A Wilmington entrepreneur is reeling in the local fishing industry along with restaurants and other potential buyers through Local Catch, a new app. Landon Hill is the founder and owner of the mobile app that seeks to promote local fishers and make it easier for buyers to find fresh seafood. Local Catch began as a school project Hill worked on while attending the Uni ...

Each year brings a new focus for entrepreneurs who are either looking to ideate, grow their venture, find investors or all the above. For the communities supporting them, it’s important to keep up with trends.    The Greater Wilmington Business Journal checked in with two local organization leaders who work together with entrepreneurs: Jim Roberts, founde ...

The future of the nation’s – and world’s – energy security and carbon-free grid is being pioneered in New Hanover County. It may sound lofty, but GE Hitachi is undertaking ambitious projects with transformative potential. GE Hitachi’s October expansion reveal was the largest private jobs announcement out of New Hanover County this year, ami ...

The goal of decentralizing email, which holds important private information for many users, is what drove three former Live Oak Bank employees to develop their own email service, Telios.   A rising concern for many of the 4 billion email users who engage with big tech companies on a daily basis is online privacy. Personal and work emails largely use Google, Apple an ...

A Wilmington startup with the goal of addressing the opioid epidemic has received funding to scale faster. OpiAID has been selected as one of seven innovative companies in the state to receive the NC IDEA SEED grant from the private foundation NC IDEA. The $50,000 grant is awarded to “innovative startups with a proven concept — even if they are not yet pr ...

To provide banks with more insight into their customer’s behaviors as they use their digital platforms, Wilmington-based Apiture has partnered with Raleigh-based Pendo to launch a new tool, according to a press release. The tool called Data Engage launched Tuesday and helps “banks and credit unions expand the use of their digital banking platform,” the ...

A jolt of jobs and investment is coming to GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy campus in Castle Hayne. The company plans to expand its operation at 3901 Castle Hayne Road by about 500 jobs in the next five years, according to an announcement Friday afternoon. The jobs have an average salary of $131,000. Additionally, officials ceremonially broke ground Friday on a new $200 mil ...

Armed with a recent $22 million investment, Wilmington-based SaaS Alerts plans to foster its growth by investing in R&D and its sales efforts.   In September, the cybersecurity startup announced the private equity firm Insight Partners, which focuses on investing in growth-stage tech, software and internet businesses, had funded the company with goals of acceler ...

Linda Whited Career Counselor/Founder, Time to be Career Savvy  As a career counselor helping people with career transitions, Whited describes herself as a connector, so she loves “using technology to help me facilitate a connection for a client, find a new friend or fun restaurant or make some fun plans to go to a festival or event.”   She regu ...

Many businesses, from small to large operations, can benefit from learning about cybersecurity to better protect their everyday functions.   This is why this week’s Cybersecurity Conference was designed to address a broad range of audiences, said Ulku Clark, director of the Center for Cyber Defense Education at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. &nb ...