Pitt Hyde

Venture Notes - April 14, 2025

Apr 14, 2025 at 11:56 am by miltcapps

Haslam Family Capital, Ara Partners detail $725MM decarbonization scenario

Sep 26, 2024 at 01:27 pm by miltcapps

HF CAPITAL, the Knoxville-based investment arm of multi-generational Haslam family investors, stands ready to invest up to $725MM to support and help shape the emerging Energy.... Read More

Memphis entrepreneurship plans surge, as Bioworks Foundation ends run

Jul 07, 2021 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

Updated: 30 Sept. 2021: EDA announced no winners in Tennessee in the latest round. See who got shares of the program's $36.5MM outlays right here.-Ed. THREE NEW MEMPHIS entrep.... Read More

Venture Notes - June 30, 2021

Jun 30, 2021 at 07:45 am by miltcapps

Venture Notes - April 28, 2021

Apr 28, 2021 at 04:36 pm by miltcapps

BIONewsTN, Nov. 7, 2011

Nov 07, 2011 at 06:29 am by miltcapps

Pitt Hyde ► University of Tennessee Research Foundation is host for "Invention to Venture" Friday, Nov. 11, for those interested in entrepreneurship i.... Read More

Regional Roundup, Nov. 7, 2011

Nov 07, 2011 at 05:48 am by miltcapps

Erik Carlson Streamweaver may be in self-avowed "stealth" mode, but LinkedIn indicates the TNInvestco-backed company is the result of an acquisition and it has a new.... Read More

MB Ventures makes its first TNInvestco bet: Veracity Medical Solutions

Jul 11, 2011 at 08:38 am by miltcapps

MB VENTURES' TNInvestco affiliate has weighed-in with its first investment, a $1 million allocation to Veracity Medical Solutions, an orthopedic device-prototyping and -manufa.... Read More

At 16, Technology 2020 takes innovation challenges in stride

Jul 10, 2011 at 10:13 pm by miltcapps

TECHNOLOGY 2020 absolutely plans to be among competitors for the State of Tennessee's new funding for business accelerators, said President and CEO Mike Cuddy. Of course, en.... Read More

M&A: Nashville Software, IT firms mull buying, selling

Feb 07, 2011 at 07:53 am by miltcapps

Tech-sector mergers and acquisitions may be heating-up in Middle Tennessee, based on a sampling of opinion-leaders. At least one respondent is giving selling rigorous consider.... Read More

[ ! ] TN's JumpStart Foundry aligns with TechStars Net

Jan 31, 2011 at 07:54 am by miltcapps

JumpStart Foundry, the Solidus-led microfund and venture incubator based in Nashville, is aligning with TechStars, the celebrated Boulder, Colo.-based startup accelerator, in.... Read More

Memphis Biomed Ventures Tennessee I LLC

Nov 05, 2009 at 10:30 am by miltcapps

Status: Awarded TNInvestco status by ECD in 2010, following further General Assembly action; not funded in the initial round announced Nov. 5, 2009Memphis Biomed Ventures Tenn.... Read More

Limestone Fund LLC

Nov 05, 2009 at 10:29 am by miltcapps

Limestone Fund, LLC -- The close-knit founders of Mountain Group Capital partnered with former Asurion EVP and chief marketing officer Byron Smith to form Limestone. MGC's Joe.... Read More

Tennessee Biotechnology Association wrestles with leadership and priorities

Sep 17, 2009 at 12:08 pm by miltcapps

Tennessee Biotechnology Association Interim Chairman Bob Acuff, Ph.D., says TBA knows his successor should come from the biotech industry, not academe. Acuff has held the TBA.... Read More

TNInvestco: 'Creativity incredible' among interested firms

Sep 14, 2009 at 08:03 am by miltcapps

Updated 2:58 p.m. Sept. 17, 2009: Coleman Swenson Crist; Southern Appalachian TNInvestco Management Co. LLC; and, Richland Ventures IV LLC have now also applied for TNInvestco.... Read More

PassAlong Networks names VC to Presidency

Dec 30, 2008 at 03:50 pm by miltcapps

PassAlong Networks, the digital-media developer and distributor based in Franklin, announced today the appointment of venture capitalist Ray Gary as president of the company..... Read More

Boon, not gloom? MB Ventures chief looks forward to '09

Dec 30, 2008 at 08:22 am by miltcapps

These are times that try fund-managers' souls, but 2009 could still produce "a legendary vintage year for venture capital." Or, so it seems to Gary Stevenson, manag.... Read More

MB Ventures' 3rd fund emerging in time to reap 'Vintage 2009' values

Nov 25, 2008 at 09:30 am by miltcapps

Visiting Nashville last week, Gary Stevenson was tight-lipped about plans for MB Venture Partners' rumored third fund. The only comment the MBVP managing partner would utter i.... Read More

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