Raleigh Durham Startup Ecosystem Overview

Easy-to-use email marketing and social media marketing software for small-businesses and non-profits Read more

trinket is an open teaching platform & the easiest way to create and teach your next course. Read more

A fitness profile, similar to an electronic medical record, which individuals can use with trainers, gyms, consumer devices, and apps. We will work towards becoming a standard platform by first providing a website and app personal trainers use to manage clients. However, records are owned by clients and persist when their training service ends. Read more

We are behind some of the most exciting technology in business today! With a nationwide VoIP network, we power leading brands changing the way people communicate, connect and do business. Crave innovation? We live for it. Our newest offering, Republic Wireless, is the nation's first wifi-based cell phone. Thanks to a team of skilled engineers, developers and marketers, we launched Republic to unprecedented national attention. Want to be inspired by a team of creative, passionate people? You've come to the right place. We've got a vibrant culture with some of the brightest minds in business. We're 350+ strong with experts in software engineering, development architecture, finance, analytics, R&D, sales, marketing and more.  Read more

Ruzuku is disrupting the $11B self-improvement industry with online courses. We allow passionate experts -- like authors, professional speakers, executive coaches, bloggers, and consultants -- to monetize their expertise online. For example, take Jenny Blake. She was successful in HR at Google (running career development workshops and coaching), but wanted to work for herself. She has created online courses (like "Design Your Life") priced at $97 - $400 and earned over $40K on our platform. Read more

CData Software offers data integration solutions for real-time access to on-line or on-premise applications, databases, and Web APIs. Read more

Brands, publishers, advertisers, video studios, web companies, media and design houses needing to place marketing and online content into the market needed a way for creative departments to receive request, manage production and, as content was designed, provide review and approval prior to online and offline release to market. InMotion delivers a SaaS solution that moves the process into the browser and accelerates time to market on campaigns and media assets. Read more

Pendo.io is a SaaS data-driven platform aimed at helping organizations build better software products. Our platform combines tools for in-app feature engagement with product usage analytics to help product organizations deliver features that customers use. Requiring only minimal configuration, enterprises can better understand the value of their products and prioritize their engineering resources to drive features that will increase customer engagement and help reduce the $22 billion susceptible to churn within the enterprise SaaS market. Other web analytics tools have emerged to help customer-facing organizations improve conversions and funnel metrics. Pendo.io is the only analytics platform targeted at the over 1.6 million product managers and dev leads to arm them with the insight to build better software. Read more

Do you copy/paste screenshots, fumble through screencasts or schedule web conferences to explain how to do something in an application? There's something better. In minutes with iorad, we capture your actions and magically transform it into step-by-step interactive tutorials. Read more

GROUNDFLOOR is Lending Club for real estate. We're adapting the successful peer-to-peer lending model and extending it to asset-backed lending. As a result, non-accredited and accredited investors alike can earn high yields as participating real estate micro-lenders. Our website makes it easy for investors to put money to work directly in the specific projects, developers and asset sub-classes they choose. Every investment is secured by the underlying property. For independent real estate developers who meet our lending criteria, our growing liquidity and expanding toolset means better access to capital, 100% free of the banks and bank hassles. We handle everything from origination, to underwriting, funding, investor relations and loan servicing.  Read more

Everyone, at some point in their life, rents a place to stay and finding that perfect rental can be extremely time consuming. RentalSource aims to be the service that allows them to quickly & easily find the best match for their specific needs. On the flip side, property managers want to have their listings seen by the largest audience, but they don't want to spend a lot of time keeping their listings current across multiple sites. RentalSource solves this via their distribution network. Read more

The Internet Music Video Database (IMVDb) lets you discover new music through music videos. We take the disorganized world of online music videos and make it easy to find the videos you love from your favorite artists as well as new music to discover through music videos. Read more

Companies like Stripe and Braintree have made working with a single payment gateway easy. However, if you need to work with multiple payment gateways you're out of luck - until now. Spreedly solves that problem in 2 ways. One, we've created a credit card as a vault in the cloud. Store you cards securely and independently from any gateway. Save $50,000 to $500,000 a year in PCI compliance costs. Secondly, integrate to a single API (ours) then easily work with one or all of the 50 different payment gateways we support. So if you transact globally but process locally or your customers bring a merchant account to your service Spreedly can help. Build the next Uber or Shopify here.  Read more

Carpe manufactures an OTC antiperspirant lotion that helps reduce sweaty hands and feet Read more

Centervention offers online programs and supplemental lessons that improve social and emotional skills for students. Read more

The Royalty Exchange is the world’s first online platform for buying and selling royalties from music, movies, books, TV shows, solar energy, patents, trademarks and pharmaceuticals in a transparent and efficient marketplace. Created for investors, sellers and fans, The Royalty Exchange provides a completely transparent and efficient auction marketplace environment for the community to buy and sell these unique alternative investments. Read more

The Adwerx platform allows firms to automate digital advertising, including Real Estate, Mortgage, Insurance, Finance and other verticals. Read more

