Sports fans often have a love or hate relationship with the referees that work professional games in the NFL, FIFA, and MLB — but what about those that oversee your child’s little league games? Brendan Szulik and his co-founder Daniel Caldwell first came across quality and representation issues within the sports official industry while at an […]
You have subscriptions set up for your razors, contact lenses and groceries. Why not let them take over the tedious portions of home care, as well? Air filter subscription service FilterEasy has closed a $6.9 million Series B1 funding round led by Raleigh-based One Better Ventures with participation from Lead Edge Capital. The capital will be […]
During a school sustainability-focused hackathon, North Carolina State engineering students Nick Conlon, Hartley LeRoy, Nick Sischo and Goutham Subramanian were taken aback by the lack of efficiency within the waste removal market. Garbage trucks average 2.5 miles per gallon and each burns about $42,000 of fuel a year, but often they’re picking up nearly-empty dumpsters, since they […]
Product management software startup Pendo has announced a $50 million Series D funding round led by growth-stage fund Sapphire Ventures, with participation from new investors Geodesic Capital and FirstMark Capital and existing investors Battery Ventures, Spark Capital, Meritech Capital and Contour Venture Partners. This brings their total capital raised to $106 million, making it one […]
Commercial drone technology platform PrecisionHawk has acquired two companies to further expand its footprint in the energy sector. The two new additions to the Raleigh-based company’s portfolio include Virginia-headquartered HAZON, which focuses on drone technology for utilities, and California-based InspecTools, which makes machine vision software and data analysis tools for the renewable energy market. “The energy […]