information technology

State venture-capital incentive gains traction in Gen. Assembly

May 01, 2009 at 08:37 am by miltcapps

A House subcommittee voted earlier this week to support increasing venture-capital investment in Tennessee businesses. On Tuesday, after a series of pointed questions from an.... Read More

NEWSBITS May 1, 2009

May 01, 2009 at 08:35 am by miltcapps

The Oak Ridge-based Energy, Technology & Environmental Business Association (ETEBA) appointed lawyer Nithin Akuthota (left) its new executive director. Akuthota was previo.... Read More

Bootstrapping Atiba Software adds C-level exec

Feb 13, 2009 at 08:01 am by miltcapps

Atiba Software & Consulting Founder-CEO J.J. Rosen, who has doggedly bootstrapped his firm's growth for 17 years, has made his third strategic move in the past 18 mon.... Read More

Start-up 'Border Jump' leaps into Aeropost alliance

Feb 13, 2009 at 08:01 am by miltcapps

Nashville-based Border Jump LLC aims to help U.S. online retailers overcome barriers to selling goods to Latin American consumers. Border Jump CEO Bobby Frank told VNC yesterd.... Read More

Frontier Capital pushes West toward Nashville

Dec 30, 2008 at 08:23 am by miltcapps

Charlotte, N.C.-based Frontier Capital, a private-equity investor, is stepping-up its scouting of Middle Tennessee opportunities. Frontier's deal-flow developer, Seth Harward,.... Read More

Boon, not gloom? MB Ventures chief looks forward to '09

Dec 30, 2008 at 08:22 am by miltcapps

These are times that try fund-managers' souls, but 2009 could still produce "a legendary vintage year for venture capital." Or, so it seems to Gary Stevenson, manag.... Read More

Gov. Bredesen spies more Energy jobs after Hemlock

Dec 16, 2008 at 01:07 pm by miltcapps

In the wake of yesterday's Hemlock Semiconductor investment news, Gov. Phil Bredesen this morning asked a task force of volunteers to focus more of its energy on landing more.... Read More

IRON Solutions' VC in Nashville, sparks HQ talk

Dec 15, 2008 at 10:19 pm by miltcapps

IRON Solutions and StarVest Partners, a VC with a new warchest, seem to have found more than they bargained for in Nashville. IRON Solutions, a leading data-services provider.... Read More

Rising Stars: Rep. Cooper adds lawyer to staff

Dec 03, 2008 at 01:48 pm by miltcapps

U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper (D-5) has beefed-up his staff for addressing intellectual property and patent issues of interest to the entertainment industry and others, by adding Sam R.... Read More

Rick Oliver's American Sentinel launches D-Round capital raise

Dec 03, 2008 at 10:49 am by miltcapps

American Sentinel University, the online university that includes prominent Nashville investors among its leadership, has launched its fourth capital raise, with a goal in the.... Read More

Music Row veteran pushing Highnote venture raise

Nov 20, 2008 at 08:41 am by miltcapps

Nashville music-industry veteran Scott Welch and his co-founders are on the road these days, working to raise $1.5 million in A-round funding for Highnote, an Internet ve.... Read More

Emma 'always hungry' for talent, sails past $8MM

Nov 19, 2008 at 09:12 pm by miltcapps

Emma Inc., the 7-year-old provider of web-based email marketing and communications services company, has no plans to leave Nashville's urban core for the suburbs, even though.... Read More

Survey: Local Tech confidence poll yields points to ponder

Nov 16, 2008 at 11:49 pm by miltcapps

Conducted during the final days leading to Election 2008, Venture Nashville's quick, nonscientific survey of 104 Nashville IT executives yielded some findings t.... Read More

Tennessee Technology Development Corp. sharpens venture focus

Nov 07, 2008 at 10:56 am by miltcapps

Tennessee Technology Development Corporation yesterday reported further progress in stitching-together the state's science and technology stakeholders. The TTDC board of direc.... Read More

POV: Ventures at risk mean C-level IT role must change

Nov 06, 2008 at 07:51 am by miltcapps

Consultant Dave Chapman, who commutes between his 200-acre ranch in the Nashville area from another home in his native Massachusetts, began his career as an IBM engineer fifty.... Read More

$27B State pension fund has 18 advisors after competition

Nov 05, 2008 at 09:51 am by miltcapps

The State's $27 billion pension fund has just refreshed the ranks of its investment advisors. No Tennessee-based firms were among the roughly 50 companies that competed for ad.... Read More

InfoWorks' Clayton names Heard president

Nov 03, 2008 at 01:09 pm by miltcapps

InfoWorks Inc. Founder Jim Clayton today announced that Tony Heard has been named president of the 11-year-old provider of business consulting and custom technology services..... Read More

VU's Owen: Lynskey takes startup helm, OEC successor named

Sep 25, 2008 at 08:06 am by miltcapps

Bruce Lynskey is taking the reins as CEO of a tech startup in Massachusetts, from which he has commuted the past four years while serving as a key faculty member of the O.... Read More

State withdraws RFP for migrating data to $68MM center

Sep 24, 2008 at 11:26 am by miltcapps

For the second time time year, the State of Tennessee has withdrawn its request for proposals to migrate data from its current problem-riddled data center to a new facilty tha.... Read More

Pathfinder Therapeutics CEO is out

Sep 23, 2008 at 07:08 am by miltcapps

Pathfinder Therapeutics is short on CEO as well as capital, it seems. Paul MacDonald, the Canadian who joined Pathfinder two years ago, is apparently no longer with the firm,.... Read More

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