FinTech

Baker Donelson programs advance Atlanta Cybersec accelerator + HealthIT

Mar 11, 2016 at 02:45 pm by miltcapps

Updated 25 May 2016 Baker announces cyberpitch winners here. 19 April 2016: Deadline for applying for Southeastern Capital Connections event is April 29, 2016. Today, the only.... Read More

Startups: TN's autoXLR8R up for adoption by UT Institute for Public Service

Mar 09, 2016 at 04:30 pm by miltcapps

AutoXLR8R, the automotive-sector startup accelerator that moved last year to Knoxville-Oak Ridge from Middle Tennessee, has apparently found its third owner in the Institute f.... Read More

FourBridges Capital Advisors expands SE reach, doesn't rule-out VC fund

Feb 02, 2016 at 02:00 pm by miltcapps

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

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

Angels: NueCura MP eyes science-driven health-tech startups, sees Williamson County as likely hub for nextgen technologies

Dec 28, 2015 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

Update: Oct. 4, 2016: NueCura led a $1MM round for telehealth provider Satchel Health. 23 March 2016: NueCura joined other investors in a $2MM round for Durham, NC-based healt.... Read More

BTC Inc. expanding Digital Currency publishing group in Nashville

Dec 21, 2015 at 02:30 pm by miltcapps

BTC Inc., a publisher covering the digital-currency sector, has relocated its headquarters from Huntsville to Nashville and has completed a $1.2MM capital raise for expansion..... Read More

SouthernAlpha changes afoot, as Ayumi Bennett charts new course

Nov 12, 2015 at 04:30 pm by miltcapps

AYUMI FUKUDA BENNETT, who for about six months was the prolific lead editor/writer for Southern Alpha (SA), is aggressively pursuing other plans, having parted ways with SA an.... Read More

Bunker Labs for Veterans emerging at Nashville Entrepreneur Center

Nov 10, 2015 at 04:15 pm by miltcapps

NASHVILLE Entrepreneur Center enlisted Blake Hogan earlier this year as director of business partnerships and as lead for a Bunker Labs program for entrepreneurship-minded vet.... Read More

Kimberlin: Nashville EC's UAV/Drones event may be pivotal for TN industry

Nov 03, 2015 at 10:45 am by miltcapps

ENTREPRENEUR Bill Kimberlin is hoping today's "Drones in Commerce" panel discussion at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center (EC) will help focus attention on the sector among bus.... Read More

LifeScience Tennessee Venture Forum taps four startups

Sep 28, 2015 at 11:15 am by miltcapps

LIFESCIENCE Tennessee announced Sept. 23, 2015, that four companies have been selected to present at the fourth-annual Venture Forum held at Life Science Tennessee's Annual Co.... Read More

VentureNotes: McWhorter, Ingram, Bredesen touch on venture investment

Sep 15, 2015 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

Stuart McWhorter STUART MCWHORTER, CEO of Nashville Entrepreneur Center, told Venture Nashville he didn't realize til he succeeded Michael Burcham as CEO of the Nashv.... Read More

After Ipreo, Maxwell will shift to raising a Nashville-based FinTech fund

Jul 23, 2015 at 11:45 am by miltcapps

JOE MAXWELL, the Nashville-based financial-technologies entrepreneur, says he'll next raise a specialized FinTech venture fund. In November 2014, Maxwell, now 47, sold to Ipre.... Read More

Nashville Technology Council a step closer to policy-advocacy role

Jul 23, 2015 at 11:27 am by miltcapps

Update: Sept. 28, 2015 - Former DC open-Internet advocate, wonk and communicator Alex Curtis has become NTC's director of communications and public affairs.-Ed. NASHVILLE TECH.... Read More

Carmichael reveals he's founding investor with Seraph super-Angel group

Jul 09, 2015 at 05:15 pm by miltcapps

UBIQUITOUS Nashville Angel Crom Carmichael has confirmed he's been a founding investor in the Bay Area-based Seraph Group since its inception. Carmichael revealed today he inv.... Read More

FinTech: Iroquois Capital's payments startup doesn't rule-out capraise

Jul 09, 2015 at 03:15 pm by miltcapps

IROQUOIS Merchant Services LLC, an Iroquois Capital Group startup, has strong access to a network of investors, but after 2015 larger asset-acquisition opportunities may call.... Read More

Venture-backed Songkick taps Nashville's JD May for growth push

Jul 03, 2015 at 02:50 pm by miltcapps

NASHVILLE entrepreneur JD May has left his EVP-bizdev role at Nashville's FLO.CO to become international startup SongKick's VP for growth. May, 44, has many prior venture notc.... Read More

FinTech: St. Louis' SixThirty accelerator beckons Nashville startups

Jul 01, 2015 at 03:33 pm by miltcapps

THE DEADLINE is July 10 for applying for the SixThirty accelerator in St. Louis -- which has quietly become Nashville's sister city for all things FinTech. SixThirty Managing.... Read More

Center for Entrepreneurship preps 2015-16 programs at Belmont University

Jun 25, 2015 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

Update 26 September 2019: Belmont announced the CE is now named for its benefactor Thomas F. Cone Sr.-Ed. BELMONT UNIVERSITY's Center for Entrepreneurship (CE) has an ambitiou.... Read More

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