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Cleantech startup Active Energy Systems maps path toward market

Jul 06, 2018 at 10:30 am by miltcapps

MITCH ISHMAEL PhD and his colleagues at Active Energy Systems are working to solve one of the world's biggest energy problems in a lab space so small that one can nearly touch.... Read More

LaunchTN taps 13 potential startups from campus entrepreneurship pipeline

Jul 02, 2018 at 06:00 pm by miltcapps

LAUNCH TENNESSEE today announced it has picked the next crop of University-based entrepreneurship finalists who will pitch their business ideas to judges Aug. 28, as part of t.... Read More

Nashville Entrepreneur Week Pitch winner's Seed raise well underway

May 24, 2018 at 04:52 pm by miltcapps

Update June 5: Please Assist Me has received investment of undisclosed magnitude from LA-based Backstage Capital.-Ed. IN A FIELD OF 10 STARTUPS, Co-Founder and CEO Stephanie C.... Read More

CEO Charlie Brock announces departure from Launch Tennessee

May 17, 2018 at 02:40 pm by miltcapps

Update 4:13 pm: Search leader Tom Ballard said after our article appeared that the group will be actively searching nationally and accepting other applicants, with no candidat.... Read More

NIH Awards Second $1 Million Grant to Nashville Data Science Company IQuity Labs Inc.

May 07, 2018 at 03:47 pm by miltcapps

Nashville data science company IQuity Labs Inc. announced today that it has received a second $1 million Phase 2 grant from the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Small Bus.... Read More

Venture Notes - May 2, 2018

May 02, 2018 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

VUMC spin-up Nashville Biosciences taps advisors, builds team, eyes growth

Apr 04, 2018 at 01:45 pm by miltcapps

Newly established Nashville Biosciences LLC supports life-sciences researchers' drug and diagnostics discovery and development efforts by using genomic and bioinformatics reso.... Read More

Venture Notes - 23 March 2018

Mar 23, 2018 at 03:15 pm by miltcapps

Considerations shaping our Journalism

Mar 07, 2018 at 08:30 am by miltcapps

The best journalism reflects relentless efforts to produce coverage that is faithful to long-standing criteria of fairness, accuracy, reliability and other virtues asso.... Read More

Nashville's Juice Analytics mulls Series A raise and bridge finance options

Feb 23, 2018 at 03:45 pm by miltcapps

OWNERS of JUICE Analytics, the Nashville-based creators of the Juicebox tool for visualizing data to gain insights, are in early conversations with their network of venture ca.... Read More

Fuller drives FreightWaves startup, revs-up Blockchain in Transport Alliance

Feb 13, 2018 at 03:45 pm by miltcapps

CEO Craig Fuller Update: July 24, 2020: FreightWaves raised $30M from Kayne Partners and $6MM from incumbent investors, bringing total to north of $76MM. TFP coverage.... Read More

Startups: GymCloud digital platform helps fitness trainers' build businesses

Feb 09, 2018 at 01:30 pm by miltcapps

Kenton Boutwell KENTON Boutwell, the co-founder, CEO and majority owner of Nashville-based GymCloud LLC, says his startup is not likely to pursue outside capital befo.... Read More

Increased budget for LaunchTN uncertain as influentials ponder the matter

Feb 05, 2018 at 04:49 pm by miltcapps

Updated 1520 6 Feb 2018: It's still too early to say what'll be in the the FY19 State budget. However, this afternoon, LaunchTN Director of Marketing and Partnership Developme.... Read More

Headsup: LaunchTN may have to beard budget lion<br>to fund Tennessee entrepreneurial leadership

Jan 25, 2018 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

CEO Charlie Brock Launch Tennessee, officially Tennessee Technology Development Corporation, has received about $20MM mostly from State funds in the past five years,.... Read More

TTDC: Launch Tennessee fills gaps in board of directors

Jan 25, 2018 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

Chair Bob Rolfe NEWLY APPPOINTED BOARD MEMBERS - Tennessee Technology Development Corp. (dba Launch Tennessee) Launch Tennessee is mainly funded by Tennessee Economic.... Read More

Venture Calendar - 2017 - Updated

Jan 09, 2018 at 06:45 am by miltcapps

Also Visit : 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | January 5 - Pre-Flight Pitch Night - Nashville Entrepreneur Center, details here. January 10 - Tenn. 110th General Asse.... Read More

Healthy Eating: Jumpstart Capital takes a taste of startup Menud

Dec 18, 2017 at 05:30 pm by miltcapps

NASHVILLE's Jumpstart Capital has subscribed to the thesis that Menud Co. has honed through two pivots, which have left the startup positioned at the intersection of Celebrity.... Read More

Beacon Center poll says State incentive wasteful, while Entertainment, Blockchain, other industries mobilize for Capitol Hill action

Dec 12, 2017 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

CEO Justin Owen JD BEACON Center of Tennessee, the "free market" think tank that regularly accuses state and local governments of wasting taxpayer dollars,.... Read More

Reg A+ candidate? Franklin startup Grabbr<br>eyes Publishing, Music, Med, Financial

Oct 24, 2017 at 01:45 pm by miltcapps

Updated 12 March 2019: Further SEC filings for Grabbr, right here. June 2018: Founder David W. Dunham, 65, passed away. 14 May 2018: VNC learned Grabbr recently closed a capit.... Read More

Exec: LaunchTN embraces discretionary role in IMPACT Fund investing

Oct 18, 2017 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

JOHN LANAHAN, director of capital formation for Launch Tennessee, says the nonprofit fully understands its new discretionary role in choosing where to make roughly 20 Seed-sta.... Read More

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