Upstream Biotechnology closes its seed round
The Durham ag biotech startup will use the money to push its SwitchBlade crop-protection platform toward field validation.
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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.
DuraSeal signs Bill Leslie as its spokesperson
The Raleigh exterior sealing company has named the retired WRAL-TV anchor as its celebrity spokesperson as it grows across four states.
Zealic Health and Coriqa Clinical team up on clinical trials
The Raleigh software company and a Holly Springs consultancy want to catch trial errors while the work is happening, not weeks later.
Raleigh Mortgage Group voted Raleigh's Best for a fifth year
The family-run broker on Falls of Neuse Road was voted Raleigh's Best Mortgage Broker in The News & Observer's 2026 awards.
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.
Heidenberg Properties buys Triangle Town Place in Raleigh
The shopping center owner enters North Carolina with a 148,538-square-foot center anchored by Dick's Sporting Goods and Nordstrom Rack.
Durham's RND Architects joins BWBR
The St. Paul design firm acquired RND, which becomes its fourth office and its first in North Carolina.
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.
Dewitt Carolinas breaks ground on phase two of The Exchange Raleigh
The Raleigh developer and Life Time started work on a residential tower with an athletic country club and rooftop beach club in Midtown Raleigh.
The Clearing House plans a Charlotte office with 200 jobs
The payments company will invest $11.5 million to expand its operations to Mecklenburg County.
Preston Dermatology wins Gold in Raleigh's Best for a second year
The Cary-based practice took Gold for Best Dermatologist and Best Medical Practice, and its founder won Best Doctor.
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.
DPR Construction names Scott Sass to lead its Raleigh-Durham business
The 27-year DPR veteran takes over the builder's Triangle unit, where life sciences and healthcare are among its strongest markets.
The Woobles' Mr. Monopoly crochet kit is a McDonald's Monopoly prize
The Cary crochet kit company is giving away 12,500 exclusive kits through the 2026 Monopoly Game at McDonald's.
Pelthos agrees to combine with Castle Creek Biosciences
The Durham dermatology company will add a late-stage gene-modified cell therapy for a rare inherited skin disease.
Farrin makes the Triangle Fast 50 for a third straight year
The Durham personal injury firm was the only law firm on Triangle Business Journal's 2026 list of fast-growing private companies.
Bobbitt ranks No. 6 on the Triangle Fast 50 in its 80th year
The employee-owned Cary builder, founded in 1946, landed in the top 10 of Triangle Business Journal's 2026 fast-growth list.
Spreedly names Darren Bounds chief financial officer
The Durham payments platform hires the former Team Cymru CFO as it pushes into enterprise and AI-driven commerce.
S&A Communications' Chuck Norman named PRGN regional VP
The Cary agency owner will represent North American members of a global network of independent PR firms starting in January 2027.
MoveZen wins Silver for property management in Raleigh's Best
Public voting in The News & Observer's 2026 awards placed the Triangle property manager second in its category.
Humacyte gets a U.S. patent covering how Symvess is made and shipped
The Durham bioengineered tissue company says the new patent extends protection for key parts of its platform into 2043.
Bracco picks Sanford for its first U.S. plant, with 200 jobs
The Italian diagnostic imaging company will invest $230 million in Lee County to make injectable contrast media.
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.
Work starts on Chapanoke, 200 affordable homes in Raleigh
Harmony Housing, Gilbane Development and F7 International broke ground on the nearly $58 million community next to Wake Tech's public safety campus.
Carolina Angel Network backs AI biotech Network Bio
UNC-Chapel Hill's angel network disclosed its stake in the alumni-led startup and is piloting a fellowship to help researchers spin out companies.
US Conec plans a $149.7 million Hickory expansion with 224 new jobs
The Hickory maker of high-density fiber optic connector parts will add manufacturing in Fairgrove Business Park and keep about 300 local jobs.
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.
DG Matrix grows its Morrisville space to 62,500 square feet
The solid-state transformer maker is taking an additional 55,000 square feet at Southport Innovation Center as demand for AI data center power grows.
Slate Medicines adds two drug industry veterans to its board
The Raleigh migraine drug developer named former Karuna Therapeutics CMO Stephen Brannan and former Pfizer executive John Young.
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.
Fortrea closes $45 million deal for Worldwide's early phase unit
The Durham CRO adds a 200-bed clinical research unit and a bioanalytical lab in Texas, bought from RTP-based Worldwide Clinical Trials.
CREO Consulting names Matthew Klein CEO
The Durham life sciences consultancy hands the top job to a North Highland veteran as its co-founders return to client work.
Raleigh wealth team managing over $300 million joins CAPTRUST
Advisors Clark Abbott and Robert Hartinger, formerly of RHA Wealth, are moving into CAPTRUST's Raleigh headquarters with three colleagues.
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.
