Holding Court
It’s been a heck of a month for Durham’s Courtroom5, which offers tools for some of the 20 million Americans annually who represent themselves in civil court proceedings. A few weeks back, it capped its participation in the Duke Law Tech Lab Tech Lab by winning its Demo Day prize. Right around then it was tabbed as one of nine companies nationwide selected for the LexisNexis Legal Tech Accelerator.
Then last Friday, Courtroom 5 won the Demo Day that wrapped up the Black Founders Exchange program run by American Underground and Google For Startups. Courtroom5 was the only Triangle-based startup among the 11 who competed. Read our full coverage of the event here. You can also see our Demo Day photo gallery here, from the lens of our new video/photo intern Kirby Caraballo. Congrats again to Courtoom5!
Umbrella Policy
If it feels like you’re overrun right now with conferences and events and wish some of them could be consolidated somehow, you’re in luck. This year, Raleigh-HQ’d design and development agency Paradigm is unveiling the first Triangle Innovation Week from Oct. 3-12. It’s essentially an umbrella for a half-dozen previously disparate events like the Innovate Raleigh Summit and the Startup Summit (see the next item), along with a new Paradigm-run event called the Global Innovation Summit. By stitching them together, attendees can bundle tickets and also see the smorgasbord of tech/innovation events all in one place.
Click here for our full story on Triangle Innovation Week, with a drill-down on the Global Innovation Summit. You can use TIW25 for a 25% discount on tickets to the latter.
Conferences, Pt. 2
Hey, did we mention conferences? This Thursday will be highlighted by the eighth annual Innovate Raleigh Summit. The sold-out event will include all sorts of speakers you’ve likely heard of, including RIoT’s Sarah Glova (fresh off her Where’s Pete? victory), Pyron CEO Igor Jablokov (last week’s The Download subject) and American Underground’s Molly Demarest. TechWire has a full preview here.
I had planned to attend, but—at the risk of TMI—I was inspired in part by Brooks Bell’s 50 Colonoscopies Under 50 campaign to schedule a colonoscopy for this Friday morning. Well, it turns out I hadn’t fully focused on the “prep” demands, and let’s just say that on Thursday afternoon/evening, I think I’ll prefer to be at home base rather than a public conference. Yes, I see you cringing. Nevertheless: get those colonoscopies, people of a certain age! (And younger than we’ve been heretofore told.) In fact, I’m actually looking forward to the prep so I can catch up on back issues of the New Yorker.
Conferences, Pt. 3
Yes, more conferences. The second annual Startup Summit will be held next Thursday, Sept. 10. TechWire has a preview today, and we will be running our own preview on Thursday. Finally (for now), TechWire previews the All Things Open conference, which will be held on Oct. 13-15 at the Raleigh Convention Center. The event focuses on open-source technologies and is the largest such event on the East Coast.
Triangle Rulz!
NC IDEA has tabbed 23 semifinalists from across the state for its $50K SEED grants. Fourteen of the 23 are from the Triangle, which led one Twitter wag to exclaim, “In your FACE, rest of state!” (OK, that might have been us.) We’ve previously featured one of the semifinalists, Raleigh’s MuukTest. See here for the full list.
Getting Their Wings
Late last week, TechWire profiled Resilient Ventures, a newish Durham-based angel fund that's targeting black-led startups. Resilient was inspired by Durham’s Black Wall Street legacy and is led by Keith Daniel, the owner of Madison Consulting Group, and Tom Droege of Droege Computing Services. We wrote about Resilient in June, but TechWire has updated news that Resilient is in the final phase of negotiating term sheets with two undisclosed Triangle-based startups. The fund’s first (and so far only) investment has been in Chicago’s Five to Nine.
NC TECH Awards
NC TECH has announced its “10 Startups To Watch” for 2019 from across the state. The list includes four that we’ve previously featured on GrepBeat—Aeva Labs, Allstacks, Green Stream Technologies and Kaleido. NC TECH also revealed the finalists in the various categories for larger companies; the winners will be unveiled and honored at the NC TECH Awards Gala in November. Some of the Triangle-based startup-y finalists likely to be familiar to our readers include Pendo, Dude Solutions, insightsoftware, Adwerx, Diveplane, K4Connect, PrecisionHawk, TransLoc and Cloud Giants. See TechWire for all the details, here and here.
TBJ Fast 50
Each day this week, TBJ will release one (random) batch of its 2019 Fast 50 Awards winners—the 50 fastest-growing private companies in the region. Yesterday’s first 10 included the aforementioned Adwerx and insightsoftware. The order will be unveiled at the Fast 50 Awards dinner on Nov. 20.
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