Nashville Startup Week, March 12-17, offers more than 40 speakers, panelists and startup Pitch entrants.
The entire schedule and free registration are here.
| Artiphon's Butera |
The Week's sessions are to be held afternoons and evenings at Baker Donelson Center (M-W-F) | Industrious (M-Tues) | Nashville Entrepreneur Center (W) | VU The Wond'ry (Tues-Thurs) | Close: George Jones Bar (Fri).
Here are NSW's 41 Corporate, VCs, Techie, Entrepreneur and Consultant presenters (15 startups pitching not yet selected):
- Alan Bentley, Vanderbilt University
- Jesse Bland, Heritage Group
- John Bond, Twine Graphics & Printing
- Andrew Bouldin, FCA Venture Partners
- Jeff Bradford, The Bradford Group
- Charlie Brock, Launch Tennessee
- Mike Butera, Artiphon
- Sam Butler, Outset Data Corp.
- Colin Callahan, Acklen Avenue
- Devin Carty, Martin Ventures
- Brian Church, Ideashares
- John Davis, Council Capital
- Jason Denenberg, Nourishwise
- Austin Dirks, Greenlight Medical
- Cale Dodds, Classic Addict musician/songwriter
- Jemale "J.R." Garrett Esq, PharmMD
- Andrew Goldner, GrowthX
- Jessica Harthcock, Utilize Health
- Brad Holliday, GrowthX
- Nathaniel Holzmann, Acklen Avenue
- Jean Lauzon, Acklen Avenue
- Bryan Link, Advance Financial
- Zac Litwack, Gobiquity
- Brittany Lorenzi, Blueprint Strategy
- Ryan Macy, Satchel Health
- Joe Maxwell, Cultivation Capital Fintech Growth Fund
- Heather McBee, Nashville Entrepreneur Center
- Betsy McHugh, Hurdl
- Chris McMurtry, Data Music / Dart Data
- Channing Moreland, EVAMore
- Tommy Norman, LeanKit
- Christopher Parks, Change Healthcare
- Justin Philips, The Foolish Monkey
- Chris Poole, Solidus Co.
- Marty Reed, RANDA Solutions
- Eric Satz, Tennessee Community Ventures
- Larry Scott, ScriptDrop
- Phil Shmerling, InCrowd Capital
- Stayko Staykov, Fivestone Corporate Ventures
- Makenzie Stokel, EVAMore
- Deanna Vickers, Acklen Avenue
The lead organizer of Nashville Startup Week is Nick Potts, co-founder of recent Nashville startup ScriptDrop (prescription delivery). Much of the event's coordination is handled by Sam Butler, founder/CEO of Outset Data.
| Hurdl's Betsy McHugh |
This inaugural event has been encouraged by Techstars, from which support could become more substantial in future years.
The NSW volunteer crew partners with Technologists Federation of Nashville (TechFed), a year-old nonprofit that facilitates sponsorship and fulfills other requirements for other organizations in the region. TechFed was co-founded by Relationary Marketing Co-founder Chuck Bryant, Nashville Software School Founder John Wark and others.
Grant sponsors for Nashville Startup Week include The Heritage Group, PYA, The IronYard, Launch Tennessee and Utilize Health.
| Solidus' Chris Poole |
Other in-kind sponsors include Acklen Avenue, American Music Water, Baker Donelson, Bunker Labs, EVAMore, GrowthX, Heroes Vodka, Ideashare, Industrious, Nashville Entrepreneur Center, Outset Data, RIFT Inc. and Twine Graphics & Screen.
Media Sponsors include Venture Nashville Connections and Startup Southerner.
Other events the same week include, among other things:
- IDEACon 2017 Startup entrepreneurs event Sunday, March 12, City Winery;
- Belmont University Student Business Plan Competition finale, March 15, Massey Center;
- Nashville Technology Council luncheon presentation March 16 by Ascension Care Management and MissionPoint Health CEO Jason Dinger.
- The 2017 Venture Calendar is here. VNC
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