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Fintech CEO Afshin Yazdian leads expansion of KURV fka Electronic Merchant Systems

May 05, 2025 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

NASHVILLE-based fintech veteran Afshin Yazdian is CEO and executive chairman of private-equity-backed KURV, formerly known as Electronic Merchant Systems, which is headquarter.... Read More

CEO: Express Wages signs corporate beta, readies Next Big Thing pitch

Nov 18, 2024 at 10:45 am by miltcapps

ALFRED MILAN, founder and CEO of startup Express Wages LLC, recently completed the Project Fintech curriculum at Nashville Entrepreneur Center and is back home in Memphis pr.... Read More

Project Fintech accelerator Round 2 advances amid 'measured optimism'

Apr 29, 2024 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

Accelerator 2.0 broadens focus to embrace all-inclusive fintech New EIR is veteran of long-hold, big-exit Tennessee fintech pioneer Tennessee attributes create unique opportu.... Read More

Venture Notes - December 2, 2021

Dec 02, 2021 at 12:32 pm by miltcapps

Venture Notes - April 28, 2021

Apr 28, 2021 at 04:36 pm by miltcapps

Rick Kushel: FINTOP Capital a disciplined investor amid Fintech surge

Apr 23, 2021 at 10:13 am by miltcapps

CLOSE on the heels of leading a $6MM Series A round for Snappy Kraken Inc., FINTOP Capital General Partner Rick Kushel paused to discuss that deal as an example of the kind of.... Read More

Venture Notes - April 2, 2021

Apr 02, 2021 at 01:56 pm by miltcapps

After Ipreo, Maxwell will shift to raising a Nashville-based FinTech fund

Jul 23, 2015 at 11:45 am by miltcapps

JOE MAXWELL, the Nashville-based financial-technologies entrepreneur, says he'll next raise a specialized FinTech venture fund. In November 2014, Maxwell, now 47, sold to Ipre.... Read More

Nashville Technology Council a step closer to policy-advocacy role

Jul 23, 2015 at 11:27 am by miltcapps

Update: Sept. 28, 2015 - Former DC open-Internet advocate, wonk and communicator Alex Curtis has become NTC's director of communications and public affairs.-Ed. NASHVILLE TECH.... Read More

Venture-backed Songkick taps Nashville's JD May for growth push

Jul 03, 2015 at 02:50 pm by miltcapps

NASHVILLE entrepreneur JD May has left his EVP-bizdev role at Nashville's FLO.CO to become international startup SongKick's VP for growth. May, 44, has many prior venture notc.... Read More

FinTech: St. Louis' SixThirty accelerator beckons Nashville startups

Jul 01, 2015 at 03:33 pm by miltcapps

THE DEADLINE is July 10 for applying for the SixThirty accelerator in St. Louis -- which has quietly become Nashville's sister city for all things FinTech. SixThirty Managing.... Read More

Data-centric WPC Healthcare eyes capital raise to deepen Taproot

Mar 19, 2015 at 04:03 pm by miltcapps

Update: On 4 April 2017, Intermedix and WPC Healthcare announced Intermedix had acquired WPC, with Guzman joining as SVP. On Sept. 30, 2015, WPC Healthcare announced managemen.... Read More

Update: FinTech accelerator initiative in Nashville+Tennessee

Mar 16, 2015 at 10:30 am by miltcapps

FINTECH NASHVILLE at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center on Feb. 13 featured an executive panel that seemed to galvanize an audience of roughly 120, and set the stage for cultiv.... Read More

CEO: Optio Labs may pursue 'significant' Series B raise within 12 months

Mar 05, 2015 at 02:25 pm by miltcapps

Updated: OptioLabs announced April 27, 2016 its partnership with Ridge Global. Sept. 30, 2015 the company announced its integration partnership with AMD. It announced further.... Read More

FinTech: New Constructs CEO says accelerator leverage,<br>regulatory initiatives contribute to 'huge tailwind'

Mar 03, 2015 at 03:15 pm by miltcapps

DAVID TRAINER, founder and CEO of investment research analytics player New Constructs LLC, said his emergence from the SixThirty FinTech accelerator in St. Louis coincides wit.... 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

Nashville's Maxwell: PE-backed Ipreo 'absolutely' has more FinTech targets

Jan 21, 2015 at 07:55 am by miltcapps

IPREO, the international financial-technologies company with PE backing and an expanding Nashville division, has its eyes on further M&A prospects. Ipreo's Nashville-base.... Read More

Digital Reasoning Systems secures $24MM GS + Credit Suisse NEXT capital

Oct 09, 2014 at 11:55 am by miltcapps

Digital Reasoning Systems, a leader in cognitive computing, today announced that it has raised $24 million in Series C funding led by Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse.... Read More

Crews Center for Entrepreneurship focus on startup talent development

Sep 18, 2014 at 09:45 am by miltcapps

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