Venture Calendar - 2019 - Updated
[Updated] Entrepreneurial, startup and capital events and activities around Tennessee.
Pharos Capital Partners Fund IV-A filing eyes $250M healthcare investing
Healthcare specialists file on Fund IV affiliate.
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Founder-CEO Al Ganier
Empower Health sets $12M raise for push into self-pay NAD infusion space
CEO Al Ganier says startup exhaustively considered market priority, and might later address opioid users' risk of pregnancy.
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Oasis Venture entrepreneurship program for 'often marginalized'
Nashville teens folds after budget review
Realities of youth services and the breeding of entrepreneurs bring abrupt changes in local programs.
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Startup Stroll preps $1.5MM Seed raise to catch destination-marketing wave
Eberhardt & Bell press forward with tech solution developed in Nashville for global market.
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CEO Carson Ward
Skoller files for $2MM raise, steps-up pace to expand platform offering
CEO says social-media spend for student assignments, tests, grades users prompts accelerating employer recruitment support.
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Tennessee Capitol
LaunchTN sets Startup Policy Workshops to boost regional entrepreneurship
Meetups blend LaunchTN mission, Kauffman funding, Engine advocate, constituents getting to know legislators.
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Virtual Entrepreneurship Program
Launch Tennessee launches Virtual Entrepreneurship Program
Startup and growth-oriented entrepreneurship program taking 2020 applications now, through Dec. 15, 2019.
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CEO-designate Jane Allen Esq.
Entrepreneur Jane Allen to be CEO of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center
New CEO will rely on a lawyerly eye and entrepreneurial chops as she begins fresh assessment of the EC.
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Jim Lackey
Venture Notes -- September 30, 2019
Lackey's latest, Music tech, OZ players, VU Ventures Group, LaunchTN, DRS CMO, Jumpstart Foundry and more.
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TennesSeed Partners to ally with nonprofit to fuel TN seed-stage businesses
VCs team with TennesSeed Funders to create momentum to feed flywheel effect in TN economy.
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CEO Tammy Hawes
Series A ahead, Tammy Hawes has always seen Virsys12 as scalable venture
With Salesforce Ventures as a shareholder, longtime healthtechie sees running room in cloud-apps sector.
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Robert Grajewski
Enexor BioEnergy taps Wond'ry's Grajewski as SVP ahead of Series A
CEO Lee Jestings confirms appointment and continued focus on capital-raising, advisor-selection planning.
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Capraises filed by Council Capital, Music City Baseball,
Revolution Partners, Dynamo, SweetBio
Signs of the season? SEC filings pop up in Nashville, Memphis, Chattanooga.
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David Corts
StudioNow spinning-out Octerra marcom startup, conference debut ahead
12 years into the mission, six years after leaving AOL, team has been prepping its next move for months.
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Founder-CEO Daniel Stein MD
Embold Health files on $22MM+ capital raise
VNC seeks comment from team, meanwhile research suggests interesting ecosystem forming around company.
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Kevin Lee
JourneyPure preps $20MM raise ahead of larger private equity round
The five-year-old company has already secured $70MM capital and is at 400 employees.
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Chairman, CEO Bill Horne
Sopris' Quovant has access to capital, is opportunistic on buys or merger
Four years after VC/PE control investment, legal-spend management company has a number of options.
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Honoree Dolly Parton
Nashville EC tells 2019 NEXT Awards finalists + Hall of Fame inductees
Here is the fullest rundown you'll find on Awards entrants, judges and related matters ahead of this November event.
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Andrew Rueff
Nashville fintech: Waud-backed SphereCommerce eyes M&A opportunities
Sphere eyes multiple payments/security markets -- and its interest in Healthcare has grown.
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