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Startup retention: Will edtech entrant Coursicle be a Tennessee keeper?

May 20, 2016 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

TENNESSEE accelerators attract interest from startups nationally and internationally, but after graduating from an accelerator those imported companies too often return home o.... Read More

Winners announced from Statewide University Pitch Competition

Jun 07, 2016 at 12:30 pm by miltcapps

LAUNCH Tennessee on May 26 announced four winners of its Statewide University Venture Challenge, a new initiative launched in March. The programs aims to engage student entrep.... Read More

U-Pitch: Blaque Reily's Portmanteau Jewelry startup is building in layers

Jun 07, 2016 at 11:15 am by miltcapps

Portmanteau Jewelry Collection is the startup of Blaque Reily, a Fairbanks, Alaska native and freshly minted MBA out of the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt Un.... Read More

CEO search seeks Huddleston successor at Nashville Technology Council

Jun 08, 2016 at 10:00 am by miltcapps

Updated 12 Aug 2016 0652 - NTC announced that Brian Moyer (LinkedIn), a former regional HiMSS President, will succeed Huddleston in September. -Ed. BRYAN HUDDLESTON, a former.... Read More

Post-36|86: VC Mitchell seeks dealflow, Nashville affiliate candidates

Jun 13, 2016 at 04:30 pm by miltcapps

ANDREW Mitchell, the Consumer/Retail-focused founder of Brand Foundry Ventures (BFV), is following two Tennessee startups, scouting for a possible network affiliate here and r.... Read More

Startup capital raises reported for HoneyCo indie-living + Ampersand Health

Jun 14, 2016 at 05:30 pm by miltcapps

WHILE executives gathered today in Nashville to hear elite panelists discuss the evolving healthcare delivery continuum, two local startups today filed SEC reports on capital.... Read More

Bunker Labs Nashville startups on firing line in June 28 event

Jun 21, 2016 at 05:15 pm by miltcapps

Updated: An additional startup, Menud led by Neil Whitney, is also to present. JPMorgan Chase and Bunkerlabs announced JPM will provide a $100K grant to the Nashville bunker.-.... Read More

Update: Brody-Waite named CEO of Nashville Entrepreneur Center

Jun 22, 2016 at 12:00 pm by miltcapps

MICHAEL Brody-Waite has been selected the third CEO of Nashville Entrepreneur Center. The announcement came this morning from EC Board Chairman John Ingram, who co-chaired th.... Read More

iCitizen eyes $5MM-$10MM Series A, cites increased traction

Jan 22, 2017 at 04:00 pm by miltcapps

22 January 2017: Joel Lee, who had served earlier as president and chief marketing officer of iCitizen, returned within the past week. The company is moving into the Center615.... Read More

Musictech: Jammber, LANDR could raise capital in Music City

Jun 28, 2016 at 03:30 pm by miltcapps

MUSIC-industry conferences and the expanding alumni network of Project Music at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center are among factors helping to make Music City a strategically.... Read More

VentureNotes June 29, 2016

Jun 29, 2016 at 05:05 pm by miltcapps

Today: Addiction campus, VRTIFY music tech, InCrowd Capital, Arkis Biosciences PALO ALTO-based startup VRTIFY, founded is 2014, is led by CEO Facundo Martin Diaz, who a.... Read More

HealthQRS current investors can fund ramp-up,<br>but strategic money + marketshare attractive

Jul 05, 2016 at 03:15 pm by miltcapps

HealthQRS, the e-commerce platform supporting consumer decision-making and payments for medical care chosen from organically grown services networks, has raised more than $1MM.... Read More

VC moves Directed Sensing startup from Knoxville to Austin

Jul 07, 2016 at 01:45 pm by miltcapps

STARTUP Directed Sensing has obtained $2MM in fresh capital and is being moved from Knoxville to Austin by its majority owner, New York-based VC New Science Ventures. CE.... Read More

Venture Notes - 21 July 2016

Jul 21, 2016 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

RESOLUTE Capital Partners Fund III topped-out at $170MM, and the firm is said to be recruiting LPs for a roughly $250MM Fund IV. Fund III check sizes have ranged from $1.5MM-$.... Read More

HouseLens in talks with strategics amid $2MM capraise

Jul 22, 2016 at 01:12 pm by miltcapps

Updated 9 March 2020: HouseLens founders exited via sale to Louisville, Ky.-based SeekNow, on undisclosed terms. Today's Release here. Our July 22, 2016 story is below. -Ed..... Read More

mSIGNIA nears end of Series A raise, sees Nashville as its techdev center

Jul 26, 2016 at 02:00 pm by miltcapps

mSIGNIA INC., the software company born in California to avert fraud and combat cybercrime, is nearing the end of its Series A capital raise and "absolutely" will add staff wi.... Read More

Dart Music pivots to deeper water as Dart Data, pursues $2MM Series A

Jul 26, 2016 at 03:45 pm by miltcapps

Updated: April 10, 2017: Dart submitted to the Court its proposed auction plan today. Dart Music, aka Dart Data, issued a statement Feb. 28, 2017, saying that it had filed for.... Read More

Mike Muhney, Harry Jacobson team on VIPOrbit's $2.7MM capital raise

Jul 27, 2016 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

TEXAS-based VIPorbit Software may have completed a $2.7MM capital raise by the time its board reconvenes in Nashville this Fall for its annual meeting, Co-Founder, Chairman an.... Read More

Venture Notes - 27 July 2016

Jul 27, 2016 at 05:23 pm by miltcapps

FORMER Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen will address Tennessee HiMSS "Summit of the Southeast" in Nashville, Sept. 14, at Music City Center. He'll talk about his experiences w.... Read More

SaaS: Affirm Health startup preps for Seed capital raise

Aug 05, 2016 at 03:36 pm by miltcapps

Updated 12 January 2018: The company reported raising about $169K in equity capital. 29 March 2017: AffirmHealth reported raising $150K.-Ed. JUMPSTART Foundry portfolio compa.... Read More

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