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UT-Battelle, NellOne Therapeutics license patents for tissue therapy

Jan 28, 2010 at 01:58 pm by miltcapps

UT-Battelle LLC today announced it has licensed patents to NellOne Therapeutics Inc., with an eye toward new therapies that would restore both mass and function to damaged hum.... Read More

VC Coleman demands access to TNInvestco records

Jan 28, 2010 at 10:43 am by miltcapps

Updated 2:45 p.m.:  State. Sen. Doug Overbey told VNC he will file a "caption bill" this afternoon to "reserve a space" for legislation advocated by the Bredesen Administ.... Read More

Health IT Roundup: Executives comment on Nashville's leadership options

Jan 25, 2010 at 03:31 pm by miltcapps

As reported in today's accompanying article, Nashville is mobilizing to strengthen its leading role in healthcare information technology and related domains. Here are excerp.... Read More

Nashville mobilizes for U.S. Health technology leadership

Jan 25, 2010 at 03:31 pm by miltcapps

Nashville industry, academe and government are said to be creating an alliance that could breathe reality into Music City's dream of becoming the Silicon Valley of Healthcare..... Read More

UPDATE: Claritas-backed StudioNow a startup again, leaves AOL fold

Jan 25, 2010 at 08:02 am by miltcapps

Updated 20 Aug. 2014: Tennessean reports StudioNow Series B growth round hit $5MM. Earlier: 18 April 2014: StudioNow files $4MM FormD with Claritas and FCA execs named, SEC he.... Read More

TTDC grants $100K to Nashville Entrepreneur Center, names two board leaders

Jan 21, 2010 at 04:34 pm by miltcapps

The board of directors of Tennessee Technology Development Corporation today decided to provide a $100,000 grant to the new Nashville Entrepreneur Center and reaffirmed plans.... Read More

Confluence Solar is landing in TN with 250 jobs and raising Venture capital for new operations

Jan 20, 2010 at 04:38 pm by miltcapps

This story updated Jan. 21, 2010, 11:50 a.m..: Employee target number is 250, instead of 400, which was an earlier reported figure. Also, Confluence is employee owne.... Read More

NEWSBITS, Jan. 19, 2010

Jan 19, 2010 at 10:13 am by miltcapps

OnFocus|Healthcare is raising about $3 million in fresh capital, augmenting a 2008 round led by Nashville-based Solidus Co. In a filing with the SEC dated Jan. 14, OnFocus ind.... Read More

VNC Member News: The Nexus Group names CEO and CFO

Jan 15, 2010 at 10:29 am by miltcapps

FROM THE NEXUS GROUP The Nexus Group, the strategic data, network and consulting services provider headquartered in Nashville, today announced Steven Brugman has been appoi.... Read More

FourBridges exec: More insurers would invest if TNInvestco reopens

Jan 15, 2010 at 10:29 am by miltcapps

A Chattanooga executive says there's probably more demand out there for the TNInvestco tax-credit allocations that are funding new Tennessee investment funds. The state's new.... Read More

FourBridges exec: More insurers would invest if TNInvestco reopens

Jan 15, 2010 at 10:28 am by miltcapps

A Chattanooga executive says there's probably more demand out there for the TNInvestco tax-credit allocations that are funding new Tennessee investment funds. The state's new.... Read More

People: Nix leads Deloitte M&A transaction services here

Jan 14, 2010 at 04:44 pm by miltcapps

Nashville has become the aerie-of-choice for executives with an eagle's-eye on the nation's healthcare sector. One of those sharp-eyed professionals is Lisa Nix, who is direc.... Read More

Clayton McWhorter to chair Nashville Entrepreneur Center

Jan 13, 2010 at 12:21 pm by miltcapps

Updated 3:15 p.m. - NTC's Fetherling called after publication of this story to ensure we understood he didn't handpick the NEC board. Our story makes clear the picking was don.... Read More

Digital Reasoning Systems names new president

Jan 11, 2010 at 02:09 pm by miltcapps

Update: DRS Oct. 9, 2014 announced raising $24MM in a Series C round led by Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse NEXT Investors, noting that previous investors have included Partne.... Read More

2010 Economy: Kisber, Cromwell both face reckoning

Jan 06, 2010 at 02:47 pm by miltcapps

The leaders of two platoons of State economic-development professionals will each face a reckoning in 2010. Matt Kisber, Gov. Phil Bredesen's commissioner of economic and comm.... Read More

Nashville Techies continually monitored by investors

Jan 05, 2010 at 07:01 am by miltcapps

This article was originally published by Digital Nashville, Jan. 4, 2010, with VNC's permission. Nashville's tech professionals may feel they toil in obscurity, but in fact th.... Read More

VU's Conn advocates new models for drug discovery

Dec 22, 2009 at 01:15 pm by miltcapps

A crisis of innovation grips "the entire biomedical research enterprise," according to the leader of the Vanderbilt Program in Drug Discovery. VPDD Director Jeff Conn, Ph.D.,.... Read More

ISO Capital: Dobie Media sets next capital raise for EvieSays

Dec 21, 2009 at 12:22 pm by miltcapps

Nashville-based and venture-backed Dobie Media Inc. has begun raising $1.5 million in fresh capital. The early-stage company is pushing its online EvieSays calendaring platfor.... Read More

Nashville TNInvestcos targeted by Computable Genomix

Dec 16, 2009 at 10:46 am by miltcapps

Computable Genomix CEO Brad Silver arrives Nashville tomorrow from Memphis, looking for investors. Memphis-based Silver (at left) told VNC yesterday that, among other stops,.... Read More

VU scientists' startup Revalida seeks capital, C-level team

Dec 16, 2009 at 08:04 am by miltcapps

Life-sciences startup Revalida LLC, driven by knowledge spawned at Vanderbilt University, is scouting for a CEO and recruiting its first round of capital. The venture relies.... Read More

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