Jumpstart Nova

Caduceus Capital's LAUNCH accelerator eyes pre-Seed digital health startups

Jan 09, 2025 at 03:16 pm by miltcapps

NASHVILLE VC Caduceus Capital Partners today formally announced its Caduceus LAUNCH accelerator program for pre-Seed digital health startups.The program has been concei.... Read More

Nashville execs join board of Greater Nashville Venture Capital Association

Aug 27, 2024 at 11:51 am by miltcapps

Greater Nashville Venture Capital Association (GNVCA), the year-old (501(c)(6) association organized to foster and grow the region's venture capital investment ecosystem, toda.... Read More

CEO: Meharry Medical College's MMCV Inc. considers $100MM Fund I

Aug 20, 2024 at 05:23 pm by miltcapps

MEHARRY Medical College for-profit subsidiary MMCV Inc. is assessing the market for a potential $100MM Fund I, according to MMCV CEO Reginald "Reggie" Holt MS BBA. Responding.... Read More

JHI affiliate Jumpstart 2023 gains ground on $4.3MM capital raise

Aug 31, 2023 at 09:09 am by miltcapps

NASHVILLE-BASED Jumpstart 2023 LLC, a Seed-stage-oriented VC fund supporting Jumpstart Foundry programs, has gained further ground toward a $4.3MM fundraise. Jumpstart Foundr.... Read More

TNECD-LaunchTN $117MM SSBCI request still under US Treasury's review

Oct 26, 2022 at 02:42 pm by miltcapps

TN-ECD fills Treasury's plan-refinement requests, reckoning ahead LaunchTN has 3 board seats vacant, plans to hire 3 to 5 more staff 10X leverage of federal funding is target.... Read More

Monique Villa Capra holds pivotal role in ECD-LaunchTN $1BN SSBCI vision

Aug 29, 2022 at 03:14 pm by miltcapps

MONIQUE VILLA CAPRA, who became Launch Tennessee's chief investment officer 60 days ago, is to play pivotal roles in helping to fulfill many of the promises that the nonprofit.... Read More

TN ECD, LaunchTN, allies await $117M SSBCI impact-funding call

Aug 08, 2022 at 05:15 pm by miltcapps

Treasury funding could lead to $1BN-plus decade impact in Tennessee Initiatives span Equity and Debt capital recruitment, could mobilize Angels Elements include largely unpre.... Read More

Nashville's Jumpstart Capital files for $120MM Fund II ahead of JSF bets

May 02, 2022 at 05:35 pm by miltcapps

NASHVILLE'S Jumpstart Capital Fund II LP recently filed for a $120MM raise for a new pooled-investment fund. The filing for Fund II was submitted here by Vic Gatto, who is als.... Read More

Twende: Black execs see entrepreneurship opportunities beyond hurdles

Feb 25, 2022 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

THE TRIO OF BLACK startup and investment executives who assembled last week for the "Twende" program at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center spoke of business lessons lear.... Read More

EC says Twende event Feb. 15 coincides with 'Black Innovation & Entrepreneurship Day' proclaimed by Nashville Mayor Cooper

Feb 14, 2022 at 04:44 pm by miltcapps

NASHVILLE's Mayor John Cooper has declared that February 15 is now Nashville Black Innovation & Entrepreneurship Day here, according to an announcement by Nashville Entrep.... Read More

Whitney unmasks Jumpstart Nova VC focused on Black-led HC companies

Jan 12, 2022 at 10:30 am by miltcapps

MARCUS WHITNEY, the Black 46-year-old founder and managing partner of Jumpstart Nova, today revealed the venture capital firm has surpassed its recruitment goals for Fund I, h.... Read More

Jumpstart Health principals file for $30MM Jumpstart Nova Fund I raise

Apr 01, 2021 at 05:08 pm by miltcapps

JUMPSTART Health Investors, whose principals have been among the pioneers of modern Nashville entrepreneurship and venture investing, have raised more than $18.7MM toward thei.... Read More

Venture People - March 19, 2021

Mar 19, 2021 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

Today: Ricci | Whitney | Ghorashi | Dolan | Creel | Mann | Dent | Huddleston | Johns | Wilt | Ramkhelawan | Nagarajan | Ward | Eagle | McAdoo | Joseph et al. Paul Ricci.... Read More

Whitney to lead Jumpstart fund investing in Black-owned Health startups

Oct 12, 2020 at 12:15 pm by miltcapps

Update: March 17, 2021 - See Whitney/Buckner podcast for more context for this initiative. Jan. 21, 2021 - Whitney said the firm will be known as 'Jumpstart Nova', rather than.... Read More

Nashville's Black tech entrepreneurs sometimes weigh locating elsewhere

Dec 11, 2018 at 09:43 am by miltcapps

Updated 21 Dec 2018: Coko Eason's Milk the Moment has been inducted into the 2019 cohort of Velocity Accelerator in Birmingham, she told VNC today. BBJ coverage. -Ed. COURTNEY.... Read More

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