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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

Today: SAIC-TTU | SAGENTS | NCN | FCA Venture | Change:HC | Hashed Health | GigEcon MCLEAN-based Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) announced Monda.... Read More

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

Briovation likely to invest in 20+ Health startups outside Nashville in 2018

Dec 07, 2017 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

VIC GATTO, the cofounder of Nashville-based Briovation, told Venture Nashville his exclusively healthcare-centric organization is likely to invest in "20 to 25" startups in 20.... Read More

Venture Notes - February 1, 2021

Feb 01, 2021 at 03:54 pm by miltcapps

Today: UGP | Grabbr | VoluM | MGC | Fintop | FilterX | UMG | SSM | SBot | Shock Rick Apple ► RICK APPLE, the the fellow who once spent fulltime managing the Council.... Read More

VentureNotes, September 10, 2012

Sep 10, 2012 at 07:53 am by miltcapps

COVENANT | LAUNCHTN | FAMILYVENTURE | GALEN | DOBIE MEDIA | MCMC | VENTUREINCITE ► COVENANT Surgical Partners (Nashville) reported to the SEC this morning that it had raised $.... Read More

General Assembly spotlights venture investing

Apr 06, 2009 at 12:22 am by miltcapps

Tennessee private-equity and early-stage venture investment may soon get another boost from the General Assembly. During a meeting Thursday, venture-capital executives who are.... Read More

Startup 'Real Good Kitchen' backs Food owners, equity, ecosystems

Dec 23, 2020 at 04:15 pm by miltcapps

REAL GOOD KITCHEN INC. (RGK) is raising capital to complete its cornerstone production and services facility in urban Knoxville, a move that Founder-CEO Bailey Foster believes.... 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

Gov.-Elect Haslam names Hagerty to key Economic Development post

Jan 09, 2011 at 03:56 pm by miltcapps

Gov.-Elect Bill Haslam has chosen private-equity executive William F. "Bill" Hagerty IV as commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development,.... Read More

Venture Notes - April 2, 2021

Apr 02, 2021 at 01:56 pm by miltcapps

Today: JAM-FINTOP | Film | Banking | Vivorte | MSouth | Captives | Fintech FINTECH: JOE MAXWELL, founder of Nashville fintech VC firm FINTOP Capital (Nested Rails LLC.... 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

People: EC President Sam Lingo has a heart for economic empowerment

Dec 15, 2015 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

SAM LINGO, the newly appointed president of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, cares enough about economic empowerment and alleviating poverty to declare that on his LinkedIn..... Read More

JumpStart grad 'RentStuff.com' taps network for Seed capital

Oct 03, 2011 at 08:19 am by miltcapps

RentStuff Inc., the Nashville startup whose online platform supports transactions among people who borrow and lend things, is nearly ready to trade some of its shares for seed.... Read More

BioMimetic CEO urges 'build on Bredesen's start', plus greater Vanderbilt role in life-sciences ventures

Feb 24, 2010 at 01:23 pm by miltcapps

BioMimetic Therapeutics CEO Sam Lynch said development of the life-sciences industry in Nashville demands a greater role by Vanderbilt University and the focusing of the regio.... Read More
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