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Escape velocity for Watershed LRS spin-out calls for $3MM-$5MM capraise

Jul 15, 2015 at 02:30 pm by miltcapps

Updated 16 June 2016 0718: Watershed announced 6/15 the closing of a $4MM Series A round that included participation from the LaunchTN-administered INCITE fund and Learning Te.... Read More

$26MM+: EdTech consolidator LTG buys Rustici SW, stake in Watershed

Jan 29, 2016 at 08:00 am by miltcapps

Updated: In his LinkedIn post Nov. 15, 2018, Founder Mike Rustici, dealing with cancer, said LTG would also buy the balance of Watershed. 1 June 2018: Former Products Director.... Read More

Chattanooga's 'Gig City' aims for explosion of techventures and investment

Feb 21, 2012 at 06:51 am by miltcapps

'CHATTANOOGA Choo Choo' and See Rock City will drift into the background this summer, surrendering the city's branding spotlight to Gig City, an initiative spawned by a broad.... Read More

LaunchTN Southland signals aggressive<br>Tennessee entrepreneurial campaign

May 20, 2013 at 09:36 am by miltcapps

Update: Thirty (30) further startups were added to StartupVillage's lineup through a release from LaunchTN, covered here.-Ed. SOUTHLAND, the event being staged June 12-13 in N.... Read More

Jumpstart class arrives in a cloud of dust, as Gatto cooks-up Angel move

May 03, 2012 at 10:10 am by miltcapps

BIG DAY for Vic Gatto & Friends: The Solidus partner and Jumpstart Foundry founder this morning announced JSF's new class of entrepreneurs in Nashville. Also today, Gatto.... Read More

Regional Roundup, Nov. 7, 2011

Nov 07, 2011 at 05:48 am by miltcapps

Erik Carlson Streamweaver may be in self-avowed "stealth" mode, but LinkedIn indicates the TNInvestco-backed company is the result of an acquisition and it has a new.... Read More

Launch Tennessee Update shows multifaceted mission, wide-ranging action

Oct 20, 2016 at 06:15 pm by miltcapps

TODAY's meeting of the board of directors of Launch Tennessee -- formally chartered as Tennessee Technology Development Corporation or TTDC -- was broad-ranging. ECD's T.... Read More

Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, experts sought for LSTN statewide network

May 04, 2015 at 12:00 pm by miltcapps

LIFESCIENCE entrepreneurs-in-residence, mentors and other experts are being recruited to provide startup founders additional savvy and connections for their fledgling Tennesse.... Read More

Nashville's investor-backed YouScience startup charts paths to marketplace

Oct 27, 2013 at 01:45 pm by miltcapps

Updates: 7 May 2015: Earlier this week, YouScience filed a Form D citing raising $2.2MM vs a $5MM target. In a release today, YouScience said they're raised $3.9MM vs the $5MM.... Read More

NewsBits, Feb. 14, 2011

Feb 14, 2011 at 07:58 am by miltcapps

Joe Cook Jr. Joe Cook Jr. became chairman of Life Science Tennessee, effective Feb. 3. In a VNC interview a year ago, Cook said Nashville needed a culture of "true in.... Read More

Nashville Entrepreneur Center gains Galen Partners as lead Healthcare sponsor

Oct 07, 2011 at 08:06 am by miltcapps

Galen Partners, the Stamford, Conn.-based private-equity firm specializing in healthcare, has become the Nashville Entrepreneur Center's 2012 healthcare sector sponsor. Galen.... Read More

LaunchTN: Randy Boyd accepts baton from Hagerty, who returns to PE firm

Jan 27, 2015 at 01:30 pm by miltcapps

LAUNCH TENNESSEE is now overseen by Chairman Randy Boyd, who is also Gov. Bill Haslam's newly appointed commissioner of economic and community development. Boyd, 55, is best k.... Read More

'Proudly capitalist' Jumpstart Foundry unfurls<br>plan for its U.S. and regional ascendancy

Aug 23, 2014 at 02:14 pm by miltcapps

ANYONE not familiar with the bluntness and dark humor that sometimes accompany Vic Gatto's impromptu remarks, might have been discomfited when at the end of Jumpstart Foundry'.... Read More

'Proudly capitalist' Jumpstart Foundry unfurls<br>plan for its U.S. and regional ascendancy

Aug 25, 2014 at 10:15 am by miltcapps

ANYONE not familiar with the bluntness and dark humor that sometimes accompany Vic Gatto's impromptu remarks, might have been discomfited when at the end of Jumpstart Foundry'.... Read More

Grizzle: TN concerns about follow-on capital needn't hamper smart Seed investing

Nov 05, 2014 at 08:45 am by miltcapps

SHELDON GRIZZLE says he's not hugely concerned about whether or not there's another TNInvestco capital-formation round in Tennessee. The entrepreneur told VTC that.... Read More

TTDC Launch Tennessee preps for its Sunset hearing at Comptroller request

Aug 06, 2020 at 01:53 pm by miltcapps

STATE-chartered Tennessee Technology Development Corporation (TTDC) has begun preparing for a Sunset hearing that is to be undertaken to determine whether or not the nonprofit.... Read More

NewsBits, April 25, 2011

Apr 25, 2011 at 08:56 am by miltcapps

Gov. Haslam Gov. Bill Haslam's move to shift some Tennessee Economic and Community Development resources toward helping existing TN businesses grow profitably has bee.... Read More

Citizengine eyes capital raise, sees 2016 election cycle as inflection point

Apr 30, 2015 at 01:30 pm by miltcapps

Update on capital: See our subsequent story, here.-Ed. CITIZENGINE, the Nashville parent of civic-engagement startup iCitizen, will probably pursue another capital raise later.... Read More

TNInvestco: Welcome to the 'Messy World' of Capitalism

Mar 14, 2011 at 08:38 am by miltcapps

TNInvestco, the capital-formation and jobs-creation initiative crafted by a momentarily bi-partisan Tennessee General Assembly and the Administration of then-Gov. Phil Bredese.... Read More

Relevance Capital pursues Fund IV raise + regional tech-VC leadership

Oct 25, 2018 at 03:18 pm by miltcapps

Note: The firm rebranded as Relevance Ventures in 2Q CY19.-Ed. RELEVANCE CAPITAL of Tullahoma and Brentwood is raising a $50MM-or-greater Fund IV. What's more, the firm's mana.... Read More

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