WRAL TechWire: Startup Spotlight: Latest in esports trends, tech highlight RIoT’s Demo Night
RALEIGH – North Carolina’s largest IoT industry group, RIoT (Regional Internet of Things), is bringing back its popular RIoT Demo Night for another year. Held digitally on Nov. 10 from 4-7 p.m., the event will focus exclusively on new and disruptive technologies in the esports and entertainment markets. During the event, esteemed sports industry leaders will share how [...]
WRAL TechWire: Will ‘new normal’ bring a return to in-person events? Not right now, say many organizations
RESEACH TRIANGLE PARK – Mid-pandemic, the proverbial “new normal” brings with it new challenges and opportunities for our daily social interactions—impacting everything from getting a morning coffee to jogging on a busy sidewalk to restructuring the average workday. For North Carolina’s entrepreneurial and business communities, chances to network and make new connections face-to-face are now limited [...]
Triangle Business Journal: From NC State to Fortune 500 deal: A Durham startup’s path to success
Bright Wolf, which has never raised outside capital, has all the trappings of a true Triangle entrepreneurship story. Check out the whole story at Triangle Business Journal.
GrepBeat: MedMeetsTech Introduces New, Picturesque Way To Track Food Intake
What do you get when you mix the medical world with technology? Here’s one answer: a new Triangle-based startup called MedMeetsTech and its app, FoodSnap. The women-led startup is aiming to use behavioral psychology and gamification to make being healthy easier. The company is also part of the RIoT Accelerator Program’s Fall 2020 cohort. MedMeetsTech has [...]
Raleigh News & Observer: Fortune 500 IT firm Cognizant to open innovation lab in RTP after buying NC company
Cognizant, one of the largest information and technology companies in the country, has acquired a Durham tech company in a deal that will create a new foothold in the Triangle for the New Jersey-based tech consulting firm. Cognizant said Thursday that it had acquired Bright Wolf, a company that was founded by alumni from N.C. [...]
GrepBeat: (Data)Crunch On This: Cary-based Startup Helps Companies Leverage Their Data
In a world where data is collected everywhere, all the time and from everyone, companies who can harness it best often rise to the top. Practically anything can be collected as data—customer churn rate, production efficiency, employee productivity—and companies may be biting off more than they can chew when they attempt to understand it all. [...]
GrepBeat: Folux Labs Believes It Has The Right “Light Recipe” For Indoor Farms
In the summer of 2017, when Dan Webb was in high school, he received a nasty letter from the homeowner’s association telling him to take down the tomato plants in his backyard. A frustrated Webb didn’t want to give up gardening, which had helped him cope with his depression. So, Dan propped up a tent [...]
WRAL TechWire: Epic-Apple lawsuit shows it’s time to re-evaluate antitrust laws, says RIoT exec director
All companies are built on a fairly small number of global technology platforms. There are only a few global cellular operators. A limited number of global cloud providers. A small number of semiconductor suppliers, computer manufacturers, global package distributors and internet service providers. In the United States, and most countries around the world, there are [...]
RAP Q&A Series: Fifteen Minutes with Regulr
Stephen Dodge is a Richmond native, self-professed endless supply of energy and founder of Regulr, a technology platform that creates better in-person retail experiences. Stephen has a rich retail and tech sales background and is a naturally inquisitive and hard-working person. When he’s not working too-long hours, Stephen loves playing tennis and even has a [...]
Engineering IoT Products for Customer Focused Solutions with QuestDB
QuestDB is an open-source SQL database designed to process time-series data. They recently secured a $2.3 million seed round, as well as the talents of David Simmons, their new Head of Developer Relations. A long time RIoT member and supporter, I had heard a lot of great things about David’s talks and was excited to [...]
WRAL TechWire: Internet of Things development group RIoT expanding to Virginia, Colorado
We regularly tell startups in the RIoT Accelerator Program (RAP) that it is important to continuously talk to customers and track market-driven opportunities. A technology push is a difficult sale. Delivering on a market pull is much easier. Taking a dose of our own medicine, RIoT has been fielding inquiries from communities around the US about how [...]
RIoT expands into Virginia and Colorado!
RIoT expands into Virginia and Colorado We regularly tell startups in the RIoT Accelerator Program (RAP) that it is important to continuously talk to customers and track market-driven opportunities. A technology push is a difficult sale. Delivering on a market pull is much easier. Taking a dose of our own medicine, RIoT has been fielding [...]
WRAL Techwire: Guest opinion: In these troubling times, now is the time to innovate in education
RALEIGH – A grand experiment has been playing out the past few weeks as schools of all types and sizes have launched fall semester education. Almost universally, within a few days of launch, each school and school system from pre-K to college has made significant changes to their initial plans, based on immediate feedback on what [...]
Sensors for the IoT with Tim Sweet, Solution Manager of DNA Group
When we think about all the ‘things’ in IoT and data, in the front, back, and everywhere in between, sensors do not get enough credit. They are the piece of the IoT puzzle that keeps things moving. The explosive growth of sensor technologies is hard to comprehend unless, like DNA Group, you design them and [...]