Creatives

Ebb & Flow: Former Emdeon SVP relishes growth-oriented CarePayment role

Mar 02, 2015 at 03:15 pm by miltcapps

Updated 7 Dec 2017: Carepayment recruits another $7.5MM SEC filing. 13 March 2017: DFW-area PEs Cedar Springs Capital and Crestline Investors announced that together they acqu.... Read More

CEO says Medalogix's Series A journey brings Nashville investment issues into focus

Jul 31, 2014 at 06:30 am by miltcapps

Updated: Hogan filed to pursue a $1.5MM capital raise 5 Nov. 2015. Earlier: Aug. 25, 2014: Hogan announced closing a $5MM investment transaction with Connecticut-based Coliseu.... Read More

Burcham 'virtually certain' he will resume his entrepreneurial path, now drives Nashville Entrepreneur Center toward inflection point

Jul 28, 2014 at 10:45 am by miltcapps

Update 17 Dec 2014: Michael Burcham, who has for months said in public forums he was exploring healthcare startup addressing end-of-life stage care, is indeed going to leave,.... Read More

LaunchTN WIP: Exploring state Angel network, policy options and rankings

Jul 21, 2014 at 01:30 pm by miltcapps

LAUNCH TENNESSEE plans to mobilize more Angel investors, influence public-policy on capital formation and achieve higher economic rankings for Tennessee. And that's just part.... Read More

Tech entrepreneur: Nashville Healthcare IT talent can spur other industries

Jul 21, 2014 at 11:45 am by miltcapps

Update: Sept. 15, 2014 - Cognizant said it plans to buy Trizetto for $2.7BN cash.-Ed. SAL NOVIN, who sold his startup to Trizetto Group, suspects heavy demand for IT workers.... Read More

Greater Louisville courts talented International professionals

Nov 29, 2013 at 09:30 am by miltcapps

GREATER LOUISVILLE INC. saw that few U.S. cities are persistently leveraging talented executives who immigrate to their communities. Now the Kentucky city is pursuing leadersh.... Read More

Memphis VC-allied MB Innovations eyes medical-devices development

Dec 22, 2011 at 08:58 am by miltcapps

MB Venture Partners' TNInvestco fund has created and invested $500,000 in MB Innovations, which will develop medical devices for commercialization by its industry partner.... Read More

LogoGarden buys Whoosh! from Franktown creators; FCA takes $2MM stake

Dec 21, 2011 at 08:36 am by miltcapps

LOGOGARDEN founder John Williams and his wife decided they wanted out of Carlsbad, California. So, not long ago they made their first-ever visit to the Nashville they'd been h.... Read More

'Populr' decision: Bullpen Ventures corrals CentreSource's Nick Holland

Dec 19, 2011 at 09:05 am by miltcapps

NICHOLAS HOLLAND has handed the reins of CentreSource to his management team and is launching his Populr venture using the first-ever investment by Nashville's Bullpen Venture.... Read More

Rosen's Atiba creates SLK Digital for acquisitions, starting with FiledBy

Dec 18, 2011 at 06:52 pm by miltcapps

ATIBA Software is the majority owner of newly formed SLK Digital LLC, which seeks to buy digital businesses and assets, Atiba founder-owner JJ Rosen confirmed for VNC. FiledB.... Read More

Lifestyle startups are focus for Lipscomb Center for Entrepreneurship; Joe Ivey prepares to recruit leaders, mentors and internships

Nov 21, 2011 at 03:45 am by miltcapps

Family-owned and "lifestyle" businesses that seek organic growth, rather than rapid scale-up and entrepreneurial exits are the focus of Lipscomb University's Center for Entrep.... Read More

Ideas: Vandy student's sly EYES|ONLY service re-mixes upscale experience

Nov 09, 2011 at 09:21 am by miltcapps

Founder Patrick Widen describes the first EYES|ONLY offerings from his Blend LLC startup as amounting to "lifestyle espionage," a way to get premium perqs delivered with a tou.... Read More

TNT: Hagerty's state economic-development portfolio gets heavier

Oct 26, 2011 at 10:55 am by miltcapps

HASLAM Administration efforts to open new cross-border markets for Tennessee goods and services, launch a new trade website and conduct one or more Asia trade missions are und.... Read More

VenturePeople: Kate O'Neill of Metamarketer

Oct 26, 2011 at 10:54 am by miltcapps

METAMARKETER founder Kathleen "Kate" O'Neill, a 37-year-old Chicago-area native who's happily spent nearly a decade in Music City, acknowledges that the Nashville talent pool.... Read More

IP imperative: MyWerx, Cumberland Center and Universities ally for iExchange

Oct 19, 2011 at 10:32 am by miltcapps

A partnership between tech entrepreneur Tim Smith and nonprofit CEO Scott Massey seems likely to ensure that the fledgling Cumberland Center becomes an action tank, rather tha.... Read More

VentureNotes: Change|Healthcare, XMi High Growth, Shareable Ink, StreamWeaver

Oct 19, 2011 at 10:32 am by miltcapps

Update: Nov. 19, 2014 11:15 a.m. - Emdeon announced it has acquired Change|Healthcare for $135MM+. Our October 2011 item is below.-Ed. CHANGE|HEALTHCARE, which provides consum.... Read More

TTDC's Stover is departing for Diagnovus venture backed by TNInvestco's

Sep 30, 2011 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

JAMES STOVER, Ph.D., vice president-operations for Tennessee Technology Development Corporation (TTDC), is stepping-down from that post to join Diagnovus, a Nashville startup.... Read More

'Pantheon Park' idea concentrates Music City techies, entrepreneurs, Creatives

Sep 30, 2011 at 02:23 pm by miltcapps

A platoon of well-connected Nashvillians is advancing with a concept for a Davidson County urban haven that would be home to creatives, technology developers and entrepreneurs.... Read More

NewsBits, Sept. 20, 2011

Sep 20, 2011 at 10:37 am by miltcapps

Antoine Agassi ANTOINE AGASSI, who moved from CIO to President of Cogent Healthcare during the past three years, has exited to pursue other interests. He told VNC tha.... Read More

Economy: Music City Music Council moves from rehearsal to live performance

Sep 20, 2011 at 08:38 am by miltcapps

Nashville is in for an unprecedented economic-development push, if Co-Chairs Mayor Karl Dean and Randy Goodman and their allies can marshall the talent, energy and t.... Read More