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Roy Dano: Sports & Entertainment focus for NVille entrepreneur-investor

Aug 25, 2014 at 10:30 am by miltcapps

ROY DANO, founder and CEO of Brentwood-based Sports & Entertainment Advisory Group (SEAG), says he and other investors are likely to add to SEAG's portfolio of early-stage.... Read More

'Proudly capitalist' Jumpstart Foundry unfurls<br>plan for its U.S. and regional ascendancy

Aug 25, 2014 at 10:15 am by miltcapps

ANYONE not familiar with the bluntness and dark humor that sometimes accompany Vic Gatto's impromptu remarks, might have been discomfited when at the end of Jumpstart Foundry'.... Read More

Advisors: LBMC took its time picking pivotal M&A services leader

Aug 25, 2014 at 10:00 am by miltcapps

LATTIMORE BLACK Morgan & Cain, the Brentwood accounting and consulting firm, took at least a year to determine who would be the first fully dedicated transaction-advisory.... Read More

VTC: Angel Capital Group's Ewing wrangles deal flow, VentureIncite exits ETN

Aug 18, 2014 at 09:30 am by miltcapps

Tennessee State official applauds Pantheon Park innovation aims,<br>but rejects proposal to sell Old TN State Prison as site

Oct 28, 2013 at 04:23 am by miltcapps

FAILURE to develop an idea like the proposed Pantheon Park campus for software and performing arts education, production and business in Nashville would be "a great loss for o.... Read More

Nashville's investor-backed YouScience startup charts paths to marketplace

Oct 27, 2013 at 01:45 pm by miltcapps

Updates: 7 May 2015: Earlier this week, YouScience filed a Form D citing raising $2.2MM vs a $5MM target. In a release today, YouScience said they're raised $3.9MM vs the $5MM.... Read More

Southland's 50 StartupVillage residents announced

May 31, 2013 at 03:26 pm by miltcapps

LAUNCHTN announced it's Southland event's full 50-startup lineup for its June 12-13 StartupVillage this afternoon (May 31). The listing follows. VNC's earlier rundown on the f.... Read More

LeanKit: Tech-savvy NVille VCs harder to find than Software talent

May 29, 2013 at 07:26 am by miltcapps

Updated Aug. 12, 2014: CEO Hefley said earlier this month the company's total capital-in is about $9MM, with more than 100 Angel investors participating. CrunchBase says that.... Read More

No leg-up? TCRS pension-assets 'Set-aside' for TN firms uncertain

May 13, 2013 at 06:44 am by miltcapps

THE NOTION of creating allocations of Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System (TCRS) assets expressly for investment by in-state private-equity firms remains an idea with few.... Read More

SpecialOps: ExBellum combat veterans target business imperatives

May 06, 2013 at 09:59 am by miltcapps

Updated: In 2018, the now Texas-based founders exited Exbellum and cofounded Terradepth, a data-as-a-service company focused on actionable knowledge about oceans, according to.... Read More

VentureNotes: Council Capital, Solidus at Work

Aug 27, 2012 at 12:54 pm by miltcapps

Dennis Bottorff COUNCIL CAPITAL-backed NuScriptRX, the Nashville-based mail order institutional pharmacy, has reached a $30MM revenue run-rate and has closed on a gro.... Read More

From Cicero to Church Street:<br>Startup Contigo Financial challenges payday lending

Aug 27, 2012 at 12:53 pm by miltcapps

[Update: July 1, 2013] Contigo announced it has been merged with San Francisco-based Emerge Financial, following the two companies' restructuring by Serious Change, a social i.... Read More

Emma's Smith preps for 2012 push; Weaver focuses on RoundingWell startup

Dec 05, 2011 at 11:54 am by miltcapps

Updated Jan. 9, 2015 - Emma annualized revenue and workforce have risen to nearly $20MM and 140, and it could enter 2016 at a $30MM runrate, NBJ reported. Our December 2011 st.... Read More

Mundie, Harwell VC startup anchored by Elizabeth Turner Campbell Estate

Dec 05, 2011 at 09:41 am by miltcapps

The Estate of Elizabeth Turner Campbell (ETC), the late member the Turner family of Dollar General fame, is the de facto third leg of recently formed Family Venture Manag.... Read More

Healthcare leaders aboard, Parental Health builds traction

Feb 22, 2011 at 07:23 am by miltcapps

Parental Health, the Franklin-based telemedicine startup, has attracted heavyweights to its board and a Fortune 100 technology partner. According to a VNC source, the company.... Read More

Google exec who launched Earth, Moon & Mars<br> returns to Vanderbilt School of Engineering

Feb 22, 2011 at 07:23 am by miltcapps

Yesterday when he took a quick call from VentureNashville, Chikai Ohazama, the 38-year-old co-founder of Google Earth who earned his biomedical engineering degree within Vande.... Read More

TNInvestco: Court date looms, Lobbyists mass, Websites flower

Feb 11, 2010 at 12:38 pm by miltcapps

Updated 7:25 p.m. – In filings this afternoon with Chancery Court, Coleman and counsel argue, among other things, that such principles as public accountability militate.... Read More

NEWSBITS, Feb. 11, 2010

Feb 11, 2010 at 12:38 pm by miltcapps

Pharos Capital Managing Partner Michael Devlin (left) told an audience gathered here yesterday for a panel discussion of IPO, M&A and financing trends that he believes it'.... Read More

VC Coleman demands access to TNInvestco records

Jan 28, 2010 at 10:43 am by miltcapps

Updated 2:45 p.m.:  State. Sen. Doug Overbey told VNC he will file a "caption bill" this afternoon to "reserve a space" for legislation advocated by the Bredesen Administ.... Read More

Health IT Roundup: Executives comment on Nashville's leadership options

Jan 25, 2010 at 03:31 pm by miltcapps

As reported in today's accompanying article, Nashville is mobilizing to strengthen its leading role in healthcare information technology and related domains. Here are excerp.... Read More

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