Category: Raleigh – Durham
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Call for Startups Announced by DIG SOUTH Tech Conference
Early- to Growth-Stage Companies Invited to Present to the South’s Top Investors April 27 at Charleston Gaillard Center DIG SOUTH Tech Conference has announced its call for startups to join DIG SOUTH Wild Pitch 2018, sponsored by SCRA, on Friday, April 27 at the Charleston Gaillard Center. Held on the third day of the DIG…
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K4Connect Introduces Next Generation Content Creation, Management and Publishing Solution for Senior Living
K4Connect, a mission-centered technology company creating solutions that serve and empower older adults and individuals living with disabilities, today announced the availability of its groundbreaking Content Management Module (CMM), an optional add-on to its flagship connected-life solution, K4Community – built specifically for senior living community residents, staff and operators. The K4Community CMM content creation, management…
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Tapping Beer: A Data Story
Imagine running a business where you never get to interact with your customers or see how they actually use your product. There are a significant number of industries that suffer this challenge, with multiple go-betweens, resellers, distributors and other entities that separate the original producer from their end user. The Internet of Things (IoT) is…
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Hey, Alexa: Will Amazon’s New HQ2 Roost in the South?
Nine southern metros sailed through the first round of Amazon’s selection process in a highly public and fiercely competitive bid for their second headquarters. Dubbed “HQ2”, the move by Amazon will bring enormous changes to the winning metro, with an estimated 50,000 highly paid technology and executive jobs, $5 billion in local investment and momentous…
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Want Smarter Cities with Smarter Startups? Try Durham’s Open Data Approach to Smart Government
This is the latest contributor post from Tom Snyder, Executive Director of RIoT, a Raleigh, North Carolina-based network of technologists, engineers, business leaders, academics, policy makers, and entrepreneurs focused on growing Internet of Things opportunities regionally and nationally. Data is fueling the fourth wave of the global economy. The Internet of Things, big data, artificial intelligence…
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Boy’s Club No More: The Rise of Women’s Co-working Across the South
Once an unconventional concept found only in major metros, co-working is now a mainstay for entrepreneurs and digital nomads around the world. Statista estimates there are about 11,300 co-working spaces worldwide, a number that could reach nearly 14,000 by 2018. And as the number of co-working spaces continues to grow, so, too, does their ability…
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Who’s Hiring Across the South: November 2017
From engineering jobs at venture-backed startups to C-Suite roles at major corporations, the South is bustling with new career opportunities. And here at DIG SOUTH, it’s our mission to connect you to those opportunities — from contacts and content, to capital and careers — we’re committed to helping you Succeed in the South. That’s precisely…
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Is Cary, NC the Next Smart City? How the Town Tackles Community Challenges with IoT
This is the latest contributor post from Tom Snyder, Executive Director of RIoT, a Raleigh, North Carolina-based network of technologists, engineers, business leaders, academics, policy makers, and entrepreneurs focused on growing Internet of Things opportunities regionally and nationally. Cities everywhere are striving to become “Smart” as they push for data-driven government and solutions that improve…
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Is the Life Sciences IPO “Back”? The South Says Yes.
2017 is turning out to be a good year for life sciences companies looking to go public. To date, 36 companies have completed a successful initial public offering (IPO). While unimpressive compared to the 70 companies that went public at the height of the industry’s last IPO window (2014), it is a significant uptick over…
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Who’s Hiring Across the South: 7 Hot Jobs in Atlanta, Charleston, Raleigh & Beyond
Last month, Glassdoor ranked the 25 Best Cities for Jobs in 2017 using three equally weighted factors: hiring opportunity, cost of living, and job satisfaction. Nine of the top 25 cities were in the South, including Charlotte, Nashville, Baltimore, and Atlanta. From development jobs at fast-growth startups to C-level leadership roles at major corporations, the…
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Are the Carolinas Leading the Next Industrial Revolution?
