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The Tech Tribune

2022 Best Tech Startups in Winston-Salem

Fluree wins #1 spot for top tech startups in Winston-Salem
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WRAL Tech

Winston-Salem startup Fluree emerging as a pacesetter in Web3

Fluree, provider of the Web3 data platform, earlier this week announced significant momentum as the technology of choice for privacy-preserving data ecosystems.
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Forbes

Paving The Road For Next-Gen NFTs With Metadata Sidechains

The market for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has skyrocketed. Yet, the blockchain-inspired technology is scratching the surface of what might be possible.
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HR Tech Series

One Donation Selects Fluree To Provide Secure, Agile Platform For Charitable Giving Through Instant Payroll Deductions

Fluree will power One Donation’s cloud-based charitable giving platform, which allows employees to find and donate to their favorite charities directly through payroll deduction.
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AIthority

Cardano Community Selects Fluree And Ikigai Technologies To Build Metadata Sidechain Solution, Project Logosphere

Fluree, provider of an immutable semantic graph data platform, announced a partnership with Ikigai Technologies to provide comprehensive off-chain data storage for Cardano metadata. The project, termed “Logosphere” is funded as a cohort project of Project Catalyst, Cardano’s community fund allocated through public voting.
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The New Stack

Distributed Data, Not Apps, Build the Foundation for Web3

Leaders are waking up to the reality that the application is not the center of the universe. Instead, data as collaboration starts by approaching the data as the center with the applications built around it.
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The New Stack

Fluree Extends Blockchain’s Reach with Semantic Web Tech

Fluree, the blockchain-enabled data platform, grew out of trends making sharing and collaborating on verifiable data possible.
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WRAL Tech

W-S startup Fluree delivers blockchain security to 3 federal projects

Fluree, a public benefit corporation based in Winston-Salem, is applying the company’s blockchain technology to assist the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Department of Education.
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CRN

Fluree Wins Emerging Big Data Vendors To Know In 2021

CRN named Fluree a 2021 Emerging Big Data Vendor
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Venture Beat

Data platform Fluree pursues validated data management across the web

Fluree is taking a novel approach, as under the hood resides a blockchain-backed semantic graph database. The Fluree crew has also taken cues from GitHub development methods as it builds out a platform intended to secure data sets in a distributed manner.
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Dataversity

5 Ways Data Provenance Can Benefit Your Business

From hackable medical devices to combating fake news, data provenance is growing in importance.
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KM World

Lead Semantics collaborates with Fluree to bring a secure natural language processing pipeline to market

Fluree, provider of an immutable semantic graph data platform, is forming a technical partnership with Lead Semantics to provide a fully integrated solution, TextDistil, for enterprise data management teams looking to build semantic-capable, secure data fabrics.
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CRN

Fluree Wins The Coolest Database System Companies Of The 2021 Big Data 100

Part 4 of CRN’s Big Data 100 includes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the big data database system space.
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Insights from Analytics

Trends for DevSecOps in 2021

Organizational adoption and alignment, security of the software development pipeline, automation, and AI/ML.
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Dataversity

Why Graph Databases Are an Essential Choice for Master Data Management

When turning to Master Data Management (MDM), there are many tools that are optional, but there is one tool that is imperative to sustained success: graph databases.
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Forbes

The Dawn Of Data Ecosystems

The downsides and difficulties to maintaining traditional data lakes will continue to cause them to fall out of favor. In the meantime, forward-thinking companies are realizing that it's time for enterprise data to make the shift into a data ecosystem.
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Press Release

Secure Data Management Market Leader Fluree Adds Ric Elert to Board of Directors

Elert is the President and COO of Epsilon, an outcome-based marketing company with over 8,000 employees and 40 offices worldwide. Elert’s strong track record of proven technology and business growth acumen will usher Fluree into a new phase of growth.
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Coin Telegraph

US Education Department promotes putting student records on blockchain

A new government-funded challenge seeks blockchain-based solutions to simplify educational data sharing.
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Ledger Insights