TopCourt is a startup that builds an online platform for tennis instruction. Read more

Validic is interoperability for mHealth. Our API platform integrates dozens, and eventually hundreds, of consumer health apps, fitness devices, home health devices, and medical devices. We provide healthcare providers, insurers, and corporate wellness vendors a single API connection with access to over 80 integrated apps and devices, removing the need for those organizations to build and maintain connections with each individual app or device. Read more

Online only consumable home fragrance products; leveraging game mechanics, social shopping, smell at home sampling, and subscriptions to deliver convenience, surprise, and fun. Inaugural product line is earth friendly all natural candle line with a surprise inside worth at least $10 but up to $5k. Read more

Arrivo BioVentures is a pharmaceutical development company which focuses on identifying biologics and molecules to improve patient care. Read more

AIRBORNE INTELLIGENCE PrecisionHawk provides the capability to gather actionable, extremely high-resolution remote sensing data through the most easy-to-use, low-cost and reliable unmanned aircraft available today. The unmanned aircraft system, a small robotic plane, can collect extremely high-resolution remote sensing data with a minimum of effort and will provide invaluable, real-time data for such applications as land surveying, agriculture, security, forestry, chemical, and field conditions. DATA PROCESSING Once the UAV collects the required data, it is transferred wirelessly into the processing software. The software stitches all the data together into a comprehensive mosaic using flight telemetry and provides the user a visual mosaic instantly. At that point the user can easily determine areas of interest and act accordingly.  Read more

A subscription composting service that makes composting as easy as recycling. We believe organizations and individuals needed a practical, convenience-based way to compost -- so we created CompostNow. After eighteen months of organic growth, we are operationally stable in our first territory. Composting is the new recycling. It's not going away, and neither will the companies that offer related services and products. We aim to be the market leader in 30 of the top metros in North America. One down, twenty-nine to go.  Read more

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WeaveUp takes the frustration out of decorating by letting you choose the design, colors and fabric you want. Read more

Seguno is the only complete email solution fully embedded within Shopify. Read more

Courtroom5 offers an end-to-end legal toolbox for people in civil court without a lawyer. Read more

ServusConnect is a purpose-built mobile & web app for multifamily/apartment operators. Read more

Local Eye Site is an online recruitment community for eye care professionals. Eye care related organizations across the US & Canada use our website to staff for clinical, administrative and sales related positions. We have created a successful business model operating in the relatively small market of eye care. Our goal is to replicate into new, larger medical verticals.  Read more

We help physician practices and hospitals put down the phone and see more patients. Our automated medical interview turns a 15 minute phone call into a 1 minute review. A typical, mid-sized hospital can turn turn 25,000+ hours of unreimbursed and lost time into $800K revenue. Read more

Photofy is a digital content creation platform that empowers collaborative content creation for individual and enterprise use. Read more

Hip eCommerce manages and develops online marketplaces for collectibles, including stamps, postcards, and comic books. Read more

CloudFuze is building a universal platform, which connects to any cloud from any device from any location. This unified access to all cloud files from all devices allows easy file access, sharing and collaboration. Currently, CloudFuze can connect to major cloud storage providers like Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, SugarSync and FTP from Windows Desktop, Android devices and Web. It also allows users to seamlessly connect cloud storage accounts from multiple providers along with multiple accounts from each provider. This unique and highly beneficial feature allows users to consolidate all their cloud accounts and manage all their cloud files from one application. There are several key features in the works as well. These features include adding access to additional cloud storage providers, an iOS App, auditing and security functionality.  Read more

J'Marie Design Studios is a "One Stop Shop" for all your Design Needs. I focus on branding from a personal and business level. I design EVERYTHING from invitations, stationary & customized favors to Web Sites, Logos and Business Branding. Read more

JupiterOne specializes in providing cybersecurity asset management solutions. Read more

Visual development platform for creating powerful, data-driven, and truly native iOS and Android apps without writing any code. Read more

Liine is a mobile application platform that specializes in voice analytics, performance management, and call analytics. Read more

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iValu8 is a way to help get feedback from customers while driving more users to the site. Read more

Locus Biosciences is a biotechnology company that develops CRISPR-engineered precision antibacterial products. Read more

CommuniGift is the first online giving platform through e-commerce. Find a less fortunate family vetted by our non-profit partners, learn about the family and their needs, directly purchases gifts, and maintain the relationship via our online platform for years to come. Read more

Innovative eSports platform using blockchain technology Read more

Ryker is an innovative, patent, biomechanically system for rifles and shotguns on the market today. Read more

Centers of Psychiatric Excellence is a network of treatment clinics that services the most difficult to treat cases of depression, anxiety. Read more

Triggermesh develops a serverless management platform for managing functions and event triggers Read more

Zogo Finance is a white-label mobile banking application for financial institutions and for parents and teens. Read more

Pairwise is a purpose-driven food+tech company dedicated to building a healthier world through better fruits and vegetables. Read more

410 Medical is a medical device company dedicated to developing innovative products that enable frontline medical providers to improve care. Read more