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Growth-equity firm SSM Partners eyes Nashville investment opportunities

Apr 04, 2018 at 10:30 am by miltcapps

Update: Additional investments have been added to list below.-Ed. SSM PARTNERS, based in Memphis, is likely to make an additional four growth-equity investments in the next 1.... Read More

Jim Phillips CEO of relaunched XMI backed by Engelbrecht's SCI of Evansville

May 02, 2017 at 09:56 am by miltcapps

Updated July 25, 2017: XMI announced it bought 6-year-old accounting/CFO outsourced services company, ConServ Business Services, based in Nashville. XMI said in a release it n.... Read More

After 22 years, Tech2020 at OakRidge to cease pro-entrepreneurial efforts

Jan 26, 2016 at 02:30 pm by miltcapps

Updated 3 March 2016: Tech2020's Snider said it has received interest in acquiring its assets, including AutoXLr8r and key grant contracts. 8 Feb: T2020's board.... Read More

Nashville 49th among 60 cities in creating Tech jobs

Jun 24, 2008 at 06:51 am by miltcapps

UPDATE JUNE 27 - See comments on the report from NTC's Costantine, right here. As originally reported: Greater Nashville qualifies for membership in a group of 60 ".... Read More

Hard choices: TN venture scene pops with dozens of events just ahead

Jan 24, 2024 at 04:30 pm by miltcapps

Stepping back from the fray, we find there are a myriad of scheduled events just ahead. We've chosen to spotlight 40+ below. Errors are ours. Updates, corrections are w.... Read More

VenturePeople, Sept. 20, 2011

Sep 20, 2011 at 10:18 am by miltcapps

Today: Les Wilkinson of The Martin Cos., Si Deane of Baden and Luke Simons of Council Capital. Luke Simons W. LUCAS 'Luke' SIMONS told VNC he's having loads of fun he.... Read More

Shareable Ink names McGraw CEO, succeeding Founder Steve Hau

Jun 11, 2013 at 12:20 pm by miltcapps

Hal Andrews Update: Sept. 3, 2015 - The company announced shortening its name to Shareable. May 15, 2015 - Shareable Ink filed for a $4MM raise, with about $3MM in, i.... Read More

Civic engagement: iCitizen adds mathematicians,<br>CS experts to advance political transparency

May 12, 2015 at 09:15 am by miltcapps

iCitizen, a Nashville startup, has added to its team a talented mathematician and has acquired GovGraph interactive data-visualization technology to support civic engagement a.... Read More

Vanderbilt University taps UChicago Provost Diermeier as its 9th chancellor

Dec 04, 2019 at 12:15 pm by miltcapps

MONTHS ahead of the search pace originally set by its Board of Trust, Vanderbilt University today announced its 9th chancellor is to be Daniel Diermeier PhD, who is now the po.... Read More

TNInvestco: Welcome to the 'Messy World' of Capitalism

Mar 14, 2011 at 08:38 am by miltcapps

TNInvestco, the capital-formation and jobs-creation initiative crafted by a momentarily bi-partisan Tennessee General Assembly and the Administration of then-Gov. Phil Bredese.... Read More

Innovation chief McCullough leads 'Goal 7' push at Lipscomb University

Feb 08, 2025 at 01:23 pm by miltcapps

ON MONDAY, Feb. 10, Todd McCullough MBA is to take-up his duties as Lipscomb University's newly hired chief innovation officer (CIO), with priority assigned to achieving meani.... Read More

Gatto: Jumpstart commercialization ties with VU limited, but promising

Aug 18, 2014 at 11:00 am by miltcapps

JUMPSTART FOUNDRY (JSF) has a "sponsor-partner relationship" with the Vanderbilt Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization (CTTC), and one of the 10 teams pitching.... Read More

CEO: Nashville supply chain startup Vibronyx mulls growth-funding options

Jun 09, 2020 at 04:15 pm by miltcapps

Founder-CEO Clay Nicholas VIBRONYX Inc., the Nashville-based supply chain technology, data and business-process outsourcing services startup led by Founder, CEO and.... Read More

HealthDataSource unveils advisors for health data startup

Dec 19, 2010 at 11:21 am by miltcapps

HealthDataSource (HDS), the Nashville "healthcare service demand" market data and mapping startup, is being promoted by well-placed advisors and preparing to raise capital. F.... Read More

Before quiet sale to Atlas Copco, local entrepreneur<br> put Fivestone Partners to work beefing-up business

Feb 24, 2015 at 02:00 pm by miltcapps

PAUL IANNELLO, a Nashville-area mechanical engineer-become-entrepreneur, recently sold his company's intellectual property to his strategic partner of nearly two years, Atlas-.... Read More

Venture Notes - June 11, 2021

Jun 11, 2021 at 03:42 pm by miltcapps

ERM Legal Solutions startup is thinking big beyond its $1.25MM A round

Feb 13, 2012 at 06:08 am by miltcapps

ERM Legal Solutions, the Nashville startup that provides software for management of complex legal projects, is easing into a $1.25 MM A Round, according to Larry Bridgesmith,.... Read More

Venture Notes, April 5, 2010

Apr 05, 2010 at 04:27 am by miltcapps

Gibson Guitar was recently under The FT's Debtwire microscope, in a story about pressures that might yet force reorganization of the privately held instrument maker. Sources.... Read More

Passings: Celebration of Sal Novin's life set for 12/1 at NTCH Tech Hill

Nov 29, 2018 at 09:15 am by miltcapps

THROUGH it all, boldness, intelligence, sincerity and good cheer returned time and again to Saladin Ali "Sal" Novin as he pushed back against Glioblastoma. Comes now word that.... Read More

VUMC scientists seek partners for neuro-drug discovery

Mar 21, 2011 at 08:07 am by miltcapps

Vanderbilt University Medical Center scientists, allied institutions and industry partners may be stepping-up their assault on pharmaceutical business-as-usual via VU's n.... Read More

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