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 […]
Siri, Cortana, Alexa… having a virtual assistant in all your devices and gadgets certainly isn’t a rarity anymore. But how often can you say you interact with a human-like, intelligent, personable hologram? For Chuck Rinker, the answer is fairly often. The founder and chief innovation officer of PRSONAS, a virtual digital personality startup, provides the […]
Drone solutions startup senseFly has moved its North American headquarters from Washington D.C. down to Raleigh, North Carolina. The commercial drone subsidiary of Paris-based drone company Parrot Group, the startup provides 360-degree aerial mapping solutions and drone hardware to surveying, agriculture, engineering and humanitarian aid professionals. “The decision to move our headquarters to North Carolina was […]