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CPG Brief: Woman-owned Daily Crunch Snacks busts a move on Series A

Feb 14, 2024 at 04:40 pm by miltcapps

Update - Forbes reports Sept. 17, 2024, on completion of Daily Crunch Series A. Our original Feb. 14, 2024, story below. - Ed. DAILY CRUNCH INC., a Nashville startup with a "b.... Read More

Carbon Conversion Group S1 may prove R&D, commercialization venture's step toward scaleup

Feb 14, 2024 at 04:15 pm by miltcapps

CARBON Conversion Group Inc. (CCG), which on Jan. 18 filed its draft S-1 registration statement with the SEC, is adding senior staff for its principal office in Murfreesboro a.... Read More

ThriveAP investor's $3MM bet focuses on Advanced Practice Provider needs

Feb 12, 2024 at 07:08 am by miltcapps

TWELVE-year-old MidlevelU Inc., which offers accredited ThriveAP education and training programs for the healthcare sector's Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) and the.... Read More

Venture Notes - February 7, 2024

Feb 07, 2024 at 09:36 am by miltcapps

UT-C's Quantum Center awaits chief, as EPB, ORNL, QT partnerships grow

Jan 25, 2024 at 03:15 pm by miltcapps

THE UNIVERSITY of Tennessee at Chattanooga is said to be "finalizing" its search for the inaugural leader of its rapidly maturing Quantum Center. According to a detaile.... Read More

Hard choices: TN venture scene pops with dozens of events just ahead

Jan 24, 2024 at 04:30 pm by miltcapps

Stepping back from the fray, we find there are a myriad of scheduled events just ahead. We've chosen to spotlight 40+ below. Errors are ours. Updates, corrections are w.... Read More

Minding the Gap: Re:Generate funds grants for Black, Hispanic founders

Dec 20, 2023 at 01:55 pm by miltcapps

VOLUNTEERS rallying under the "Re:Generate" banner and closely allied with the Nashville Entrepreneur Center (NEC) are redoubling their efforts to recruit timely philanthropic.... Read More

Moyer-led Innovation Studio raising $2.5MM to advance Industry AI mission

Dec 13, 2023 at 08:45 am by miltcapps

FRANKLIN-based The Innovation Studio filed yesterday for its Innovation Studio Fund I raise, providing fresh evidence of Studio's progress in its campaign to create and grow a.... Read More

Personality Pool is first startup to receive InvestTN backing via LaunchTN

Dec 01, 2023 at 04:43 pm by miltcapps

SULLIVAN COUNTY startup Personality Pool, led by East Tennessee native Lauren Glass Mullins, has been identified as the first business to consummate an equity investment from.... Read More

Altitude Ventures taps Deshpande, eyes Fund III-driven portfolio expansion

Nov 30, 2023 at 08:45 am by miltcapps

NASHVILLE-based Altitude Ventures today announced its appointment of Amol Deshpande as a strategic limited partner and senior advisor to the firm and affirmed its expectations.... Read More

UMemphis Crews Center exec search runs, Hoffmeyer settles at UMaryland

Nov 30, 2023 at 08:00 am by miltcapps

CREWS CENTER for Entrepreneurship at the University of Memphis continues working to select a successor to former Crews Director Mike Hoffmeyer, who held the role for nearly a.... Read More

Erstwhile Nashville change-agent Ratliff leads AdaptX amid capraises

Nov 21, 2023 at 04:44 pm by miltcapps

IN THE LATE 1990s, Warren Ratliff JD, played a key role in defining and mobilizing Greater Nashville's digital and biopharma technology space. In addition to practicing intell.... Read More

DigitalSelf eyes $300MM raise, has 'major' focus here + fan of Nashville SC

Nov 20, 2023 at 03:47 pm by miltcapps

CRAIG MUIR, the New York-based founder and CEO of DigitalSelf Inc., confirmed today that Nashville is "a major focus" of his firm, which offers the DigitalSelf (Live) dentrali.... Read More

Company Lab, TennSmart to sort Sustainable Mobility Reverse Pitch innovators to confront Challenges during EXPO in Nashville

Nov 16, 2023 at 01:49 pm by miltcapps

ON MONDAY, Nov. 20, representatives of The Company Lab (CoLab) and TennSmart Consortium are to be available to answer questions from entrepreneurs who are working against a lo.... Read More