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Mobile in Memphis: SynapsePay's backers give Fintech startup rare footing

Jan 08, 2015 at 11:43 am by miltcapps

Updated: May 22, 2015: Memphis Daily News reported today that Synapse has raised $700K, mainly from Marchant and Webb, investors named in our Jan. 8 story, and from Hilliard C.... Read More

Jumpstart class arrives in a cloud of dust, as Gatto cooks-up Angel move

May 03, 2012 at 10:10 am by miltcapps

BIG DAY for Vic Gatto & Friends: The Solidus partner and Jumpstart Foundry founder this morning announced JSF's new class of entrepreneurs in Nashville. Also today, Gatto.... Read More

Venture Notes - June 30, 2021

Jun 30, 2021 at 07:45 am by miltcapps

Venture Notes -- Feb. 18, 2020

Feb 18, 2020 at 04:15 pm by miltcapps

Briovation drops Festival V, will instead draw on Health:Further<br>as it pursues innovation advisory roles + investor entrée

Jan 22, 2019 at 08:00 am by miltcapps

BRIOVATION has shelved this year's plan for Health:Further™ Festival V in Nashville, in order to focus more of the company's resources on helping strategic partners advance he.... Read More

Proponents of 'OneC1ty' techbiz campus may need a bigger Bandwagon

Dec 07, 2011 at 09:50 am by miltcapps

Updated 14 Dec. 2012: The Tennessean reports that construction on the first medical building, a 100K SF facility with a clinical-practice tenant, is likely to begin in 1H13. A.... Read More

Quick Take: New Seed fund may be on RightSide

Mar 01, 2010 at 10:50 am by miltcapps

Some experts say the "seed-stage" venture model is broken and even Angels are seed-averse. Meanwhile, here in Tennessee the new TNInvestco funds have been encourage.... Read More

Wink! Vanderbilt Owen grad's Georgie Beauty venture is NY-LA-focused

Nov 20, 2012 at 11:42 am by miltcapps

MEGAN ALLEN didn't seem to bat an eye when asked whether her Georgie Beauty cosmetics venture will ever headquarter in Nashville. Georgie's lead offering is its Winks by Georg.... Read More

Cable industry's Briggs ready for General Assembly return

Jan 05, 2009 at 09:12 pm by miltcapps

The Cable industry's Stacey Briggs spends much of the year amid a swirl of legislative, regulatory and consumer issues. With more than 11 years as president of the Tenne.... Read More

People: First EPIcenter Memphis President now deep in community engagement

Jul 14, 2015 at 12:00 pm by miltcapps

EPIcenter Memphis President Leslie Lynn Smith is having "real, honest conversations" with Memphians about strengths and gaps within the city's business ecosystem, and before L.... Read More

Haslam Admin eyes AgLaunch support for TN rural entrepreneurs, growers

Nov 12, 2014 at 10:00 am by miltcapps

Updated 18 Nov. 2014 - During the annual Global Action Platform (GAP) conference in Nashville yesterday, Cambridge Holdings Chairman-CEO Jean-Claude Saada annou.... Read More

$5MM E-Dough: Edo Interactive re-loads with local VCs

Oct 06, 2008 at 03:49 am by miltcapps

Nashville-based edô Interactive has closed a $5 million Series A round of funding, with investment from venture-capital firms Claritas Capital and Clayton Associates. The rais.... Read More

LaunchTN: McWhorter board resignation adds to agency's to-do's

Jan 27, 2015 at 01:15 pm by miltcapps

Update: See ECD comment added below.-Ed. LAUNCHTN, led by CEO Charlie Brock and new Chairman and State Economic Development Commissioner Randy Boyd, has an ample list of to-d.... Read More

PlayMakerCRM's backer Mainsail Partners ranks<br>Nashville best for bootstrapping healthcare

Apr 16, 2018 at 02:15 pm by miltcapps

Updates: 4 February 2020: Griscavage now Exec Chairman with firm's former VP-CTO Gregg Boyle now CEO. Release here. July 17, 2018 - PlayMaker acquired Vibra Health, its previo.... Read More

Vanderbilt University Innovation Center's first chief to be Robert Grajewski

Feb 01, 2016 at 12:00 pm by miltcapps

ROBERT S. GRAJEWSKI, a North Carolina entrepreneur, has been chosen through a national search to be the first executive director of the new Vanderbilt University Innovation Ce.... Read More

Venture Notes -- August 21, 2019

Aug 21, 2019 at 02:42 pm by miltcapps

Regional Roundup, Nov. 7, 2011

Nov 07, 2011 at 05:48 am by miltcapps

Erik Carlson Streamweaver may be in self-avowed "stealth" mode, but LinkedIn indicates the TNInvestco-backed company is the result of an acquisition and it has a new.... Read More

Edtech: RANDA Solutions says growth precedes outside-money decision

Feb 25, 2019 at 03:30 pm by miltcapps

RANDA Solutions is now sharply focused on supporting state-level efforts to manage teacher effectiveness data and plans to hold in abeyance making a decision about inorganic g.... Read More

Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, experts sought for LSTN statewide network

May 04, 2015 at 12:00 pm by miltcapps

LIFESCIENCE entrepreneurs-in-residence, mentors and other experts are being recruited to provide startup founders additional savvy and connections for their fledgling Tennesse.... Read More

Entrepreneurs, VCs, TTDC mobilize for venture funding

Mar 03, 2010 at 03:06 pm by miltcapps

Tennessee Technology Development Corporation is mobilizing entrepreneurs to nurture startups, create jobs and sustain State funding for TTDC, itself. For example, coming soon.... Read More

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