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$20MM raise: Former Chattem execs, Entrepreneur team for Focus Consumer Health launch

Nov 04, 2015 at 12:55 pm by miltcapps

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

Incoming leader: L-3 ForceX disciplined growth still priority for new parent

Oct 20, 2015 at 03:15 pm by miltcapps

Update: Oct. 30, 2015 - In Tennessean op-ed today, after sale to L3, former CEO Guarino says she's committed to STEM education and growing Nashville's Tech talent base.-Ed. LU.... Read More

SMTEC accelerator's Marcum retires, LaunchTN Rural plans nears debut

Oct 20, 2015 at 11:45 am by miltcapps

DAN MARCUM plans to retire Dec. 31 from his post as founding executive director of Tullahoma-based Southern Middle Tennessee Entrepreneur Centers (SMTEC), the ongoing role of.... Read More

Tennessee rural economy is focus of new econ-development Fund

Oct 15, 2015 at 11:15 am by miltcapps

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and Economic and Community Development Commissioner Randy Boyd announced today [via this press release] the state is investing $8 million in a new R.... Read More

TN's AgLaunch entrepreneurship event to mark progress toward activation

Oct 08, 2015 at 03:38 pm by miltcapps

AGLAUNCH, the State of Tennessee's agriculture-sector entrepreneurship and business-acceleration push, will mark a milestone Aug. 20 and then push onward. On that date, Ag-se.... Read More

LaunchTN announces 2015-2016 Class of The TENN

Oct 06, 2015 at 03:15 am by miltcapps

VNC Update 21 Jan. 2016 - The 2016 final event for The TENN will be April 21, 2016 at City Winery.-Ed. From the original release: Launch Tennessee [Tennessee Technology Develo.... 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

Governor, ECD Commissioner announce rural development task force

Aug 17, 2015 at 03:30 pm by miltcapps

Update: Aug. 19, 2015 10:08am - A source confirmed Memphis Bioworks Foundation will lead efforts to identify investable agri-tech companies, inline with the Haslam-Boyd push..... Read More

RSVP: At Emma Bistro, Digital Nashville targets online consumer behavior

Aug 17, 2015 at 03:01 pm by miltcapps

DIGITAL NASHVILLE's mixer tomorrow evening at Emma Bistro offers networking and a presentation on improving the odds visitors will act as you need them to, when they hit your.... Read More

Belmont bootstrapping advocate Jeff Cornwall unveils family business

Aug 10, 2015 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

JEFF CORNWALL, the Belmont University entrepreneurship professor who far more often favors bootstrapping over taking outside capital, now has a family-owned business he's quie.... Read More

Jumpstart Foundry's Health:Further - presenting companies

Aug 03, 2015 at 01:15 pm by miltcapps

The Health:Further Demo Day produced by Jumpstart Foundry, with lead sponsor Parallon (HCA), is Aug. 19-20, 2015, at the Omni Nashville Hotel, downtown. The full 2015 agenda i.... Read More

Vanderbilt University commercialization team tallies spin-outs, startups

Jul 27, 2015 at 03:15 pm by miltcapps

AT LEAST 16 startups in the past 24 months were launched toward their markets with Vanderbilt University intellectual property licenses aboard, via a process managed by VU's C.... 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

Vanderbilt University seeks ExecDirector for new VU Innovation Center

Jul 23, 2015 at 11:30 am by miltcapps

Updated: 1 Nov. 2015 - VNC understands that some initial cuts have been made within the applicant pool. Interviews are expected in Nov.-Dec. timeframe. Goal is to have person.... Read More

Update: LaunchTN continues to refine strategy and priorities

Jul 20, 2015 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

ENTERING its 18th year of life, LaunchTN seems to be enjoying more continuity than in recent prior years. Having survived political crosscurrents during the 2009 TNInvestco ca.... Read More

Updated: LaunchTN board of directors

Jul 20, 2015 at 02:00 pm by miltcapps

LAUNCHTN's Chairman Randy Boyd and three new board members are highlighted below. For other incumbent board members' bios, please visit the LaunchTn website here. An asterisk.... Read More

LaunchTN Staffing update

Jul 20, 2015 at 01:00 pm by miltcapps

Update: LaunchTN confirmed July 21, 2015, that Michael Poncé has been hired and is aboard as marketing manager. - Ed. LAUNCH Tennessee recently announced expanded roles for so.... Read More

LeanKit's $16MM raise shows resolve to grow local techco 'that matters'

Jul 15, 2015 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

Updated: Dec. 11, 2017 - Austin, Texas-based Planview, backed by PE Thoma Bravo, announced it bought LeanKit on undisclosed terms, with undisclosed plans for the company. Nov..... Read More

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