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The 12 Moats That Matter Now: Scot Wingo (NC Tweener Fund, ReFiBuy) Breaks Down Defensibility in the AI Era
Scot Wingo is a serial founder, General Partner at the NC Tweener Fund, and CEO of ReFiBuy. With decades of experience building and scaling companies in e-commerce and...
Building Autonomous Startups: Can AI Agents Launch Profitable Businesses?
In this episode of NC Tweener Talks, Scot Wingo shares a talk from the first OpenClaw meetup in the Triangle, featuring Corey Nida’s experiment in autonomous business ...
🏆 Tweener Madness Championship: HAM vs Druid AgTech: AITech vs. AgTech for the Ultimate $25K Prize...Who Will Win!?
We’ve made it to the final. After dozens of applicants, weeks of competition, and some tough calls along the way, it all comes down to this: Two startups. One decision...
Tweener Madness: The Fabulous 4 Round 2 is here! Druid Agriculture VS Marla Amplification
The second matchup of the Fabulous 4 is here This is where things shift. The ideas are sharper. The stakes are higher. And every decision starts to look a lot more lik...
Tweener Madness: The Fabulous 4 Begins with Utilyst VS HAM. Two Different Paths to Scale
We’re down to the Fabulous 4. Four startups. Two matchups. One step closer to the $25K investment from the NC Tweener Fund.This is where things shift. The ideas are sh...
Tweener Madness: The Exceptional 8 Round 4 is here! Marla Amplification VS Build-A-Bookie
Round 4 of Tweener Madness is here and it’s the final matchup of the Exceptional 8. Marla Amplification vs. Build-A-BookieOne is building American-made hardware for mu...
Tweener Madness: The Exceptional 8 Round 3 is here! Druid Agriculture VS HuVia Technologies
Round 3 of Tweener Madness is here. With a spot in the next round on the line, Druid Agriculture and HuVia Technologies go head-to-head in a high-stakes pitch battle.O...
Tweener Madness: The Exceptional 8 Round 2 is here! Iguana Cyber VS HAM
Round 2 of Tweener Madness is here. With a spot in the next round on the line, Iguana Cyber and HAM (Hierarchical Agent Memory) go head-to-head in a high-stakes pitch ...
Tweener Madness: The Exceptional 8 Begins! Round 1: Utilyst VS BeneDoc
8 founders. One bracket. $25,000 on the line. Welcome to Tweener Madness 2026, the high-stakes startup competition where North Carolina’s most promising companies go h...
Tweener Madness 2026: Meet the Exceptional 8
This episode kicks off Season 2 of Tweener Madness and sets the stage for what’s ahead. You’ll get:The evolution of Tweener (from list → fund → statewide platform)Why ...
How Pendo’s Evan Inscoe Is Building the Future of Go-To-Market Engineering
What does a go-to-market engineer actually do, and why is this role suddenly showing up everywhere?In this episode, we unpack one of the fastest-evolving roles in mode...
A New Chapter for North Carolina Startups: Scot Wingo and Robbie Allen on NC IDEA's #Ecosysteming Podcast
This episode is a special one. We’re replaying NC IDEA’s Ecosysteming Podcast episode featuring Scot and Robbie following the announcement of the new North Carolina Tw...
From Duke Football to 3D-Printed Medical Devices: How PROTECT3D Scaled Mass Customization with Kevin Gehsmann
In this episode, we unpack how a college capstone project turned into a scalable system for custom-fit 3D-printed bracing, moving from “hours in CAD” to minutes with a...
Will AI Kill SaaS? Triangle Founders Want to Know! We Deep Dive Into the SaaSageddon with Joe Mancini, GP at Front Porch Ventures
This episode is a big one. There’s a lot of noise right now around AI, venture, and whether SaaS is fundamentally broken. Public markets are re-rating software compani...
Announcing: NC IDEA and Tweener Fund Partnership
We started the Tweener List in 2015 with the idea of local founders paying it forward to help amplify and support our local startup ecosystem. Based on the popularity ...
Dr. Helen Gu on Building InsightFinder, AIOps, and the “Last Mile” of Enterprise AI
In this episode of Triangle Tweener Talks, we unpack what it really takes to go from professor to CEO, how InsightFinder built trust in a skeptical enterprise market, ...
From Founder to Chief of Staff: How Offline Runs on AI with David Shaner
In Part 1 of this conversation on Triangle Tweener Talks, we walked through how David built Offline over 13 years, three companies, multiple pivots, and a subscription...
Three Companies, One Brand: Building Offline Over 13 Years with David Shaner
This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation. In this episode, we focus on Offline’s origin story and business evolution, not AI (yet).Highlights from Part 1Offline has e...
Tony Atti: Phononic Founder: Scaling Phononic from 2008-2026 and Beyond | PART 2 of 2
Part 2 picks up where the origin story ends, and where the real work begins.Tony breaks down the three phases of Phononic: proving the science, surviving productizatio...
Tony Atti and How Phononic Was Founded During the 2008 Financial Crisis| PART 1 of 2
In this episode (Part 1), we cover the origin story. Tony walks through the decisions, failures, and inflection points that led to Phononic’s founding: leaving the Nor...
