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TCRS copes within private-equity LP competition, no rush for more advisors

Feb 06, 2015 at 09:17 am by miltcapps

TCRS, the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System, must cope with competing investors, as do other pension plans looking for strong returns. Yet, at the end of FY2014, last.... Read More

CampusQuad: Ingram Content announces 2d Edtech investment in five days

Feb 02, 2015 at 08:15 am by miltcapps

Update 15 Dec. 2015: ICG bought Aer.io Retail Network, a content sales and fulfillment platform developed by Invention Arts, in which Ingram had previously invested. Our Feb..... Read More

INC's GROWCO entrepreneurial event arrives Nashville, Spring 2014

Dec 09, 2013 at 07:19 am by miltcapps

GROWCO, the "Grow Your Company Conference" from INC. Magazine arrives Nashville, May 20-22, 2014. Registration doesn't open til January, according to an INC. Magazine spokespe.... 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 Education Networks of America now owned by Atlanta PE firm

Aug 16, 2012 at 10:37 am by miltcapps

Education Networks of America (ENA), the Nashville-based managed-networks and Internet services provider, has been sold to MSouth Equity Partners, in Atlanta. David Pierce, EN.... 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

Davidson: IPO's or not, TN's 'capital-starved' venture sector has fresh energy

Mar 05, 2012 at 09:16 am by miltcapps

THE HURLY-BURLY Nashville venture scene leaves little mindshare for the long-simmering Facebook IPO, even though it is likely to become one of the four largest in U.S. history.... Read More

Kodiak tech venture is latest from Engineering grads making Nashville home

Feb 22, 2012 at 10:51 am by miltcapps

Ben Gotow KODIAK is a new tech solution that gives teachers access to instructional data from the iPhone and iPad apps their students are using, and feature.... Read More

Startup Tennessee launch to draw Gov. Haslam,<br>Startup America CEO to Entrepreneur Center

Jun 27, 2011 at 10:15 am by miltcapps

UPDATE 1:14 P.M. 28 June: ECD issued a request for information (RFI here) from potential bidders representing regional business accelerators, with responses due by July 1.... Read More

Apple Inc.'s Herbold joins HealthTeacher drive<br>to make U.S. youth health 'cool & aspirational'

Jun 21, 2011 at 09:25 am by miltcapps

HealthTeacher, the online health-education curriculum provider based in Brentwood, has hired former Apple Inc. senior product manager John Herbold as vice president-product, s.... 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

NewsBits, April 4, 2011

Apr 04, 2011 at 08:11 am by miltcapps

TripRaiser may have legs: Nashvillians Lauren and Wade Honeycutt (left), both age 23 and 2009 Auburn grads, told VNC they plan a May launch for their software as se.... Read More

Customers queued, SIGNiX asks $5MM from VCs

Mar 22, 2010 at 06:26 am by miltcapps

Update: On March 27, Angel Capital Group CEO Rachael Qualls confirmed for VNC the ACG has invested in SIGNiX's capital raise, but did say how much ACG invested. Original stor.... Read More

NEWSBITS, March 18, 2010

Mar 18, 2010 at 12:19 pm by miltcapps

David Mason (left), who was CEO of Nashville-based StudioNow before its sale in January to AOL for $36.5 million, is now SVP of the AOL Content Platform, reporting to former G.... Read More

Briefly: TNInvestco officials will discuss 'shortcomings' of losing bids

Nov 16, 2009 at 11:46 am by miltcapps

Any TNInvestco bidders who finished out-of-the-money may obtain from state officials further explanations of why they failed to win. Speaking for Tennessee Revenue Commission.... Read More

Skoodat raising $3MM for assault on ed-tech sector leader

Nov 16, 2009 at 11:18 am by miltcapps

Skoodat LLC in Chattanooga is seeking Nashville investors' support for an assault on education-technology markets. Skoodat is leveraging the Force.com tech platform created by.... Read More

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