{"id":454935,"date":"2026-02-05T06:45:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T06:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/454935\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T06:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T06:45:26","slug":"tech-groups-join-forces-to-support-triangle-entrepreneurs-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/454935\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech groups join forces to support Triangle entrepreneurs :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the state&#8217;s heavy hitters, NC IDEA\u00a0Foundation and the Wireless Research Center (WRC), announced a partnership Wednesday to give local entrepreneurs even more support.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/riot.org\/startup-accelerator\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RIoT Accelerator Program (RAP)<\/a>\u00a0and key team members, Tom Snyder and Rachael Newberry, will join the NC IDEA team, to expand its acceleration services for entrepreneurs across North Carolina. <\/p>\n<p>The collaboration begins with the Spring 2026 cohort of RAP, a 12-week, high-touch accelerator, running March through June. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f6s.com\/riot-accelerator-program-spring-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Applications are currently being accepted<\/a> and are due February 20, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>WRC will also launch RIoT Labs to focus specifically on &#8220;dual-use&#8221; and defensive technology acceleration and entrepreneurial support.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Going forward, we see meaningful opportunities to collaborate with WRC to advance defense technology innovation and impact across North Carolina,\u201d said NC IDEA CEO Thom Ruhe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two of the state&#8217;s heavy hitters, NC IDEA\u00a0Foundation and the Wireless Research Center (WRC), announced a partnership Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[45,49,48,137,2927,113836],"class_list":["post-454935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-startups","tag-wral-techwire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}