RIoT Your Reality Teams Rise to the Challenge
With the final sprint in full swing, the six finalist teams for the RIoT Your Reality AR Challenge are working hard on perfecting their product and pitches for a chance to win up to $40k in prizes and a spot in the RIoT Accelerator Program (RAP). The event, made possible by collaboration with the City [...]
GrepBeat: Research Startup Led By Duke Prof Builds Platform To Track Disease Outbreaks
The COVID-19 pandemic was exacerbated especially in the early stages by a lack of real-time and predictive data collected on the extent, location and spread of the disease. One Durham-based startup saw this information gap as a call to action. Through a grant received from the National Science Foundation last year, Durham-based research and development [...]
Technology Steers the Economy – Preparing for the Data Age
At all RIoT events, you will be connected to innovation in some form, whether through the speakers on stage, the topics being discussed, or the formatting of the events themselves. For the inaugural Colorado event, RIoT was highlighted as the keynote event for the 2021 Boulder Startup Week. It was privileged to host the Governor [...]
GrepBeat: Not Sure If It’s Recycling Or Trash? Let Raleigh’s MyMatR Sort It Out For You
How good are Americans at recycling? Apparently not so great: only 34% of all recyclable material is actually recycled—the rest ends up in landfills. And on the flip side, lots of trash ends up in the recycling stream by mistake, gumming up the works. NC State alumnus John Starke founded Raleigh-based startup MyMatR (pronounced “my matter”) in [...]
WRAL TechWire: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email Gig East, RIoT celebrate first event at Gig East Exchange in Wilson
WILSON – The Gig East Exchange hosted its first event, “RIoT LVIII: Connecting Rural Communities to the Global Economy” recently. The June 15 event was led and organized by Gig East’s partner, RIoT (Raleigh Internet of Things). RIoT is a North Carolina-based economic development nonprofit focused on creating IoT opportunities for businesses. RIoT is a longtime partner of Gig [...]
The Wilson Times: Business Development Office will rely on relationships
For three years, Kellianne Davis has focused on recruiting companies to downtown Wilson. Read more about Wilson's Business Development Office and how partnerships with organizations like RIoT are boosting Wilson's economy on The Wilson Times.
Business Insider: How Raleigh-Durham is prioritizing innovation and entrepreneurship to build a strong tech workforce as companies like Apple and Google move to the region
Apple announced in April that it plans to invest more than $1 billion in North Carolina and build a new campus and engineering hub in the Raleigh-Durham area. The move will create about 3,000 new jobs in machine learning, artificial intelligence, software engineering, and other fields, the company said. As part of the investment, Apple plans to [...]
LiRA – Artificial Intelligence on a Mission
Most of us take the ability to speak for granted. With our mouths easily spinning together endless strings of words, the ability to speak holds great value and functionality. However, each year approximately one million individuals lose their voice and struggle with aphonia caused by surgical interventions. The brilliant minds behind RAP startup, LiRA, want [...]
GrepBeat: Ivan AI Offers Landlords A Cheaper, More Efficient Option To Property Managers
As a property owner, William Armstrong struggled to find a way to manage his properties. The only options available either involved him emptying his wallet to hire a property manager, or doing all of the work himself, which he couldn’t do because he had a full-time job. When Armstrong didn’t find a virtual solution that [...]
WRAL TechWire: How these NC firms are honoring, observing Juneteenth
June 19, or Juneteenth, marks the annual observance celebrating the date that Union soldiers enforced the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing those who were still enslaved in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865. Effective this week, Juneteenth has been designated a federal holiday, as President Joe Biden signed a bill passed by both chambers of the United [...]
Business Insider: How Raleigh-based nonprofit RIoT is boosting entrepreneurship and job growth in the city
In July, six teams will demonstrate their ideas for how augmented reality can help solve some of the challenges facing Raleigh, North Carolina, and the surrounding areas. Through the program RIoT Your Reality, the teams are examining ways to improve diversity, inclusion, and accessibility in city programs, promote workforce development, and reinvent the Raleigh Convention Center [...]
WRAL TechWire: Triangle tech organizations returning to live, in-person events as pandemic fades
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – The masks are coming off and the Zoom sessions are now an option. It’s back to face-to-face for many events in the Triangle. With falling COVID-19 cases, high vaccination rates and gathering restrictions lifted, Triangle-area tech organizations are welcoming a renewed return to normalcy as they resume in-person events for the first [...]
WRAL TechWire: RIoT names new cohort of 7 startups for accelerator program – here they are
RALEIGH – RIoT is excited to announce its eighth RIoT Accelerator Program cohort, which kicks off in Raleigh on June 9. This cohort is not only Raleigh’s sixth RAP cohort, but also its first in-person, post-pandemic cohort, with some teams streaming in virtually. Read about the teams on WRAL TechWire.
WRAL TechWire: SAS is latest firm to join Wake Forest-based Advanced Mobility Collective
WAKE FOREST – SAS, the leader in analytics, joined the Advanced Mobility Collective, a nonprofit global community fostering new mobility and transportation services for people and freight. SAS joins a growing number of business and government partners in The Collective to accelerate new uses of vehicles on the ground, in the air and at sea – all [...]