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Venture Notes - February 24, 2021

Feb 24, 2021 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

TODAY (37): B2S | AgLaunch | FCAHI | IHC | Hero | Adair | Cauble | ArtiphonMono | Insur | Potluck | RDPF | GTV | Blue | Optix | Soccer | Veno | PTrust | Beer | Kamp | Grazr |.... Read More

Venture Notes - December 18, 2020

Dec 18, 2020 at 04:30 pm by miltcapps

Today: EC | ACG | CoLab | CP | Cicayda | Levo | Curex | 3R | Innova | JSF | JSCap | VRH | PEN | Ed | Sabil | HBR | OR | Equi | Lepi | Hemp | Seiko | SRC | HCap | BU | Equity |.... Read More

Whitney to lead Jumpstart fund investing in Black-owned Health startups

Oct 12, 2020 at 12:15 pm by miltcapps

Update: March 17, 2021 - See Whitney/Buckner podcast for more context for this initiative. Jan. 21, 2021 - Whitney said the firm will be known as 'Jumpstart Nova', rather than.... Read More

Venture Notes - Sept. 15, 2020

Sep 15, 2020 at 04:00 pm by miltcapps

Today: ECD | IDB | Poll | JSCap | FINTOP | Split | FDRY | Pred | Aim | RDDT | RAM | King | VIZ | LOK | TBA | Alto | Linus | Ships | HES | Wes | Pret | Leop | Mod | CC | UpLine.... Read More

Launch Tennessee 36|86 capital-centric sessions, Pitch finalists listed

Aug 05, 2020 at 05:02 pm by miltcapps

LAUNCH TENNESSEE has announced the six startup finalists that will vie for LTN Impact Fund investment during this month's entirely virtual 36|86 Festival, for which registrati.... Read More

Policy: Innovation & Startups Equity Investment Program draws TN interest

Jun 09, 2020 at 05:30 pm by miltcapps

Former Gov. Bill Haslam MANY Tennessee entrepreneurs, policy-makers and their allies and advisors have hoped that Congress, The White House, the U.S. Treasury Departm.... Read More

Venture Notes -- June 1, 2020

Jun 01, 2020 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

Today: HGP | LTN | JSC | JSF | CHC | BLU | GLN | PWR | IDB | FCV | DIT | MIL | WRK | COC | Resources | ► HERITAGE GROUP affiliate Heritage Healthcare Innovation Fund I.... Read More

Fintech CEO: Mainsale-backed Ncontracts has pipeline of M&A 'discussions'

Oct 15, 2019 at 03:15 pm by miltcapps

Updated August 31, 2020 - NContracts acquired Banc Intranets (content management), release here. April 21, 2020: New NContracts board members announced, release here. Jan. 23,.... Read More

Oasis Venture entrepreneurship program for 'often marginalized'<br>Nashville teens folds after budget review

Oct 09, 2019 at 04:35 pm by miltcapps

OASIS VENTURE, the social-enterprise program for "highly capable but often marginalized" Nashville youth, which was formed by a partnership between the nonprofit Oasis Center.... Read More

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

Venture Notes -- September 30, 2019

Sep 30, 2019 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

. Today's SSM | FanTheJam | VU Ventures | LaunchTN ICC | Randolph | DRS | Good | Nusachi | Jumpstart | State Jim Lackey SERIAL Nashville healthtech entrepreneur Jim.... Read More

EC's Project Healthcare cohort grows to 18 companies gathering tonight

Jul 25, 2019 at 12:30 pm by miltcapps

THE Nashville Entrepreneur Center announced that its 2019-20 Project Healthcare Portfolio cohort includes 18 startups. The cohort companies will all be briefly introduced duri.... Read More

Jumpstart Capital recaps Casetabs in search of surgery-coordination lead

Jul 23, 2019 at 04:00 pm by miltcapps

JUMPSTART Capital Managing Director Dave Vreeland told Venture Nashville his firm's JSC Growth Fund I and two of the fund's LPs have invested in recapitalizing Santa Monica-ba.... Read More

CEO: Nashville Fashion Alliance may pivot into strategic relationship

Jan 29, 2019 at 02:07 pm by miltcapps

KEEPING its eye firmly on its missionary goal of building this region's fashion industry, the Nashville Fashion Alliance is in serious merger discussions with a prominent indu.... Read More

Briovation drops Festival V, will instead draw on Health:Further<br>as it pursues innovation advisory roles + investor entrée

Jan 22, 2019 at 08:00 am by miltcapps

BRIOVATION has shelved this year's plan for Health:Further™ Festival V in Nashville, in order to focus more of the company's resources on helping strategic partners advance he.... 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

Nashville's Black tech entrepreneurs sometimes weigh locating elsewhere

Dec 11, 2018 at 09:43 am by miltcapps

Updated 21 Dec 2018: Coko Eason's Milk the Moment has been inducted into the 2019 cohort of Velocity Accelerator in Birmingham, she told VNC today. BBJ coverage. -Ed. COURTNEY.... Read More

Venture Notes - December 6, 2018

Dec 06, 2018 at 01:52 pm by miltcapps

Today: Makers | ProjMusic | HSTM | Roan | 4M | TVV | Goss | EIR | Balog | Albright | IMAC | eDog | In2Bones | VU | Stravrum | SiRanch | NEC | Holst | Core10 | Trilliant.... Read More

Venture Notes - November 29, 2018

Nov 29, 2018 at 04:00 pm by miltcapps

Today: Satchel | ShoreCP | Angels | TaxCred | Pharos | Savvy | CareHarmony | BlendTopia | Law | Noro | Motivo | Altus | SATCHEL HEALTH, a post-acute data-first teleme.... Read More

JumpFund spurs women-led investment,<br>entrepreneurship, economic development

Aug 02, 2018 at 03:30 pm by miltcapps

BASED in Chattanooga, Kristina Maurer Montague is a woman using her human and financial capital to use capital to ignite more women-led ventures in the southeastern U.S. and b.... Read More

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