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Startup Garage Coffee enters E. Nashville, Garage Leathers widens accessories line

Oct 20, 2014 at 12:42 pm by miltcapps

Update: Aug. 6, 2015 - Garage Coffee's in a JV with The Family Wash music/dining venue at 626A Main Street, E. Nashville. - Ed. GARAGE COFFEE, headquartered in Nashville's Mar.... Read More

Populr's progress attracts potential bidders, creates fork in road for Nick Holland

Oct 20, 2014 at 12:30 pm by miltcapps

Updated 28 April 2015: Holland sold Populr to Kindful, on undisclosed terms, NBJ's Eleanor Kennedy reported today.-Ed. NASHVILLE entrepreneur Nicholas Holland, who drives bot.... Read More

Council Capital launches Fund III with $125MM target, exits Ingenious Med

Oct 24, 2014 at 03:15 pm by miltcapps

Updated 12 April 2016: Council Capital announced today it recently closed Fund III at more than $150MM, surpassing its previously declared target of $125MM and hitting its har.... Read More

WaffleMe.com: Startup eyes capital raise, keeps customers' social-media from being scattered, smothered

Nov 05, 2014 at 02:45 pm by miltcapps

BOOTSTRAPPED Nashville startup Waffle LLC is "looking hard" at possibly raising $300K in Seed capital to accelerate growth of its WaffleMe.com user base. Its WaffleMe.com pla.... Read More

Metro Innovation: Music City Center adopts VUSE Prof's wayfinding app by startup Ziiio

Nov 12, 2014 at 10:15 am by miltcapps

METRO Nashville's Music City Center has adopted the Ziiio mobile wayfinding app for those who might get lost amid MCC's 1.2MM square feet of meeting and exhibition space. Zii.... Read More

PEOPLE: Anand Sanwal's CB Insights has eyes on Nashville + Tennessee

Dec 08, 2014 at 01:30 pm by miltcapps

THOUGH publisher CB Insights inevitably focuses much of its attention on VC and Private Equity investors in much larger markets, the company is thus far tracking hundreds of T.... Read More

GigVision: Chattanooga pushes toward role as high-tech launchpad

Dec 08, 2014 at 01:00 pm by miltcapps

GIGTANK IV's sharper strategic focus seems likely to shift Chattanooga's role from Gigabit startup booster toward that of true Technology basecamp. On Dec. 2, the governing b.... Read More

Kozicki: Brentwood Capital Advisors eyes pure-play Technology deals

Dec 18, 2014 at 01:06 pm by miltcapps

PURE-PLAY TECHNOLOGY companies in Nashville seem likely to get unprecedented attention from 15-year-old Brentwood Capital Advisors (BCA). Recently appointed BCA Managing Dire.... Read More

PE-backed Aegis Sciences acquires startup Diagnovus' assets

Jan 06, 2015 at 09:00 am by miltcapps

AEGIS Sciences Corporation, based in MetroCenter, announced today its acquisition of assets of VC-backed molecular-diagnostics startup Diagnovus, also based in Nashville. Term.... Read More

Ferrell: After acquisition, changes ahead for some Southcomm properties

Jan 07, 2015 at 01:00 pm by miltcapps

Update: NashvillePost said 3 November 2017 that Chris Ferrell has stepped down from the Southcomm CEO post. Earlier: According to a 10 December 2016 report by The Tennessean:.... Read More

VTC: Chattanooga's SIGNiX preps for Series C capital raise

Jan 07, 2015 at 12:30 pm by miltcapps

Update 8 Feb. 2016: Signix reported raising $5.4MM toward a $6MM goal.-Ed. SIGNiX, the Chattanooga-based e-signatures software and services company, is likely.... Read More

Avila-led Emerge Financial Wellness mulls Series B raise in 2015

Jan 12, 2015 at 09:00 am by miltcapps

MARIO AVILA, CEO of Emerge Financial Wellness and its Contigo Financial subsidiary, says new partnerships this quarter may spur further growth and help trigger a Series B capi.... Read More

Nashville-tied Ipreo buys ClearMomentum to expand alt-assets vertical

Jan 20, 2015 at 10:11 am by miltcapps

Note: Blackstone- and Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking-backed Ipreo, which recently acquired Nashville entrepreneur Joe Maxwell's ShareholderInsite, today announced its acquisit.... Read More

Digital Reasoning Systems secures $24MM GS + Credit Suisse NEXT capital

Oct 09, 2014 at 11:55 am by miltcapps

Digital Reasoning Systems, a leader in cognitive computing, today announced that it has raised $24 million in Series C funding led by Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse.... Read More

Nashville's Maxwell: PE-backed Ipreo 'absolutely' has more FinTech targets

Jan 21, 2015 at 07:55 am by miltcapps

IPREO, the international financial-technologies company with PE backing and an expanding Nashville division, has its eyes on further M&A prospects. Ipreo's Nashville-base.... Read More

Silicon Heartbeat: Comments from NTC Award speakers set the tone

Jan 23, 2015 at 09:01 am by miltcapps

VERY PERSONAL comments from honorees and other speakers during last night's Nashville Technology Council Awards event are likely to have left lasting impressions. Among other.... Read More

Nashville Technology Council dips cyber-toe into public policy waters

Feb 02, 2015 at 08:00 am by miltcapps

NASHVILLE Technology Council (NTC) recently became affiliated with a grassroots industry coalition that advocates federal, state and regional policies that it asserts are "imp.... Read More

CampusQuad: Ingram Content announces 2d Edtech investment in five days

Feb 02, 2015 at 08:15 am by miltcapps

Update 15 Dec. 2015: ICG bought Aer.io Retail Network, a content sales and fulfillment platform developed by Invention Arts, in which Ingram had previously invested. Our Feb..... Read More

Before quiet sale to Atlas Copco, local entrepreneur put Fivestone Partners to work beefing-up business

Feb 24, 2015 at 02:00 pm by miltcapps

PAUL IANNELLO, a Nashville-area mechanical engineer-become-entrepreneur, recently sold his company's intellectual property to his strategic partner of nearly two years, Atlas-.... Read More

Ebb & Flow: Former Emdeon SVP relishes growth-oriented CarePayment role

Mar 02, 2015 at 03:15 pm by miltcapps

Updated 7 Dec 2017: Carepayment recruits another $7.5MM SEC filing. 13 March 2017: DFW-area PEs Cedar Springs Capital and Crestline Investors announced that together they acqu.... Read More