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Studio Bank's Shmerling offers reality check for Nashville entrepreneurs

Feb 06, 2019 at 03:36 pm by miltcapps

EARLY-STAGE Studio Bank brands itself with an iconic French bulldog and aims to serve entrepreneurs and other Creatives in Nashville and beyond. The de novo bank recently adde.... Read More

EC-CMA-backed Project Music announces large Portfolio class

Mar 06, 2019 at 10:40 am by miltcapps

The Nashville Entrepreneur Center and Country Music Association (CMA) today announced their cohort of 16 music tech startups, including five based in the Nashville area, all o.... Read More

Nashville EC's 'Twende' event focuses on Black, Brown founders' funding

Mar 19, 2019 at 02:11 pm by miltcapps

THE FORTHCOMING Twende Summit at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center is 'designed to connect Black and Brown founders with the networks, knowledge, and resources to help them gr.... Read More

Jamari Brown succeeds Wiltshire as Nashville Mayor Briley's ECD lead

Mar 28, 2019 at 12:44 pm by miltcapps

Metro Nashville/Davidson County Mayor David Briley today announced experienced jobs developer Jamari Brown as the new director of the Mayor's Office of Economic and Community.... Read More

Jumpstart Foundry's 2019 healthcare startup cohort listed

May 21, 2019 at 06:51 am by miltcapps

The 2019 Jumpstart Foundry cohort includes the 15 firms listed below, plus two that will not be released til autumn. More on the JSF portfolio here. The teams are to vi.... Read More

Venture Notes -- June 18, 2019

Jun 18, 2019 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

. Today: Ross' AlienFast & AdvisoryIntake | Miller's Everyday Esports Kevin Ross KEVIN ROSS, now 45, is coming out of near-stealth with a debut proof-of-c.... Read More

Renewables: ETN's Genera Energy has Series B capital raise underway

Sep 11, 2014 at 03:27 pm by miltcapps

Updated: Dec. 11, 2014 - Genera announced it had arranged $4MM growth financing from Boston-based WindSail Capital Group.-Ed. GENERA ENERGY, the bioma.... Read More

Crypto-blockchain attorney, ops exec Rosenblatt joins Thesis* studio

Jul 19, 2019 at 03:45 pm by miltcapps

JOSH ROSENBLATT, previously general counsel and SVP Development of Nashville-based BTC Inc., is now general counsel and head of operations for Card for Coin Inc., which does b.... Read More

Commentary: Nashville Entrepreneur Center<br> search committee chair on EC CEO search

Jul 25, 2019 at 01:00 pm by miltcapps

Beth Chase Beth Chase is chair emeritus of the board of directors of Nashville Entrepreneur Center and chair of the EC search committee charged with finding a success.... Read More

StudioNow spinning-out Octerra marcom startup, conference debut ahead

Sep 16, 2019 at 03:53 pm by miltcapps

Updated: 17 Sept. 2020: Corts departed Octerra for Fresh Technology. 27 Jan 2020: NBJ reported today Octerra will raise $3MM-$5MM this year. VNC's 9/19 story is below. - Ed..... Read More

Capraises filed by Council Capital, Music City Baseball,<br>Revolution Partners, Dynamo, SweetBio

Sep 18, 2019 at 01:57 pm by miltcapps

Grant Jackson COUNCIL CAPITAL IV LP and parallel fund Council Capital IV NQP LP of Nashville filed yesterday, Sept. 17, for a planned $200MM pooled investment fund, w.... Read More

Pharos Capital Partners Fund IV-A filing eyes $250M healthcare investing

Oct 10, 2019 at 04:30 pm by miltcapps

Updated 25 July 2024: Pharos filed 23 July 2024 updating Pharos Capital Partners LP to nearly $184.2MM in. On Nov. 22, 2022, Pharos updated Pharos Capital IV-A (fka Pharos Cap.... Read More

Rabbit Inc. seeks debt raise ahead of A-round<br>for Carrot power-bricks rental kiosks

Nov 25, 2019 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

NATHAN RUFF, the Nashville founder-CEO behind Rabbit Inc.'s kiosks for charging mobile devices with its branded Carrot power bricks, confirmed he is pursuing a target-$5MM deb.... Read More

COPILOT TRAVEL in Seed raise, eyeing Series A<br>to drive ticketing from any website or device

Jan 21, 2020 at 11:10 am by miltcapps

COPILOT TRAVEL INC. says its new software platform enables most website owners to monetize their traffic by enabling their visitors to book price-optimized travel via their pr.... Read More

Mental healthtech startup eyes Series A for Happego cognition-priming

Jan 21, 2020 at 01:15 pm by miltcapps

KNOXVILLE-based Lindsey Lieb's Happego LLC, which offers a cognition-priming app, is preparing for a Series A raise of $2MM-$2.5MM. Lieb said her goal is to "Put a personal e.... 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

LaunchTN Capital Call tomorrow, survey-response incentive ends soon

Jul 27, 2020 at 01:30 pm by miltcapps

THE STATE OF CAPITAL MARKETS in Tennessee and the Southeast get fresh scrutiny this week. TOMORROW, July 28, the first quarterly "Southeast Capital Call" for investors will b.... Read More

Feds greenlight VCs Meritus Kirchner & Innova Memphis to pursue $125MM+ for new rural-oriented funds

Dec 05, 2015 at 12:15 am by miltcapps

RURAL America probably got a boost today, when the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Meritus Kirchner Capital and Innova Memphis have been certified under a Federal pro.... Read More

Digital Reasoning to be acquired by Portland, Ore.-based Smarsh Inc.

Nov 10, 2020 at 01:45 pm by miltcapps

PORTLAND, Ore. and NASHVILLE-based SMARSH Inc. today announced plans to acquire locally based Digital Reasoning Systems, the 21-year-old entrant in natural language processing.... Read More

Spinout COO: Beam Mobile 'bringing Griffin Technology band back together'

Nov 18, 2020 at 02:32 pm by miltcapps

THE co-founders of corporate spinoff Beam Mobile in Nashville have drawn together former teammates and advisors from their days at Griffin Technology to accelerate Beam's pene.... Read More

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