Nashville Technology Council

Healthcare leaders aboard, Parental Health builds traction

Feb 22, 2011 at 07:23 am by miltcapps

Parental Health, the Franklin-based telemedicine startup, has attracted heavyweights to its board and a Fortune 100 technology partner. According to a VNC source, the company.... Read More

Google exec who launched Earth, Moon & Mars<br> returns to Vanderbilt School of Engineering

Feb 22, 2011 at 07:23 am by miltcapps

Yesterday when he took a quick call from VentureNashville, Chikai Ohazama, the 38-year-old co-founder of Google Earth who earned his biomedical engineering degree within Vande.... Read More

People: JumpStart's Hendrickson pitched Nashville <br>for ReadWriteStart's tech-center spotlight

Feb 07, 2011 at 07:53 am by miltcapps

Nashville's recent exposure on the widely followed ReadWriteWeb blog was not the result of a "ranking" of top tech cities, but the shout-out by columnist Audrey Watters w.... Read More

M&A: Nashville Software, IT firms mull buying, selling

Feb 07, 2011 at 07:53 am by miltcapps

Tech-sector mergers and acquisitions may be heating-up in Middle Tennessee, based on a sampling of opinion-leaders. At least one respondent is giving selling rigorous consider.... Read More

Local newspaper relaunches as The Nashville Ledger

Jan 18, 2011 at 07:28 am by miltcapps

The Nashville Ledger, the rebranded successor to the 32-year-old Westview suburban weekly, recently expanded local business news coverage and introduced a new print layout and.... Read More

Dalcon and C7 Technologies put new alliance in context

Jan 18, 2011 at 05:36 am by miltcapps

The recently announced alliance between C7 Technologies and Dalcon Communications allows C7 to commercialize proven healthcare technology without diluting C7's focus on servi.... Read More

Gov.-Elect Haslam names Hagerty to key Economic Development post

Jan 09, 2011 at 03:56 pm by miltcapps

Gov.-Elect Bill Haslam has chosen private-equity executive William F. "Bill" Hagerty IV as commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development,.... Read More

In Burcham's mind, Entrepreneur Center is in Trolley Barn creating 'Wow!' companies to serve state and nation

Jan 03, 2011 at 10:05 am by miltcapps

Perhaps realizing no one else is going to push Michael Burcham harder than he pushes himself, the Nashville Entrepreneur Center's founding director uses goals and performance.... Read More

SecureWaters: TN VC's could take ORNL technology global

Dec 19, 2010 at 07:44 am by miltcapps

SecureWaters Inc., a Tennessee startup, is looking for roughly $500,000 in seed capital to make AquaSentinel water-security and monitoring technology ready for production.... Read More

NewsBits, Dec. 13: Böer, Ivy, TNInvestco and more

Dec 13, 2010 at 08:28 am by miltcapps

Böer MORE BÖER: Owen Entrepreneur Center Director Germain Böer, who had a massive heart attack during the Boulevard Bolt on Thanksgiving Day, told VNC he oversaw a cl.... Read More

Venture Notes, April 5, 2010

Apr 05, 2010 at 04:27 am by miltcapps

Gibson Guitar was recently under The FT's Debtwire microscope, in a story about pressures that might yet force reorganization of the privately held instrument maker. Sources.... Read More

Venture Nashville Calendar Update

Apr 03, 2010 at 05:39 pm by miltcapps

► Gov. Phil Bredesen's 8-year economic development push reaches a milestone Sept. 27-28, when the Administration convenes the 57th Annual Governor's Conference on Economic and.... Read More

NEWSBITS, March 30, 2010

Mar 30, 2010 at 01:57 pm by miltcapps

CTO: EMMA, the provider of Web-based e-mail marketing, surveying and related technology and services based here, appointed Brad Sanders (right) its Chief Technology Officer..... Read More

Local iTech hiring may be resurgent, but too soon to call

Mar 29, 2010 at 12:56 pm by miltcapps

Hiring in the Nashville information-technology community might be thawing-out, but no one really knows, for sure. A recent IT-hiring report from Nashville Technology Council.... Read More

Customers queued, SIGNiX asks $5MM from VCs

Mar 22, 2010 at 06:26 am by miltcapps

Update: On March 27, Angel Capital Group CEO Rachael Qualls confirmed for VNC the ACG has invested in SIGNiX's capital raise, but did say how much ACG invested. Original stor.... Read More

NEWSBITS, March 18, 2010

Mar 18, 2010 at 12:19 pm by miltcapps

David Mason (left), who was CEO of Nashville-based StudioNow before its sale in January to AOL for $36.5 million, is now SVP of the AOL Content Platform, reporting to former G.... Read More

VC Coleman demands access to TNInvestco records

Jan 28, 2010 at 10:43 am by miltcapps

Updated 2:45 p.m.:  State. Sen. Doug Overbey told VNC he will file a "caption bill" this afternoon to "reserve a space" for legislation advocated by the Bredesen Administ.... Read More

Nashville mobilizes for U.S. Health technology leadership

Jan 25, 2010 at 03:31 pm by miltcapps

Nashville industry, academe and government are said to be creating an alliance that could breathe reality into Music City's dream of becoming the Silicon Valley of Healthcare..... Read More

Health IT Roundup: Executives comment on Nashville's leadership options

Jan 25, 2010 at 03:31 pm by miltcapps

As reported in today's accompanying article, Nashville is mobilizing to strengthen its leading role in healthcare information technology and related domains. Here are excerp.... Read More

People: Nix leads Deloitte M&A transaction services here

Jan 14, 2010 at 04:44 pm by miltcapps

Nashville has become the aerie-of-choice for executives with an eagle's-eye on the nation's healthcare sector. One of those sharp-eyed professionals is Lisa Nix, who is direc.... Read More

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