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Nashville cryptocurrency founder adopts 'open kimono' for disclosure

Jan 17, 2017 at 12:00 pm by miltcapps

Updated 22 Aug. 2017 - UR Technology was apparently reconstituted as Kowala KUSD LLC (Dela.) in June 2017.-Ed. ACKNOWLEDGING both the interest and wariness that surround the.... Read More

FinTech: Iroquois Capital's payments startup doesn't rule-out capraise

Jul 09, 2015 at 03:15 pm by miltcapps

IROQUOIS Merchant Services LLC, an Iroquois Capital Group startup, has strong access to a network of investors, but after 2015 larger asset-acquisition opportunities may call.... Read More

Partnership 2010/Chamber call for 'Virtual Entrepreneur Center'

Oct 08, 2008 at 03:34 pm by miltcapps

The Entrepreneurship Task Force of the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce and Partnership 2010 today announced plans to create an online community to help connect local entrep.... Read More

UK exec views Nashville's 'unrivalled' pool of health execs

Feb 11, 2009 at 12:29 pm by miltcapps

During a recent business luncheon, Care UK Group Development Director Geoff Benn surveyed the sea of healthcare executives packed into the Nashville Convention Center. Benn l.... Read More

Harry Jacobson, Tony Harkin advance iCitizen civic-engagement platform

Dec 31, 2021 at 03:43 pm by miltcapps

INVESTOR and entrepreneur Harry Jacobson MD has quietly been backing the new iCitizen civic-tech engagement platform since 2019, the year he and cofounders shuttered a predece.... Read More

Healthcare entrepreneurs, investors convene tomorrow

Aug 03, 2009 at 07:30 am by miltcapps

The nation's early-stage venture capital community is "broken," and VCs are investing "later and safer" in proven companies, rather than in startups. Fort.... Read More

Nashville Software School eyes new offerings, leadership succession plans

Oct 19, 2016 at 12:30 pm by miltcapps

Updated July 25: The Greenville (S.C.) News reported July 20 that competitor Ironyard closing 15 sites, including Nashville.-Ed. JOHN WARK, a co-founder, president and self-av.... Read More

LaunchTN to ask 5-year, $44MM State support for maturing action plan

Jul 23, 2018 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

CEO Charlie Brock said his goal upon taking the reins of Launch Tennessee in January 2013 was always to "come in sprinting, and go out sprinting." Brock recently announced tha.... Read More

TN Innovation: State's artificial-intelligence sector may soon get good jolts

Jan 28, 2022 at 02:18 pm by miltcapps

Nashville startup PredictGov joins Duke Law Tech Lab, eyes capital raises

Jan 23, 2017 at 08:00 am by miltcapps

VANDERBILT Ph.D. candidate John Nay has won admittance for his PredictGov lawtech startup in the inaugural class of the Duke Law Tech Lab at Duke University. Nay told Venture.... Read More

DivorceSecure raising capital to reduce pains of parting

Jul 06, 2015 at 02:30 pm by miltcapps

DIVORCESECURE, a startup in Memphis' SeedHatchery accelerator, is working to raise $275K Seed capital, in hope of supplanting family-law paper-shuffling with smarter, more eff.... Read More

'Pinky Gonzales' meets the digital Age of Fanatics

Jan 17, 2011 at 06:01 pm by miltcapps

Editor's note: In a move apparently planned well in advance of this interview, Jansen subsequently relocated to Portland, Ore. The story as it originally appeared follows. Jo.... Read More

Sherry Deutschmann maps $7MM BrainTrust equity raise, new markets, credit fund

Sep 05, 2025 at 03:44 pm by miltcapps

FOUNDER-CEO Sherry Stewart Deutschmann is launching her Nashville-born BrainTrust women's business programs into Charlotte, Austin and other markets. She told Venture Na.... Read More

Startup Stroll preps $1.5MM Seed raise to catch destination-marketing wave

Oct 09, 2019 at 02:00 pm by miltcapps

STROLL, a Nashville destination-marketing and advertising technology startup, plans a $1.5MM Seed-capital raise, according to Co-founders John Mark "JM" Eberhardt, who is its.... Read More

TNInvestcos-funded 'S2 Interactive' debuts at Musculoskeletal venture forum

Sep 26, 2011 at 10:58 am by miltcapps

Larry Foster's S2 Interactive startup may stand-out in many ways during the Musculoskeletal New Ventures Conference, Oct. 18th in Memphis. Foster is S2's founder, president, C.... Read More

Mentor Capitalist: Gary Peat reboots after Council Capital

Apr 09, 2013 at 05:10 pm by miltcapps

GARY PEAT, the Nashville venture-capital executive known for his acumen and his patented intensity, has relaunched as an independent "mentor capitalist," after nearly 13 years.... Read More

New owner TJ Wilt pushes Cumberland Transit along e-commerce trail

Oct 21, 2013 at 07:07 pm by miltcapps

LOCAL INVESTOR TJ Wilt is now majority owner of Cumberland Transit (CT), and is pushing the West End retailer deeper into both e-commerce and East Nashville. CEO Wilt, age 37,.... Read More

Nashville Techies continually monitored by investors

Jan 05, 2010 at 07:01 am by miltcapps

This article was originally published by Digital Nashville, Jan. 4, 2010, with VNC's permission. Nashville's tech professionals may feel they toil in obscurity, but in fact th.... Read More

Twende: Black execs see entrepreneurship opportunities beyond hurdles

Feb 25, 2022 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

THE TRIO OF BLACK startup and investment executives who assembled last week for the "Twende" program at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center spoke of business lessons lear.... Read More

Pointing growth-oriented Founders to NVL's 6th Dealmakers Conference

Feb 07, 2025 at 08:58 am by miltcapps

Update: Due to Winter weather, this event rescheduled to May 1, 2025. Details. The link to the VNC Reader discount included in the story below remains available. IN 12.... Read More

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