Kevel raises $52 million, its largest round yet
The Durham ad tech company says the money will go to AI decisioning tools, global expansion and advisory services.
Vulcan Elements teams with UNC-Chapel Hill on rare earth magnet research
The North Carolina Collaboratory is backing the work with a $600,000 research award, Vulcan Elements said on Oct. 20.
Allstacks reports $4 million equity sale in SEC filing
The Raleigh software company told the SEC on Oct. 20 that it sold about $4.05 million in equity to four investors.
La Casetta pairs wine with braised lamb and rigatoni at an $85 dinner Nov. 17
Seats for the 6 p.m. Tuesday dinner at the New Bern Italian restaurant are limited. Its event pages list three earlier wine dinners, priced from $60 to $70 per person.
TenX Sustainability says its software builds sustainability reports from existing data
The Raleigh company, led by engineer Stephen B. Austin, aims its TenXTL software at large organizations whose sustainability results, it says, must be confirmed by outside verification. Its website names no customers, prices or results.
Triangle Business Journal honors Marks Clearing & Grading chaplain Alberto Valderrama
The company says Pastor Alberto Valderrama has served the Triangle's Hispanic community for years. The paper's 2026 Community Champion class has 16 individuals and 15 organizations, another honoree said.
Marks Clearing & Grading's Hispanic employees introduce themselves in their own words
Superintendents, office staff and safety director Luis Sarria speak in the one-minute Hispanic Heritage Month video the Wendell sitework company posted Oct. 14.
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.
Head chef Francesco becomes a part owner of La Casetta in New Bern
Francesco has been head chef since shortly after the restaurant opened in 2015. The website says the change keeps an owner present as founder Piero Passalacqua gives more time to Gemelli, a downtown deli.
Marshall Moser of Marks Clearing & Grading joins the NUCA of the Carolinas board
Moser leads residential estimating for the Wendell sitework company, which announced the board seat on Oct. 6. The utility contractors' chapter says it has close to 100 members.
Machinery Trader names Marks Clearing & Grading its Contractor of the Week
The used-equipment marketplace's feature, which Marks announced Oct. 6, spotlights a Wendell sitework company that said in March it runs 265 pieces of equipment.
Marks Clearing & Grading makes the Triangle Business Journal's Fast 50 again
The Wendell sitework contractor is on the 2026 list for a second year. It ranked No. 6 in 2025, and says the real story is the leadership it built to carry the growth.
Family-run Surry Port A John rents portable toilets across four counties and Virginia
Kim Jones, named as founder on the company's website, writes that the Pilot Mountain business started as a way to work more flexible hours. In a 2024 federal filing, it reported two trucks and two drivers.
Oxford's Postal Supply sells USPS-approved cluster mailboxes and ships them nationwide
Florence Corporation lists the Granville County company as an authorized dealer. Postal Supply says it has worked with local builders on site requirements for more than 15 years.
Tyler Marks, who started Marks Clearing & Grading at 18, joins BuildWitt's Dirt Talk
On Episode 479, the founder talks with Aaron Witt about why more equipment does not automatically make a better business and why bringing in experienced leaders became necessary.
Gregg Marks wins a 2026 Triangle Business Journal Corporate Leadership Award
The award came weeks after Marks Clearing & Grading named Gregg Marks executive chairman and chief growth officer and Tim Clay chief executive. The company says it also reflects the people who make the work happen.
Marks Clearing & Grading's Luis Sarria says safety comes down to four things
Sarria, the company's director of safety, started in the field and names accountability, communication, consistency and looking out for each other. The company profiled Sarria at the start of Hispanic Heritage Month.
Marks Clearing & Grading keeps building roads at Durham's Avalon with residents in place
Families already live at one end of the Meritage Homes community, the company says. At the other end, its crews are still moving dirt, installing utilities and building roads.
Marks Clearing & Grading moves from pipe to curb at KB Home's Magnolia Forest
At the 154-lot community in northeast Raleigh, the company says the handoff from underground utilities to curb is where residential schedules slip, so it keeps pipe, curb and paving crews in-house.
Marks Clearing & Grading employees portion chili at the Durham Rescue Mission
The employees also helped prepare for the mission's Back-to-School Backpack Giveaway, where every child attending receives a backpack of school supplies.
Marks Clearing & Grading meets the summer heat with breaks and cold watermelon
The schedules do not pause for the temperature, the Wendell contractor says, so what changes is how deliberately it looks after the crews working in it.
Tim Clay takes over as chief executive of Marks Clearing & Grading
Clay succeeds Gregg Marks, now executive chairman and chief growth officer, and says the plan is to invest in employees and keep the work safe and efficient. Founder Tyler Marks remains president.
Gregg Marks moves from chief executive to executive chairman at Marks Clearing & Grading
Gregg Marks is now executive chairman and chief growth officer, a role the company says covers growth and culture, including partnerships and acquisitions. Tim Clay was announced as chief executive two days later.
