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Venture Notes - 23 May 2017

May 24, 2017 at 12:00 pm by miltcapps

Today: SAIC-TTU | SAGENTS | NCN | FCA Venture | Change:HC | Hashed Health | GigEcon MCLEAN-based Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) announced Monda.... Read More

Center for Entrepreneurship staffs-up within<br>VU Owen Graduate School of Management

Apr 04, 2017 at 04:55 pm by miltcapps

MICHAEL Bryant has begun work as the first director of the newly branded Center for Entrepreneurship within Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management. Bryant,.... Read More

Franklin fintech: Startup HealthcareTTU eyes $10MM Series B raise

Apr 03, 2017 at 10:30 am by miltcapps

FRANKLIN-based HealthcareTTU's top management is nearing the end of their work in Los Angeles' Cedars Sinai Healthcare Accelerator Powered by Techstars, and the startup's $10M.... Read More

Accelerate Health? With EC & Jumpstart Foundry out of the game,<br>some mull the need for a Healthcare accelerator in Nashville

Mar 06, 2017 at 03:15 pm by miltcapps

Updated 5:49pm: Stuart McWhorter's earlier response to our query was apparently overlooked in our queue and has been added, below.-Ed. THE Nashville Entrepreneur Center (EC) h.... Read More

VC, Techie, Startup speakers pack March 12-17 week<br>with Nashville entrepreneurship at several venues

Mar 04, 2017 at 02:00 pm by miltcapps

Nashville Startup Week, March 12-17, offers more than 40 speakers, panelists and startup Pitch entrants. The entire schedule and free registration are here. Artiphon's.... Read More

Forming priorities, Mayor Barry engages Nashville entrepreneurs, creatives

Feb 25, 2016 at 10:15 am by miltcapps

MAYOR MEGAN BARRY of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County continued this week her engagement with local Entrepreneurial and Creative communities, while.... Read More

FCA Venture Partners said to co-manage Dioko fund, files for $75M Fund VI

Feb 22, 2016 at 02:52 pm by miltcapps

Updated: FCA said in a release March 15, 2016 that Fund VI focuses on early- to growth-stage HealthIT/Techy companies that are disruptive and scalable. It'll make 10-14 invest.... Read More

Monsor: Statewide Mentor Net has traction with early-stage companies

Jan 25, 2016 at 04:30 pm by miltcapps

LIFE SCIENCE Tennessee's (LSTN) Statewide Mentors Network has about 40 mentors, is actively engaged with a half-dozen companies and is recruiting further mentors. Program Dire.... Read More

CEO: Entrepreneur Center views Jumpstart accelerator exit as opportunity

Jan 22, 2016 at 03:15 pm by miltcapps

STUART MCWHORTER, CEO of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, sees the exit of for-profit Jumpstart Foundry from the accelerator business as "an opportunity for us to make sure.... Read More

CEO: Insight Genetics could galvanize Biotech, likely Series A ahead

Dec 22, 2015 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

[Editor's note: Eric Dahlhauser died Jan. 24, 2019. Tennessean obituary.] WITH BREAST CANCER as its priority target, Insight Genetics Co-founder and CEO Eric Dahlhauser said h.... Read More

Clayton's FCA Venture Partners leads One Medical Passport Series A raise

Dec 21, 2015 at 01:45 pm by miltcapps

Updated: OneMedical filed Feb. 10, 2016, showing $1.5MM raised vs $4MM goal-Ed.FCA Venture Partners is leading a $4MM Series A raise for Connecticut-based One Medical Passport.... Read More

FinTech: Singular Payments CEO says Nashville is Payments hub

Jun 02, 2015 at 03:45 pm by miltcapps

VADEN LANDERS, the Brentwood-based payment-processing entrepreneur, was ready to abandon a FinTech sector he saw as crowded with too many bad actors, some employing business m.... Read More

edo Interactive: $20MM Series E, Badran CEO, Braswell exec chairman

May 20, 2015 at 12:00 pm by miltcapps

The following is an edo Interactive press release, May 20, 2015. On May 26, an edo spokesman said the company has 92 employees, including 38 in Chicago, 39 (including remote w.... Read More

Healthbox grad Atlas Health Technologies eyes Seed capital round

Feb 02, 2015 at 08:30 am by miltcapps

Updated 30 March 2016 0727: Kelso announced today the company is now branded Healthcare Blocks.-Ed. ATLAS HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES, a Nashville-based application-hosting and manage.... Read More

Nashville Technology Council dips cyber-toe into public policy waters

Feb 02, 2015 at 08:00 am by miltcapps

NASHVILLE Technology Council (NTC) recently became affiliated with a grassroots industry coalition that advocates federal, state and regional policies that it asserts are "imp.... Read More

Edtech: Ingram Content Group Ventures invests in Austin's Querium Corp

Jan 30, 2015 at 12:45 pm by miltcapps

QUERIUM CORPORATION, a two-year-old Austin edtech startup, won a minority-stake investment from Tennessee's ICG Ventures and has raising further capital very much in mind. ICG.... Read More

LaunchTN: McWhorter board resignation adds to agency's to-do's

Jan 27, 2015 at 01:15 pm by miltcapps

Update: See ECD comment added below.-Ed. LAUNCHTN, led by CEO Charlie Brock and new Chairman and State Economic Development Commissioner Randy Boyd, has an ample list of to-d.... Read More

Healthcare: Former Avondale analyst Dolliver has global mindset

Jul 27, 2014 at 03:17 pm by miltcapps

KEMP DOLLIVER, the former head of Healthcare equities research at Nashville-based Avondale Partners, has adopted an international mindset for his year-old Cherrystone Hill Cap.... Read More

LogoGarden says $2MM B-raise underway,<br>Brentwood firm vamps as strategic target

Jul 23, 2014 at 08:04 am by miltcapps

Update: Founder John Williams disclosed this afternoon that FCA has invested $750K in the Series B underway. Williams invested $100K, and the balance sought is about $1.15MM.-.... Read More

NewsBits, Oct. 26, 2011

Oct 26, 2011 at 10:54 am by miltcapps

NELSON'S GREEN BRIER DISTILLERY's recently launched $500K capital raise promises to rekindle the Nelson's Green Brier Tennessee Whiskey brand, now led by founder Charles Nelso.... Read More

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