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BizFoundry CEO: Entrepreneur centers must<br>'meet entrepreneurs where they are'

May 08, 2017 at 11:30 am by miltcapps

JEFF BROWN, president and executive director of The Biz Foundry in Cookeville, listed several big lessons he's learned during five years cultivating entrepreneurship in the Up.... Read More

New entrepreneur-in-res at EC, launches 'Milk the Moment' startup

May 02, 2017 at 03:57 pm by miltcapps

COURTNEY 'Coko' Eason has launched into her role as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center while simultaneously advancing her mobile app toward the mar.... Read More

Jim Phillips CEO of relaunched XMI backed by Engelbrecht's SCI of Evansville

May 02, 2017 at 09:56 am by miltcapps

Updated July 25, 2017: XMI announced it bought 6-year-old accounting/CFO outsourced services company, ConServ Business Services, based in Nashville. XMI said in a release it n.... Read More

Marcom: Snell's Gyrosity eyes capital raise and Crosshair spin-out

May 01, 2017 at 10:00 am by miltcapps

Update July 2018: Gyrosity became part of NYC-based Stadiumred Group, which also took a stake in Crosshair.-Ed. GYROSITY Projects, the interactive agency based in Nashville, h.... Read More

At Satchel Health, Macy to CPO, succeeded as CEO by Lanson Hyde

May 01, 2017 at 09:45 am by miltcapps

Satchel Health, a Nashville healthIT offering telemedicine solutions for post-acute care providers, today announced the appointment of Lanson Hyde as chief executive officer..... Read More

Venture Notes - 1 May 2017

May 01, 2017 at 09:45 am by miltcapps

Condra's Amplion Clinical Communications elevates Grant to presidency

May 01, 2017 at 09:15 am by miltcapps

AMPLION Clinical Communications, the Nashville company that offers a patient-care assurance platform (PaaS) for the healthcare sector, has elevated Frank Grant to president, f.... Read More

36|86 Nashville: LaunchTN cohort of 36 startups has 21 from out of state

May 01, 2017 at 08:00 am by miltcapps

THE LARGE 36|86 Entrepreneurship and Technology Conference each summer in Nashville has become "a home run for LaunchTN and the state and an important element of some of the s.... Read More

FINTECH: Organically grown StrategyCorps remains<br>'intentionally opportunistic' about M&A

Apr 27, 2017 at 02:45 pm by miltcapps

Update: StrategyCorps said Nov. 1 2017 that it won BankNews accolades. The company also said in a release May 23, 2017, that its merchant discounts now number more than 360K n.... Read More

NPREX eyes capital raises for direct-licensing performing rights platform

Apr 25, 2017 at 03:41 pm by miltcapps

NPREX LLC, the digital marketplace for direct licensing transactions in the music performing rights industry, is in beta simulation testing with major publishers, has a Seed-2.... Read More

Former VC Les Wilkinson now Hashed Health chief development officer

Apr 25, 2017 at 03:30 pm by miltcapps

LES WILKINSON, formerly managing director of Martin Ventures, is now chief development officer for Hashed Health, the startup information technology company focused on commerc.... Read More

Courtney 'Coko' Eason named EIR at Nashville Entrepreneur Center

Apr 25, 2017 at 10:45 am by miltcapps

The Nashville Entrepreneur Center (EC) joins Code2040 and Google for Entrepreneurs today to announce Coko Eason (Linkedin) of Milk App as Nashville's second Code2040 Entrepren.... Read More

BioTN: Entrepreneurs Lynch, Elmquist rally midstate<br>to lifescience and healthIT incubator, STEM prep

Apr 24, 2017 at 09:15 am by miltcapps

FRANKLIN's nonprofit BioTN Foundation has expanded its STEM-centric charter to encompass entrepreneurship, tech commercialization and biomedical business incubation, augmentin.... Read More

Brett Jackson takes helm as CEO of Digital Reasoning Systems

Apr 20, 2017 at 03:45 pm by miltcapps

FRANKLIN-based Digital Reasoning Systems announced Brett Jackson, former CEO and chairman of Logi Analytics and former CEO of Digital Harbor, has been named DRS's CEO, succeed.... Read More

Relay Life Science commercial development startup raising capital

Apr 20, 2017 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

RELAY Life Science LLC, a technology commercial development company, has launched in Nashville and is preparing to raise capital, after two years perfecting their model. Co-fo.... Read More

Tom Ballard still failing to retire from business and economic development

Apr 20, 2017 at 08:45 am by miltcapps

As General Assembly grinds along, some notes on TNInvestco and more

Apr 17, 2017 at 04:15 pm by miltcapps

MIXED reviews of the state's TNInvestco program, the wind-down of the original INCITE co-investment program, lingering questions about the health of Tennessee technology comme.... Read More

HCTec Partners taps former UL/PureSafety chief Bill Grana as President

Apr 13, 2017 at 04:00 pm by miltcapps

HCTec Partners, the Franklin-based healthIT solutions, staffing and consulting company led by CEO William Bartholomew, has named Bill Grana its president. Grana, who confirmed.... Read More

Wearables startup WiseWear's Series A underway, plans Nashville office

Apr 13, 2017 at 01:45 pm by miltcapps

WISEWEAR, the health, safety and security wearable technologies brainchild of a Vanderbilt University biomedical engineering alumnus, plans to establish a Nashville office and.... Read More

Venture Notes - 11 April 2017

Apr 11, 2017 at 02:15 pm by miltcapps

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