Mike Shmerling

March 18 app deadline for EPIcenter Logistics Innovation Accelerator

Feb 17, 2016 at 06:30 pm by miltcapps

LaunchTN details INCITE investment tallies, investors, portfolio companies

Feb 17, 2016 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

LAUNCH TENNESSEE recently reported that since the INCITE program's inception, its staff have administered 86 transactions involving 42 eligible early-stage companies, consumin.... Read More

LaunchTN grapples with robust agenda of opportunities, challenges

Jan 25, 2016 at 06:00 pm by miltcapps

ROBUST discussion may prove the new hallmark of LaunchTN, if last week's quarterly meeting of the nonprofit's board of directors is any indication. Here's a partial collection.... 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

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

CEO: MyPro platform breaks stealth, eyes capraise + future IPO

Oct 29, 2015 at 04:30 pm by miltcapps

ANDREW MCGARRY's MyPro platform for digital content from celebrities, experts and other inspiring figures has quietly hopped from storyboard to Mobile/Web; collected $1.5MM in.... Read More

Nashville Entrepreneur Center appointments heavy with longtime advocates

Oct 27, 2015 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

NASHVILLE Entrepreneur Center, the nonprofit chartered six years ago to cultivate Music City innovation, entrepreneurship and investable businesses, has completed a periodic r.... Read More

Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, experts sought for LSTN statewide network

May 04, 2015 at 12:00 pm by miltcapps

LIFESCIENCE entrepreneurs-in-residence, mentors and other experts are being recruited to provide startup founders additional savvy and connections for their fledgling Tennesse.... Read More

XMi Holdings' XMi High Growth & Opportunity Fund sets $20MM fund raise

Apr 30, 2015 at 04:00 pm by miltcapps

XMi High Growth & Opportunity Fund LP, affiliated with Nashville-based XMi Holdings, yesterday reported to the SEC that it is pursuing a $20MM fund raise, and as of April.... Read More

NVille's InCrowd Capital adds Angels + investments, seeks SE partners

Nov 10, 2014 at 12:00 pm by miltcapps

Updated: 15 June 2015 6:36 a.m.- InCrowd filed with SEC for open-ended Healthcare fund-of-funds fund raise here. 17 Nov. 2014 - InCrowd and Global Action Platform announced th.... Read More

Gradspring startup gains Carmichael, ConduIT backing<br>for college-grad employment search platform

Aug 20, 2012 at 11:51 am by miltcapps

Gradspring co-founder Sean Clem says he and his seed-stage investors can do well, by taking some of the work out of job searches by unemployed and underemployed recent college.... Read More

VentureNotes

Aug 16, 2012 at 10:36 am by miltcapps

Seigenthaler [updated 9 July 2014: SEC filing today shows heavy Healthcare allocation, Healthstream only Tech target, filing here.-Ed.] LOCAL SHARES, the finan.... Read More

TN companies at pivot-points might attract funding via River Associates

May 17, 2012 at 10:05 am by miltcapps

AFTER 22 years in operation, Chattanooga-based's River Associates has secured its first institutional partners, completing a $222 million private-equity fundraise in "a very c.... Read More

Gov. Haslam's INCITE program stirs to life via 'Venture Incite' A-round

May 14, 2012 at 10:08 am by miltcapps

VENTURE INCITE, the Oak Ridge-based company founded by Nashville-based Solidus and its TNInvestco fund, will use recent A-round funding to "attract the best regional and natio.... Read More

Economist: Innovation campaign driven by pragmatism is crucial

Oct 20, 2011 at 12:25 pm by miltcapps

TENNESSEANS who want to advance the state's economy and its citizens' standard of living must not "become fixated on gridlock in Washington" and must realize that the fate of.... Read More

VentureNotes: Change|Healthcare, XMi High Growth,<br>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

Briefly: NEXT Nashville Legacy Entrepreneurs named

Oct 07, 2011 at 10:20 am by miltcapps

The Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce and Nashville Entrepreneur Center announced today they've named the five individuals who will be honored during their Oct. 18 NEXT Award.... Read More

Nashville Entrepreneur Center gains Galen Partners as lead Healthcare sponsor

Oct 07, 2011 at 08:06 am by miltcapps

Galen Partners, the Stamford, Conn.-based private-equity firm specializing in healthcare, has become the Nashville Entrepreneur Center's 2012 healthcare sector sponsor. Galen.... Read More

TNInvestco pace mounts; Consensus Point next up?

Apr 04, 2011 at 08:11 am by miltcapps

CONSENSUS POINT, the Nashville-based predictive markets provider, is believed close to securing a $1 million investment from TNInvestco NEST-TN, according to VNC sources..... Read More

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