Marks Clearing & Grading runs several phases at once at Rolesville's Merritt Reserve
About 700,000 cubic yards of earthwork is underway at a subdivision with 499 lots on the town's preliminary plat. The company says the order of the work is harder than the dirt.
Marks Clearing & Grading names Justin Smith vice president of asset management
Smith leads the company's fleet and equipment shop with a mindset the company sums up as "Treat the shop like an emergency room." The first job is fixing what stops production.
Marks Clearing & Grading names Morgan Beam vice president of business development
Beam has more than 15 years of experience and will build client relationships across North Carolina for the company's sitework and land development teams.
Marks Clearing & Grading hires Justin Fanning as vice president of commercial estimating
Fanning has more than 25 years estimating commercial and multifamily sitework and relocated from the Washington, D.C., area to help grow the company's commercial division.
Tyler Marks makes the Triangle Business Journal's 2026 40 Under 40
The company says its founder started Marks Clearing & Grading in 2018 with one Bobcat. It now has 265 pieces of equipment and more than 215 employees.
Marks Clearing & Grading hires John Dodd as vice president of commercial operations
Dodd has more than 30 years in civil construction and has led more than $500 million in work, the company said. Dodd's standard is doing what you say you will do, and doing it safely.
Marks Clearing & Grading readies the site for Prolec's $140 million Goldsboro expansion
The transformer maker broke ground March 17 on a plant expansion the state says will add 330 jobs paying an average of $71,912 a year.
Marks Clearing & Grading founder takes two equipment staff to CONEXPO in Las Vegas
The founder of Marks Clearing & Grading went with Justin Smith and Benjamin Blessington. Organizers say the show drew more than 140,000 attendees.
Marks Clearing & Grading says it has 215 people, 265 machines and a $135 million backlog
Tyler Marks started the company in 2018 with one Bobcat. The figures come from its post on a Triangle Business Journal profile of the founder, and the backlog is the company's estimate.
Gregg Marks says a Lennar job is turning over finished lots in half its 26-month schedule
In a Triangle Business Journal interview, the company's then chief executive said the Wendell contractor is turning over finished lots in about 13 months on a Lennar project it was given 26 months to deliver, and is self-developing around 14 projects.
Marks Clearing & Grading ranks No. 6 on Triangle Business Journal's 2025 Fast 50
The Wendell sitework company announced the ranking on Oct. 20, 2025, and credited its people. It did not publish the revenue or growth rate behind it.
Timberline Forestry wants a timber buyer who "can close a good deal" and a truck driver
The forestry and land-clearing company posted both jobs on LinkedIn on Aug. 23 and 25, 2026. The buyer job pays commission; the driver would pull four kinds of trailers on Central North Carolina routes.
Craven County puts $50,360 into Craven 100 Alliance as New Bern and Havelock renew
The county's share is set at 50 cents per resident, and Havelock's is $7,164. In both votes, an official who sits on the alliance's board was recused under a state law.
American Leadership Academy opens new classrooms and a gym in Monroe, a Hayco project
The K-8 charter school cut the ribbon on July 16, 2026, ahead of an Aug. 3 first day. Its engineer, Langan, says the work added 22 classrooms, offices and a gymnasium "to better serve 1,100 students."
PBS NC's North Carolina Weekend follows Gemelli's bagels from Emerald Isle to New Bern
Producer Seraphim Smith came for the bagels. The 4-minute, 49-second segment, which premiered May 28, 2026, also shows the New Bern deli's stromboli, imported meats and a homemade strawberry cream cake.
Hayco Construction raises steel on Allegacy's new financial center in Hickory
The 3,800-square-foot branch was expected to open in July 2026. Allegacy now says it will open early in the fourth quarter.
Elevated Impact launches a Timberline Forestry website built to draw project inquiries
The Raleigh agency announced timberlinefe.com on Feb. 25, 2026, for an Angier contractor working in forestry, utility services, contracting and heavy hauling across four states. It gave no traffic or inquiry figures.
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.
AMERICAN SpiralWeld Pipe opens a Columbia blasting and coating building Hayco worked on
The 44,000-square-foot building opened Feb. 12, 2026, as AMERICAN says demand for large diameter water transmission pipe keeps rising. Pilot Mountain contractor Hayco says it was on the job from early planning through the final punch list.
Craven 100 Alliance counts 400-plus jobs six months into a five-year goal of 500
Executive director Jeff Wood told New Bern aldermen on Sept. 23, 2025, that the jobs came from expansions by BSH Home Appliances and Craven Glass. Alliance leadership told Wood to start thinking about higher goals.
Craven 100 Alliance puts $200,000 into the Craven County Industrial Park
The alliance's money joined $543,900 left from a state grant in an $843,900 budget amendment that Craven County commissioners approved 7-0 on Aug. 4, 2025.
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.