An organization using technology jobs to improve upward mobility is bringing its program to Wilmington. Charlotte-based Stiegler EdTech oversees multiple tech workforce programs, including its Careers in Technology Apprenticeship Cohort (CTAC), which will host its first group of about 42 Wilmingtonians this summer. The company takes a holistic approach to developing tec ...
University of North Carolina Wilmington developed a self-sustaining ecosystem among its computer science and business schools, said Ulku Clark, director of the school’s Center for Cyber Defense Education. It started almost 20 years ago when Clark entered a group of students into a cyberdefense competition. The first year was a “learning experience,” sh ...
GE Aerospace announced plans this week to invest more than $22 million to increase capacity at its Castle Hayne plant. It’s part of the company’s more extensive plans to invest $650 million this year in manufacturing facilities and supply chains worldwide to “increase production and strengthen quality” to support commercial and defense customers, ...
Boreas Monitoring Solutions, a Wilmington biotechnology startup, has secured a verbal confirmation of investment from the CEO of Raleigh life science company Kymanox, Stephen Perry. The investment from Perry stemmed from an unconventional investor event in Raleigh on Feb. 29. William Baird, co-founder and CEO of Boreas Monitoring Solutions, was selected as one of two fo ...
A Wilmington-based firm recently scored a manufacturing agreement with a solar energy product company. Koolbridge Solar officials announced Monday that they have signed a master manufacturing agreement with Wilmington-based Sturdy Corp. to make its first product, the Smart Load Center, for North America. “The partnership anticipates continued significant ...
Wilmington’s ocean access is often marketed as an economic asset, but it could also pose a security risk. After President Joe Biden signed an executive order last month pledging to strengthen the cybersecurity of the nation’s maritime ports, the University of North Carolina Wilmington also plans to add resources to a maritime cybersecurity program.&nbs ...
Local startup Ohanafy Inc. is in the process of securing $3 million in funding from 17 investors according to financial records filed Friday. The beverage supply chain technology company founded in 2021 is located at 21 S. Front St. The company offered equity in exchange for the funds and received the first sale on Feb. 22, according to the financial documents filed wit ...
With roots in Raleigh and on the coast, a startup founded last spring has one proverbial foot in each region as its leaders decide on a headquarters location. Artemis Immersive is a health tech company currently headquartered in Ocean Isle Beach. The co-founders are husband and wife Adam Isley and Kayla Barbrey, who started the company in May of 2023 with Matthew R ...
Since Electronic Lab Logs won the Coastal Entrepreneurship Award for health care and the NC IDEA SEED grant in 2020, the Wilmington startup has continued to build capital and grow. A recently named participant in the CED Venture Connect conference, Electronic Lab Logs plans to close a second seed round of $1.8 million by the end of the month, said co-founder Daniel Summ ...
Data analytics startup Lumos Technologies launched Lumos Portfolio Score, a tool to help financial institutions analyze risk associated with their small business loan portfolios. The Wilmington-based fintech’s newest offering is the first back-end model in its product suite, said Co-founder and CEO Brett Caines. The company launched its first product, the Lumos Pr ...
New Hotel Proposed Along Market Street In Ogden
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Businesses Reopen A Week After Grace Street Facade Collapse
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Tech Upskilling Cohort To Host First Wilmington Class
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Pender County Realtors recently shared updates about the coastal market at an event hosted by the Wilmington-Cape Fear Home Builders Associa...
Polyhose manufactures and fabricates hose protection, paint hose assemblies and rubber hydraulic assemblies from its Pender County facility....
The planning for Pender Commerce Park began in the early 2000s when the county wanted to create an economic driver on its largely rural west...
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