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[Obit] 'Buzz' Heidtke, 82, Nashville investment-brokerage icon

Dec 18, 2024 at 06:50 am by miltcapps

LYMAN OSCAR 'BUZZ' HEIDTKE JR., a half-century member of the Nashville investment-brokerage industry, died Sunday, Dec. 15, at age 82. Visitation will be Saturday, December 21.... Read More

Grizzle: TN concerns about follow-on capital needn't hamper smart Seed investing

Nov 05, 2014 at 08:45 am by miltcapps

SHELDON GRIZZLE says he's not hugely concerned about whether or not there's another TNInvestco capital-formation round in Tennessee. The entrepreneur told VTC that.... Read More

New Constructs rates Brookdale Senior Living, other local stocks

Mar 19, 2018 at 12:30 pm by miltcapps

During his upcoming trips to Boston and New York City, analyst and financial-technology entrepreneur David Trainer probably won't spend much energy thinking about Brookdale Se.... Read More

Jumpstart Capital recaps Casetabs in search of surgery-coordination lead

Jul 23, 2019 at 04:00 pm by miltcapps

JUMPSTART Capital Managing Director Dave Vreeland told Venture Nashville his firm's JSC Growth Fund I and two of the fund's LPs have invested in recapitalizing Santa Monica-ba.... Read More

EC CEO Allen seeks state direct-appropriation grant for Twende program

Aug 18, 2021 at 04:23 pm by miltcapps

TENNESSEE Gov. Bill Lee incorporated in the State's final FY 2022 budget a provision for a non-recurring $450,000 direct appropriation to support taking to Tennessee communiti.... Read More

Cook: Nashville must create culture of 'True Innovation'

Feb 24, 2010 at 11:43 am by miltcapps

Joe Cook has great hopes for Nashville, but sees impediments to overcome for the region's life-sciences industry and for the innovation community, generally. Cook is co-founde.... Read More

Venture Notes -- October 18, 2019

Oct 18, 2019 at 10:45 am by miltcapps

NashvilleEC President-COO search afoot as Murdock moves to Shore Capital

Jul 23, 2022 at 03:04 pm by miltcapps

NASHVILLE ENTREPRENEUR CENTER is searching for both a president/COO to succeed out-bound John Murdock MBA, as well as for an Operations director. Murdock announced yesterday v.... Read More

Minding the Gap: Re:Generate funds grants for Black, Hispanic founders

Dec 20, 2023 at 01:55 pm by miltcapps

VOLUNTEERS rallying under the "Re:Generate" banner and closely allied with the Nashville Entrepreneur Center (NEC) are redoubling their efforts to recruit timely philanthropic.... Read More

Pharos Capital's flush, but not immune to 'bunker mentality'

Oct 12, 2008 at 05:57 pm by miltcapps

Even with $600 million under management and at least $100 million available for new investments, Pharos Capital Group isn't about to go on a shopping spree in this Bear market.... Read More

Startup: Arcivr finds Nashville Tech talent issue manageable, sets 2.0 launch

Sep 19, 2014 at 11:15 am by miltcapps

"I STRUGGLE to understand this idea that there's a shortage of Tech talent in Nashville," said Chris Korbey, founder and CEO of Arcivr, the Cloud-based photo-sharing and colla.... Read More

Nashville VC: 'Pushover' entrepreneurs need not apply

Nov 09, 2008 at 05:43 pm by miltcapps

During last week's venture-capital panel discussion here in Nashville, the Most Sobering Comment Award probably went to Sid Chambless, the executive director of Nashville Capi.... Read More

Amid the recession, Gazelles, Geezers and LifeStyle Businesses

Apr 09, 2008 at 10:00 am by miltcapps

Bruce Lynskey This VNC item, lightly edited here, debuted as a VentureNashville post on Blogger, in 2008.-Editor Hugh Hefner Bruce Lynskey (right) likes Sen..... Read More

StartupEquity: Shani Dowell on lessons honed during Possip's rise

Jan 07, 2020 at 03:15 pm by miltcapps

CEO SHANI DOWELL, the black female edtech entrepreneur who founded Possip in Nashville, is naturally proud of having become one of the few black women in the U.S. to have recr.... Read More

Venture Notes - 23 May 2017

May 24, 2017 at 12:00 pm by miltcapps

Updated: Former Frist staffer Ketchel files for MDSave capital raises

Mar 05, 2012 at 10:18 am by miltcapps

Updates: 26 Feb 2020: Greg Born recently joined as president and COO. 9 January 2019 Change Healthcare announced Jan. 7 it had taken a minority stake in MDSave on undislcosed.... Read More

State to invest $900 Million in private-equity alternatives

Aug 24, 2008 at 06:32 pm by miltcapps

The Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System will soon hire a new executive to plan and invest up to $900 million in pension-fund assets in private equity. Earlier this year,.... Read More

Fivestone Partners' investors put 'skin in the game' for lean-finance enterprise

Jan 03, 2012 at 07:06 pm by miltcapps

FIVESTONE PARTNERS, the Franklin firm that guides and invests mainly in technology-driven companies, has asked its initial group of outside investors to make collectively a "s.... Read More

Entrepreneurs' advice for 'Best of Times, Worst of Times'

Nov 17, 2009 at 03:05 pm by miltcapps

The bad news: Though officially over, the Great Recession may prove to be neither a 'V' nor even a 'W' recovery on the economic charts. Instead, Belmont University Entr.... Read More

Nashville EC Vision2020 suggests global ambitions<br> and quiet building of entrepreneurship warchest

Jun 09, 2016 at 02:00 pm by miltcapps

NESTING quietly on the Nashville Entrepreneur Center website is the provocative outline for the nonprofit's VISION 2020 Capital Campaign. The landing page for the campaign sug.... Read More

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