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Angel Capital Group updates Nashville and Appalachian microfunds

Jan 25, 2018 at 11:08 am by miltcapps

CEO Eric Dobson ANGEL Capital Group CEO Eric Dobson met earlier this week at The Standard restaurant in Nashville with a couple-dozen others who want to see ACG's new.... Read More

UTRF: Genera Energy launches Innovation venture fund

Feb 22, 2011 at 07:32 am by miltcapps

Genera Energy, a wholly owned for-profit subsidiary of the University of Tennessee Research Foundation, will soon begin recruiting investment in the first of two or more ventu.... Read More

Innovators and allies seek $20MM to improve Tennessee research, economy and culture

Nov 04, 2009 at 01:33 pm by miltcapps

Update: UTRF Partnerships Director Stacey Patterson said after publication that "more than half" of UT's 58 percent of the grant amount "goes back out to other institutions an.... Read More

Chattanooga's Charlie Brock rumored likely to become LaunchTN CEO

Dec 12, 2012 at 08:44 am by miltcapps

Updated 13 Dec. 2:32 p.m.: FourBridges announced that Frank Williamson, cited in our original story as an advisor to FourBridges, has joined the firm and is to be its managing.... Read More

Pet health: Vet on Demand telemed startup to raise capital

Apr 13, 2015 at 02:00 pm by miltcapps

VET ON DEMAND, the first digital startup by the Revelette brothers, who cut their entrepreneurial teeth in family businesses, is eyeing a capital raise. Co-founders Curt, 33,.... Read More

Venture Notes, March 26, 2010

Mar 26, 2010 at 11:54 am by miltcapps

Claritas Capital Managing Partner John Chadwick (left) told PEHub earlier this week that "mobile couponing" has caught his eye. Chadwick told the online newsletter, in part, ".... Read More

'Go-Mode': Healthtech Hackathon results come ahead of Distributed: Health

Oct 03, 2016 at 09:30 am by miltcapps

Ottawa's Guay CANADIAN Patrick Guay probably best described the atmosphere of Nashville's first blockchain hackathon this weekend, telling Venture Nashville "We were.... Read More

CEO: AgSmarts eyes Series A raise as 'Precision Agriculture' interest grows

Apr 15, 2015 at 11:30 am by miltcapps

BRETT NORMAN, the farm-bred founder-CEO of AgSmarts in Memphis, thinks conditions may be right for a $2MM-$5MM Series A raise this fall. Norman, 39, told Venture Tenness.... Read More

Enexor BioEnergy taps Wond'ry's Grajewski as SVP ahead of Series A

Sep 24, 2019 at 12:15 pm by miltcapps

ROBERT GRAJEWSKI, who previously served three years as founding executive director of The Wond'ry Innovation Center at Vanderbilt University, has been named SVP for New Market.... Read More

TNECD-LaunchTN $117MM SSBCI request still under US Treasury's review

Oct 26, 2022 at 02:42 pm by miltcapps

TN-ECD fills Treasury's plan-refinement requests, reckoning ahead LaunchTN has 3 board seats vacant, plans to hire 3 to 5 more staff 10X leverage of federal funding is target.... Read More

Senator Ketron would broaden TNInvestco and Institute's mission

Dec 14, 2009 at 08:43 am by miltcapps

State Sen. Bill Ketron is proposing to broaden the TNInvestco capital-formation program and the mission of the UT Space Institute. In a recent interview with VNC, the Murfree.... Read More

Startup's GeoAir recipe calls for Drones, pest DNA and AgBiz savvy

Oct 18, 2017 at 01:00 pm by miltcapps

WHEN it comes to pest control, most farmers still do it the old-fashioned way -- scouting the fields on foot to see if plants show signs of blight or infestation. But perhaps.... Read More

We asked TN Gubernatorial aspirants about State industry incentives, risk-capital formation, tech commercialization and more

Aug 13, 2018 at 10:29 am by miltcapps

VENTURE NASHVILLE on Aug. 6, 2018 simultaneously posed five economic-development issues to Tennessee gubernatorial candidates Bill Lee (R-Franklin) and Karl Dean (D-Nashville).... Read More

Statewide 'Tennessee Angel Fund' launched as TNInvestco deadline nears

Sep 22, 2009 at 03:32 pm by miltcapps

The Angel backers of the successful Nashville Capital Network have stepped-up to launch Tennessee Angel Fund LP, to serve the statewide entrepreneurial sector. TAF Managing Pa.... Read More

2019 Mayoral Candidate Briley on questions posed by Venture Nashville

Aug 21, 2019 at 09:30 am by miltcapps

Below are verbatim responses to questions posed by Venture Nashville via respective campaign staff for the candidates seeking election as Mayor of the Metropolitan Government.... Read More

Sarah Bellos, Lewis + Clark AgriFood chart Stony Creek Colors' Indigo path

Mar 01, 2021 at 04:00 pm by miltcapps

Update: Dec. 15, 2022: Related SEC filing dropped here. Dec. 2, 2022: The company announced in a press release here the closing a Series B2 round at $4.8 million co-led by gro.... Read More

State of the Startups: Tennessee Technology Development Corporation,<br>aka Launch Tennessee, wants to shed some commercialization emphasis

Jan 30, 2017 at 09:18 am by miltcapps

IN JUNE 2011, months into his first term, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam (R) told attendees at a venture-capital conference that Tennessee institutions and private companies must.... Read More