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Coming Venture Events for your earliest consideration next 10 days

Feb 18, 2020 at 03:43 pm by miltcapps

WE'RE BREAKING-out these out these curated events in Nashville, Memphis, Chattanooga and Knoxville, as a service to VNC Readers: February 20 - The Roaring 20 First Annual Awar.... Read More

SyncEC forges alliances to build entrepreneurship beacon in Highlands

Feb 18, 2020 at 11:45 am by miltcapps

Apply by March 15, 2020, for Market Access Program On entry, participants prepare to engage with customers, partners Local and state-level grants-makers help fund momentum Re.... Read More

Gov. Lee signals rethink on best path to bring Memphis Megasite to fruition

Feb 07, 2020 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

Updated 14 Feb 2020: A spokesman for ECD told VNC Feb. 13 that ECD is not looking at alternative uses for the megasite property and continues its search for advanced-manufactu.... Read More

Belmont Dean Gardial expands Massey College business, campus outreach

Jan 09, 2020 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

SARAH FISHER GARDIAL PhD told Venture Nashville that expanding outreach on campus and in the Nashville business community will be among her highest priorities, beginning March.... Read More

Tennessee's innovation, econ-dev allies again free to pursue US EDA grants

Jan 03, 2020 at 04:30 pm by miltcapps

Updated, Feb. 29: Applicant webinar here. Feb. 19, 2020: A Two-step grants app process is mandatory, deadlines and other details are here. Feb. 13, 2020 - US EDA announ.... Read More

Venture Calendar - 2019 - Updated

Dec 31, 2019 at 06:00 am by miltcapps

Scroll down or Jump to this week's or later 2019 events. Also : 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2020 | January 1 - (Tuesday) New Year's Day. January 7 - 9 - JP Morgan Healthcare.... Read More

FOH&BOH: Nashvillians raise capital to soothe global Hospitality painpoint

Dec 02, 2019 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

NASHVILLE startup FOH & BOH Inc. is tackling a global Hospitality problem that is especially visible in restaurants where operators are pushed up-against the wall by 75% a.... Read More

State-backed Launch Tennessee puts total $626K+ into startups<br>in Healing Innovations, Hera Health, Hytch, Possip

Nov 21, 2019 at 04:44 pm by miltcapps

LAUNCH TENNESSEE today announced investing an aggregate of at least $626K via its Innovation Capital Continuum program in startups Healing Innovations, Hera Health, Hytch and.... Read More

ISO Capital: LaunchTN expands innovation-capital investment committee

Nov 20, 2019 at 03:44 pm by miltcapps

LAUNCH Tennessee Innovation Capital Continuum investment committee will eventually have as many as 20 voting members. Today, LaunchTN Communications Director Wendy Malloy conf.... Read More

LifeScienceTN report bolsters case for more 'intentional' industry strategy

Nov 19, 2019 at 04:30 pm by miltcapps

TED TOWNSEND, who is now in his second term as chairman of the board of Life Science Tennessee Inc., recently told Venture Nashville that the time is ripe for new plans for th.... 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

Enexor BioEnergy taps Wond'ry's Grajewski as SVP ahead of Series A

Sep 24, 2019 at 12:15 pm by miltcapps

ROBERT GRAJEWSKI, who previously served three years as founding executive director of The Wond'ry Innovation Center at Vanderbilt University, has been named SVP for New Market.... Read More

Bunker Labs Muster Speakers

Aug 06, 2019 at 03:02 pm by miltcapps

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JPMorgan Chase CEO to muster this week with Bunker Labs in Nashville

Aug 06, 2019 at 02:30 pm by miltcapps

BUNKER LABS, the Chicago-based nonprofit serving veterans, active-duty military personnel and military spouses who seek to start and grow businesses, has recruited JPMorgan Ch.... Read More

36|86: Getting tech to market with max partnerships, with or without grants

Aug 05, 2019 at 02:45 pm by miltcapps

EARLY ON THE SECOND DAY of the 36|86 Entrepreneurship Festival, four lab-to-market veterans from Texas, Kentucky and Tennessee will presumably have nothing in their cup.... Read More

Venture Notes -- Aug. 1, 2019

Aug 01, 2019 at 04:48 pm by miltcapps

3 Winners! among TN challengers for 2019 EDA Regional Innovation grants

Jul 23, 2019 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

UPDATING our June 19, 2019 story: US EDA announced July 23 that the Tennessee proposals tagged below as WIN did indeed win the grants they sought. State and Federal fun.... Read More

LaunchTN and allies pick startups for 36|86 Pitch & Demo events Aug. 28-29

Jul 21, 2019 at 03:30 pm by miltcapps

LAUNCH TENNESSEE is fielding more than a dozen Tennessee-based startups to present for cash and-or kudos! during its 36|86 Entrepreneurship Festival, which is be.... Read More

Launch Tennessee names Partnerships Coordinator

Jul 18, 2019 at 03:36 pm by miltcapps

ASHLIN WILDUN shouldered her duties as partnerships coordinator a week or so ago within Launch Tennessee, aka Tennessee Technology Development Corporation, TTDC. Wildun was fo.... Read More

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