American Council on Education selects blockchain winners

The American Council on Education (ACE) selected four winning groups for the Blockchain Innovation Challenge’s first phase. The challenge, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, aims to promote blockchain solutions that help students take control of their educational records.
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PR Web

The Lifelong Learner Project, Powered by Teachers Selected as ACE Blockchain Innovation Challenge Winner

The Lifelong Learner Project is a collaboration of teacher-centered organizations focused on teacher preparation, assessment, licensure and professional learning working alongside technology integration and standards partners.
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Dataversity

What It Means to Be Digitally Compliant

Just as the oil industry went from wildcatted fortunes to managed wells on EPA-approved plots of land transported through OSHA-certified tankers, so data will eventually be held and transported in ways that enable full traceability.
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CRN

Buck Flannigan of Fluree Wins 2021 Channel Chiefs Details

Buck Flannigan leads Fluree's global partner community delivering their products and services built upon a data-centric architecture.
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Forbes

How Data-Centric Security Can Protect Data Lakes And Safeguard Innovation

To understand why data doesn't naturally defend itself, we must look at the repository where it lives: the database
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HIT Consultant

Traditional RESTful APIs Will Not Solve Healthcare’s Biggest Interoperability Problems

Interoperability is a big discussion in health care, with new regulations requiring interoperability for patient data.
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Forbes

How Verifiable Credentials Can Rebuild Trust On The Internet

When consumers stop worrying about theft and deception, they’ll be more willing to participate in online ecosystems. Digitized into a verifiable credential, documents such as driver’s licenses, social security IDs, proof of income, diplomas and resumes come with built-in trust.
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VM Blog

The Year Data Management and Compliance Takes Center Stage

2020 has been an incredible year for technology innovation and in 2021 we will see exciting new advancements, driving technology trends across various market segments.
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CRN

The 10 Hottest Database Startups Of 2020

Fluree named a "Hottest Database" of 2020
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Tech Target

The top 6 use cases for a data fabric architecture

Enterprise data fabric adoption has been on the rise as a way to ensure access and data sharing in a distributed environment. Here are the top use cases for data fabrics.
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InformationWeek

What’s Holding DevOps Back?

DevOps teams are at different stages of maturity. However, there are some common challenges they face along the way.
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Hackernoon

How Colleges Can Use Verifiable Credentials to Forge 21st-Century Leadership

Four-year institutions have an opportunity not only to expand their own offerings to meet the needs of the digital generation of students, but to inform a new set of standards that employers understand. Just as four-year institutions led the way in 20th century education, they can also lead the way in the 21st, by parsing skills into a coherent, transferable and stackable body of education.
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Hackernoon

Verifiable Credentials: What They Are, Why They Matter

In an era where you can fund art through Patreon and bills through GoFundMe, pay rent on Venmo, and use your Facebook login to access work applications, why is the driver’s license still a piece of physical plastic? Why is the passport still a book, the diploma still a piece of paper?
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ZD Net

Fluree, the graph database with blockchain inside, goes open source

A hitherto under the radar graph database that uses blockchain to support data lineage and verification wants to take over the world, starting with the US Department of Defense
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Pulse 2.0

Secure Data Management Leader Fluree Raises $6.5 Million

Fluree — a market leader in secure data management — announced it has closed a seed round of $6.5 million in venture capital led by 4490 Ventures.
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Coindesk

Data Management Startup Fluree Unlocks $1.5M Air Force Contract With Latest VC Raise

Blockchain startup Fluree, already building a distributed data management platform to boost the U.S. Air Force’s decision-making prowess, has raised $2.5 million in additional funding from its venture capital backers.
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CRN

Blockchain Startup Fluree Completes Seed Funding Round

The developer of a blockchain-based data management platform continues to expand its channel efforts as its works with VAR, systems integrator and ISV partners.
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Forbes

Beyond APIs: Blockchain Interoperability

Today's internet cannot handle massive data ecosystems. Semantic standards and blockchain are filling the gap — and not a moment too soon.
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Innovation Quarter

Winston-Salem’s hottest startup aims to disrupt the world of blockchain

Tucked behind Turbine Hall in Winston-Salem’s Bailey Power Plant, you’ll find Fluree.
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Tech Tribune