This is the first in a series of posts by Tom Snyder, Executive Director of RIoT, which brings together technologists, engineers, business leaders, academics, policy makers, and entrepreneurs, to capture and create Internet of Things opportunities across the region. Historians point to three times that technology advancements have fundamentally changed societal quality of life and the…
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Hit the Books: Southern Universities Play a New Role as Venture Capitalists
An increasing number of Southern universities are forming venture capital funds, and if you consider the basic ingredients for successful venture investing — innovation, capital and entrepreneurship — it makes sense. Universities have become a key source of applied research and innovation in recent years, reflecting the priorities of their primary bankroller – the federal government.…
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Learn to Code at These 10 Southern Bootcamps
Last week, Greenville, SC-based programming school The Iron Yard announced plans to shutter operations after its summer courses wrap up. The news came as a bit of a surprise to folks who have followed their success. Since launching in 2013, the Iron Yard became one of the nation’s largest coding bootcamps, counting 15 campuses (including…
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K4Connect Teams Up With Garmin to Revolutionize Senior Living Community Wellness
According to a recent report from AARP, “Building a Better Tracker: Older Consumers Weigh In on Activity and Sleep Monitoring Devices,” older adults are highly interested in using technology to help them track and improve their own health. In fact, over 75 percent of participants in the study reported activity and sleep trackers to be…
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How Ceterus snagged $10.2 million from Southern VCs in just one year
Since taking the stage at DIG SOUTH’s Wild Pitch in April, Charleston-based Ceterus has raised $6 million, bringing their total funding to $10.2 million in just over a year. Their impressive success hasn’t stopped there — the automated bookkeeping platform has quadrupled in size (their 100th employee joined the team in June) and tripled their…
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DIG the Innovators: February 28, 2017
DIG the Innovators is a bi-weekly brief on the latest and greatest from leading brands and fiercely ambitious entrepreneurs across the South. These are the people and companies who make our #SucceedInTheSouth motto ring true. Accelerator Opportunities Abound The BridgeCommunity, an Atlanta-based startup commercialization program founded by Coca-Cola, has officially opened applications for its second…
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How Southern Entrepreneurial Ecosystems are Addressing the Diversity Gap
The Kauffman Foundation just released their annual State of Entrepreneurship report, outlining three “mega trends” that will shape the future of entrepreneurship. Along with shifting trends in geography and the nature and frequency of job creation, demographics will play an increasingly important role in the health and speed of our nation’s innovation. According to their…
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DIG the Innovators: February 14, 2017
DIG the Innovators is a bi-weekly brief on the latest and greatest from leading brands and fiercely ambitious entrepreneurs across the South. These are the people and companies who make our #SucceedInTheSouth motto ring true. Southern cities getting their daily dose of Fiber Google Fiber, that is. The super-fast Internet recently debuted a swanky new…
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4 Industries That Are Set To Explode In The South This Year
2016 was quite the year for co-working, SnapChat, online retail, and digital sports (and we’ll surely hear more about all of those from the likes of Casper CEO Philip Krim, Jet.com’s Liza Landsman, and the Atlanta Hawks’ Chief Creative Officer Peter Sorckoff at DIG ICON). Last year also laid a solid foundation for new developments…
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9 Southern Companies That Will Make You More Productive
Whether you have a corporate job, a creative side hustle, or a growing startup (or heck, all three), you’re probably always on the hunt for ways to get sh*t done. It’s a good thing, then, that the productivity software industry is growing. Australian workplace software maker Atlassian just acquired Trello for $425 million, Asana raised…
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8 Holiday Gift Boxes Made by Southern Entrepreneurs
You can now have pretty much anything selected, packaged, and delivered to your door on a regular basis. No really, there are subscription boxes for razors, dog treats, socks, meals…the list is endless. According to Bloomberg, nearly 2,000 companies have a subscription-style delivery service as part of their business plans, and subscription marketplace Cratejoy…
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11 Can’t miss Demo Days Coming up Around the South
The South is home to an array of startup accelerators and coding bootcamps — competitive programs that provide growth-stage companies and emerging software developers with the mentorship, connections, and resources they need to succeed. As the year comes to an end, many of these accelerators and code schools will host Demo Days, often complete…
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11 Southern Companies Giving Back on #GivingTuesday (and beyond)
While the Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday bargains are definitely worth celebrating, we’re particularly excited that today is #GivingTuesday, a “global day of giving fueled by the power of social media and collaboration.” The charitable movement is now entering its fifth year — last year alone, over 700,000 people across the globe…
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These Southern companies are making Election Day an unofficial holiday
Hundreds of tech companies are turning Election Day into an unofficial holiday so employees have time to get to the polls. And while a big number of the organizations that we’ve seen are New York or California-based (including major brands like Spotify, Thrillist, and Evernote), many Southern CEOs are actively encouraging their workforce to…
