Tom Ballard

SpecialOps: ExBellum combat veterans target business imperatives

May 06, 2013 at 09:59 am by miltcapps

Updated: In 2018, the now Texas-based founders exited Exbellum and cofounded Terradepth, a data-as-a-service company focused on actionable knowledge about oceans, according to.... Read More

VentureNotes: Tennessee Venture Council moving to starting-blocks?

Nov 01, 2012 at 12:14 pm by miltcapps

TENNESSEE VENTURE COUNCIL, a proposed nonprofit organization for VC's, seems to have moved closer to becoming operational. According to a new website that purports to represe.... Read More

Launch Tennessee beefs-up board of directors,<br>sheds TTDC branding while CEO search continues

Nov 01, 2012 at 12:09 pm by miltcapps

Update: 21 November 6:26 a.m.: Chattanoogan.com reports that TN House Speaker Beth Harwell appointed UT COO David Milhorn to the board of LaunchTN/TTDC. Milhorn succeeds Alex.... Read More

NCN-NHCC reports Startup surge and growing venture-capital gap for Nashville

Aug 09, 2012 at 08:31 am by miltcapps

TNInvestco has recently been among the drivers in a sharp uptick in Nashville-area venture capital investment and startup activity, according to a report released early this m.... Read More

LaunchTN seeks traction on many fronts as it seeks to close deal for a CEO

Aug 06, 2012 at 11:25 am by miltcapps

Note 3:24 p.m.: After publication, LaunchTN confirmed that Denenberg is the new entrepreneur director and that StartupTN remains separate, but the accelerators will be primari.... Read More

Energy Targets: TCRS PE program makes $50MM commitment to Denham

Dec 28, 2011 at 09:05 am by miltcapps

THE PRIVATE-EQUITY investment program of the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System (TCRS) has made a $50 million commitment to Denham Capital Fund VI, an affiliate of Denha.... Read More

Haslam INCITE entrepreneurial capital-access<br>program moves stepwise toward launch

Dec 22, 2011 at 11:51 am by miltcapps

Update 28 December 2011 4:14 p.m.: ECD release the investor application form and program guidelines today here. Gov. Bill Haslam's $29.7MM INCITE entrepreneurial co-investmen.... Read More

Ideas: Vandy student's sly EYES|ONLY service re-mixes upscale experience

Nov 09, 2011 at 09:21 am by miltcapps

Founder Patrick Widen describes the first EYES|ONLY offerings from his Blend LLC startup as amounting to "lifestyle espionage," a way to get premium perqs delivered with a tou.... Read More

Life Science Tennessee sets priorities, rallies industry,<br>leverages support of Gov. Bill Haslam for commercialization

Nov 07, 2011 at 07:49 am by miltcapps

Life Science Tennessee has fewer than 80 corporate members today, but will soon be knocking on doors of nearly 700 non-member firms within the state, as well as strategizing t.... Read More

Regional Roundup, Nov. 7, 2011

Nov 07, 2011 at 05:48 am by miltcapps

Erik Carlson Streamweaver may be in self-avowed "stealth" mode, but LinkedIn indicates the TNInvestco-backed company is the result of an acquisition and it has a new.... Read More

ORNL's Ballard joins PYA, hands-off portfolio to scientist Roberto

Oct 31, 2011 at 06:40 am by miltcapps

OAK RIDGE National Laboratory partnerships director Tom Ballard's duties will be assumed Jan. 1 by ORNL Associate Director James Roberto, Ph.D., as Ballard joins management at.... Read More

VNC Member News: RelevantAssets® names management team, sets capital raise, targets Corporate Real Estate performance

Feb 01, 2010 at 08:54 am by miltcapps

CRE Technologies, Inc., dba RelevantAssets, announced the formation of an expanded management and development team, as well as plans to raise $400,000 in private capital to ac.... Read More

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

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

TN TechDev's life running through financial hourglass

Oct 21, 2009 at 12:37 pm by miltcapps

Tennessee Technology Development Corporation leaders see the next 30 days as crucial to TTDC's continued ability to add value to the state's tech-driven economic development..... Read More

TTDC says it plans no funding for TN Bio Assn.

Oct 21, 2009 at 12:37 pm by miltcapps

Tennessee Technology Development Corporation management says it "has no confidence" in Tennessee Biotechnology Association to promote biotech and related industries. In a repo.... Read More

Health IT exec to chair Nashville Technology Council

Jun 30, 2009 at 09:11 am by miltcapps

Tomorrow, Healthspring Inc.'s Andy Flatt begins his two-year term as chairman of Nashville Technology Council. Flatt's tenure will span pivotal years: NTC is due to launch or.... Read More

Tech commerce: Leadership shakeup reported at UT Research Foundation

Jun 25, 2009 at 12:15 pm by miltcapps

Updated, Oct. 30, 2009: Randy Gentry, a professor of engineering at UT-Knoxville, was earlier this month named president of UTRF, succeed Fred Tompkins. Our story as original.... Read More

Nashville VC: 'Pushover' entrepreneurs need not apply

Nov 09, 2008 at 05:43 pm by miltcapps

During last week's venture-capital panel discussion here in Nashville, the Most Sobering Comment Award probably went to Sid Chambless, the executive director of Nashville Capi.... Read More

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