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UPDATE: Pathfinder Therapeutics is back on the money trail

May 20, 2008 at 01:48 pm by miltcapps

During an interview with VNC yesterday, Pathfinder Therapeutics President and CEO Paul MacDonald expressed confidence his company won't be forced to emigrate from Nashville in.... Read More

Owen 'consultants' boosting nine top companies

Jun 24, 2008 at 11:32 am by miltcapps

UPDATE: Despite Levine's confidence, judging June 27 resulted in another proposal winning -- a mixed-use plan dubbed "Between the Bridges." Levine's proposal ranked.... Read More

Special Report: Cogent Healthcare and the Big Bang

Jul 23, 2008 at 07:56 am by miltcapps

Economically, of course, there's a big difference between building, owning and managing hospitals – versus running a business that provides hospitalist physicians&n.... Read More

Nashville 'venture creed' could be powerful

Apr 15, 2008 at 01:03 pm by miltcapps

Google has shaken and stirred the world by harnessing intelligence, technology and a corporate creed that draws a line in the sand: "Don't be evil." While some se.... Read More

VU spin-out ICA promotes Med Center ties

Jul 31, 2008 at 11:42 am by miltcapps

The VNC Reader's Guide to the Best of 2008

Jan 02, 2009 at 02:15 pm by miltcapps

VNC's MOST READ STORY OF 2008: State of Tennessee to Invest $900 Million in Private-Equity alternatives VNC NEWS THREADS 2008 ► 2008 VENTURE COMMUNITY CULTURE AND VALUES.... Read More

Opening gambit: DisastersNet partners with HealthStream

Jan 13, 2009 at 06:25 am by miltcapps

Update: This company changed its name to ReadyPoint Health in April 2014, backed by Martin Ventures and others, and focusing on hospital rounding and compliance management Saa.... Read More

Petra Capital's Blackburn: Maybe 'everyone's on-strike'

Jan 27, 2009 at 10:00 pm by miltcapps

Injecting wry humor into discussion of the nation's woebegone economy, Mike Blackburn said the slowdown has left him "feelin' a little idle." Then, during an interv.... Read More

STHS Ventures 'accelerates' companies reshaping healthcare

Feb 05, 2009 at 10:39 am by miltcapps

STHS Ventures, a unit within Saint Thomas Health Services, helps accelerate early-stage companies that could transform and improve healthcare delivered by community hospitals..... Read More

HealthStream faces another round of challenges

Apr 28, 2008 at 06:33 am by miltcapps

One can only wonder whether 43-year-old Jeff Doster (at left) of Brentwood has yet listened to the online replay of HealthStream's April 23 conference call with analysts. D.... 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

Venture Notes -- April 20, 2009

Apr 20, 2009 at 01:47 pm by miltcapps

Startup-oriented VC Innova Memphis, a division of [corrected] Memphis Bioworks led by President Ken Woody, announced it has invested in 7-year-old Memphis venture Cagenix Inc..... Read More

Informatics Corp. 'no longer a startup', imagines IPO

Apr 27, 2009 at 10:18 am by miltcapps

Informatics Corporation of America asserts it has graduated from the ranks of health IT startups. The pronouncement by Gary Zegiestowski, CEO of the West End Avenue company,.... Read More

Pathfinder Therapeutics gets $5.2MM A-round infusion

Oct 30, 2008 at 01:06 pm by miltcapps

Pathfinder Therapeutics' wandering in the VC desert has ended with announcement it has closed a $5.2 million round of funding, led by Hatteras Venture Partners of Research Tri.... Read More

CredenceHealth leverages Angel money and Feds' pressure

May 14, 2009 at 08:58 am by miltcapps

Note: CredenceHealth sold in March 2011 to Xerox's Affiliated Computer Services, release here. Data Advantage, referred to in this story, was sold in 2010 to sector consolidat.... Read More

NEWSBITS May 26, 2009

May 26, 2009 at 10:22 am by miltcapps

VNC has learned scholar-entrepreneur Harry Jacobson's (at left) new office is at 3401 West End, where many tenants are VU or VU-linked offices and businesses. Jacobson's term.... Read More

Bredesen's Qualifacts, NC ally push for e-health consortia

Jun 16, 2009 at 02:55 pm by miltcapps

Updated: NBJ reported April 14, 2016, that Qualifacts now has about 150 FTE and forecasts strong organic growth.-Ed. Nashville's Qualifacts Inc. and strategically well-placed.... Read More

World Trade Center in Nashville moves closer to reality

May 01, 2008 at 02:22 pm by miltcapps

Venture Nashville has confirmed that a Nashville entrepreneur has secured a license to create a World Trade Center in Middle Tennessee. Robert Thompson said his application to.... Read More

Tech commerce: Leadership shakeup reported at UT Research Foundation

Jun 25, 2009 at 12:15 pm by miltcapps

Updated, Oct. 30, 2009: Randy Gentry, a professor of engineering at UT-Knoxville, was earlier this month named president of UTRF, succeed Fred Tompkins. Our story as original.... Read More

Medical Trade Center rivalry simmering twixt Nashville and New York

Jul 14, 2009 at 01:17 pm by miltcapps

If it involved a new musical opening on Broadway, New York City might wish Nashville and Cleveland good luck, by saying "Break a Leg!" as the curtain rises. In real.... Read More

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