Nashville Entrepreneur Center

Startup assistive-device maker TabletTable considering recruiting capital

Feb 03, 2016 at 05:30 pm by miltcapps

Updated 11 January 2017: TabletTable announced a licensing and distribution deal with Wisconsin-based Attainment Company.-Ed. MANY healthcare products have their origins in a.... Read More

Feb. 25: Design for America Co-founder Chung at VU School of Engineering

Feb 03, 2016 at 12:30 pm by miltcapps

Update: Chung's Feb. 25 remarks are on YouTube.-Ed. DESIGN for America Co-founder Hannah Chung, who is also co-founder of Sproutel, which makes interactive games for children.... Read More

Nashville EC's Project Healthcare Accelerator to launch in Fall 2016

Feb 02, 2016 at 02:45 pm by miltcapps

NASHVILLE Entrepreneur Center's new year-round Project Healthcare is likely to take applications this summer for a 14-week Accelerator program beginning this fall, as part of.... Read More

Vanderbilt University Innovation Center's first chief to be Robert Grajewski

Feb 01, 2016 at 12:00 pm by miltcapps

ROBERT S. GRAJEWSKI, a North Carolina entrepreneur, has been chosen through a national search to be the first executive director of the new Vanderbilt University Innovation Ce.... Read More

FinTech Nashville: Bitcoin, Blockchain at center of BTCMedia event plans

Feb 01, 2016 at 11:30 am by miltcapps

Updated 25 March 2016 0900: BTCMedia announced March 24, 2016, its plans for a major flagship event -- Distributed:Trade -- in St. Louis, in cooperation with the SixThirty Fin.... Read More

$26MM+: EdTech consolidator LTG buys Rustici SW, stake in Watershed

Jan 29, 2016 at 08:00 am by miltcapps

Updated: In his LinkedIn post Nov. 15, 2018, Founder Mike Rustici, dealing with cancer, said LTG would also buy the balance of Watershed. 1 June 2018: Former Products Director.... Read More

Monsor: Statewide Mentor Net has traction with early-stage companies

Jan 25, 2016 at 04:30 pm by miltcapps

LIFE SCIENCE Tennessee's (LSTN) Statewide Mentors Network has about 40 mentors, is actively engaged with a half-dozen companies and is recruiting further mentors. Program Dire.... Read More

CEO: Entrepreneur Center views Jumpstart accelerator exit as opportunity

Jan 22, 2016 at 03:15 pm by miltcapps

STUART MCWHORTER, CEO of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, sees the exit of for-profit Jumpstart Foundry from the accelerator business as "an opportunity for us to make sure.... Read More

Jumpstart Foundry creates Healthcare fund, knocks accelerator model

Jan 22, 2016 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

SINCE they were going to pivot from the Jumpstart Foundry accelerator to a fund that would operate akin to a VC, JSF owners reasoned that they could best inform the public and.... Read More

Accelerators: Boring, Rip-roaring or somewhere in between?

Jan 22, 2016 at 02:45 pm by miltcapps

VENTURE Nashville asked seven people familiar with the Vic Gatto's statement on accelerators (related story here) for their thoughts on Vic Gatto's comments on the 'boring' Ac.... Read More

EC, Ingram announce first 1440 publishing accelerator cohort members

Jan 20, 2016 at 07:37 am by miltcapps

Four companies with international entrepreneurs and three U.S.-based startups, including one from Tennessee, have been chosen for the 2016 cohort of the 1440 Accelerator for p.... Read More

Venture Notes - January 19, 2016

Jan 19, 2016 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

Entac Medical, Crom Carmichael, Jamplify, Innova leads series A, Mountain Group,DiaTech founder, former Cogent CEO, Wellview Health and more. HAPTEN SCIENCES, Memphis pharma e.... Read More

Nashville EC's BunkerLabs, Veteran Entrepreneur Society gather Jan. 21

Jan 18, 2016 at 01:00 pm by miltcapps

Updated - Bunker Labs Nashville announced Feb. 24, 2016, that the local program's founding sponsor is Comcast. The program is resident at the NEC.-Ed. MILITARY VETERANS with e.... Read More

Eyeing Owen MBA, Vrion founder may apply Sohr Grant to Tech needs

Jan 13, 2016 at 02:15 pm by miltcapps

WAITING for a check represents a sort of baptism of fire for freshly minted entrepreneurs. That's particularly true when they're like Vrion Holdings Founder Trisha Fridrich, w.... Read More

Nashville entrepreneur Mike Shmerling offers Seed Capital reality-check

Jan 11, 2016 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

MIKE SHMERLING, chairman of Nashville-based XMi Holdings, said that while tax-funded capital-formation programs such as Tennessee's TNInvestco certainly "have their place," co.... Read More

Joe Maxwell & partners launch Cultivation Capital Fintech Growth Fund

Jan 08, 2016 at 11:30 am by miltcapps

NASHVILLE serial FinTech entrepreneur Joe Maxwell and St. Louis-based partners are launching the Cultivation Capital Fintech Growth Fund. Managing Partner Maxwell confirmed he.... Read More

ECD's Boyd prepping ideas for stimulating TN entrepreneurship, investment

Jan 05, 2016 at 02:45 pm by miltcapps

RANDY BOYD, Tennessee commissioner for economic and community development, is staffing proposals for further energizing the State's entrepreneurial ecosystem and may submit on.... Read More

Williamson's Largen, EC's McWhorter confirm 'Pre-Flight' collaboration

Jan 04, 2016 at 01:45 pm by miltcapps

Updated May 25, 2016 2nd Pre-Flight offering in Williamson begins July 27, details here. 28 January 2016 - Oak Point Real Estate, a source in our Jan. 4th story, said that it,.... Read More

Project Music: Jammber's disciplined march to traction may augur well

Jan 04, 2016 at 05:48 am by miltcapps

OWNERS of Jammber, the online talent marketplace for creators and the Music industry around them, are gutting-it-out on leanest possible funding until they know what constitut.... Read More

PE-backed PhyMed eyes 2016 M&A strategy, welcomes sell-side approaches

Dec 17, 2015 at 02:45 pm by miltcapps

Updated: Feb. 24, 2016 PhyMed announced today Anesthesia Associates of York (Pa.) and Anesthesia Associates of Laurel (Md.) have joined PhyMed Healthcare Group. - Ed. PHYMED H.... Read More

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