Nashville's longer-term role as StartupBus destination not guaranteed

Mar 03, 2015 at 02:30 pm by miltcapps

STARTUPBUS, the business cooker on wheels, expects to off-load nearly 200 entrepreneurs from its six buses in Nashville, just ahead of LaunchTN's 36|86 conference, June 8-10..... Read More

U.S. health Tech startup challenge has Jumpstart tie-in, 3/27 deadline

Mar 02, 2015 at 03:36 pm by miltcapps

JUMPSTART FOUNDRY here is partnering with the Multi-City Innovation Campaign (MCIC), a national program that aims to provide some healthcare technology startups cash from citi.... Read More

Ebb & Flow: Former Emdeon SVP relishes growth-oriented CarePayment role

Mar 02, 2015 at 03:15 pm by miltcapps

Updated 7 Dec 2017: Carepayment recruits another $7.5MM SEC filing. 13 March 2017: DFW-area PEs Cedar Springs Capital and Crestline Investors announced that together they acqu.... Read More

HealthIT: Scale-focused RoundingWell in Super-Angel raise, may double staff

Feb 27, 2015 at 09:45 am by miltcapps

Updated 29 June 2016 RoundingWell in Rogosin Institute pact for kidney disease care here. 15 March 2016: Strategic relationship with Redox Engine for API path to major EHR ven.... Read More

Gun.io CEO keeps finger off fund-raising trigger, outlines broad ambitions

Feb 25, 2015 at 03:45 pm by miltcapps

UPDATED 9 Aug 2022 - Nashville-centric CEO Teja Yenamandra, 33, announced completion of a $5.2MM Series A raise that drew investor Tampa-based Ballast Point Ventures. The vint.... Read More

Before quiet sale to Atlas Copco, local entrepreneur<br> put Fivestone Partners to work beefing-up business

Feb 24, 2015 at 02:00 pm by miltcapps

PAUL IANNELLO, a Nashville-area mechanical engineer-become-entrepreneur, recently sold his company's intellectual property to his strategic partner of nearly two years, Atlas-.... Read More

FinTech: Seed-stage BancList pops-up in Nashville, eyes capital raise

Feb 17, 2015 at 11:00 am by miltcapps

BANCLIST, the successor to a FinTech startup born near Atlanta, has chosen Nashville as home and plans to pursue bridge financing and capital totaling about $1MM. The company.... Read More

Leslie Lynn Smith: Detroit transformer hired to lead EPICenter in Memphis

Feb 17, 2015 at 10:30 am by miltcapps

Press Release MEMPHIS -- Nationally recognized entrepreneurial and business development leader Leslie Lynn Smith has been selected as president of the Entrepreneurs.... Read More

Feb. 13 event: Nashville+TN financial-tech accelerator options

Feb 10, 2015 at 05:00 am by miltcapps

Update: Speaker added below, Feb. 10, 2015. TECHNOLOGY for the Financial sector is hot. Should Nashville host a new FinTech Accelerator or create a FinTech program partnered w.... Read More

Long Haul: With $5MM capraise, Knoxville's IdleAir may shift to higher gear

Feb 06, 2015 at 10:59 am by miltcapps

  By Larisa Brass and Milt Capps IDLEAIR, the Knoxville company that helps reduce truck idling and traffic congestion, and offers over-the-road truckers safe resting sp.... Read More

Inner Circle: Executives aboard for IdleAir Technologies' 2008 Chapter 11

Feb 06, 2015 at 10:43 am by miltcapps

PROTECTIONS sought in 2008 by IdleAire Technologies Corporation through the Chapter 11 process led to the emergence of a second company, IdleAire Inc., the assets of whic.... Read More

TCRS copes within private-equity LP competition, no rush for more advisors

Feb 06, 2015 at 09:17 am by miltcapps

TCRS, the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System, must cope with competing investors, as do other pension plans looking for strong returns. Yet, at the end of FY2014, last.... Read More

Sohr-backed DataFi mulls further Seed capital for fintech platform

Feb 03, 2015 at 03:30 pm by miltcapps

Updated 21 January 2020: Built bought lienwaivers.io, release here. 29 April 2019: Built announced it has completed its Series B financing round of $31 million led by Goldman.... Read More

Healthbox grad Atlas Health Technologies eyes Seed capital round

Feb 02, 2015 at 08:30 am by miltcapps

Updated 30 March 2016 0727: Kelso announced today the company is now branded Healthcare Blocks.-Ed. ATLAS HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES, a Nashville-based application-hosting and manage.... Read More

CampusQuad: Ingram Content announces 2d Edtech investment in five days

Feb 02, 2015 at 08:15 am by miltcapps

Update 15 Dec. 2015: ICG bought Aer.io Retail Network, a content sales and fulfillment platform developed by Invention Arts, in which Ingram had previously invested. Our Feb..... Read More

Nashville Technology Council dips cyber-toe into public policy waters

Feb 02, 2015 at 08:00 am by miltcapps

NASHVILLE Technology Council (NTC) recently became affiliated with a grassroots industry coalition that advocates federal, state and regional policies that it asserts are "imp.... Read More

Edtech: Ingram Content Group Ventures invests in Austin's Querium Corp

Jan 30, 2015 at 12:45 pm by miltcapps

QUERIUM CORPORATION, a two-year-old Austin edtech startup, won a minority-stake investment from Tennessee's ICG Ventures and has raising further capital very much in mind. ICG.... Read More

LaunchTN: Randy Boyd accepts baton from Hagerty, who returns to PE firm

Jan 27, 2015 at 01:30 pm by miltcapps

LAUNCH TENNESSEE is now overseen by Chairman Randy Boyd, who is also Gov. Bill Haslam's newly appointed commissioner of economic and community development. Boyd, 55, is best k.... Read More

LaunchTN: McWhorter board resignation adds to agency's to-do's

Jan 27, 2015 at 01:15 pm by miltcapps

Update: See ECD comment added below.-Ed. LAUNCHTN, led by CEO Charlie Brock and new Chairman and State Economic Development Commissioner Randy Boyd, has an ample list of to-d.... Read More

LaunchTN comment on Pando court filing

Jan 23, 2015 at 02:45 pm by miltcapps

Update 8:06 pm 25 Feb.- As anticipated in some quarters, the parties announced an agreement this evening, averting litigation.- Ed. VNC at 2:39 p.m. Jan. 23, 2015 received th.... Read More

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