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NEA partner eyes 'huge opportunity' for Nashville healthcare technologists

May 16, 2016 at 10:45 am by miltcapps

FOR A MOMENT, New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Partner Mohamad Makhzoumi seemed ready to accord Nashville something like a gentleman's "C" on healthcare technology, but landed.... Read More

Overdog sale was assets deal; buyer Odd Networks mulls capraise

May 16, 2016 at 10:30 am by miltcapps

THE recent sale of Nashville-based Overdog was a one-off asset transaction involving transfer of technology and cash between two former collaborators. The buyer, Saratoga Spri.... Read More

Notable: Project Music + Music Biz team for tonight's Startup Showcase II

May 16, 2016 at 09:00 am by miltcapps

SOLD OUT, reads the Music Business Association (MusicBiz) webpage for tonight's Project Music Startup Showcase, which cranks up late this afternoon in the CMA Theater of the C.... Read More

AgLaunch accelerator launches, powered by Memphis Bioworks, TNDA allies

May 16, 2016 at 09:00 am by miltcapps

Updated: June 22, 2018 - AgLaunch became AgLaunch Initiative.-Ed. AGLAUNCH Accelerator launches this week under co-sponsorship of the Tennessee Department of Agriculture.... Read More

Venture Notes - May 11, 2016

May 11, 2016 at 05:13 pm by miltcapps

Travis Broome RESONANCE defined: When Vanderbilt School of Medicine Dean Jeff Balser MD PHD tells his Health:Further audience, as he did yesterday, that each day, yea.... Read More

President of S-RAM Dynamics sees near-term opportunity in Tennessee

May 11, 2016 at 02:15 pm by miltcapps

LEE JESTINGS, the Nashville-based president of S-RAM Dynamics, arrived Nashville in 2008, by way of California and Arizona. Among other assets, Jestings brought with him Energ.... Read More

Message at Samford bears McWhorter legacy and son's challenge to serve

May 09, 2016 at 03:30 pm by miltcapps

Clayton McWhorter1933-2016 CLAYTON Associates Chairman Stuart McWhorter, immediate past-CEO of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, addressed Samford University's Comme.... Read More

Healthcare: SEMDA Nashville event affirms<br>connections of Devices, IT/Data, Services

May 06, 2016 at 01:15 pm by miltcapps

May 16: See updated startup list below. -Ed. FOR the first time in a decade, Music City's HealthIT and Healthcare Services sectors, as well as its budding Medical Devices indu.... Read More

Vanderbilt University welcomes 2nd looks at its older patented technologies

May 03, 2016 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY continues to pursue patents as warranted by inventors' discoveries and market intelligence, and its review of more recently created technologies and lice.... Read More

Healthtech: Spera Health F&F raise likely prelude to true Seed round

May 03, 2016 at 03:45 pm by miltcapps

SPERA HEALTH aims first for its software platform to support addiction recovery en route to the startup's broader positioning in the Behavioral Healthcare arena. Meanwhile, St.... Read More

TeleMed: WeCounsel Solutions completes $3.5MM Series A capital raise

May 02, 2016 at 05:46 pm by miltcapps

2016 Memphis Accelerator Portfolios announced

May 02, 2016 at 04:00 pm by miltcapps

Greenhill, Nowers: Nashville EC Diversity program lifts-off, adds sponsors

May 02, 2016 at 03:49 pm by miltcapps

THE IMPACT from the Nashville Entrepreneur Center's expanded diversity and inclusion effort is already being felt and its leaders are prepared to match more financial sponsors.... Read More

CEO: Nashville workable for Fintech startups eyeing community banks

May 02, 2016 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

GABE KRAJICEK, the former CEO of Dealerskins here in town, says he believes Nashville would work well as home base for a Fintech startup such Kasasa, of which he is now CEO ba.... Read More

2016 Memphis Portfolios announced

May 02, 2016 at 01:12 pm by miltcapps

OverDog sale rumor afloat, some announcement said imminent

Apr 29, 2016 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

Last updated 9 May 2016 3:38pm - Berneman and New York State-based startup Odd Networks confirmed today its acquisition of Overdog on undisclosed terms. No Overdog employees a.... Read More

PYA Analytics keeps Healthcare emphasis, mulls eventual MD Radio capital raise or sale and welcomes opportunities in other verticals

Apr 28, 2016 at 06:15 pm by miltcapps