startups

Reporter's Notebook: Nashville Capital Network could play a broader role

Oct 27, 2016 at 05:15 pm by miltcapps

Updated 10 July - NCN announced its total take closed at $34MM. 7 June 2017: NCN announced raising its new $25MM NCN Partners Fund with individual investors drawn from ranks o.... Read More

Ingram Content Group ends 1440 accelerator gambit, keeps innovation focus

Oct 24, 2016 at 04:15 pm by miltcapps

INGRAM Content Group (ICG), a unit of Nashville-based Ingram Industries, has confirmed that the first cohort of its once unique 1440 publishing-startup accelerator is its last.... Read More

Chattanooga Startup Awards winners 2016

Oct 07, 2016 at 12:45 pm by miltcapps

adapted from submitted release As part of Chattanooga Startup Week 2016, the Chattanooga Startup Awards event Oct. 6 was presided over by Bellhops' Co-founder and P.... Read More

Bredesen: Straight talk on HealthIT, procurement and 'Darwinian tensions'

Sep 19, 2016 at 03:54 pm by miltcapps

FORMER Governor Phil Bredesen told his HiMSS Summit of the Southeast audience Sept. 14 that his 16 years as Governor of Tennessee, Mayor of Metro/Nashville and the founder of.... Read More

Innovation Crossroads: ORNL Energy-startup accelerator aborning

Sep 19, 2016 at 11:30 am by miltcapps

Updated: Sept. 20, 2016 - 1439 - A DOE spokesman told VTC this morning the new program represents a "node" on DOE's Tech-to-Market's Lab Embedded Entrepreneurship Program.... Read More

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Sep 01, 2016 at 01:11 pm by miltcapps

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VNC Market Monitor Services

Aug 27, 2016 at 02:03 pm by miltcapps

MARKET MONITOR is a research and services offering for Venture Nashville Connections Members and prospective Members. Market, public policy and business ecosystem reports, nav.... Read More

New board member McCormick sees Emma's<br> upside prospects and its requirements

Aug 23, 2016 at 05:45 pm by miltcapps

[Updated: Emma announced 12 Oct. 2016 that former Salesforce exec Jeff Middlesworth has joined as chief of product and engineering.-Ed.] PETER MCCORMICK, recently appointed to.... Read More

Venture Notes 15 August 2016

Aug 15, 2016 at 04:53 pm by miltcapps

Petra's Rob Smith FRONTIER Capital (N.C.) and Petra Capital Partners (Nashville) recently announced collaborating on funding geospatial/data-oriented PlanetRisk, whic.... Read More

Venture Notes - 10 August 2016

Aug 10, 2016 at 06:10 pm by miltcapps

Today: NTC CEO - Noro Moseley exec - VC motivation - Women Angels - VU EdTech NASHVILLE Technology Council is ready to make some news. VNC understands the successor to.... Read More

CMA-backed, EC-based Project Music accelerator accepting 3.0 applications

Aug 10, 2016 at 11:00 am by miltcapps

PROJECT MUSIC began its 3.0 accelerator/innovation cycle this week by opening the startup applications window, with the deadline currently set for October 14. Organizers proje.... Read More

SaaS: Affirm Health startup preps for Seed capital raise

Aug 05, 2016 at 03:36 pm by miltcapps

Updated 12 January 2018: The company reported raising about $169K in equity capital. 29 March 2017: AffirmHealth reported raising $150K.-Ed. JUMPSTART Foundry portfolio compa.... Read More

Entrepreneur Center: Sullivan is EIR and startup Alumni Relations lead

Aug 05, 2016 at 10:19 am by miltcapps

ON MONDAY, Yvonne Gilbrech Sullivan began her new role as Entrepreneur in Residence and Alumni Relations lead for the Nashville Entrepreneur Center. Sullivan -- Angel investor.... Read More

Venture Notes - 27 July 2016

Jul 27, 2016 at 05:23 pm by miltcapps

FORMER Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen will address Tennessee HiMSS "Summit of the Southeast" in Nashville, Sept. 14, at Music City Center. He'll talk about his experiences w.... Read More

Mike Muhney, Harry Jacobson team on VIPOrbit's $2.7MM capital raise

Jul 27, 2016 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

TEXAS-based VIPorbit Software may have completed a $2.7MM capital raise by the time its board reconvenes in Nashville this Fall for its annual meeting, Co-Founder, Chairman an.... Read More

Dart Music pivots to deeper water as Dart Data, pursues $2MM Series A

Jul 26, 2016 at 03:45 pm by miltcapps

Updated: April 10, 2017: Dart submitted to the Court its proposed auction plan today. Dart Music, aka Dart Data, issued a statement Feb. 28, 2017, saying that it had filed for.... Read More

mSIGNIA nears end of Series A raise, sees Nashville as its techdev center

Jul 26, 2016 at 02:00 pm by miltcapps

mSIGNIA INC., the software company born in California to avert fraud and combat cybercrime, is nearing the end of its Series A capital raise and "absolutely" will add staff wi.... Read More

Music Startup resource? Insights into Music Consumers

Jul 22, 2016 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

MUSIC BIZ (the Music Business Association) announced during its recent annual conference in Nashville a new data resource of potential value to Music-sector startups and other.... Read More

Venture Notes - 21 July 2016

Jul 21, 2016 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

RESOLUTE Capital Partners Fund III topped-out at $170MM, and the firm is said to be recruiting LPs for a roughly $250MM Fund IV. Fund III check sizes have ranged from $1.5MM-$.... Read More

Steve Case: Nashville entrepreneurial scene can be 'better still'

Jul 20, 2016 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

THOUGH the national startup scene has gotten "a little hypey some places," Nashville's entrepreneurial arena doesn't seem overly burdened by hype, said Steve Case, the AOL co-.... Read More

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