Here is a look at upcoming events of interest to the region’s tech and startup industry. To share an event, email [email protected].  May 28  The Network for Entrepreneurs (NEW) is hosting a Wilmington AI Roundtable at the headquarters of fintech startup Synply in Skyline Center. Click for more.  June 2-9 The SBTDC is hosting ...

Greenlight Ventures, a healthcare venture platform based in Wilmington, recently entered into a strategic partnership with Houston-based Nexalin Technology (NXL), a non-invasive medical device company.  The partnership follows Nexalin’s acquisition of PONM, a digital health platform, from Greenlight Ventures in a $1.3 million stock transaction.  Accor ...

Yogasleep recently introduced a product designed to help parents monitor their baby’s sleeping habits. Founded in 1962 in Wilmington, the company is the original creator of the fan-based sound machine and produces an array of sleep products, including sound machines and mattresses. In 2023, Yogasleep filed a lawsuit against Pivot International, a product develo ...

NC IDEA has announced the winners of its latest grant program, which includes a Wilmington-based sleep technology company, Nuream.  The NC IDEA SEED grant program’s spring 2026 cycle, which grants up to $50,000 to early-stage companies, officially closed last night with total awards of $350,000 to seven companies, according to a news release.  “ ...

It’s been a big year for Nuream, and CEO and co-founder Rob Cooley expects that momentum to keep swinging forward.   “We want to be in the commercial market about a year from now with our first pillowcase, plus a SaaS (software-as-a-service) model with a dashboard and clinical informatics and predictive analytics,” Cooley said.   Nuream was ...

The vision of Koolbridge Energy, after years of prepping, scaling and refining, has come to fruition, and its Smart Load Center is ready to empower homeowners with personalized control over their energy management, company officials said. Founded in 2013, Koolbridge Energy partnered with Sturdy Corp. in 2024 to manufacture the Smart Load Center. “I met with Dav ...

Garrett Mitchell knows that his startup has been called a “moonshot.” Mitchell founded his research and development company, Nautigen, in 2024, and the firm is still finding its footing. But Mitchell has never lost sight of his goal: to discover novel bioactive marine molecules in deep-sea ecosystems on the seafloor using noninvasive remote sensing and biomo ...

Robin Cowie’s startup story starts with a gold mine. Cowie grew up in apartheid South Africa, the son of a father working as an industrial psychologist training gold mine workers. To improve the training process, Cowie and his father often filmed instructional videos from the workers’ point of view in the mine. Cowie applied the same point-of-view approac ...

True Guardian’s pendant-like call device was developed to help teachers and school systems respond to emergencies in real time. Albert Steed, True Guardian’s president, said conversations around the product’s development began in mid-2024, sparked by the news of a school shooting. Steed leads Hampstead-based firm True IP Solutions, alongside Brian H ...

Barrett Earney established Earney IT to support local businesses with their tech and IT needs. “Earney IT was founded in 2001, originally as a small, relationship-driven IT support company,” the founder and CEO said. “For many years, it operated more as a ‘lifestyle business’ serving a loyal client base without a real focus on scale or grow ...