2021 Best Tech Startups in Winston-Salem

The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
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Startup Grind

Startup Spotlight: Fluree

Fluree organizes blockchain-secured data in a highly-scalable, highly-insightful graph database. supporting the next web’s demands for data-centric trust, interoperability, and security.
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CRN

The top trending technologies making waves in 2020

Here’s a look at this year’s list, counting down to the No. 1 emerging technology that offers the most potential opportunities for the channel.
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Forbes

Why We Shouldn’t Have AI Without Blockchain

To confidently support the expansion of AI as we move toward the next phase of the internet, the internet itself must adapt — with blockchain serving as the root of the change.
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Air Force Magazine

Air Force Cyber Weapons Factory Moves Ahead with Blockchain Project

The Air Force has awarded a follow-on contract to blockchain startup Fluree to use its cryptographically secure database tools in the service’s new software cyberweapons factory, LevelUP.
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Dataversity

Can Blockchain Eliminate the Data Silo?

With incredible strides in data technologies and Data Management, why haven’t data silos been kicked to the curb and the real value of data cross-enterprise been unlocked?
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Forbes

The End Of An API Era

A substantial portion of API-driven computing is broken. One kind of API, which automates processes, continues to reap dividends for companies built around digitizing things that used to be done by hand. But the other kind of API, which powers data-driven businesses, is failing at its duty. It is time to retire the latter and look to blockchain for the next evolution.
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Intellyx

Fluree: Data-Centric Data Platform that Leverages Graph Database and Blockchain Technology

Most of today’s modern data platforms remain application-centric, playing the role of persistence tier in the now-dated n-tier architectural model. Fluree breaks this mold by leveraging graph database technology to incorporate data-centric rules, aka ‘smart functions’ at the class level (analogous to tables) or the predicate level (analogous to columns).
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CRN

Fluree Sees Momentum In Blockchain Adoption, Partner Recruitment

Fluree, which recently launched its first partner program, is building a stable of partners, including systems integrators and VARs, to work with the company’s blockchain data platform.
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DevOps Digest

Fluree Launches JavaScript Library

Fluree announced the release of the Fluree JavaScript Library, a feature included in Fluree V0.13.0 that enables developers to launch a version of Fluree as an in-memory, code-resident data source for front-end applications, enabling sub-millisecond data delivery.
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CRN

Emerging Vendors You Need To Know In 2020

In our annual Emerging Vendors special report, CRN shines a spotlight on some of the most exciting channel-focused startup vendors with leading-edge technologies that are creating new opportunities for solution providers.
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Dataversity

Data-Centric Architecture: Find Value with a Data Platform Approach

When it comes to Data Architecture, the current process-centric mindset assumes that the value resides in the automated processing, yet, as Brian Platz of Fluree, PBC explains, the limitations and costs inherent in APIs have led to a re-examination of priorities.
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CRN

The Coolest Big Data Management And Integration Software Of The 2019 Big Data 100

Part 3 of CRN's 2019 Big Data 100 looks at the companies you need to know that provide software and tools for big data management and integration.
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DevOps

Why the Public Versus Private Blockchain Debate Is the Wrong Conversation

When lines are drawn in the sand of any disruptive change, it can seem like there is an undeniable right. But, what if we’re getting in the way of real revolution by fighting an unnecessary battle?
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Database Trends and Applications

Fluree Creates Partner Program for Blockchain Based Data Platforms

Fluree, a startup that provides a data-centric technology stack, is launching the Fluree Partner Network (FPN) providing enabling technology for ISVs, Sis, and VARs to build and deliver the Web3 applications.
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Diginomica

Solving data integration at scale – DataOps, knowledge graphs and permissioned blockchains emerge

Despite shiny new AI and data science tools, the problem of data integration at scale hasn't gone away. But promising new approaches from vendors like StreamSets and FlureeDB are worth a closer look.
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Food Logistics

