JumpStart Foundry

ETN's Cathedral Innovation Group may be buttressed by Charlotte-SanFran accelerators ahead of Seed raise

Sep 04, 2014 at 09:00 am by miltcapps

Roy Dano: Sports & Entertainment focus for NVille entrepreneur-investor

Aug 25, 2014 at 10:30 am by miltcapps

ROY DANO, founder and CEO of Brentwood-based Sports & Entertainment Advisory Group (SEAG), says he and other investors are likely to add to SEAG's portfolio of early-stage.... Read More

'Proudly capitalist' Jumpstart Foundry unfurls plan for its U.S. and regional ascendancy

Aug 25, 2014 at 10:15 am by miltcapps

ANYONE not familiar with the bluntness and dark humor that sometimes accompany Vic Gatto's impromptu remarks, might have been discomfited when at the end of Jumpstart Foundry'.... Read More

VTC: Money flows: DataFlyte raise embraced by Blank Slate Ventures

Aug 25, 2014 at 10:15 am by miltcapps

2014 Jumpstart Foundry cohort directory

Aug 25, 2014 at 05:30 am by miltcapps

Parkes See Related JSF14 Investor Day story here. Aloncii - $200K. Founder/CEO Ashley Parkes. Aloncii utilizes 3D imaging technology for production of fashion-forward.... Read More

'Proudly capitalist' Jumpstart Foundry unfurls plan for its U.S. and regional ascendancy

Aug 23, 2014 at 02:14 pm by miltcapps

ANYONE not familiar with the bluntness and dark humor that sometimes accompany Vic Gatto's impromptu remarks, might have been discomfited when at the end of Jumpstart Foundry'.... Read More

Quotable: Quick-takes on key issues from Böer, Jahns, Yaeger

Aug 06, 2014 at 02:03 pm by miltcapps

SOME COMMENTS we get have a way of sticking in one's mind. Here are a few of our examples. Germain Böer Wanted: Investment Bankers? Germain Böer, Owen Entrepreneursh.... Read More

Jumpstart: Healthcare MarketMaker bridges toward Seed capital raise

Aug 06, 2014 at 12:15 pm by miltcapps

Updated: May 13, 2015 - The company announced Chiromarkets, targeting chiropractors. Aug. 8, 2014: The company closed a total $65K financing involving five Angel investors, in.... Read More

CEO says Medalogix's Series A journey brings Nashville investment issues into focus

Jul 31, 2014 at 06:30 am by miltcapps

Updated: Hogan filed to pursue a $1.5MM capital raise 5 Nov. 2015. Earlier: Aug. 25, 2014: Hogan announced closing a $5MM investment transaction with Connecticut-based Coliseu.... Read More

Burcham 'virtually certain' he will resume his entrepreneurial path, now drives Nashville Entrepreneur Center toward inflection point

Jul 28, 2014 at 10:45 am by miltcapps

Update 17 Dec 2014: Michael Burcham, who has for months said in public forums he was exploring healthcare startup addressing end-of-life stage care, is indeed going to leave,.... Read More

Angels on Safari: Gatto, Burcham target startups via Selous Venture Society

Jun 25, 2014 at 02:21 pm by miltcapps

THE SOLIDUS-spawned Selous Venture Society (SVS), an Angel group based in Nashville, has been quietly stalking Angels and startups for months, and is about to pounce on its fo.... Read More

Former LaunchTN Chairman William Evans hands St. Jude CEO reins to James Downing, M.D.

Jun 25, 2014 at 02:15 pm by miltcapps

ST. JUDE Children's Research Hospital CEO William Evans, PharmD, is returning to full-time pharmacogenetic research, and is to be succeeded in the role of director and CEO by.... Read More

New owner TJ Wilt pushes Cumberland Transit along e-commerce trail

Oct 21, 2013 at 07:07 pm by miltcapps

LOCAL INVESTOR TJ Wilt is now majority owner of Cumberland Transit (CT), and is pushing the West End retailer deeper into both e-commerce and East Nashville. CEO Wilt, age 37,.... Read More

Northstar: Jumpstart Foundry event 22 August to be live-streamed

Aug 14, 2013 at 09:16 am by miltcapps

Release submitted 14 August by Northstar: Nashville’s largest full production television studio, NorthStar Studios, is hosting Investor Day for Jumpstart Foundry, a mentor-dr.... Read More

SilverMark Partners: Fitzgibbon, Lundblade joined by Harrington

Jun 05, 2013 at 11:49 am by miltcapps

Updated 12 Sept. 2018: i-banker Silvermark announced it was exclusive advisor to Tennessee Oncology, which joined New York Cancer & Blood Specialists and West Cancer Cente.... Read More

Southland's 50 StartupVillage residents announced

May 31, 2013 at 03:26 pm by miltcapps

LAUNCHTN announced it's Southland event's full 50-startup lineup for its June 12-13 StartupVillage this afternoon (May 31). The listing follows. VNC's earlier rundown on the f.... Read More

LeanKit: Tech-savvy NVille VCs harder to find than Software talent

May 29, 2013 at 07:26 am by miltcapps

Updated Aug. 12, 2014: CEO Hefley said earlier this month the company's total capital-in is about $9MM, with more than 100 Angel investors participating. CrunchBase says that.... Read More

LaunchTN Southland signals aggressive Tennessee entrepreneurial campaign

May 20, 2013 at 09:36 am by miltcapps

Update: Thirty (30) further startups were added to StartupVillage's lineup through a release from LaunchTN, covered here.-Ed. SOUTHLAND, the event being staged June 12-13 in N.... Read More

No leg-up? TCRS pension-assets 'Set-aside' for TN firms uncertain

May 13, 2013 at 06:44 am by miltcapps

THE NOTION of creating allocations of Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System (TCRS) assets expressly for investment by in-state private-equity firms remains an idea with few.... Read More

TCRS private-equity commitments reach $900MM as Villere departs

May 13, 2013 at 06:44 am by miltcapps

Update: 28 January 2014 - TCRS announced that formerly Interim PE director Daniel Crews was named successor to Lamar Villere.-Ed. MAJOR PLAYERS among national and global v.... Read More