Today the Triangle Tweener Fund (Tweener Fund) announced the results of the first quarter of 2023. In partnership with DreamTen, a local design agency, we have launched a comprehensive new website at https://www.tweenerfund.com. The new site features an updated 2023 ‘Triangle Tweener Fund pitch’ video, a complete searchable portfolio database…

********************************************** NOTE: This is the 2021 LEGACY Triangle Tweener List, it has been replaced by the 2022 Tweener List launched on June 16, 2022 and you can find it here. ********************************************** Welcome to the sixth annual Triangle Tweeners List! This list features ~230 startups in the Triangle (the North Carolina high-tech Research Triangle Park corridor that includes Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill) that I call Tweeners. What’s a Tweener? Read on….

About two weeks ago, I pondered in a tweet: Before I could think more about it, the kind folks at Blue Recruit whipped together a simple MVP (minimum-viable-product). That basically did three things: Allowed volunteers to sign-up Allowed those ‘at risk’ and ‘in need’ to raise their hand Showed a…

Note: This is now the old Tweener list and has been replaced by the shiny new 2021 Triangle Tweener List that lives here as of April 8, 2021. Before you head over there, be sure to sign up for our ‘new for 2021’ Tweener newsletter available here: tweener.substack.com. If you…

On January 23rd, 2019, we hosted the first annual Tweener List Celebration a the North Carolina Museum of Natural History (aka the dinosaur museum). I’ve been working on this Tweener idea since 2015/2016 and it was really rewarding to take Tweeners to the next level by hosting the first ever…

1/31/2020 NOTE This is the 2019 Tweener list. The latest and greatest Tweener vintage is 2020 and you can find that list here. I leave the old lists ‘up’ so that we capture the trends over time and you can see the progression. (NOTE: We had our first annual…

NOTE: This is the 2018 Tweener list. The latest and greatest Tweener vintage is 2019 and you can find that list here. Also, we had our first Tweener event in 2019 and you can read about that here. Welcome to the 2018 Triangle Tweener list! This is an annual list…