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Metro Innovation: Music City Center adopts<br> VUSE Prof's wayfinding app by startup Ziiio

Nov 12, 2014 at 10:15 am by miltcapps

METRO Nashville's Music City Center has adopted the Ziiio mobile wayfinding app for those who might get lost amid MCC's 1.2MM square feet of meeting and exhibition space. Zii.... Read More

Mid-TN plan boosts universities, entrepreneurs, accelerators + businesses

Dec 04, 2014 at 10:00 am by miltcapps

THREE of Middle Tennessee's state universities are jointly exploring creation of a Distributed Research Park (MT-DRP) to drive technology commercialization and generate attrac.... Read More

Kozicki: Brentwood Capital Advisors eyes pure-play Technology deals

Dec 18, 2014 at 01:06 pm by miltcapps

PURE-PLAY TECHNOLOGY companies in Nashville seem likely to get unprecedented attention from 15-year-old Brentwood Capital Advisors (BCA). Recently appointed BCA Managing Dire.... Read More

Feb. 13 event: Nashville+TN financial-tech accelerator options

Feb 10, 2015 at 05:00 am by miltcapps

Update: Speaker added below, Feb. 10, 2015. TECHNOLOGY for the Financial sector is hot. Should Nashville host a new FinTech Accelerator or create a FinTech program partnered w.... Read More

Nashville's Maxwell: PE-backed Ipreo 'absolutely' has more FinTech targets

Jan 21, 2015 at 07:55 am by miltcapps

IPREO, the international financial-technologies company with PE backing and an expanding Nashville division, has its eyes on further M&A prospects. Ipreo's Nashville-base.... Read More

Nashville Technology Council dips cyber-toe into public policy waters

Feb 02, 2015 at 08:00 am by miltcapps

NASHVILLE Technology Council (NTC) recently became affiliated with a grassroots industry coalition that advocates federal, state and regional policies that it asserts are "imp.... Read More

CampusQuad: Ingram Content announces 2d Edtech investment in five days

Feb 02, 2015 at 08:15 am by miltcapps

Update 15 Dec. 2015: ICG bought Aer.io Retail Network, a content sales and fulfillment platform developed by Invention Arts, in which Ingram had previously invested. Our Feb..... 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

U.S. health Tech startup challenge has Jumpstart tie-in, 3/27 deadline

Mar 02, 2015 at 03:36 pm by miltcapps

JUMPSTART FOUNDRY here is partnering with the Multi-City Innovation Campaign (MCIC), a national program that aims to provide some healthcare technology startups cash from citi.... Read More

Nashville's longer-term role as StartupBus destination not guaranteed

Mar 03, 2015 at 02:30 pm by miltcapps

STARTUPBUS, the business cooker on wheels, expects to off-load nearly 200 entrepreneurs from its six buses in Nashville, just ahead of LaunchTN's 36|86 conference, June 8-10..... Read More

Update: FinTech accelerator initiative in Nashville+Tennessee

Mar 16, 2015 at 10:30 am by miltcapps

FINTECH NASHVILLE at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center on Feb. 13 featured an executive panel that seemed to galvanize an audience of roughly 120, and set the stage for cultiv.... Read More

Data-centric WPC Healthcare eyes capital raise to deepen Taproot

Mar 19, 2015 at 04:03 pm by miltcapps

Update: On 4 April 2017, Intermedix and WPC Healthcare announced Intermedix had acquired WPC, with Guzman joining as SVP. On Sept. 30, 2015, WPC Healthcare announced managemen.... Read More

Stuart McWhorter succeeds Burcham as CEO of Nashville Entrepreneur Center

Apr 02, 2015 at 10:57 am by miltcapps

Note: The following release was issued today by The Strategy Group, which represents Ingram Industries, among other clients.-Ed. John R. Ingram, Chairman of the Board of Dire.... Read More

Indigo Woman: CEO says Stony Creek Colors' capraise awaits pilot results

Apr 07, 2015 at 01:00 pm by miltcapps

STONY CREEK COLORS' decision on a capital raise awaits results from Indigo crop-production scale-up tests this summer, said Sarah Bellos, the company's founder, CEO and majori.... Read More

Nashville's Roger Brown sells Segway, but continues M&A

Apr 15, 2015 at 10:15 am by miltcapps

ROGER BROWN, the 45-year-old Brentwood entrepreneur and investor, has sold his Segway scooter business, but is still buying companies that are "asset rich, with anemic cash fl.... Read More

Project Music Showcase: EarIQ leverages IP, charts B2Consumer push

Apr 23, 2015 at 08:45 am by miltcapps

Update: Davis confirmed for VNC 27 April that the company's raise target is $480K. Also, he revealed during the Showcase that's its Auto-sector letter of intent (LOI) is with.... Read More

TN General Assembly devises For-Profit Benefit Corp. option

Apr 23, 2015 at 08:45 am by miltcapps

ENTREPRENEURS who want to keep public benefits as part of their companies' missions may soon be at less risk of shareholder complaints about creating a drag on profits. Short.... Read More

Local investors said acquiring Nashville exec-search business<br>as Salt Lake firm drops Nashville from Tech-city list

Apr 29, 2015 at 02:45 pm by miltcapps

Update 8 Jan. 2016 - NY-based MTS Health Advisors said they made a strategic investment in HCCA of undislosed magnitude.-Ed. NASHVILLE doesn't yet fit the mold of cities with.... Read More

XMi Holdings' XMi High Growth & Opportunity Fund sets $20MM fund raise

Apr 30, 2015 at 04:00 pm by miltcapps

XMi High Growth & Opportunity Fund LP, affiliated with Nashville-based XMi Holdings, yesterday reported to the SEC that it is pursuing a $20MM fund raise, and as of April.... Read More

Internet of Things: BKON Connect tacks toward Seed and Series A raises

May 06, 2015 at 04:15 pm by miltcapps

Update: BKON reported to SEC 2 Nov. 2015 that it's raised nearly $1MM capital. The original VNC story of May 6, 2015, is below-Ed. BKON Connect is crossing that ocean known as.... Read More

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