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FinTech Nashville: Bitcoin, Blockchain at center of BTCMedia event plans

Feb 01, 2016 at 11:30 am by miltcapps

Updated 25 March 2016 0900: BTCMedia announced March 24, 2016, its plans for a major flagship event -- Distributed:Trade -- in St. Louis, in cooperation with the SixThirty Fin.... Read More
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$26MM+: EdTech consolidator LTG buys Rustici SW, stake in Watershed

Jan 29, 2016 at 08:00 am by miltcapps

Updated: In his LinkedIn post Nov. 15, 2018, Founder Mike Rustici, dealing with cancer, said LTG would also buy the balance of Watershed. 1 June 2018: Former Products Director.... Read More
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Nashville Technology Council Awards for 2015 announced

Jan 29, 2016 at 03:00 am by miltcapps

On January 28, 2016, Nashville Technology Council announced its NTC Awards winners for 2015. The nominees and winners are listed below. Company of the Year LeanKit WINNER Digi.... Read More
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VESTA Technology seeks TORCH brand lead in Internet parental controls

Jan 28, 2016 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

                CEO Shelley Prevost, Ed.D. Updates: Vesta deactivated its Tennessee registration i.... Read More
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Update: Oasis Venture youth social-enterprise program nears launch

Jan 27, 2016 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

OASIS VENTURE, the new social-enterprise program for youth formed by a partnership between Oasis Center and Marcus Whitney of The Unlikely Company, will soon launch a pilot co.... Read More
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Media: NVille's Ayumi Bennett preps launch of regional Startup Southerner

Jan 27, 2016 at 03:45 pm by miltcapps

AYUMI Fukuda Bennett plans to go-live Feb. 1 with Startup Southerners, a site devoted to the Southeast's tech and entrepreneurial scene. Founder and Editor-in-Chief Bennett, 3.... Read More
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After 22 years, Tech2020 at OakRidge to cease pro-entrepreneurial efforts

Jan 26, 2016 at 02:30 pm by miltcapps

Updated 3 March 2016: Tech2020's Snider said it has received interest in acquiring its assets, including AutoXLr8r and key grant contracts. 8 Feb: T2020's board.... Read More
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LaunchTN grapples with robust agenda of opportunities, challenges

Jan 25, 2016 at 06:00 pm by miltcapps

ROBUST discussion may prove the new hallmark of LaunchTN, if last week's quarterly meeting of the nonprofit's board of directors is any indication. Here's a partial collection.... Read More
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Monsor: Statewide Mentor Net has traction with early-stage companies

Jan 25, 2016 at 04:30 pm by miltcapps

LIFE SCIENCE Tennessee's (LSTN) Statewide Mentors Network has about 40 mentors, is actively engaged with a half-dozen companies and is recruiting further mentors. Program Dire.... Read More
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CEO: Entrepreneur Center views Jumpstart accelerator exit as opportunity

Jan 22, 2016 at 03:15 pm by miltcapps

STUART MCWHORTER, CEO of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, sees the exit of for-profit Jumpstart Foundry from the accelerator business as "an opportunity for us to make sure.... Read More
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Jumpstart Foundry creates Healthcare fund, knocks accelerator model

Jan 22, 2016 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

SINCE they were going to pivot from the Jumpstart Foundry accelerator to a fund that would operate akin to a VC, JSF owners reasoned that they could best inform the public and.... Read More
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Accelerators: Boring, Rip-roaring or somewhere in between?

Jan 22, 2016 at 02:45 pm by miltcapps

VENTURE Nashville asked seven people familiar with the Vic Gatto's statement on accelerators (related story here) for their thoughts on Vic Gatto's comments on the 'boring' Ac.... Read More
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EC, Ingram announce first 1440 publishing accelerator cohort members

Jan 20, 2016 at 07:37 am by miltcapps

Four companies with international entrepreneurs and three U.S.-based startups, including one from Tennessee, have been chosen for the 2016 cohort of the 1440 Accelerator for p.... Read More
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Venture Notes - January 19, 2016

Jan 19, 2016 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

Entac Medical, Crom Carmichael, Jamplify, Innova leads series A, Mountain Group,DiaTech founder, former Cogent CEO, Wellview Health and more. HAPTEN SCIENCES, Memphis pharma e.... Read More
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People: Charleson Bell, Ph.D., innovator at Vanderbilt University

Jan 18, 2016 at 03:39 pm by miltcapps

CHARLESON BELL's comment during the recent Maker-Space Planning meeting at Vanderbilt University really stuck with some of us in the audience. As reported by Venture Nashville.... Read More
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Nashville EC's BunkerLabs, Veteran Entrepreneur Society gather Jan. 21

Jan 18, 2016 at 01:00 pm by miltcapps

Updated - Bunker Labs Nashville announced Feb. 24, 2016, that the local program's founding sponsor is Comcast. The program is resident at the NEC.-Ed. MILITARY VETERANS with e.... Read More
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Haslam Admin asks GenAssembly for Angel Tax Credit to mobilize early-stage investors and energize Tennessee 'Angel ecosystem'

Jan 15, 2016 at 04:15 pm by miltcapps

Update: April 14, 2016: Credit bill deferred in both chambers til week of April 18. March 2, 2016 1:57pm - The companion bill introduced by Sen. Norris is SB2539. Bills are wo.... Read More
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Sohr's Powered Health wraps key Growthwright services around startups

Jan 15, 2016 at 02:15 pm by miltcapps

POWERED HEALTH, the Nashville-based venture-support company that is majority-owned by Chairman/CEO Jim Sohr, aims to market its Growthwright-branded IT, software and strategic.... Read More
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Eyeing Owen MBA, Vrion founder may apply Sohr Grant to Tech needs

Jan 13, 2016 at 02:15 pm by miltcapps

WAITING for a check represents a sort of baptism of fire for freshly minted entrepreneurs. That's particularly true when they're like Vrion Holdings Founder Trisha Fridrich, w.... Read More
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Memphis Money: Sage Advantage Fund created by advisory firm's founders

Jan 13, 2016 at 02:00 pm by miltcapps

  Andrew Forsdick SAGE Advantage Fund I, newly chartered by management of Memphis-based Sage Business Advisors, is likely to gather $4MM or more for inv.... Read More

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