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One to Watch: DRS's Tim Estes retires, Smarsh brand prevails (relevance: 26.9%, date: Jan 13, 2022)
Estes' departure from Smarsh's DRS unit signals break from DRS identity, and prologue to future.

CPG Brief: Woman-owned Daily Crunch Snacks busts a move on Series A (relevance: 26.4%, date: Feb 14, 2024)
UPDATED Okay, we're easy, but it's good to see Nashville CPG products flying-off grocery shelves.

PlayMakerCRM's backer Mainsail Partners ranks
Nashville best for bootstrapping healthcare (relevance: 26.4%, date: Apr 16, 2018)
Growth-equity firm says Music City, Austin, Atlanta and others each has a superniche.

Margaret Dolan named to succeed Charlie Brock as CEO of Launch Tennessee (relevance: 25.5%, date: Oct 9, 2018)
Longtime entrepreneurial consultant and Ingram Industries executive gets the nod.

FCA Venture Partners said to co-manage Dioko fund, files for $75M Fund VI (relevance: 25.5%, date: Feb 22, 2016)
[Updated] Clayton Associates affiliate obviously pushing on more than one front.

TTDC: Launch Tennessee fills gaps in board of directors (relevance: 25%, date: Jan 25, 2018)
Tennessee Technology Development Corporation (dba Launch Tennessee) refreshes board.

Nashville ECD Director Pogue reaches out, preps plan, mulls target options (relevance: 24.9%, date: Jun 9, 2021)
Veteran of finance, recruitment and development and other fields cites fintech as hypothetical target vertical.

CEO: LaunchTN hires tackle Capital requirements, Commercialization (relevance: 24.9%, date: Feb 6, 2019)
Commercialization and availability of capital now more fully staffed for a strategic push forward.

Entrepreneur Center CEO McWhorter stepping down
to shoulder Clayton Associates' duties (relevance: 23.1%, date: Apr 7, 2016)
President and COO Sam Lingo will also be Acting CEO.

CEO: SimplyAgree could trigger Series A after 'right partner' emerges (relevance: 23%, date: Oct 15, 2019)
Conversations continue as startup mulls investment terms, milestones, and preps for hiring and dev.

UMemphis Crews Center exec search runs, Hoffmeyer settles at UMaryland (relevance: 22.5%, date: Nov 30, 2023)
Long-time Crews chief accepts his "builder" mentality in search for fresh challenges, wider resources.

NashvilleEC President-COO search afoot as Murdock moves to Shore Capital (relevance: 22.5%, date: Jul 23, 2022)
Departing after a decade with the EC, exec seems to have chops and passion for democratizing entrepreneurship.

CME-CE startup ConveyMED begins $2MM Seed for mobile audio platform (relevance: 22.5%, date: May 12, 2022)
Continuing-ed content purveyor also sees Series A + diverse markets ahead in U.S. and beyond.

Tennessee State University, NBIC separate business incubation missions (relevance: 22.2%, date: Nov 13, 2017)
Startup clients may migrate to either of the incubators - Nashville gets a net incubator increase.

Tennessee artificial-intelligence center among Presidential advisors' ideas (relevance: 21.5%, date: Jul 10, 2020)
White House scitech advisors suggest AI, biotech, comms, quantum infoscience, advanced manufacturing initiatives.

$5MM NSF grant supports Fisk University Center
for Biological Signatures and Sensing (relevance: 21.1%, date: Mar 31, 2016)
Program is partnership with Vanderbilt University and others.

Acquisitive techcos i3 Verticals, Payroc WorldAccess wrap $438MM M&A deal (relevance: 21.1%, date: Sep 23, 2024)
Nashville seller of non-core line focuses on Edtech, Regtech, Healthcare software markets

Chamber's Leadership Connect empowers competitive SMB and entrepreneurial owners for business and community gains (relevance: 20.6%, date: Jan 14, 2025)
10-founder cohorts seen as assets for accelerated empowerment, innovation that strengthen region.

State-backed LaunchTN Awards $7MM in matching funds to 37 TN firms (relevance: 20.4%, date: Oct 5, 2022)
Launch Tennessee announced latest SBIR fundings.

LaunchTN names Capital Formation, Entrepreneurship leaders (relevance: 20.4%, date: Aug 11, 2016)
Tennessee Technology Development Corporation (TTDC), aka Launch Tennessee, fills posts.

HealthIT: Scale-focused RoundingWell in Super-Angel raise, may double staff (relevance: 20.3%, date: Feb 27, 2015)
[updated] Smithwick says early market penetration signals 'time to step on the gas'.

Brandon Bruce's SEC filing signals Market Square Ventures Fund I on horizon (relevance: 19.7%, date: Mar 7, 2024)
Serial entrepreneur Bruce also leads Techstars Industries of the Future Accelerator backed by UTSys, TVA, ORNL

Venture Notes 14 July 2016 (relevance: 19.5%, date: Jul 14, 2016)
[updated] A baker's dozen oughta-reads on startups and capital from around the state.

Incoming Chair McDaniel leads CEO search for Nashville Technology Council (relevance: 19.5%, date: Dec 20, 2024)
Multiple indigenous candidates may be queuing. It remains to be seen how widely NTC will cast its net.

Founder of local $95MM Hope Investments fund
aims to support Just Hope global relief work (relevance: 19.4%, date: Apr 4, 2011)
[updated] A former Franklin corporate executive hopes to turn her investment-management savvy into a boon for the impoverished