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'Secret Sauce': Debut Broadcasting hopes investors smell what it's cookin'

Jun 03, 2008 at 10:35 am by miltcapps

Nashville-based Debut Broadcasting Corporation now operates a batch of small-market radio stations and says it has exclusive rights to negotiate purchases of 16 additional pro.... Read More

VNC Member News: RelevantAssets® names management team, sets capital raise, targets Corporate Real Estate performance

Feb 01, 2010 at 08:54 am by miltcapps

CRE Technologies, Inc., dba RelevantAssets, announced the formation of an expanded management and development team, as well as plans to raise $400,000 in private capital to ac.... Read More

Crabb hopes 'perfect storm' will drive surge in M&A deals

Mar 03, 2010 at 06:04 pm by miltcapps

Trey Crabb says he realized while sitting in his Manhattan office one Friday evening, with his daily commute home to Connecticut still before him, that it was time to get seri.... Read More

Advocates: 'Protection' could derail TNInvestco locomotive

Feb 22, 2010 at 09:39 am by miltcapps

The Tennessee Budget Express may soon barrel down the tracks, but some key players worry TNInvestco may be sidetracked or derailed. Facing an extraordinary economy and electi.... Read More

Cook: Nashville must create culture of 'True Innovation'

Feb 24, 2010 at 11:43 am by miltcapps

Joe Cook has great hopes for Nashville, but sees impediments to overcome for the region's life-sciences industry and for the innovation community, generally. Cook is co-founde.... Read More

BioMimetic CEO urges 'build on Bredesen's start', plus greater Vanderbilt role in life-sciences ventures

Feb 24, 2010 at 01:23 pm by miltcapps

BioMimetic Therapeutics CEO Sam Lynch said development of the life-sciences industry in Nashville demands a greater role by Vanderbilt University and the focusing of the regio.... Read More

Claritas Capital: Montgomery is now resident entrepreneur

Mar 01, 2010 at 08:53 am by miltcapps

Claritas Capital has confirmed e-commerce entrepreneur Mark Montgomery's arrival there as entrepreneur in residence. Montgomery, 42, is most closely associated with the found.... Read More

Consensus Point sets B-round, reveals Euro partnership

Mar 08, 2010 at 08:42 am by miltcapps

Consensus Point LLC, the Nashville-based predictive-markets provider, is preparing a B-round capital raise to accelerate its growth. In addition, Consensus Point got a potent.... Read More

State withdraws RFP for migrating data to $68MM center

Sep 24, 2008 at 11:26 am by miltcapps

For the second time time year, the State of Tennessee has withdrawn its request for proposals to migrate data from its current problem-riddled data center to a new facilty tha.... Read More

Applied Health Analytics aims for 'preemptive healthcare'

Mar 11, 2010 at 10:58 am by miltcapps

Applied Health Analytics is reaching for a national role in "preemptive healthcare services," and is preparing for a second round of capital recruitment. In a recent VNC inter.... Read More

Great Expectations: Informatics Corporation of America

Mar 18, 2010 at 08:04 am by miltcapps

Update March 1, 2018: ICA has sold to SSI Group of Mobile, Ala., which says it'll keep a presence here. CEO Gary Zegiestowski left in 2016. May 14, 2015: Nashville Business Jo.... Read More

NEWSBITS, March 18, 2010

Mar 18, 2010 at 12:19 pm by miltcapps

David Mason (left), who was CEO of Nashville-based StudioNow before its sale in January to AOL for $36.5 million, is now SVP of the AOL Content Platform, reporting to former G.... Read More

Local iTech hiring may be resurgent, but too soon to call

Mar 29, 2010 at 12:56 pm by miltcapps

Hiring in the Nashville information-technology community might be thawing-out, but no one really knows, for sure. A recent IT-hiring report from Nashville Technology Council.... Read More

Ferguson CEO of ClearPractice, backed by VC Doerr

Apr 05, 2010 at 04:28 am by miltcapps

Nashville's Gary Ferguson has been named president and CEO of ClearPractice LLC, an electronic medical records (EMR) and revenue-cycle spin-off backed by fabled venture capita.... Read More

Gov. Bredesen OK's fight-game overseers; Incubator CEO aims for martial-arts debut this fall

Jun 16, 2008 at 12:08 am by miltcapps

On Friday, Gov. Phil Bredesen signed into law a measure that creates a state commission to oversee boxing, kickboxing and mixed martial arts. The new law expands state o.... Read More

Uniguest reeling-in M&As, eyes digital-signage growth

Apr 01, 2010 at 11:30 am by miltcapps

Updated Dec. 22, 2016: Industry veteran Jeff Hiscox appointed CEO, succeeding Joseph Morgan, who served more than a year after succeeding John Bearden. Oct. 14, 2015: Uniguest.... Read More

Venture Nashville Calendar Update

Apr 03, 2010 at 05:39 pm by miltcapps

► Gov. Phil Bredesen's 8-year economic development push reaches a milestone Sept. 27-28, when the Administration convenes the 57th Annual Governor's Conference on Economic and.... Read More

Venture Notes, April 5, 2010

Apr 05, 2010 at 04:27 am by miltcapps

Gibson Guitar was recently under The FT's Debtwire microscope, in a story about pressures that might yet force reorganization of the privately held instrument maker. Sources.... Read More

Deep Cuts: <i>Songness</i> discovers 'invisible' performers

Dec 20, 2010 at 07:25 am by miltcapps

Songness, an online artist-rating and song-recommendation platform, is being upgraded and readied for formal launch, according to CEO Bill Geissler, a Shelbyville entrepr.... Read More

New $100MM venture fund creator retains 2nd Generation

Oct 01, 2008 at 08:40 am by miltcapps

Jon Yarbrough, creator of a new $100 million investment fund and founder-CEO of Smyrna-based Video Gaming Technologies, told VNC yesterday he has retained merchant banker 2nd.... Read More

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