Harry Jacobson

Tennessee Community Ventures Fund, LLC

Nov 05, 2009 at 10:30 am by miltcapps

Tennessee Community Ventures (TNCV) -- The principals here include Eric Satz, the founder of angel- and venture-backed Plumgood Food, the Nashville-based online grocer that is.... Read More

XMi High Growth Development Fund, LLC

Nov 05, 2009 at 10:29 am by miltcapps

XMi High Growth Development Fund, LLC — Mike Shmerling's XMi Capital was one of the first firm's to signal its intention to pursue a TNInvestco allocation, under leaders.... Read More

VC-backed MetroLight loses U.S. leader to competitor

Aug 24, 2009 at 04:29 pm by miltcapps

Updated 7:34 p.m.: Reid said that while it's true the firms compete on general lighting, a key category, they don't compete head-to-head on most other categories and he hopes.... Read More

Nashville Medical Trade Center team blitzes NV influentials

Aug 21, 2009 at 09:40 am by miltcapps

Updated:  On Friday, Aug. 21, Metro Council voted 33-3 in favor of creating the Convention Center Authority, which many believe increases the certainty of the proposed Mu.... Read More

NEWSBITS May 26, 2009

May 26, 2009 at 10:22 am by miltcapps

VNC has learned scholar-entrepreneur Harry Jacobson's (at left) new office is at 3401 West End, where many tenants are VU or VU-linked offices and businesses. Jacobson's term.... Read More

Aegis Sciences muscles-up for growth in Nashville

May 26, 2009 at 10:16 am by miltcapps

Nashville-based Aegis Sciences Corp. has been quietly expanding its workforce to meet rising demand for its drug- and chemical-testing services. In a VNC interview Friday, fou.... Read More

NEWSBITS May 1, 2009

May 01, 2009 at 08:35 am by miltcapps

The Oak Ridge-based Energy, Technology & Environmental Business Association (ETEBA) appointed lawyer Nithin Akuthota (left) its new executive director. Akuthota was previo.... Read More

Informatics Corp. 'no longer a startup', imagines IPO

Apr 27, 2009 at 10:18 am by miltcapps

Informatics Corporation of America asserts it has graduated from the ranks of health IT startups. The pronouncement by Gary Zegiestowski, CEO of the West End Avenue company,.... Read More

Nashville HQ possible for Healthcare Management Partners

Apr 02, 2009 at 09:00 am by miltcapps

Update 24 Feb 2017: HMP says its HQ is now on Nashville's Demonbreun, rather than Philadelphia. Managing Director on the ground here is Clare Moylan.-Ed. A Philadelphia-based.... Read More

VUMC's Jacobson will never buy lunch in this town, again

Mar 31, 2009 at 01:25 pm by miltcapps

Accolades showering down upon Dr. Harry Jacobson following his retirement announcement suggest that, at the very least, he'll never need to buy lunch in this town, again. Van.... Read More

Bootstrapping Atiba Software adds C-level exec

Feb 13, 2009 at 08:01 am by miltcapps

Atiba Software & Consulting Founder-CEO J.J. Rosen, who has doggedly bootstrapped his firm's growth for 17 years, has made his third strategic move in the past 18 mon.... Read More

UK exec views Nashville's 'unrivalled' pool of health execs

Feb 11, 2009 at 12:29 pm by miltcapps

During a recent business luncheon, Care UK Group Development Director Geoff Benn surveyed the sea of healthcare executives packed into the Nashville Convention Center. Benn l.... Read More

InfoWorks' Clayton names Heard president

Nov 03, 2008 at 01:09 pm by miltcapps

InfoWorks Inc. Founder Jim Clayton today announced that Tony Heard has been named president of the 11-year-old provider of business consulting and custom technology services..... Read More

Pathfinder Therapeutics gets $5.2MM A-round infusion

Oct 30, 2008 at 01:06 pm by miltcapps

Pathfinder Therapeutics' wandering in the VC desert has ended with announcement it has closed a $5.2 million round of funding, led by Hatteras Venture Partners of Research Tri.... Read More

New $100MM venture fund creator retains 2nd Generation

Oct 01, 2008 at 08:40 am by miltcapps

Jon Yarbrough, creator of a new $100 million investment fund and founder-CEO of Smyrna-based Video Gaming Technologies, told VNC yesterday he has retained merchant banker 2nd.... Read More

VU-linked Informatics Corporation expands Nashville presence amid growth

Oct 01, 2008 at 08:02 am by miltcapps

Informatics Corporation of America's growth in customers and employees has led ICA to migrate to larger quarters at the Palmer Building, at 1801 West End, with a 10th floor li.... Read More

Liquidity event: Passport Health deal shows power of health-revenue cycle

Aug 05, 2008 at 05:53 am by miltcapps

The latest round of investment in Passport Health Communications provided an exit for an undisclosed number of investors, many of whom had been in place a decade or more, and.... Read More

VU spin-out ICA promotes Med Center ties

Jul 31, 2008 at 11:42 am by miltcapps

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