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Chris Hefley advances LLM As A Service toward market, maps capital raise

Sep 09, 2024 at 03:15 pm by miltcapps

NATIVE Tennessee tech entrepreneur Chris Hefley now co-leads Predictability at Scale LLC and is mapping a capital raise with an eye toward propelling the AI-oriented company's.... Read More

Metro Mayor, VU Chancellor seek traction for Nashville Innovation Alliance

Jun 21, 2024 at 08:24 am by miltcapps

Daniel Diermeier Freddie O'Connell VOWING TO SERVE the public interest through collaborative efforts, the Nashville Innovation Alliance has been launched to.... Read More

HRtech: Memphis Meats veteran Will Clem's Bite Ninja raises hit $15MM+

May 09, 2022 at 04:00 pm by miltcapps

COFOUNDER William "Will" Clem and his team have now raised more than $15MM in outside capital for Bite Ninja Inc., their Memphis-based tech startup that enables staffing of re.... Read More

TN Sports-wagering startup WAGR's $12MM raise a launch harbinger?

Jan 10, 2022 at 02:47 pm by miltcapps

WAGR INC., which will offer Tennesseans an app for sports-wagering and peer-to-peer smack-talk, has raised $9.99MM against an $11.99MM goal, according to the Nashville startup.... Read More

Bryan Frist grows Yoshi portfolio, lauds TN edge ahead of Series C raise

Dec 15, 2021 at 02:11 pm by miltcapps

Convertible debt raise underway, precedes Series C in 2022 Revenue ramp accelerating after pandemic blow Strategic ties yield corporate and cross-border opportunities Tailori.... Read More

Nashville EC cohort CEO raises capital for Iconic Moments NFT marketplace

Sep 22, 2021 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

CHRIS CUMMINGS, an entrepreneur now enrolled in the Project Music and Entertainment business development program of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, announced he has raised.... Read More

TCRS CIO Brakebill provides update on PE investment, other programs

Apr 13, 2020 at 11:08 am by miltcapps

SINCE 2008, when Venture Nashville broke the news that TCRS, the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System, had gained authorization to invest in private equity and other alter.... Read More

Tennessee entrepreneurs, government<br>coalesce for COVID-19 counterattack

Apr 09, 2020 at 11:30 am by miltcapps

AS PERHAPS NEVER BEFORE, the fight against the shape-shifting coronavirus and the COVID-19 disease has spurred a de facto alliance of startups, mature business, government and.... Read More

Venture Notes - 17 January 2017

Jan 17, 2017 at 12:15 pm by miltcapps

Nashville cryptocurrency founder adopts 'open kimono' for disclosure

Jan 17, 2017 at 12:00 pm by miltcapps

Updated 22 Aug. 2017 - UR Technology was apparently reconstituted as Kowala KUSD LLC (Dela.) in June 2017.-Ed. ACKNOWLEDGING both the interest and wariness that surround the ".... Read More

FinTech: Iroquois Capital's payments startup doesn't rule-out capraise

Jul 09, 2015 at 03:15 pm by miltcapps

IROQUOIS Merchant Services LLC, an Iroquois Capital Group startup, has strong access to a network of investors, but after 2015 larger asset-acquisition opportunities may call.... Read More

DivorceSecure raising capital to reduce pains of parting

Jul 06, 2015 at 02:30 pm by miltcapps

'Proudly capitalist' Jumpstart Foundry unfurls<br>plan for its U.S. and regional ascendancy

Aug 25, 2014 at 10:15 am by miltcapps

ANYONE not familiar with the bluntness and dark humor that sometimes accompany Vic Gatto's impromptu remarks, might have been discomfited when at the end of Jumpstart Foundry'.... Read More

VTC: Money flows: DataFlyte raise embraced by Blank Slate Ventures

Aug 25, 2014 at 10:15 am by miltcapps

2014 Jumpstart Foundry cohort directory

Aug 25, 2014 at 05:30 am by miltcapps

Parkes See Related JSF14 Investor Day story here. Aloncii - $200K. Founder/CEO Ashley Parkes. Aloncii utilizes 3D imaging technology for production of fashion-forward.... Read More

'Proudly capitalist' Jumpstart Foundry unfurls<br>plan for its U.S. and regional ascendancy

Aug 23, 2014 at 02:14 pm by miltcapps

ANYONE not familiar with the bluntness and dark humor that sometimes accompany Vic Gatto's impromptu remarks, might have been discomfited when at the end of Jumpstart Foundry'.... Read More

'Bama-based Angel Investor Management Group may seek Tennessee dealflow

Nov 21, 2011 at 12:34 pm by miltcapps

Tennessee entrepreneurs may have a shot at 200 or more Alabama angels in 2012 if Angel Investor Management Group (AIMG) expands as planned. Auburn-based AIMG is being develop.... Read More

ReTickr: Day 104 could bring the stress some entrepreneurs pray for

Nov 21, 2011 at 09:43 am by miltcapps

If the founders of ReTickr are lucky, today they'll experience clenched teeth and hyperventilation, along with another spike in downloads of their still-evolving content-filte.... Read More

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