Recording companies invested $4.5 billion globally in 2016 in artist scouting, development, and marketing to promote artists and their music. Marketing departments or agencies have their hands full with social media posting for each one of those signed artists — often monitoring hundreds or thousands of accounts. Cultivate makes this easier by merging artificial intelligence and […]
No matter what stage of your life you’re in, living with roommates can fast change from pleasant and convenient to a complex situation. Ongoing money exchanges, chores that may or may not be completed in a timely manner, and dealings with landlords or service providers can often lead to uncomfortable interactions. “The whole inspiration behind […]
North Carolina’s Queen City Fintech, the only financial technology-focused startup accelerator in the Southeast, has recruited ten companies for its 2018 spring cohort. The accelerator’s eighth program drew 150 applications from post-revenue startups in 18 countries and 20 states. Half of the cohort is international companies — two from Canada, one from Denmark, and one […]
On Monday, global startup network Techstars announced a new accelerator program to be located in North Carolina’s Research Triangle park (RTP), specifically in Cary. The MetLife Digital Accelerator, Techstars’ second program in the Southeast following industry-agnostic Techstars Atlanta, will focus on insurance technologies. Insurance technology — insurtech — is big business amongst the trillion-dollar insurance industry […]
North Carolina already performs well as a good place to land for entrepreneurs of color — Durham is ranked a top city for black-owned businesses and plays host to the Black Wall Street Homecoming entrepreneurship conference as well as Google for Entrepreneurs Exchange for Black Founders. Now, a young organization is catalyzing the Charlotte tech and […]