makes it easy for people, software, and AI to use—saving companies time, money, and hassle. Starting with battery storage systems, Phaseshift is now growing to work with other energy infrastructure and even data centers, all while keeping its focus on solving real problems for customers rather than just building "cool" technology. |
