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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

LaunchTN selects partners for Statewide University Pitch Competition

Mar 11, 2016 at 03:31 pm by miltcapps

LAUNCH TENNESSEE (LaunchTN) announced today it has selected 17 entrepreneurially focused business competitions supported by ten host universities as partners in its statewide.... Read More

Crews Center for Entrepreneurship focus on startup talent development

Sep 18, 2014 at 09:45 am by miltcapps

Updated: Aug. 24, 2015 - Memphis Daily News reported Crews Center has launched a micro-Seed fund. Our 9/2014 story on the Center is below-Ed. TIGER STARTUP SCHOOL,.... Read More

FedEx pledges $750K for logistics accelerator in Memphis EPICenter

Dec 15, 2014 at 09:45 am by miltcapps

FEDEX Corporation and the leadership of Memphis' new EPICenter innovation initiative are expected to provide further details soon regarding a new logistics startup accelerator.... Read More

Memphis StartCo CEO updates Angel, Accelerator plans

Dec 18, 2014 at 09:45 am by miltcapps

ERIC MATHEWS told VTC the StartCo Angels group he leads has 10 Angels actively engaged, after adding "three or four" in the past year, through a deliberately "slow a.... Read More

TN innovators seek i6 Challenge grants for innovation, entrepreneurship

Sep 27, 2018 at 04:44 pm by miltcapps

This covers four i6/RIS proposals: Collaboratory | POC | NFA | Smart Cities - None of these proposals won in the 2018 RIS cycle. TENNESSEE institutions and their corporate and.... Read More

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

UMemphis FedEx Institute of Technology aims to be catalyst for Memphis, Tennessee innovation

Jul 12, 2016 at 05:15 am by miltcapps

THE FEDEX Institute Technology within the University of Memphis (UM) seeks to spur innovation statewide by investigating emerging technologies, breakthrough concepts and relat.... Read More

EPIcenter: Entrepreneurial 7.0 Quake in Memphis as accelerators erupt

Apr 19, 2016 at 02:00 pm by miltcapps

EPICENTER, serving as ground zero for unification of the Memphis startup-accelerator community, has joined with six other accelerator programs to accomplish a feat that defies.... Read More

TCRS private-equity commitments reach $900MM as Villere departs

May 13, 2013 at 06:44 am by miltcapps

Update: 28 January 2014 - TCRS announced that formerly Interim PE director Daniel Crews was named successor to Lamar Villere.-Ed.   MAJOR PLAYERS among national and global v.... Read More

Capital raise: Cabsolutely offers taxi consumers, operators an upgrade

Sep 25, 2014 at 03:45 am by miltcapps

Update: May 4, 2016 - Cabsolutely filed for a $500K raise here. Sept. 10, 2015 - Cabsolutely announced today it is live in Nashville in a partnership with Kwik Cab N.... Read More

Tennessee CRS private-equity Venrock play<br>weighted toward Technology, Healthcare

Jun 30, 2014 at 01:29 pm by miltcapps

TECHNOLOGY and Healthcare are the priorities of Venrock VII, which recently received a commitment of up to $35 million via the private-equity investment program of the Tenness.... Read More

CEO Kayla Graff maps SweetBio capital raises, market entries

Aug 16, 2018 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

Updates: May 31, 2019: MBJ reported the company's raise to date is $3.1MM; also, it just received 510k FDA clearance to market its Apis resorbable membrane made from honey, to.... Read More

TCRS CIO Brakebill provides update on PE investment, other programs

Apr 13, 2020 at 11:08 am by miltcapps

SINCE 2008, when Venture Nashville broke the news that TCRS, the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System, had gained authorization to invest in private equity and other alter.... Read More

HeadsUp: TN CRS private equity, Bioworks, Startup TN>Chile

Oct 06, 2014 at 06:30 am by miltcapps

BARTERSUGAR, the Memphis Upstart-powered business that supports mainly B2B trading, won't be pursuing its planned capraise, immediately, because Founder Layla T.... Read More

2025 TN venture calendar is bubbling, not yet boiling

Dec 26, 2024 at 02:55 pm by miltcapps

► OPEN: The Company Lab's Spring 2025 CO.LAB Sustainable Mobility Accelerator -- powered by partnership with gener8tor -- is accepting applications through Jan. 27. ► OPEN: Ap.... Read More

VNC's March 2025 Venture Calendar

Mar 02, 2025 at 05:32 pm by miltcapps

Comments welcomed via Milt@VentureNashville.com or LinkedIn. AHEAD: MARCH 2025 3 Epicenter, Alchemist Accelerator Hub and Memphis supply-chain industry invite startups and oth.... 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

NewsBits, February 7, 2011

Feb 07, 2011 at 07:53 am by miltcapps

Bill Evans Bill Evans, CEO and director of St. Jude Children Research Hospital in Memphis, and chairman of the Tennessee Technology Development Corporation (TTDC) boa.... Read More

VNC's April 2025 Venture Calendar

Mar 31, 2025 at 10:55 am by miltcapps

•West | •Central | •Eastern | •Other Below, April 2025 events appear first, then events farther out. APRIL 1 • Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health's VIGH Student Adv.... Read More
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