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Coffee Minute:<br>Bass Berry IPO 'roadmap' could help in following Ayers' or other IPOs

Sep 12, 2016 at 12:31 pm by miltcapps

Bass Berry & Sims' new Blueprint for IPO pops-out just as some are hoping financial winds are about to shift and fill IPO sails. The possible lift comes after pipeline slu.... Read More

Update: Nashville Fintech, Blockchain initiatives

Sep 16, 2016 at 07:00 am by miltcapps

VNC Publisher's Update on Fintech/blockchain, An Offer and A Request for Readers: THE UPDATE: FINTECH was the topic that drew 120+ of us together in the jam-packed Learni.... Read More

Innovation Crossroads: ORNL Energy-startup accelerator aborning

Sep 19, 2016 at 11:30 am by miltcapps

Updated: Sept. 20, 2016 - 1439 - A DOE spokesman told VTC this morning the new program represents a "node" on DOE's Tech-to-Market's Lab Embedded Entrepreneurship Program.... Read More

Bredesen: Straight talk on HealthIT, procurement and 'Darwinian tensions'

Sep 19, 2016 at 03:54 pm by miltcapps

FORMER Governor Phil Bredesen told his HiMSS Summit of the Southeast audience Sept. 14 that his 16 years as Governor of Tennessee, Mayor of Metro/Nashville and the founder of.... Read More

Hurdl Enterprises $1.8MM Seed raise afoot for direct-fan marketing

Sep 22, 2016 at 02:45 pm by miltcapps

Updated 13 June 17 - Hurdl says in release here that it completed its Seed at $2.5MM and completed the TechStars accelerator and has added luminaries to its advisory board. 7.... Read More

Update: Glow Motion Technologies at $5MM rev, mulls capital, partnerships

Sep 22, 2016 at 02:32 pm by miltcapps

GLOW MOTION Technologies, an early-growth stage Nashville startup with technology that lights and excites audiences, is profitable and projecting revenue north of $5MM for the.... Read More

Launch Tennessee's Courtney Corlew joins SFO's Bulleit Group PR firm here

Sep 22, 2016 at 05:45 pm by miltcapps

COURTNEY CORLEW, Launch Tennessee's director for communications and the annual 36|86 conference, will join the Nashville office The Bulleit Group, a San Francisco-based public.... Read More

Nashville's Project Music at the EC searches for Entrepreneur in Residence

Sep 30, 2016 at 08:47 am by miltcapps

PROJECT MUSIC is looking for an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) and Music Industry Lead to advance the two-year-old program, which places priority on helping entrepreneurs in.... Read More

Venture Capital, HealthTech sessions are Oct. 4 at Entrepreneur Center

Sep 30, 2016 at 11:15 am by miltcapps

NASHVILLE Entrepreneur Center is the site Tuesday morning, Oct. 4, for panel discussions on Venture Capital and on Nashville's leadership opportunity in Health-sector technolo.... Read More

Next Awards 2016 finalists from Chamber, Entrepreneur Center

Oct 09, 2016 at 11:41 am by miltcapps

The 6th Annual Next Awards are sponsored by Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce and Nashville Entrepreneur Center. The Next Awards are to be presented Nov. 17, 2016. Finalists:.... Read More

Martin, O'Rourke lead formation of new ROND Capital buyout firm

Oct 14, 2016 at 11:45 am by miltcapps

[Updated 8 Feb 2019 - O'Rourke wrote this morning that she and Martin have shuttered ROND Capital.-Ed. ENTREPRENEUR Charlie Martin and Fund Manager Danielle O'Rourke are launc.... Read More

Faros Healthcare names board chair, as Centerstone plan advances

Oct 24, 2016 at 04:08 pm by miltcapps

Updated August 2017 - Company's name changed to Raiven Healthcare. 31 Oct 2016 - Centerstone said in a release it generates about $310MM revenue and has 4,500 employees in 5 s.... Read More

Former US Senator Frist 'cautiously optimistic'<br>nation will address healthcare effectively

Oct 27, 2016 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

BILL FRIST M.D., the cardiothoracic surgeon and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader, said today he is "cautiously optimistic" there "will be a window of about two years" after.... Read More

TN Comptroller: TNInvestco program 'doesn't appear successful'

Nov 10, 2016 at 01:00 pm by miltcapps

[The Comptroller's full technical report is here. PREVIOUS VENTURENASHVILLE COVERAGE HERE and BACKGROUNDER HERE. -Editor] From a release today from the Office of the State Com.... Read More

2016 Next Awards by Nashville Chamber, Entrepreneur Center

Nov 18, 2016 at 07:07 am by miltcapps

The Next Awards for entrepreneurship, sponsored by the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce and the Nashville Entrepreneur Center (EC), with presenting sponsor Lipscomb Universi.... Read More

Big Win!? Edgenet sells control stake to P/E Marlin Equity Partners

Nov 21, 2016 at 08:30 am by miltcapps

Update: Edgenet announced Jan. 7, 2019 its sale to Chicago-based Gladson, owned by NYC-based The Jordan Co. private-equity firm and Wicks Capital Partners. - Ed. EDGENET, the.... Read More

Emma bulks-up further with SaaS industry-veteran CFO, CRO hires

Dec 07, 2016 at 09:33 am by miltcapps

Updated: 10 Oct. 2017 - NBJ today reports Emma has been sold to Insight Venture Partners on undisclosed terms. Insight previously invested in Nashville's Leankit. Venture Nash.... Read More

B2B: Chalkline Sports in $1MM Seed raise for bettor-content platform

Jan 09, 2017 at 09:00 am by miltcapps

CHALKLINE Sports, a Nashville startup mobile media technology company that powers platforms for online communities and marketplaces of sports bettors, is coming out of stealth.... Read More

Gov. Haslam says ECD Commissioner Randy Boyd returning to private sector

Jan 09, 2017 at 03:52 pm by miltcapps

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam today announced Department of Economic and Community Development (ECD) Commissioner Randy Boyd will return to the private sector February 1, serving.... Read More

Outgrowing startup ranks, Confirmation.com keeps pushing its envelope

Jan 17, 2017 at 12:30 pm by miltcapps

Updated 21 June 2019: Capital Confirmation has agreed to sell on undisclosed terms to Thomson Reuters, release here. Overall coverage of the company here. Update: 18 Aug. 2017.... Read More

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