startups

LaunchTN sets Startup Policy Workshops to boost regional entrepreneurship

Oct 07, 2019 at 01:05 pm by miltcapps

LAUNCH TENNESSEE is scheduling at least seven policy-oriented regional workshops this autumn, ahead of its next "Day on the Hill," which is set for Feb. 25, 2020. The eight or.... Read More

JourneyPure preps $20MM raise ahead of larger private equity round

Sep 11, 2019 at 04:17 pm by miltcapps

JOURNEYPURE LLC, the five-year-old addiction treatment and support services company with corporate offices in Nashville and Murfreesboro, is raising up to $20MM equity and deb.... Read More

Nashville EC tells 2019 NEXT Awards finalists + Hall of Fame inductees

Sep 06, 2019 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

[Updated 7 Nov 2019 scroll down for winners] THE Nashville Entrepreneur Center this week publicly disclosed its 2019 NEXT Awards Finalists and its latest Entrepreneurs.... Read More

Entrepreneur Gold

Aug 26, 2019 at 09:46 am by miltcapps

Scott Ewing By Scott Ewing Ewing is the Knoxville-based principal business analyst at Appalachian Investors Alliance and is principal of Nodachi Group LLC management.... Read More

Venture Notes -- Aug. 1, 2019

Aug 01, 2019 at 04:48 pm by miltcapps

. Today: Legility | VeteranVentures | Teens | ECD-OZ | H2O | Socia | Lirio | Breathe | Solar | CHA | Spirits | Vampires LEGILITY LLC, the Brentwood-based and PE-backe.... Read More

Concinnity Company's capital raise underway, with likely Series A ahead

Jun 06, 2019 at 02:00 pm by miltcapps

THE CONCINNITY COMPANY LLC, the Nashville startup that offers a SaaS platform to support the work of boards of directors and executive leaders, has a friends, family and HNW i.... Read More

Chattanooga's healthcare accelerator entrants enter homestretch

May 22, 2019 at 02:30 pm by miltcapps

CHATTANOOGA's Company Lab (CO.LAB) in April announced there are eight teams in its 10-week HealthTech Accelerator, which launched on April 2 in partnership with Erlanger Healt.... Read More

CEO: Wealth Access aggressive growth options could include strategic-sale

Mar 27, 2019 at 03:37 pm by miltcapps

NOTWITHSTANDING the fintech sector's recent surge in M&A deals, Wealth Access Inc. founder David Benskin's recent acknowledgement that selling his firm to a strategic bidd.... Read More

NTC Awards judges disclosed by Greater Nashville Technology Council

Mar 21, 2019 at 01:30 pm by miltcapps

THE 10TH annual NTC Awards were bestowed in January 2019 by the Greater Nashville Technology Council, after a months-long process, with judging involving nearly 70 volunteers..... Read More

Nashville EC: 17 local startups report INFLIGHT takeoff efforts

Mar 20, 2019 at 03:45 pm by miltcapps

TOMORROW evening, March 21, seventeen Nashville-area startups will report their progress, five months into their InFlight experience with the Nashville Entrepreneur Center (EC.... Read More

Nashville EC's 'Twende' event focuses on Black, Brown founders' funding

Mar 19, 2019 at 02:11 pm by miltcapps

THE FORTHCOMING Twende Summit at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center is 'designed to connect Black and Brown founders with the networks, knowledge, and resources to help them gr.... Read More

Project Music: Musicians Council preps capraise for lead experts platform

Mar 18, 2019 at 04:30 pm by miltcapps

SERIAL entrepreneur and advisor Micah Johnson confirmed he's had some early discussions with potential investors in Musicians Council LLC, the startup that is just now steppin.... Read More

Jeff Cohu now leads Center for Entrepreneurship at Lipscomb University

Mar 15, 2019 at 09:00 am by miltcapps

JEFF COHU PhD has gotten his sealegs and is setting course for the next leg of the Lipscomb University Center for Entrepreneurship's journey, which began eight years ago withi.... Read More

GE Healthcare, Vanderbilt University Medical Center release on precision immunotherapy cancer treatment partnership

Jan 06, 2019 at 11:15 am by miltcapps

GE Healthcare, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Partner for Safer, More Precise Immunotherapy Cancer Treatment Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered applications will.... Read More

SaaS M&A: In wake of Initial State sale to Tektronix, founder<br>makes case for non-healthcare SaaS venture push

Dec 21, 2018 at 04:15 pm by miltcapps

JAMIE BAILEY confirmed for Venture Nashville that Initial State Technologies, the cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT) data analytics and visualization company he conceived in.... Read More

Venture Notes - December 19, 2018

Dec 19, 2018 at 04:48 pm by miltcapps

Today: Soccer | EdgeNet | ZeroTo510 | WillCo | Caredfor | Lanahan | Henderson | Blockchain | Bellhops | Apto | Pokitdok ► BEAUTIFUL GAME INC. of Chattanooga, aligned with bac.... Read More

Milken Institute says Tennessee advances, yet struggles with tech commercialization and venture funding

Dec 18, 2018 at 11:42 am by miltcapps

TENNESSEE ranks 39th among the Fifty States in a new Science & Technology Index out today from the Milken Institute, up one notch from two years ago but still well within.... Read More

Passings: Celebration of Sal Novin's life set for 12/1 at NTCH Tech Hill

Nov 29, 2018 at 09:15 am by miltcapps

THROUGH it all, boldness, intelligence, sincerity and good cheer returned time and again to Saladin Ali "Sal" Novin as he pushed back against Glioblastoma. Comes now word that.... Read More

Mid-TN biometric ID startup 'Global e-dentity' eyes $38MM Series A

Nov 27, 2018 at 03:30 pm by miltcapps

NASHVILLE-based inventor, U.S. Navy veteran and entrepreneur Robert Adams says the owners of his multi-modal human biometric identification startup have thus far declined inve.... Read More

FINTOP Capital DealCloud exit transaction marks Joe Maxwell's first as a VC

Aug 16, 2018 at 04:54 pm by miltcapps

JOE MAXWELL, the recent founder of FINTOP Capital who was for many years known as one of Nashville's most successful fintech entrepreneurs, has confirmed that he's got a lot t.... Read More

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