Blockchain’s Data Problem in the Food Supply Chain

Blockchain indeed has the potential to help create a more secure and transparent supply chain, but it’s going to need a few tweaks.
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Ledger Insights

Data management blockchain Fluree secures additional seed investment

Blockchain data management platform Fluree announced a seed extension round of funding led by venture capital firm Engage.
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Hackernoon

How Blockchain Could Immunize the Internet Against Distrust

If implemented correctly, the blockchain-powered semantic web can help us learn to trust technology again.
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Triad Business Journal

Wake Forest Baptist Health partners with rising Winston-Salem tech firm

The Wake Forest School of Medicine did not have to look farther than its own backyard when seeking to partner with a technology company to improve patient care.
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Fluree

Wake Forest School of Medicine Partners with Fluree to Improve Research Analysis

The School of Medicine’s Center for Healthcare Innovation is working with Fluree PBC, a blockchain-backed data platform management expert, to create a data integration and review tool to deploy in health care innovation.
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Computer World

U.S. Air Force to pilot blockchain-based database for data sharing

The blockchain ledger will enable data ingest from legacy data systems and wikis as well as a native web application build platform
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Tracxn

Top Emerging Blockchain Startups of 2020

In this edition, we have the ‘Top Blockchain startups’ – a curated list of the most promising startups leading the Blockchain industry, from across the globe.
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Coin Telegraph

Insurance Industry Eyes Blockchain as Top Firms Begin Tests

With Anthem announcing their blockchain project, the technology’s mainstream acceptance continues to increase.
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CMS Wire

Will Blockchain Bloom Into a Full Stack Technology?

Although the technology is now more than ten-years-old, over the past couple of years its has moved out of a narrow use-case in cryptocurrency to a wider enterprise use-case where it is being used to store and protect data.
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State of the Graph Series

State of the Graph: The Coming Merger of Blockchain and Knowledge Graphs

Graph databases and knowledge graphs, in particular, have seen an uptick in interest among CIOs, digital transformation managers and others in enterprise circles.
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InfoSecurity Magazine

What the Post-API Economy Will Look Like

APIs are beginning to struggle with capacity and security issues that have severe consequences in the real world. In the face of these new challenges, the technology industry is poised to do what it does best: evolve.
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Inside Big Data

Why Databases are Failing the Modern Economy

Today’s databases are built for a bygone era, and they’re failing the modern economy
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Programmable Web

Why The Semantic Web Needs a Blockchain Stack

Adding cryptography, standardization and cross-boundary query protocols like Blockchain offers a solution to bridge the trust gap and finally take the internet to where it needs to go.
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Dzone

Graph Explosion and Consolidation

Fluree is a startup working on FlureeDB, promising that rather than building expensive APIs, developers are able to safely expose rich and permissioned query interfaces to data sources including GraphQL, SPARQL, and Fluree’s JSON-based FlureeQL. Fluree just raised $4.73 million in seed funding.
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CoinDesk

Steve Case Backs $4.7M Seed Round for Blockchain Database Startup Fluree

Blockchain startup Fluree, a Public Benefit Corporation, received a $4.7 million round of funding from 4490 Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund, along with Revolution’s Rise of the Rest seed fund, to develop and market their decentralized data storage ecosystem.
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Tech Crunch

Fluree grabs $4.7M seed round to build blockchain-based database

Fluree, a North Carolina startup that wants to bring the immutability of blockchain to the database, announced a $4.7 million seed round today led by ​4490 Ventures​ with participation from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund​.
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Dzone

Fluree: Blockchain, GraphQL, and More: All in One Database

Learn more about Fluree and listen to an interview one of our Zone Leaders had with Co-CEO Brian Platz.
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101 Blockchains

Meet Fluree – A Comprehensive Solution For Enterprise Data Management & Trusted Data Sharing

Fluree is a data management platform built to support modern application requirements and facilitate external, and even decentralized, data sharing, collaboration, and transaction management capabilities.
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Triad Business Journal

Winston-Salem-Based Blockchain Technology Company Continues to Gain Momentum

Winston-Salem-based technology company Fluree PBC continues to gain traction in the emerging field of blockchain technology.
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