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Publishing startup Leafless pivots, plots course to profits + 1440 Demo Day

Apr 11, 2016 at 02:30 pm by miltcapps

LEAFLESS, the startup that began life as self-publishing e-platform Screwpulp, remains staunchly pro-author, but has toned-down its moxie and pivoted its business model to pur.... Read More

Venture Notes - 12 April 2016

Apr 12, 2016 at 04:15 pm by miltcapps

ROUNDUP: Nashville Edge - Amplion CEO - HCCA Kudos! - Council Capital Pilot/Flying J Health:Further - John Murdock - Joe Kustelski - EdTech - Proton capraise - LaunchTN.... Read More

Vanderbilt University Board of Trust taps Private Equity execs as chairs

Apr 25, 2016 at 02:00 pm by miltcapps

Updated April 22, 2017: Evans and Rothschild assume their duties July 1, 2017.-Ed. VANDERBILT University said Friday the next leaders of its Board of Trust are to be Chairman-.... Read More

PYA Analytics keeps Healthcare emphasis, mulls eventual MD Radio capital raise or sale and welcomes opportunities in other verticals

Apr 28, 2016 at 06:15 pm by miltcapps

PYA ANALYTICS, the Knoxville-based Big Data wranglers and management consultants, has created startup subsisidary MD Radio Inc. (MyDowntownRadio) and targets up to 55 U.S. mar.... Read More

Entrepreneurs sought for Nashville Business Incubation Center

Jun 30, 2009 at 09:11 am by miltcapps

The 23-year-old Nashville Business Incubation Center downtown seeks to fill a record number of entrepreneur-tenant vacancies. NBIC Director Mildred Townsend Walters (at right.... Read More

Healthcare: SEMDA Nashville event affirms<br>connections of Devices, IT/Data, Services

May 06, 2016 at 01:15 pm by miltcapps

May 16: See updated startup list below. -Ed. FOR the first time in a decade, Music City's HealthIT and Healthcare Services sectors, as well as its budding Medical Devices indu.... Read More

Message at Samford bears McWhorter legacy and son's challenge to serve

May 09, 2016 at 03:30 pm by miltcapps

Clayton McWhorter1933-2016 CLAYTON Associates Chairman Stuart McWhorter, immediate past-CEO of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, addressed Samford University's Comme.... Read More

Venture Notes - May 11, 2016

May 11, 2016 at 05:13 pm by miltcapps

Travis Broome RESONANCE defined: When Vanderbilt School of Medicine Dean Jeff Balser MD PHD tells his Health:Further audience, as he did yesterday, that each day, yea.... Read More

NEA partner eyes 'huge opportunity' for Nashville healthcare technologists

May 16, 2016 at 10:45 am by miltcapps

FOR A MOMENT, New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Partner Mohamad Makhzoumi seemed ready to accord Nashville something like a gentleman's "C" on healthcare technology, but landed.... Read More

VU Space-Defense institute growing on Music Row

Jul 06, 2009 at 08:22 am by miltcapps

Vanderbilt University's Institute for Space and Defense Electronics anticipates further growth after its impending relocation to Music Row. ISDE Director Ron Schrimpf, Ph.D..... Read More

AgLaunch accelerator launches, powered by Memphis Bioworks, TNDA allies

May 16, 2016 at 09:00 am by miltcapps

Updated: June 22, 2018 - AgLaunch became AgLaunch Initiative.-Ed. AGLAUNCH Accelerator launches this week under co-sponsorship of the Tennessee Department of Agriculture.... Read More

Prominently backed YouScience startup sets $2.5MM capital raise

Jun 17, 2016 at 02:00 pm by miltcapps

Updated 18 April 2017: YouScience reported 17 April it had raised about $2MM of a roughly $3.75MM target raise.-Ed. YouScience, the East Nashville-based startup that helps yo.... Read More

NeighborMD's $2.5MM raise attracts Nashville Capital Network

Jan 09, 2012 at 09:00 am by miltcapps

Updated 7 Feb. 11:56 a.m.: NeighborMD today announced the successful closing of this round. The story as it appeared Jan. 9, 2012, follows. NeighborMD Management, the.... Read More

Steve Case: Nashville entrepreneurial scene can be 'better still'

Jul 20, 2016 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

THOUGH the national startup scene has gotten "a little hypey some places," Nashville's entrepreneurial arena doesn't seem overly burdened by hype, said Steve Case, the AOL co-.... Read More

Entrepreneur, Angel investor Freedman still has eye for startups<br>after selling majority of tents-events biz to PE funds

Jul 21, 2016 at 02:45 pm by miltcapps

NASHVILLE Angel investor Joe Freedman may have a bigger cache of pixie dust for startup investments following the sale of majority interest in Nashville and Atlanta tents and.... Read More