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State-backed Launch Tennessee puts total $626K+ into startups<br>in Healing Innovations, Hera Health, Hytch, Possip

Nov 21, 2019 at 04:44 pm by miltcapps

LAUNCH TENNESSEE today announced investing an aggregate of at least $626K via its Innovation Capital Continuum program in startups Healing Innovations, Hera Health, Hytch and.... Read More

LifeScienceTN report bolsters case for more 'intentional' industry strategy

Nov 19, 2019 at 04:30 pm by miltcapps

TED TOWNSEND, who is now in his second term as chairman of the board of Life Science Tennessee Inc., recently told Venture Nashville that the time is ripe for new plans for th.... Read More

Embold Health files on $22MM+ capital raise

Sep 12, 2019 at 11:57 am by miltcapps

Update: On March 17, 2022, Embold amended an earlier Series B filing to show a total $23MM raised, up from the earlier reported $20MM. Industry media reported this week that a.... Read More

Sopris' Quovant has access to capital, is opportunistic on buys or merger

Sep 09, 2019 at 04:30 pm by miltcapps

Updated: Jan. 19, 2022 - Sopris exited via sale of Quovant to Austin-based Mitratech, release here.-Ed. QUOVANT, the Nashville-based legal-spend management software, analytics.... Read More

Fintech: Maxwell leads FINTOP II fund raise

Mar 15, 2019 at 03:16 pm by miltcapps

UPDATED: Fintop II closed at $126MM, with six portfolio investments at the outset. Press Release May 14, 2020.-Ed. FINTECH serial entrepreneur Joe Maxwell filed yesterday on h.... Read More

Venture Notes - March 13, 2019

Mar 13, 2019 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

CEO: Nashville Fashion Alliance may pivot into strategic relationship

Jan 29, 2019 at 02:07 pm by miltcapps

KEEPING its eye firmly on its missionary goal of building this region's fashion industry, the Nashville Fashion Alliance is in serious merger discussions with a prominent indu.... Read More

Venture Notes - January 23, 2019

Jan 23, 2019 at 03:45 pm by miltcapps

Briovation drops Festival V, will instead draw on Health:Further<br>as it pursues innovation advisory roles + investor entrée

Jan 22, 2019 at 08:00 am by miltcapps

BRIOVATION has shelved this year's plan for Health:Further™ Festival V in Nashville, in order to focus more of the company's resources on helping strategic partners advance he.... Read More

State, Federal partnership spawns 24 grants for Tennessee tech companies

Jan 15, 2019 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

Updated 5 March 2019: Gov. Bill Lee on March 4, 2019, briefed reporters on his proposed FY20 budget, calling, among other things, for increased SBIR/STTR match funding for Lau.... Read More

Venture Notes - December 19, 2018

Dec 19, 2018 at 04:48 pm by miltcapps

Milken Institute says Tennessee advances, yet struggles with tech commercialization and venture funding

Dec 18, 2018 at 11:42 am by miltcapps

TENNESSEE ranks 39th among the Fifty States in a new Science & Technology Index out today from the Milken Institute, up one notch from two years ago but still well within.... Read More

Healthcare accelerator pact among Company Lab, Erlanger, Unum<br>leverages Chattanooga's broad innovation impulse

Nov 01, 2018 at 01:44 pm by miltcapps

THE DISTINCTIVE new healthcare and insurance-benefits startup accelerator being organized in Chattanooga reflects the convergence of innovation efforts previously undertaken b.... Read More

Relevance Capital pursues Fund IV raise + regional tech-VC leadership

Oct 25, 2018 at 03:18 pm by miltcapps

Note: The firm rebranded as Relevance Ventures in 2Q CY19.-Ed. RELEVANCE CAPITAL of Tullahoma and Brentwood is raising a $50MM-or-greater Fund IV. What's more, the firm's mana.... Read More

Venture Voices: Julie Samuels of TECH:NYC shares views with Nashville

Aug 14, 2018 at 03:30 pm by miltcapps

JULIE SAMUELS JD is 2.5 years into her job as executive director of TECH:NYC and 13 years out of Vanderbilt University Law School. Samuels works to build relationships between.... Read More

We asked TN Gubernatorial aspirants about State industry incentives, risk-capital formation, tech commercialization and more

Aug 13, 2018 at 10:29 am by miltcapps

VENTURE NASHVILLE on Aug. 6, 2018 simultaneously posed five economic-development issues to Tennessee gubernatorial candidates Bill Lee (R-Franklin) and Karl Dean (D-Nashville).... Read More

Beacon Center poll says State incentive wasteful, while Entertainment, Blockchain, other industries mobilize for Capitol Hill action

Dec 12, 2017 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

CEO Justin Owen JD BEACON Center of Tennessee, the "free market" think tank that regularly accuses state and local governments of wasting taxpayer dollars, today rele.... Read More