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Tennessee reflections on PitchBook list of 'World's top startup cities'

Jun 12, 2024 at 06:00 pm by miltcapps

NASHVILLE and other Tennessee cities all failed to join 20 U.S. cities that were included in PitchBook analysts' latest ranking of 50 cities that represent the "top startup ci.... Read More

VU alum Megan Feely raises capital, preps EDDY Aesthetic's market entries

Jun 14, 2024 at 12:00 pm by miltcapps

SINCE MAY 2022, Bay Area-based Founder-CEO and sole designer Megan Eddings Feely has been selling her startup EDDY Aesthetic's elevated-bohemian outfits and accessories for wo.... Read More

Metro Mayor, VU Chancellor seek traction for Nashville Innovation Alliance

Jun 21, 2024 at 08:24 am by miltcapps

Daniel Diermeier Freddie O'Connell VOWING TO SERVE the public interest through collaborative efforts, the Nashville Innovation Alliance has been launched to.... Read More

CEOs of Titans, Nashville SC likely fans of Music City entrepreneurship

Jun 27, 2024 at 03:44 pm by miltcapps

THE CEOs of the Tennessee Titans and Nashville Soccer Club -- respectively Burke Nihill and Ian Ayre -- are both on-record as viewing Music City as a great place to do.... Read More

New $75MM+ Nashville Catalyst Fund to create, preserve, develop affordable housing

Jun 28, 2024 at 12:55 pm by miltcapps

Release issued 1135 28 June 2024 by the Office of Metro Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell, verbatim (pdf here): Mayor Freddie O'Connell and Community Partners Launch the Nashv.... Read More

ORNL's Ballard joins PYA, hands-off portfolio to scientist Roberto

Oct 31, 2011 at 06:40 am by miltcapps

OAK RIDGE National Laboratory partnerships director Tom Ballard's duties will be assumed Jan. 1 by ORNL Associate Director James Roberto, Ph.D., as Ballard joins management at.... Read More

Bitcoin '24 may draw 20,000 to Music City Center July 24-27

Jul 03, 2024 at 03:48 pm by miltcapps

FYI: Bitcoin 2025: Las Vegas, May 25-27, 2025.-Ed. MASSIVE BITCOIN 2024 (hereafter, B24) is to convene July 26-27 in Music City Center in Nashville, with targeted attendance o.... Read More

Lipscomb's Applied AI cohorts boost industries' general talent supply

Jul 09, 2024 at 03:51 pm by miltcapps

WHILE much of humankind stares like proverbial deer into the headlights of generative artificial intelligence and other forces, some Nashville institutions, entrepreneu.... Read More

Commercialization: UTSC's Dale reviews Vaxent's progress on Strep-A vaccine

Nov 06, 2011 at 02:25 pm by miltcapps

Memphis-based Vaxent, the vaccine-development company focused on Group A streptococcus (GAS), is likely to seek a commercialization partner or raise capital by 2014, said co-f.... Read More

Nancy Falls affirms Concinnity capraise, e-clinical tailwind, potential suitors

Aug 09, 2024 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

Nancy Falls MBAFounder-CEO(Photo: Judith Hill) + 11/26/24: Concinnity 3.3.0 announced.-Ed. THE CONCINNITY COMPANY LLC, based in Nashville, is raising capital to expan.... Read More

Virtuous Cycles: Native local VC Rockmont Partners leads Lab Logs' Series A

Sep 06, 2024 at 06:15 pm by miltcapps

Fox, Bartholomew, Futch advance $50MM GrowthTech Fund I VC Rockmont now has $45MM assets under management First VC bet helps lab operators document audit compliance Portfolio.... Read More

Vanderbilt University's West Palm Beach development scenario unfurls

Aug 19, 2024 at 09:38 am by miltcapps

Updated Sept. 27, 2024: Vanderbilt announced it has leased land in the Chelsea district of New York City for a new campus, release here. Update Aug. 22, 2026: Florida media (s.... Read More

CEO: Meharry Medical College's MMCV Inc. considers $100MM Fund I

Aug 20, 2024 at 05:23 pm by miltcapps

MEHARRY Medical College for-profit subsidiary MMCV Inc. is assessing the market for a potential $100MM Fund I, according to MMCV CEO Reginald "Reggie" Holt MS BBA. Responding.... Read More

VUMC Brock Center GM to forge R&D ties for pharma, digital transformation

Sep 03, 2024 at 04:09 pm by miltcapps

VU Medical Center Context: Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) six days ago posted notice (below) of its search for additional leadership in forging more life.... Read More

Bruck + Bruce-led Market Square Ventures might average deal-a-month

Sep 19, 2024 at 03:45 pm by miltcapps

John Bruck Brandon Bruce BASED on its current pipeline trends, Market Square Ventures LLC, the pre-Seed and Seed-stage-oriented venture c.... Read More

Acquisitive techcos i3 Verticals, Payroc WorldAccess wrap $438MM M&A deal

Sep 23, 2024 at 01:00 pm by miltcapps

i3 VERTICALS INC (IIIV), based in Burton Hills, Nashville, today announced the Sept. 20 closing of the sale of its previously announced merchant services business -- deemed "n.... Read More

ReTickr: Day 104 could bring the stress some entrepreneurs pray for

Nov 21, 2011 at 09:43 am by miltcapps

If the founders of ReTickr are lucky, today they'll experience clenched teeth and hyperventilation, along with another spike in downloads of their still-evolving content-filte.... Read More

Haslam Family Capital, Ara Partners detail $725MM decarbonization scenario

Sep 26, 2024 at 01:27 pm by miltcapps

HF CAPITAL, the Knoxville-based investment arm of multi-generational Haslam family investors, stands ready to invest up to $725MM to support and help shape the emerging Energy.... Read More

TCRS: Tennessee Consolidated report includes PE-Alt Assets angle

Sep 30, 2024 at 07:45 am by miltcapps

TENNESSEE Consolidated Retirement System (TCRS) on Sept. 26 issued a press release saying it had realized an actual 10.06% rate of investment return for the year, via a portfo.... Read More

36|86 startups: BrewFund ready to blow the head off craft beer market

May 17, 2016 at 05:15 pm by miltcapps

BREWFUND, the Johnson City startup with an app that helps you give, receive or trade gifts of beer from your favorite local breweries, is one of the Village 36 startups headed.... Read More

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