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Venture Notes - Aug. 5, 2021

Aug 05, 2021 at 10:00 am by miltcapps

TODAY: 3686 | Whisper | Capital | Vision | CopyAI | Inno | Galileo | Solo | Relatient | RediVet | PrePaid | Qler | Heritage | Piermont | Maybe | NX | Radian | TrakRef | IntelS.... Read More

Message at Samford bears McWhorter legacy and son's challenge to serve

May 09, 2016 at 03:30 pm by miltcapps

Clayton McWhorter1933-2016 CLAYTON Associates Chairman Stuart McWhorter, immediate past-CEO of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, addressed Samford University's Comme.... Read More

Vanderbilt University welcomes 2nd looks at its older patented technologies

May 03, 2016 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY continues to pursue patents as warranted by inventors' discoveries and market intelligence, and its review of more recently created technologies and lice.... Read More

Solidus-backed Healthcare Learning Innovations plants flag in Nashville

Apr 26, 2016 at 04:15 pm by miltcapps

HEALTHCARE Learning Innovations, owned by American Sentinel University, has planted its flag in Nashville, where it will market its interactive online courses, simulation tech.... Read More

14 Startups to spend Summer launching high-bandwidth biz in Chattanooga

Apr 26, 2016 at 09:00 am by miltcapps

Grajewski: VU Innovation Center likely to seal some partnerships by August

Apr 25, 2016 at 01:01 pm by miltcapps

THE INNOVATION CENTER at Vanderbilt University is likely establish some key corporate partnerships by August and is ramping-up recruitment of in-residence entrepreneurs, mento.... Read More

VUSE's Fauchet: $5MM gift spurs innovation in Medicine, Energy, Security

Apr 25, 2016 at 11:15 am by miltcapps

VANDERBILT University School of Engineering's continuing efforts to address "major societal problems, as opposed to doing research in a vacuum" has been boosted by a $5MM anon.... Read More

The Company Lab to accelerate dozens of startups each year

Feb 23, 2016 at 10:06 am by miltcapps

Former interim Eldridge named Business Dean at Lipscomb University

Feb 19, 2016 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

BUSINESS education veteran Ray Eldridge, DBA, is now dean of Lipscomb University's College of Business, university Provost Craig Bledsoe, Ph.D., announced in a press release t.... 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

Health:Further - Jumpstart Foundry taps 9 of 240 app's for 2015 cohort

May 14, 2015 at 10:30 am by miltcapps

Jumpstart Foundry, the now-healthcare-centric accelerator based in Nashville, had 240 applicants for this year's 14-week endurance test -- and they picked nine (four of them f.... Read More

Mainsail Group capraise funds contract-marketing, alt-revenue startup

May 13, 2015 at 11:27 am by miltcapps

MAINSAIL GROUP, the Franklin-based contract brand-marketing and placement company, has completed a $650K Series A raise, said Co-Founder and President Wes Sellers. Positioned.... Read More

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

This week's LifeScienceTN program lineup is likely to spark venture ideas

Nov 13, 2012 at 09:10 am by miltcapps

LIFESCIENCE Tennessee's annual meeting in Nashville brings venture pitches, innovation imperatives and a deeper dive into many things Bio. Some VNC readers will call that with.... Read More

LifeScienceTN: Drug discovery gets spotlight in venture-oriented event

Nov 13, 2012 at 08:36 am by miltcapps

AN INCONSPICUOUS, but science-heavy panel discussion here this week may help eventually broaden Nashville's Bio-reputation. At the Vanderbilt Marriott this Thursday, Jeff Con.... Read More

TCRS PE commitments hit $424 Million with nods<br>to Khosla Ventures IV, Berkshire Partners fund

May 26, 2011 at 09:50 am by miltcapps

THE Tennessee Consolidated Retirement Systems (TCRS) board of trustees' investment committee has committed a total $75 million to two funds, bringing the pension fund's c.... Read More

Fetherling eyes HealthDataSource role, resigns NTC;<br>Tech Council sets CEO search and strategic review

May 24, 2011 at 10:54 am by miltcapps

ENTREPRENEUR Tod Fetherling, the man who said he aimed to energize an association some thought had become "old and stodgy," has resigned his post as president of Nas.... Read More

Link: VU Engineers at ISIS run global cyber-collaborative portal

Apr 14, 2011 at 12:36 pm by miltcapps

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