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Launch Tennessee names Partnerships Coordinator

Jul 18, 2019 at 03:36 pm by miltcapps

ASHLIN WILDUN shouldered her duties as partnerships coordinator a week or so ago within Launch Tennessee, aka Tennessee Technology Development Corporation, TTDC. Wildun was fo.... Read More

TN-based Genera Energy raises $118MM to advance Earthable line

Jul 17, 2019 at 02:45 pm by miltcapps

Genera Energy Inc., dba Genera, has secured "more than $118MM" in new investment to develop its first manufacturing facility for production of its Earthable® agricultural fibe.... Read More

Startup IP dispute: Global e-dentity founder squares-off against Apple Inc.

Jul 03, 2019 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

NASHVILLE-based tech entrepreneur Robert Adams, founder and majority owner of Global e-dentity™, a multi-modal biometric identification startup on which Venture Nashville repo.... Read More

Venture Notes -- June 25, 2019

Jun 25, 2019 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

Below: Today's roundup of 40 timely news items for your earliest perusal. TECH: Pilot.com Inc. of San Francisco today announced with TN ECD it will create 450 jobs in.... Read More

Jumpstart Foundry's 2019 healthcare startup cohort listed

May 21, 2019 at 06:51 am by miltcapps

The 2019 Jumpstart Foundry cohort includes the 15 firms listed below, plus two that will not be released til autumn. More on the JSF portfolio here. The teams are to vi.... Read More

Venture Notes - May 14, 2019

May 14, 2019 at 03:07 pm by miltcapps

Jeff Cohu now leads Center for Entrepreneurship at Lipscomb University

Mar 15, 2019 at 09:00 am by miltcapps

JEFF COHU PhD has gotten his sealegs and is setting course for the next leg of the Lipscomb University Center for Entrepreneurship's journey, which began eight years ago withi.... Read More

SimplifyASC platform Series A advances as 'people-first' brand emerges

Mar 11, 2019 at 02:08 pm by miltcapps

Updated April 29, 2022 SimplifyASC acquired by HST Pathways. 18 Feb 2020: SimplifyASC and investors Jumpstart Capital filed Feb. 14 on their $7MM raise. 2 Aug 2019: D/A filing.... Read More

EC-CMA-backed Project Music announces large Portfolio class

Mar 06, 2019 at 10:40 am by miltcapps

The Nashville Entrepreneur Center and Country Music Association (CMA) today announced their cohort of 16 music tech startups, including five based in the Nashville area, all o.... Read More

Edtech: RANDA Solutions says growth precedes outside-money decision

Feb 25, 2019 at 03:30 pm by miltcapps

RANDA Solutions is now sharply focused on supporting state-level efforts to manage teacher effectiveness data and plans to hold in abeyance making a decision about inorganic g.... Read More

Venture Notes - 13 August 2018

Aug 13, 2018 at 06:15 am by miltcapps

CEO Brett Shaw DISCOVERY Sound Technology of Nashville reported August 9th it had raised $1.2MM equity capital toward its $5MM goal. The 9-year-old company offers an.... Read More

TN startup formation, market entries may rise with SE XOR platform launch

Aug 10, 2018 at 04:31 pm by miltcapps

Update: As of July 29, 2019, SE/MW XOR were supporting a total 72 regional startups, with 81 entrepreneurs enlisted.-Ed. THE RANKS of viable startups spawned through commercia.... Read More

Cleantech startup Active Energy Systems maps path toward market

Jul 06, 2018 at 10:30 am by miltcapps

MITCH ISHMAEL PhD and his colleagues at Active Energy Systems are working to solve one of the world's biggest energy problems in a lab space so small that one can nearly touch.... Read More

LaunchTN taps 13 potential startups from campus entrepreneurship pipeline

Jul 02, 2018 at 06:00 pm by miltcapps

LAUNCH TENNESSEE today announced it has picked the next crop of University-based entrepreneurship finalists who will pitch their business ideas to judges Aug. 28, as part of t.... Read More

VUMC spin-up Nashville Biosciences taps advisors, builds team, eyes growth

Apr 04, 2018 at 01:45 pm by miltcapps

Newly established Nashville Biosciences LLC supports life-sciences researchers' drug and diagnostics discovery and development efforts by using genomic and bioinformatics reso.... Read More

Venture Notes - 23 March 2018

Mar 23, 2018 at 03:15 pm by miltcapps

Launch Tennessee gameplan may eventually include $50MM Fund of Funds

Jan 26, 2018 at 05:21 pm by miltcapps

LAUNCH Tennessee is considering a wide range of tactics to make Tennessee a preferred state for startups, and among them is the notion of creating a Fund of Funds (FoF).... Read More

Headsup: LaunchTN may have to beard budget lion<br>to fund Tennessee entrepreneurial leadership

Jan 25, 2018 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

CEO Charlie Brock Launch Tennessee, officially Tennessee Technology Development Corporation, has received about $20MM mostly from State funds in the past five years,.... Read More

Pre-Flight grad pilots Noka personal-health products startup toward runway

Jan 19, 2018 at 03:45 pm by miltcapps

Lauren Egge LAUREN EGGE, a Stanford-educated product-design engineer and consultant, refined the flight plan for her startup -- Noka Supply -- as a member of the Nash.... Read More

TennSMART Consortium eyes bigger TN role in 'intelligent mobility' industry

Jan 03, 2018 at 04:30 pm by miltcapps

Updated Jan. 11, 2018 - Vanderbilt outlines its role in TennSMART, story here.-Ed. OAK RIDGE-based TennSMART Consortium, a nonprofit startup that is still refining its.... Read More

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