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ETSU Research, Sync Space ally to 'Accelerate Appalachia' startups + SMEs

Feb 13, 2025 at 04:00 pm by miltcapps

Sync Space and East Tennessee State University (ETSU) Research Corporation have collaborated in launching Accelerate Appalachia, a program designed to help advance the region'.... Read More

Lead Capital Partners' ApolloLIMS seeks growth in sector 'ripe' for M&A

Feb 24, 2020 at 01:37 pm by miltcapps

Updated 13 April 2022: ApolloLIMS acquired by UK-based Clinisys (Clinisys Group), release here. The local unit has 18FTE, Hart told VNC.-Ed.APOLLO LIMS, the laboratory informa.... Read More

SyncEC forges alliances to build entrepreneurship beacon in Highlands

Feb 18, 2020 at 11:45 am by miltcapps

Apply by March 15, 2020, for Market Access Program On entry, participants prepare to engage with customers, partners Local and state-level grants-makers help fund momentum Re.... Read More

Venture Notes -- September 30, 2019

Sep 30, 2019 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

Series A ahead, Tammy Hawes has always seen Virsys12 as scalable venture

Sep 24, 2019 at 03:45 pm by miltcapps

TAMMY HAWES, CEO of Virsys12, says that from the moment she founded her company eight years ago, she's always seen it as a scalable SaaS business and has never seen it as a li.... Read More

Nashville fintech: Waud-backed SphereCommerce eyes M&A opportunities

Aug 26, 2019 at 04:15 pm by miltcapps

SPHERECOMMERCE LLC, the integrated payments technology and security software provider, won't be deterred in its role as M&A consolidator by the frothy valuations it often.... Read More

Venture Notes -- August 21, 2019

Aug 21, 2019 at 02:42 pm by miltcapps

Faros Healthcare names board chair, as Centerstone plan advances

Oct 24, 2016 at 04:08 pm by miltcapps

Updated August 2017 - Company's name changed to Raiven Healthcare. 31 Oct 2016 - Centerstone said in a release it generates about $310MM revenue and has 4,500 employees in 5 s.... Read More

Launch Tennessee Update shows multifaceted mission, wide-ranging action

Oct 20, 2016 at 06:15 pm by miltcapps

TODAY's meeting of the board of directors of Launch Tennessee -- formally chartered as Tennessee Technology Development Corporation or TTDC -- was broad-ranging. ECD's T.... Read More

Venture Notes - March 17, 2016

Mar 17, 2016 at 04:15 pm by miltcapps

Chamber's Ross VU venture - TechPulse - Angel Tax CreditSmartFurniture + Relevance raises PULSECHECK - Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce Chief Economic Development O.... Read More

Update: Launch Tennessee presses forward on Commercialization

Mar 14, 2016 at 11:26 am by miltcapps

LAUNCH Tennessee's staff and a board-level Innovation and Commercialization committee are moving stepwise toward defining new programmatic initiatives. In 2H 2015, the committ.... 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

Health online: Big City Docs plans to target Nashville consumers in 2012

Dec 05, 2011 at 11:19 am by miltcapps

Big City Docs LLC, the Birmingham startup that is building online consumer guides to healthcare providers, plans to launch its site Nashville in 2012, CEO Scott Kubiszyn told.... Read More

Angel Brennan says EC, StartupTN help<br> prepare entrepreneurs to seek capital

Dec 04, 2011 at 04:04 pm by miltcapps

THE REGION's pipeline of investable Angel deals is becoming "more organized and more professional" as a result of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center (NEC) and Startup Tennessee.... Read More

Game-changer: Jacobson's Tri-Star group aims for impact

Nov 09, 2009 at 03:41 pm by miltcapps

Harry Jacobson, M.D., and his young venture-investment colleagues find themselves in a target-rich environment. Altogether, they aim to fund young companies, improve healthca.... Read More

Innovators and allies seek $20MM to improve Tennessee research, economy and culture

Nov 04, 2009 at 01:33 pm by miltcapps

Update: UTRF Partnerships Director Stacey Patterson said after publication that "more than half" of UT's 58 percent of the grant amount "goes back out to other institutions an.... Read More

Tennessee Biotechnology Association wrestles with leadership and priorities

Sep 17, 2009 at 12:08 pm by miltcapps

Tennessee Biotechnology Association Interim Chairman Bob Acuff, Ph.D., says TBA knows his successor should come from the biotech industry, not academe. Acuff has held the TBA.... Read More

Vanderbilt venture developer notes 'disconnect' with Venture Capital

Sep 17, 2009 at 12:07 pm by miltcapps

Vanderbilt University's technology-commercialization startups have not enjoyed particularly strong connections to Tennessee venture-capital sources. On Sept. 11, VU New Ventu.... Read More

Stakes are rising for TTDC, as VC group presses for change

Nov 28, 2008 at 02:50 pm by miltcapps

Feelings run deep among venture-capital executives who believe the state is doing far too little to advance high-growth sectors of the Tennessee economy. In the face of that e.... Read More

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