ReCity opens a free lounge for Durham founders
The Renaissance Lounge at 112 Broadway St. gives entrepreneurs, startups and nonprofits a no-cost place to meet clients and plan.
Launches
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Lulu adds a buy button for creators' print books
The RTP publishing platform's new Direct Buy Button lets creators sell print books from a link, with Lulu handling printing and shipping.
Raleigh's DocuLingo turns contracts into a work tracker
The AI startup expanded its platform to pull deadlines, payments and renewals out of agreements and tie them to the people responsible.
M Nikkei opens in downtown Durham
Chef Michael Lee's newest M Restaurants concept brings Japanese and Peruvian cooking to the former M Pocha space.
3 Sisters Embroidery reopens in Durham as The Yard Collective
The Durham custom apparel and embroidery shop set its ribbon cutting and grand opening under the new name for Oct. 24.
Scipher Medicine adds PrismTcell to its rheumatoid arthritis tests
The Durham precision medicine company plans an early physician access program for the blood test in early 2027.
Durham's OwnATC launches a platform for athletic trainers going independent
The startup centralizes physician supervision, clinical governance and quality assurance so certified athletic trainers can serve the public directly.
NIC MAP brings its senior housing data into customers' AI tools
The Raleigh data provider's new Connector lets senior housing operators, investors and developers query NIC MAP data from inside their own AI tools.
Parexel opens its biotech incubator in North Hills
The Raleigh-headquartered clinical research company cut the ribbon Oct. 16 on an incubator built with Durham's Cape Fear BioCapital.
Cary startup Pellucid builds one place for enterprise software buying
Pellucid Network says its platform pulls AWS Marketplace and private catalogs into a single governed buying channel.
Clarity Search AI introduces Clark, an agent for the questions buyers ask AI
On July 8, 2026, founder Ayman Guandique launched Clark, an agent that finds the questions buyers put to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity, publishes pages that answer them, and tries to trace the resulting visits to a sale.
Elevated Impact launches Modern Intelligence to get brands into AI answers
The Raleigh agency announced the service on Feb. 23, 2026. It pairs search engine optimization with work meant to get a brand to show up in answers from AI tools such as ChatGPT and Perplexity. The announcement gave no price.
Gemelli brings New Bern the Italian deli people kept asking for
Piero Passalacqua and bagel maker Giovanni Lentieri opened the deli and bagel shop in February 2025, in a former accounting office in the historic district. One of the twins it is named for runs it.