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Innova Memphis: Innova Fund III announced $20MM first close

Sep 08, 2014 at 08:00 am by miltcapps

Updated 10 Sept.: Innova told the Commercial Appeal that Fund III could go as high as $35MM; also, Innova could explore creating an Agriculture-oriented fund, report.... Read More

Apto maps capraises through 2019, targets expat adaptation in U.S., abroad

Nov 28, 2016 at 08:45 am by miltcapps

Updated: On July 12, 2019, Apto filed with the SEC for a $1.5MM raise.-Ed. APTO LLC, which offers a cultural-linguistic training platform to help internationals adapt with con.... Read More

UMemphis Crews Center exec search runs, Hoffmeyer settles at UMaryland

Nov 30, 2023 at 08:00 am by miltcapps

CREWS CENTER for Entrepreneurship at the University of Memphis continues working to select a successor to former Crews Director Mike Hoffmeyer, who held the role for nearly a.... Read More

A-round ahead? LeanKit's Hefley visualizes future for local software venture

Sep 27, 2011 at 09:40 am by miltcapps

CHRIS HEFLEY, the co-founder and CEO of LeanKit, recently told VNC the Brentwood software startup is likely by the end of 2012 to quintuple its 2011 revenue -- moving from a p.... Read More

CME-CE startup ConveyMED begins $2MM Seed for mobile audio platform

May 12, 2022 at 02:55 pm by miltcapps

MEMPHIS-based Co-founders CEO Mike Donoghue and CCO Chris West have set out to raise $2MM Seed capital to expand their ConveyMED mobile audio education and digital community p.... Read More

Venture Notes - January 25, 2021

Jan 25, 2021 at 02:24 pm by miltcapps

Edtech startup Possip Inc. offers 2-way feedback glue for parents, schools

Dec 19, 2018 at 11:47 am by miltcapps

NASHVILLE startup Possip Inc. is raising Seed capital for its Possip platform, which offers regular, useful and coherent feedback for both students' parents or guardians, as w.... Read More

SeedHatchery: Graph Story maps Painpoint to Profits, gauges capital

Jun 14, 2017 at 07:45 am by miltcapps

Updated June 28, 2017: Memphis High Ground reported Jordan has raised north of $1MM to date. May 11, 2016 - GraphStory filed for a $550K raise. Our 10/2014 stor.... Read More

Vanderbilt steps-up effort to help faculty create ventures, market products

Nov 23, 2008 at 08:39 pm by miltcapps

Vanderbilt University is strengthening its staff, budget and technology for spawning new ventures and for marketing technologies and educational materials that have been devel.... Read More

StartupEquity: Shani Dowell on lessons honed during Possip's rise

Jan 07, 2020 at 03:15 pm by miltcapps

CEO SHANI DOWELL, the black female edtech entrepreneur who founded Possip in Nashville, is naturally proud of having become one of the few black women in the U.S. to have recr.... Read More

LaunchTN IMPACT group grows to 21, with $65.4MM SSBCI decisions due

May 20, 2021 at 12:48 pm by miltcapps

LAUNCH TENNESSEE continues to add members -- all 21 are listed below in this story -- to its Impact Fund Investment Committee. The Investment Committee, the members of which s.... Read More

Tennessee entrepreneurs, government 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

NewsBits, May 3, 2011

May 03, 2011 at 08:06 am by miltcapps

Beth Harwell Transferring and commercializing technology from Tennessee universities' R&D campuses is now on the research agenda of Tennessee House of Representat.... Read More

HealthIT: Brentwood-based Healthspek eyes $1.5MM Series A capraise

Oct 27, 2015 at 03:20 pm by miltcapps

HEALTHSPEK's Angel-driven Seed round is still open, plus management expects to close a $1.5MM Series A round by yearend. The Brentwood startup has raised $1.25MM in capital si.... Read More

CareEco CEO Johnson eyes $2MM raise to drive Engine deeper into market

Mar 09, 2022 at 02:32 pm by miltcapps

CARE ECO CORP., Brentwood, has begun a $2MM Angel-led equity-capital raise to increase market penetration of its healthcare continuity and patient engagement offering. Querie.... Read More

Nanomechanics gets investor-bidder approaches, eyes valuation and growth

Jun 15, 2016 at 05:30 pm by miltcapps

NANOMECHANICS, the privately held precision-measurement technologies and services company based in Oak Ridge, is weighing growth strategy, as well as valuation, funding and ex.... Read More

VC Coleman demands access to TNInvestco records

Jan 28, 2010 at 10:43 am by miltcapps

Updated 2:45 p.m.: State. Sen. Doug Overbey told VNC he will file a "caption bill" this afternoon to "reserve a space" for legislation advocated by the Bredesen Administ.... Read More

Owners of TNInvestco-backed Hubble Telemedical exit in sale to Welch Ally

Jan 21, 2015 at 06:00 am by miltcapps

Larisa Brass, Correspondent Updated 10:16 a.m. Chuck Wit.... Read More

Bradshaw departs CoLab-GigTank for Jensen Hughes role

Sep 21, 2016 at 07:00 am by miltcapps

submitted press release Mike Bradshaw Following three successful years of leadership at The Company Lab (CO.LAB), Executive Director Mike Bradshaw&nbs.... Read More

VNC's July 2025 Venture Calendar

Jun 28, 2025 at 12:45 pm by miltcapps

•West | •Central | •Eastern | •Other Updated continually during current month. Previous VNC calendars. July 4 • Fourth of July. Downtown Nashville c.... Read More

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