TechFest NC will feature a TECH STARTUP SHOWCASE with five innovative North Carolina startups selected to demo/pitch to a live audience of business and technology leaders. NC TECH accepts submissions from startups across the state and narrows the field down to five. Register for TechFest NC event and you'll get the chance to meet all five startups and hear their pitches and vote for your favorite.
Fixxr is an AI-powered mobile app that helps car owners navigate repairs with confidence. Founded by Colton McComas, it addresses a straightforward but universal pain point: most drivers don't know if they're being overcharged or what they're actually paying for at a repair shop.
NexStratus is building what it calls "Operational Decision Infrastructure" — a new enterprise software layer designed to model and improve complex decisions across fragmented systems. Its flagship platform, Deep-SKAI, has evolved from a supply chain focus to a broader healthcare operations play.
Nuream is a neurodata science startup developing Fabric-as-a-Sensor (FaaS™) technology — conductive fabrics embedded in everyday items like pillowcases, t-shirts, and wristbands that passively capture EEG (brainwave) and ECG (cardiac) data while users sleep. Founded by Rob Cooley, a 37-year U.S. Army veteran who struggled with sleep himself, the company's mission is to bring clinical-grade brain monitoring into the home without headsets, gels, adhesives, or clinic visits.
Roboro is an AI-powered legislative intelligence platform founded by Jenny Bo, Paul Rava, and James Gieszelmann. It serves lobbyists, law firms, nonprofits, trade associations, and corporations who need to track, understand, and act on state and federal legislation — a $28B market the founders say has been historically underserved by technology.
Tesslate is building the self-improving business operating system. Its platform, OpenSail, turns business workflows into agents and apps that run across departments, learn how the company operates, and recommend what to automate next. Instead of forcing teams to manually find inefficiencies, OpenSail scans recurring work, identifies bottlenecks, and becomes a force multiplier for companies by helping every team automate more without losing human control.
