Venture Nashville

VentureNotes September 4, 2018

Sep 04, 2018 at 12:15 pm by miltcapps

VU-branded 'Vanderbilt Coding Boot Camp' to debut via Trilogy partnership

Aug 29, 2018 at 08:45 am by miltcapps

VANDERBILT University, acting through program co-leads Owen Graduate School of Management (OGSM) and its School of Engineering (VUSE), has entered a partnership with NYC-based.... Read More

Ideas: Is TechAlpharetta entrepreneur center a model for Mid-TN cities?

Aug 28, 2018 at 01:14 pm by miltcapps

METRO NASHVILLE and the city's downtown Entrepreneur Center are by all accounts booming, but several other communities in Middle Tennessee beyond the boundaries of Music City.... Read More

New VU Entrepreneurship Conference powered by Owen's C4E + donors

Aug 27, 2018 at 02:30 pm by miltcapps

THE VANDERBILT Entrepreneurship Conference set for this autumn is being convened by the Center for Entrepreneurship (C4E) at Owen Graduate School of Management and is largely.... Read More

Venture Notes - 21 August 2018

Aug 21, 2018 at 12:00 pm by miltcapps

Chart: Women-Owned Businesses 2018

Aug 21, 2018 at 11:36 am by miltcapps

. TO SEE MAIN ARTICLE associated with this chart, please click here. from the 2018 State of Women-Owned Businesses Report - Related article here.

FINTOP Capital DealCloud exit transaction marks Joe Maxwell's first as a VC

Aug 16, 2018 at 04:54 pm by miltcapps

JOE MAXWELL, the recent founder of FINTOP Capital who was for many years known as one of Nashville's most successful fintech entrepreneurs, has confirmed that he's got a lot t.... Read More

CEO Kayla Graff maps SweetBio capital raises, market entries

Aug 16, 2018 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

Updates: May 31, 2019: MBJ reported the company's raise to date is $3.1MM; also, it just received 510k FDA clearance to market its Apis resorbable membrane made from honey, to.... Read More

Venture Voices: Julie Samuels of TECH:NYC shares views with Nashville

Aug 14, 2018 at 03:30 pm by miltcapps

JULIE SAMUELS JD is 2.5 years into her job as executive director of TECH:NYC and 13 years out of Vanderbilt University Law School. Samuels works to build relationships between.... Read More

We asked TN Gubernatorial aspirants about State industry incentives, risk-capital formation, tech commercialization and more

Aug 13, 2018 at 10:29 am by miltcapps

VENTURE NASHVILLE on Aug. 6, 2018 simultaneously posed five economic-development issues to Tennessee gubernatorial candidates Bill Lee (R-Franklin) and Karl Dean (D-Nashville).... Read More

Venture Notes - 13 August 2018

Aug 13, 2018 at 06:15 am by miltcapps

CEO Brett Shaw DISCOVERY Sound Technology of Nashville reported August 9th it had raised $1.2MM equity capital toward its $5MM goal. The 9-year-old company offers an.... Read More

TN startup formation, market entries may rise with SE XOR platform launch

Aug 10, 2018 at 04:31 pm by miltcapps

Update: As of July 29, 2019, SE/MW XOR were supporting a total 72 regional startups, with 81 entrepreneurs enlisted.-Ed. THE RANKS of viable startups spawned through commercia.... Read More

Startup AVVAY taking the Oy! out of briefly using venues, talent, services

Aug 09, 2018 at 02:30 pm by miltcapps

Update: AVVAY said Sept. 13, 2018 that it's raise is coming in at $1MM, led by Zero G Capital, based in Denver, with participation from Matchstick Ventures, SpringTime Venture.... Read More

U.S. Marine Veteran forms ECD Capital Partners,<br>Opportunity Zone Fund in Nashville

Aug 07, 2018 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

ROAD AMMONS, who spent much of his youth here before serving a decade as a U.S. Marine Corps officer and fighter pilot, is now managing director of social impact private equit.... Read More

Nashville robots: Tailwind likely for startup Hirebotics after NBC-News story

Aug 07, 2018 at 10:15 am by miltcapps

ROB GOLDIEZ, co-founder and manager of Hirebotics LLC, says his robots-for-hire startup is likely to get a further boost from last weekend's NBC Nightly News coverage of his f.... Read More

Vreeland confirms Jumpstart Capital's<br>SimplifyASC and HIGI SH LLC investments

Aug 03, 2018 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

Updated March 11, 2019: SimplifyASC should pass $7MM cap-in milestone soon, full story here. 22 Aug 2018 - CyramedX filed today on a $2MM raise with $1.8MM reported in.-Ed. JU.... Read More

Venture Notes - Aug. 2, 2018

Aug 02, 2018 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

Charlie Coiner CHARLIE COINER, former Dooley-era UT football assistant coach, is back in Knoxville and working with developers at Austin's Workhorse Marketing on V2.0.... Read More

JumpFund spurs women-led investment,<br>entrepreneurship, economic development

Aug 02, 2018 at 03:30 pm by miltcapps

BASED in Chattanooga, Kristina Maurer Montague is a woman using her human and financial capital to use capital to ignite more women-led ventures in the southeastern U.S. and b.... Read More

Entrepreneurs, Investors place bets on LaunchTN 3686 & Health:Further

Jul 30, 2018 at 01:20 pm by miltcapps

WHETHER out of inspiration or insanity, those who have crammed LaunchTN's 36|86 and Health:Further events into August 27-30 in Nashville have created what they hope will bring.... Read More

HC adaptive learning entrant OnSomble targets Nashville, mulls capraise

Jul 25, 2018 at 05:15 pm by miltcapps

ONSOMBLE Inc., the Nashville adaptive-learning platform company serving the healthcare industry, recently booked consecutive profitable quarters and could soon provide a liqui.... Read More

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