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[Updated] EDA has $33MM pot, says previous grant wins no reason to withhold well defined, competitive ideas.

[Updated] No successor currently being recruited for the role, the fourth mid-level post vacated in the past year.

[updated] Nashvillians' latest efforts could generate $80MM or more for OZ plays for growth, socioeconomic impact.

[Updated] Entrepreneurial, startup and capital events and activities around Tennessee.

New cohort includes software, hospitality, fitness, beauty-style, wellness - and, yes, coffee and more.

WINNERS out! 42 entrants vied to win top honors in 14 categories.

143-year-old institution draws broad-spectrum academic and polyglot Berliner as its next leader.

VC led signal raise, now founders map a Seed-plus + Series A to take turnover solution to market.

Young serial entrepreneur seems clear-eyed about business link between cash and destiny.

Launch Tennessee builds the profile of its Innovation Capital Continuum.

[Updated) There's sharpened focus on capital, as well as on entrepreneurial infrastructure and regional strategy.

A rigorous study of TN lifesciences is afoot and advocates are clearly positioning to push for public and private support.

[updated] Tech veteran preps for ramping-up sales, scouts for talent in Nashville and beyond.

Digital Reasoning exec felt called to pursue ML venture, extols Nashville and its STEM-oriented youth.

Nashville entrant aims to connect accredited investors with institutional-caliber deals, at attractive minimums.

A new healthtech spinout, capraises, M&A, people moves, advisors, key events and a couple dozen more nuggets.

Launch Tennessee, Electro-Active, Dynamo, CET, EPIcenter, and more updated in today's roundup.

[updated] Nashville has proven a 'phenomenal', 'fabulous' place for VC-backed fintech-regtech co's launch.

Conversations continue as startup mulls investment terms, milestones, and preps for hiring and dev.

[Updated 25 July 2024] Healthcare specialists file on Fund IV companion.

CEO Al Ganier says startup exhaustively considered market priority, and might later address opioid users' risk of pregnancy.

Realities of youth services and the breeding of entrepreneurs bring abrupt changes in local programs.

Eberhardt & Bell press forward with tech solution developed in Nashville for global market.

CEO says social-media spend for student assignments, tests, grades users prompts accelerating employer recruitment support.

Meetups blend LaunchTN mission, Kauffman funding, Engine advocate, constituents getting to know legislators.

Startup and growth-oriented entrepreneurship program taking 2020 applications now, through Dec. 15, 2019.

New CEO will rely on a lawyerly eye and entrepreneurial chops as she begins fresh assessment of the EC.

Lackey's latest, Music tech, OZ players, VU Ventures Group, LaunchTN, DRS CMO, Jumpstart Foundry and more.

VCs team with TennesSeed Funders to create momentum to feed flywheel effect in TN economy.

With Salesforce Ventures as a shareholder, longtime healthtechie sees running room in cloud-apps sector.

CEO Lee Jestings confirms appointment and continued focus on capital-raising, advisor-selection planning.

Signs of the season? SEC filings pop up in Nashville, Memphis, Chattanooga.

[updated] 12 years into the mission, six years after leaving AOL, team has been prepping its next move for months.

[Updated] VNC seeks comment from team, meanwhile research suggests interesting ecosystem forming around company.

The five-year-old company has already secured $70MM capital and is at 400 employees.

Four years after VC/PE control investment, legal-spend management company has a number of options.

[Updated] Here is the fullest rundown you'll find on Awards entrants, judges and related matters ahead of this November event.

Sphere eyes multiple payments/security markets -- and its interest in Healthcare has grown.

Scott Ewing offers founders or enterprise owners his 'telltales' for both investors and entrepreneurs.

32 actionable and/or useful news, people and background bulletins focused on Tennessee entrepreneurship and capital.

Early voting begins Aug. 23, ahead of the Sept. 12, 2019 Runoff General Election.

Startup has raised more than $17MM and has entered Canada, UK markets.

Military veteran entrepreneurs, speakers and invited public join financial services leader, Aug. 8.

[updated] Straight-talking commercialization and capital advisors from Austin, Nashville and Lexington converge, Aug. 29.

OppZone platform in works, Legility M&A, SEC filings, Veteran Ventures, H2O and Lirio raises and more.

Opportunity arose for 'pre-Portfolio" sidecar pilot, bringing total to 26 startups enlisted this cycle.

Fund exec sees little to envy in Silicon Valley models, says bringing youthful talent into Nashville has been a boon.

The latest generation of ventures spawned from TN campuses suggests competition must've been intense.

[updated] Accelerator is backed by KY economic development, holds startups from KY, NY, IL, TX, Calif.

VNC asked EC Chair Emeritus and Search Committee chair to share an update on the search process.

Nashville EC says Portfolio companies are more advanced, separate pilot will help newer startups.

$3MM+ will go to new capital formation, entrepreneurship, mentoring and related initiatives. 3 winners in the state. 6 teams submitted compelling ideas.

Vreeland completes 9th transaction. Growth Fund I has dry powder, and Fund II is a target for 2020.

Event could top last year's 1,200 registrants, including 100 or more presenters, hundreds of serial entrepreneurs and investors.

Nashville attorneys still homesteading here, joins virtual-first techco with apparent major VC backing.

Tennessee Tech alumna and entrepreneurship intern gets the job.

Funding fuels manufacturing and market priorities, but team is alert for other 'sustainable' opportunities.

Updated: Moneytree report from PwC and CBInsights is out, plus we have field notes on TN and Opportunity Zones.

Hyperledger Fabric tech used to fight errors, fraud, adverse effects, illicit drug access.

It will be an exacting decision process, supported by Spencer Stuart and grassroots input.

Updated: 21 items on TN capital raises, advisors, entrepreneurs and strategies.

Founder says he continues planning for capital raise and Nashville presence.

Brody-Waite plans to leave the decade-old entrepreneurship center.

The startup/venture cauldron bubbles across Tennessee. 40 abstracts here.

SaaS entrepreneur Kevin Ross and Esports advocate Jared Miller surface in new ventures.

[updated] Fighting colorectal cancer, CEO eyes growing Knoxville biotech scene and Euro and U.S. markets

Founder has raised north of $8MM, recruited growing ranks of farmers since inception.

A Select Medical exec is also Amplion chair; CEO says tech advantage makes a raise reasonable.

Founder says consumers will transform healthcare; she eyes series of raises, senior hires, partnerships.

Mixture of Entrepreneurship and innovation are further stirred and shaken at VU.

CEO, author, advisor moves from bootstrapping to scale-up for board governance platform.

Heritage pops new fund, plus raises for healthcare, crypto, CBD, Growth Fund model notes and more.

Eight teams are enrolled in the Erlanger-Unum-CoLab HealthTech Accelerator.

Nashville entrepreneur's business and social-impact lenses are focused on venture gap.

Cohort D2C goods, wearables, transportation, diagnostic devices and remote patient monitoring.