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March 18 app deadline for EPIcenter Logistics Innovation Accelerator

Feb 17, 2016 at 06:30 pm by miltcapps

THE APPLICATIONS window for the 2016 EPIcenter Logistics Innovation Accelerator in Memphis is to close March 18. The 15-week accel.... 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

Leslie Lynn Smith: Detroit transformer hired to lead EPICenter in Memphis

Feb 17, 2015 at 10:30 am by miltcapps

Press Release MEMPHIS -- Nationally recognized entrepreneurial and business development leader Leslie Lynn Smith has been selected as president of the Entrepreneurs.... 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

Entrepreneurial deadline looms for Logistics Industry Opportunity Challenge

Sep 04, 2024 at 01:42 pm by miltcapps

ENTREPRENEURS seeking to operationalize and scale logistics and supply-chain businesses in one of four industry domains have through Sept. 13 to apply for admission to Memphis.... Read More

Ido Sarig a venture-driver for Alchemist Accelerator, Epicenter, UMemphis

Jul 29, 2025 at 01:00 pm by miltcapps

IN JANUARY, Memphis venture expert Ido Sarig sailed past the second anniversary of his efforts to help drive dealflow, techcentric commercialization and startup growth in the.... 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

Memphis' Epicenter meets FedEx challenge, nets $40M for entrepreneurship

Sep 26, 2018 at 02:00 pm by miltcapps

THE EPICENTER brand under which Vibrant Memphis Inc. pursues its entrepreneurship and economic development goals was burnished further today by word that the nonprofit has suc.... Read More

Epicenter CEO: Mobilizing Black-owned firms can bring Memphis surge

Jan 15, 2019 at 09:00 am by miltcapps

Epicenter is the hub of the Memphis region's entrepreneurial ecosystem. Our team wakes up every day thinking about the opportunities our nonprofit organization and our network.... 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

Five medtech startups inducted into Memphis Epicenter’s ZeroTo510 accelerator

Sep 17, 2025 at 08:45 am by miltcapps

Epicenter, the Memphis regional entrepreneurship center, announced the admission of five early-stage medtech startups to its ZeroTo510 accelerator. ZeroTo510 Programs Di.... Read More

Memphis readies ZeroTo510 medical-device accelerator cohort for 2015

May 12, 2015 at 12:30 pm by miltcapps

Release submitted by Jessica Taveau, director-marketing, Memphis Bioworks Foundation Four entrepreneurial teams have been selected for the 2015 ZeroTo510 Medical Device Accel.... 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

Memphis-based StartCo, EPICenter run 2015 squad of accelerators

Aug 19, 2015 at 01:45 pm by miltcapps

Five Memphis-based accelerators have an aggregate 19 startups in 2015. They are: EPICenter Logistics Innovation Accelerator (EPICenter; 2015 Sponsor: FedEx) Burro&nbs.... Read More

Launch Tennessee names Partnerships Coordinator

Jul 18, 2019 at 03:36 pm by miltcapps

ASHLIN WILDUN shouldered her duties as partnerships coordinator a week or so ago within Launch Tennessee, aka Tennessee Technology Development Corporation, TTDC. Wildun was fo.... Read More

Epicenter Memphis's ZeroTo510 accelerator builds on fresh momentum

Jan 01, 2025 at 04:14 pm by miltcapps

VNC offers this heads-up to med-device and other med-tech innovators contemplating applying for the next cohort of the Epicenter Memphis's ZeroTo510 accelerator program. Appli.... Read More

Soundways 1st Music startup funded via Consortium/StartCo partnership

May 20, 2016 at 02:30 pm by miltcapps

Memphis-based Soundways Inc. has gotten the initial accelerator investment through the Start MMT (Memphis Music Town) program created by nonprofit Consortium MMT and.... Read More

LaunchTN Regional Seed Fund eyes startup investments in 82 of 95 TN counties

Jan 23, 2025 at 11:18 am by miltcapps

Investment requests from TN regions other than Nashville have priority Impact of preferences for 82 counties' startups to be assessed by early April Nashville opportunity bul.... Read More

Chattanooga accelerator, $12MM Fund target Logistics, Drones, Software

Mar 28, 2016 at 12:45 pm by miltcapps

Updated: Sept. 13, 2016 - TFP reported the raise came in at $18MM. Earlier: The first 10-team cohort for Dynamo was announced July 8, 2016, here. Our.... Read More

Venture fusion: LaunchTN's 36|86 attracts People, Ideas, Capital

May 20, 2015 at 10:00 am by miltcapps

LAUNCHTN's 36|86 conference June 8-10 is arguably the most visible stratagem in Tennessee's campaign to establish the state as "the best place in the Southeast to start and gr.... Read More

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