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Venture Notes: EO-Nashville, Back Porch Group,<br> Sagents, PBM365, Frontier Capital, Tandum

Oct 06, 2014 at 08:26 am by miltcapps

Joe Glaser JOE GLASER, the Nashville investor and entrepreneur who was in at the ground floor in both Artist Growth and Moontoast launches, is collaborating wi.... Read More

Griffis' FanSafety seeks Seed-capital for venue-security gameplan

Oct 06, 2014 at 08:26 am by miltcapps

FANSAFETY.ORG, based in Gallatin outside Nashville, is in conversations with potential investors in its Seed-capital raise. Founder-CEO Don Griffis told VNC that FanSafety is.... Read More

MedCenterDisplay advances Series B raise, sharpens digital-comm role

Sep 01, 2014 at 10:10 am by miltcapps

Updated: June 2017: Patientpoint raised $140M from investors including Searchlight Capital Partners (London) and Silver Point Capital (Greenwich, Conn.). November 11, 2016 - T.... Read More

VTC: Angel Capital Group's Ewing wrangles deal flow, VentureIncite exits ETN

Aug 18, 2014 at 09:30 am by miltcapps

Digital Nashville seeks leader to succeed Founder Elin Mulron

Aug 13, 2014 at 10:15 pm by miltcapps

Digital Nashville (DN), the volunteer-driven nonprofit that serves professionals in digital technology, media and content fields, is looking for an executive director to succe.... Read More

Nashville's women-owned Collegiate Sports Data considers partnerships

Aug 13, 2014 at 10:37 am by miltcapps

BECKY SHARPE has "trouble imagining" exiting either of her two Nashville businesses, Collegiate Sports Data (CSD) and International Scholarship and Tuition Services, (ISTS), s.... Read More

Gov. Haslam's INCITE program stirs to life via 'Venture Incite' A-round

May 14, 2012 at 10:08 am by miltcapps

VENTURE INCITE, the Oak Ridge-based company founded by Nashville-based Solidus and its TNInvestco fund, will use recent A-round funding to "attract the best regional and natio.... Read More

'Educating the money' may be answer to diversifying Nashville techventures

May 08, 2012 at 10:17 am by miltcapps

Update 5 December 2013: eMids has recruited $13.3M from Council Capital & Baird Capital (Chi.), according to 4 December 2013 story by NBJ.-Ed. SAURABH SINHA, Nashville's E.... Read More

Jumpstart class arrives in a cloud of dust, as Gatto cooks-up Angel move

May 03, 2012 at 10:10 am by miltcapps

BIG DAY for Vic Gatto & Friends: The Solidus partner and Jumpstart Foundry founder this morning announced JSF's new class of entrepreneurs in Nashville. Also today, Gatto.... Read More

A-Round: Frazer's Cicayda tech startup emerging into Nashville sunlight

May 02, 2012 at 07:22 am by miltcapps

Updated: Cicayda told VNC in August 2013 that its headcount was then 35.-Ed. GREEN HILLS-based Roe Frazer aims to raise $2MM in capital for Cicayda, an e-discovery-.... Read More

'Corner man' Forrest Shoaf joins Dobie Media as advisor

Apr 30, 2012 at 09:02 am by miltcapps

FORREST SHOAF, formerly Cracker Barrel Old Country Store's chief financial officer, has joined Dobie Media as advisor and investor, founder Bruce Dobie confirmed for VNC. Wor.... Read More

App-deadline April 2nd: Jumpstart Foundry will forge up to 10 new ventures

Feb 05, 2012 at 11:08 pm by miltcapps

JUMPSTART FOUNDRY, the Nashville business accelerator, is taking applications for its third annual challenge of would-be entrepreneurs' commitment and endurance. April 2nd is.... Read More

VenturePeople: Highly interactive Dave Delaney makes a move

Feb 05, 2012 at 05:14 pm by miltcapps

DAVE DELANEY, the social-marketing thought-leader who personifies a vaguely defined, but zesty slice of Nashville's Geek culture, has returned to full-time consulting and spea.... Read More

SOPA: Mashable's Heald parses the controversial legislation

Jan 18, 2012 at 05:17 am by miltcapps

VentureNotes: DAIO and Pearescope score

Jan 17, 2012 at 08:28 am by miltcapps

Ben Stucki BEN STUCKI'S DAIO (chartered as Reflex Software Inc.) now has three undisclosed Angel investors, a termsheet and plans to close an initial $250K.... 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

Moontoast launches $6MM equity-capital raise

Dec 22, 2011 at 11:51 am by miltcapps

Updated Oct. 24, 2014: Moontoast shuffles team, rebrands as Spendsetter, TSN reports. Crunchbase shows Martin Cos. has invested nearly $20MM in the two cos. 5 Jan. 2012: Moon.... Read More

Lifestyle startups are focus for Lipscomb Center for Entrepreneurship;<br>Joe Ivey prepares to recruit leaders, mentors and internships

Nov 21, 2011 at 03:45 am by miltcapps

Family-owned and "lifestyle" businesses that seek organic growth, rather than rapid scale-up and entrepreneurial exits are the focus of Lipscomb University's Center for Entrep.... 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

VenturePeople: Kate O'Neill of Metamarketer

Oct 26, 2011 at 10:54 am by miltcapps

METAMARKETER founder Kathleen "Kate" O'Neill, a 37-year-old Chicago-area native who's happily spent nearly a decade in Music City, acknowledges that the Nashville talent pool.... Read More

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