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Claritas Capital leads Series A for Bookit N Go, a TGV portfolio company

May 06, 2025 at 06:45 pm by miltcapps

NASHVILLE-based Claritas Capital led a Series A raise for Bookit N Go, an Irvine, Calif.-based 'AI-powered travel and hospitality platform' that had previously drawn investm.... Read More

Frist Cressey Ventures pursues $400MM Fund IV, plans next exec Forum

May 16, 2025 at 03:30 pm by miltcapps

FRIST CRESSEY VENTURES of Nashville filed May 15 for its $400MM parallel Fund IV QP LP and Fund IV LP, showing 115 investors aboard and $169.7MM-in, at that point. The firm al.... Read More

Brief: Kimberlin raising capital as CrushTeam's AI agents automate CRM

Jun 10, 2025 at 12:30 pm by miltcapps

Bill Kimberlin Nashville tech entrepreneur Bill Kimberlin's CrushTeamAI platform deploys AI Agents to automate customer relationship management (CRM) systems..... Read More

Chicago-Nashville's PE Shore Capital's FAB III draws $450MM commitments

Jul 03, 2025 at 06:43 am by miltcapps

SHORE CAPITAL PARTNERS, a Chicago-based private equity firm with substantial presence in Nashville, announced two days ago its close of its Shore Capital Partners Food & B.... Read More

Warner Music Group, Bain Capital JV could invest $1.2BN in music catalogs

Jul 03, 2025 at 08:23 am by miltcapps

WMG-Bain's 1 July 2025 press release is below. VNC reached-out to WMG and its PR representative to explore what, if any, impact this could have on Warner Chappell Music and an.... Read More

TN's pre-Seed-to-SeriesA founders have til Aug. 15 to ask into 3686 pitch-off

Jul 27, 2025 at 05:30 pm by miltcapps

'TENNESSEE-located' startups in the pre-Seed to Series A portion of the venture spectrum must apply by Aug. 15 for consideration of their requests to compete in the pitch comp.... Read More

Fresh initiatives for Center for Entrepreneurship at Vanderbilt's Owen GSM

Jul 29, 2025 at 04:33 pm by miltcapps

The Center for Entrepreneurship within Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management is developing expansive plans and programs that rely on experimentation, anal.... Read More

Update: Innova Memphis seeks Fed'l certification ahead of new fund raise

Apr 15, 2015 at 03:30 pm by miltcapps

Jan Bouten INNOVA MEMPHIS, the venture capital firm owned by Memphis Bioworks Foundation, has taken further steps toward gaining Federal sanction and, ultim.... Read More

PhaseWell Research platform arises in Nashville by Shore Capital Partners

Aug 28, 2025 at 04:38 pm by miltcapps

CHICAGO- and Nashville-based PE Shore Capital Partners announced the formation of Nashville-based PhaseWell Research, which owns dedicated clinical research sites and, as appr.... Read More

CapitalSpring's $1BN Fund VII eyes branded restaurant groups, other multilocation targets

Aug 11, 2025 at 04:35 pm by miltcapps

Updated: 6 November 2025 - CapitalSpring said in a release Fund VII has collected more than $505MM in commitments.-Ed. CSFC Management-aligned CapitalSpring Investment P.... Read More

Veteran Ventures Capital scours TN for U.S. veterans' investable dual-use companies

Aug 19, 2025 at 10:30 am by miltcapps

VETERAN VENTURES CAPITAL (VVC) aims to invest near-term at least $3MM in Tennessee-based businesses led by U.S. military veterans, with emphasis on early-stage companies offer.... Read More

Gov. Bill Lee: ECD's Stuart McWhorter to succeed Deputy Gov Butch Eley Oct. 15

Sep 17, 2025 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee today announced fellow Cabinet member Stuart McWhorter will succeed Deputy Governor Butch Eley as Deputy Governor of Tennessee, effective Oct. 15..... Read More

Tammy Hawes sells Virsys12 to HealthStream in potential $17M exit

Oct 09, 2025 at 07:45 am by miltcapps

IN-LINE with options she described for VNC six years ago, Founder and CEO Tammy Hawes has exited her 14-year-old VirSys12 through sale to Nashville-based HealthStream (Nasdaq:.... Read More

KVL's ParOneTV hopes capital raise takes it all way to the Green

Sep 11, 2014 at 05:00 am by miltcapps

ParOneTV, the emerging Knoxville-based digital-ad offering for the golf industry, hopes that its imminent website launch helps attract investors to its $300K Seed capital roun.... Read More

Sky High startup Care2Manage aims to preserve caregiver mission

Sep 25, 2014 at 04:00 am by miltcapps

CARE2MANAGE, the caregiver-support startup based in Memphis, will maintain a public-service emphasis, whether it launches as for-profit or nonprofit. Founder Ela Emam.... Read More

Capital raise: Cabsolutely offers taxi consumers, operators an upgrade

Sep 25, 2014 at 03:45 am by miltcapps

Update: May 4, 2016 - Cabsolutely filed for a $500K raise here. Sept. 10, 2015 - Cabsolutely announced today it is live in Nashville in a partnership with Kwik Cab N.... Read More

Dig!entertainment: Street Jelly Media raises capital to spread Jelly footprint

Sep 29, 2014 at 06:29 am by miltcapps

STREET JELLY knew it had a sticky Music brand that brings a smile, even before it got to the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center (KEC) MediaWorks Demo Day this summer, said Frank Po.... Read More

The TENN: LaunchTN master accelerator 2014 Class members named

Oct 03, 2014 at 06:00 am by miltcapps

Release submitted Oct. 2, 2014, by LaunchTN (Tennessee Technology Development Corp.) Launch Tennessee on Oct. 2 announced the 10 companies chosen to participate in this.... Read More

HeadsUp: TN CRS private equity, Bioworks, Startup TN>Chile

Oct 06, 2014 at 06:30 am by miltcapps

BARTERSUGAR, the Memphis Upstart-powered business that supports mainly B2B trading, won't be pursuing its planned capraise, immediately, because Founder Layla T.... Read More

Life Science Tennessee announces Venture Forum presenting companies

Oct 07, 2014 at 07:00 am by miltcapps

Life Science Tennessee (LifeSciTN) today announced the five companies chosen to present Oct. 21 during the LifeSciTN Conference and Venture Forum, during its annual confe.... Read More

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