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Haley Zapolski + Lighthouse ramp Nashville founder support, SPV investments

Aug 04, 2025 at 03:19 pm by miltcapps

VERY NEAR THE beginning of our first interview for this story, 29-year-old Haley Patricia Zapolski told VNC that during 2019-2023 she had a lot to prove to herself and others.... Read More

Pointing growth-oriented Founders to NVL's 6th Dealmakers Conference

Feb 07, 2025 at 08:58 am by miltcapps

Update: Due to Winter weather, this event rescheduled to May 1, 2025. Details. The link to the VNC Reader discount included in the story below remains available. IN 12.... Read More

VNC's February 2025 Venture Calendar

Feb 03, 2025 at 01:59 pm by miltcapps

As my CoPilot sees February '25 OPEN - Taking applications through March 21 for 12-week hybrid Memphis program focused on "Business Essentials for Food and Beverage A.... Read More

LaunchTN CIO Kelliher says LaunchTN investment bench full after hires

Jan 08, 2025 at 09:25 am by miltcapps

TENNESSEE Technology Development Corporation (TTDC) dba Launch Tennessee -- grappling with deployment and management of inherently challenging programs -- has in recent months.... Read More

BioTN Life Science Venture Program now led by Karrie Dudek PhD

Oct 16, 2024 at 04:00 pm by miltcapps

BioTN Foundation, which helps propel bioscience entrepreneurship and STEM education in Tennessee, has named Karrie Dudek PhD director of its Life Science Venture Progr.... Read More

New $75MM+ Nashville Catalyst Fund to create, preserve, develop affordable housing

Jun 28, 2024 at 12:55 pm by miltcapps

Release issued 1135 28 June 2024 by the Office of Metro Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell, verbatim (pdf here): Mayor Freddie O'Connell and Community Partners Launch the Nashv.... Read More

TN Founders using non-FINRA $-Finders may find SEC rules perplexing

Jun 26, 2024 at 04:08 pm by miltcapps

Particularly when friends and family support proves inadequate in the early-going, entrepreneurial founders are likely to need successive financings, for years on end. The cru.... Read More

Metro Mayor, VU Chancellor seek traction for Nashville Innovation Alliance

Jun 21, 2024 at 08:24 am by miltcapps

Daniel Diermeier Freddie O'Connell VOWING TO SERVE the public interest through collaborative efforts, the Nashville Innovation Alliance has been launched to.... Read More

Hard choices: TN venture scene pops with dozens of events just ahead

Jan 24, 2024 at 04:30 pm by miltcapps

Stepping back from the fray, we find there are a myriad of scheduled events just ahead. We've chosen to spotlight 40+ below. Errors are ours. Updates, corrections are w.... Read More

Minding the Gap: Re:Generate funds grants for Black, Hispanic founders

Dec 20, 2023 at 01:55 pm by miltcapps

VOLUNTEERS rallying under the "Re:Generate" banner and closely allied with the Nashville Entrepreneur Center (NEC) are redoubling their efforts to recruit timely philanthropic.... 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

Memphis's ESO Fund files for $150MM Fund V to back venture option moves

May 02, 2022 at 04:03 pm by miltcapps

MEMPHIS-based The Employee Stock Option Fund (ESO Fund) filed on a $150MM venture-capital raise for ESO Venture Fund V LP (Delaware). Fund V's general partner is ESO GP V LLC,.... Read More

Margaret Dolan says TN startup funding lags, state should weigh tax credit

Apr 09, 2021 at 02:05 pm by miltcapps

Update 5 Feb. 2022: New Markets Tax Credit SB0900 legislation is to be on the Feb. 8, 2022 agenda of TN Senate Commerce-Labor Committee. Dolan said today she's doing some work.... 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

Cofounders: Startup ObjectiveGI is ramping-up ahead of Series B raise

Jan 13, 2020 at 03:30 pm by miltcapps

Update: See more recent updates here. The company changed its name to ObjectiveHealth Inc. on Sept. 14, 2021. Our Jan. 13, 2020 story is below.-Editor. NASHVILLE's ObjectiveGI.... Read More

StartupEquity: Shani Dowell on lessons honed during Possip's rise

Jan 07, 2020 at 03:15 pm by miltcapps

CEO SHANI DOWELL, the black female edtech entrepreneur who founded Possip in Nashville, is naturally proud of having become one of the few black women in the U.S. to have recr.... Read More

FOH&BOH: Nashvillians raise capital to soothe global Hospitality painpoint

Dec 02, 2019 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

NASHVILLE startup FOH & BOH Inc. is tackling a global Hospitality problem that is especially visible in restaurants where operators are pushed up-against the wall by 75% a.... Read More

ISO Capital: LaunchTN expands innovation-capital investment committee

Nov 20, 2019 at 03:44 pm by miltcapps

LAUNCH Tennessee Innovation Capital Continuum investment committee will eventually have as many as 20 voting members. Today, LaunchTN Communications Director Wendy Malloy conf.... Read More

John Liu stealthy about startup Intelluron,<br> but vocal about 2020 Sci-Engineering event

Oct 30, 2019 at 04:15 pm by miltcapps

JOHN LIU, the data scientist behind the launch of Brentwood-based Intelluron Corporation, isn't ready to say much about his startup. In contrast, he makes no secret of his lon.... Read More

Venture Notes -- October 18, 2019

Oct 18, 2019 at 10:45 am by miltcapps

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