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Nashville Angels bless Kindful, as it eyes<br>tech acquisition and Blackbaud market share

Jul 16, 2014 at 02:06 pm by miltcapps

Updates: Oct. 19, 2016: Kindful raised $3.5MM Series A capital (SEC) from investors led by Cultivation Capital, St. Louis. Joe Maxwell of Nashville apparently led for Cultivat.... Read More

Some TN entrepreneurs, investors focus anew on policy agenda

Jul 14, 2014 at 01:13 pm by miltcapps

INVESTORS and entrepreneurs in Tennessee might, one again, be stepping-up their public-policy game. As reported by VNC in an accompanying story today, advocate, entrepreneur.... Read More

Passing: John Seigenthaler dies at 86

Jul 11, 2014 at 12:45 pm by miltcapps

JOHN SEIGENTHALER of Nashville died here today, local and national media are reporting. The advisor to more of America's leaders, the mentor and role model for more of the wor.... Read More

LaunchTN offers a few comments on ITIF 'New Economy' index

Jul 07, 2014 at 02:49 pm by miltcapps

Updated 9:00 p.m.: LaunchTN ppt dataset added below after receipt this evening by VNC.-Ed. LAUNCHTN, aka the Tennessee Technology Development Corporation, responded this after.... Read More

'New Economy' analysis shows Tennessee lagging 39 other states

Jul 07, 2014 at 11:28 am by miltcapps

Updated Oct. 27, 2016: ITIF said its next report will be in Fall 2017. LaunchTN's July 7, 2014 statement in response to the earlier ITIF report is posted in full at this link..... Read More

Nashville loyalty-rewards startup textLIVING says $1MM raise wrapping-up

Jul 07, 2014 at 10:04 am by miltcapps

OLD-FASHIONED connections and shoe leather seem to have netted loyalty-rewards startup textLIVING an expanding customer base and nearly $1MM in investment. According to Co-Fo.... Read More

Media exec Tori Hughes setting-up Events Hatched in Nashville?

Jun 25, 2014 at 03:09 pm by miltcapps

NASHVILLE-based Publisher Tori Hughes is apparently rolling her two decades of media experience into a startup that designs and executes conferences. She is, according to her.... Read More

Former LaunchTN Chairman William Evans<br>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

Southland names Startup Village residents for 2014 conference

May 13, 2014 at 04:36 pm by miltcapps

LaunchTN (Tennessee Technology Development Corp.) and PandoDaily announced 39 startups (14 from TN) selected for booths in the startup village area of the Southland tech-innov.... Read More

LifeScience: TNInvestco-funded Diagnovus' growth may lie in hands of East/West coastal investors

Dec 09, 2013 at 11:39 am by miltcapps

Updated: Jan. 6, 2015: Aegis Sciences Corp. acquired Diagnovus, story here.-Ed. FRESH ON THE HEELS of startup Diagnovus' introduction of its second molecular-diagnostic assay,.... Read More

Nashville Angels: Nashai leverages China ties and consumer health interest

Dec 08, 2013 at 09:18 am by miltcapps

CROM CARMICHAEL's Nashville business network led to his taking a minority stake in Nashai Biotech. It's the only one of his dozens of Angel portfolio investments that has a cr.... Read More

Tennessee State official applauds Pantheon Park innovation aims,<br>but rejects proposal to sell Old TN State Prison as site

Oct 28, 2013 at 04:23 am by miltcapps

FAILURE to develop an idea like the proposed Pantheon Park campus for software and performing arts education, production and business in Nashville would be "a great loss for o.... Read More

Nashville's investor-backed YouScience startup charts paths to marketplace

Oct 27, 2013 at 01:45 pm by miltcapps

Updates: 7 May 2015: Earlier this week, YouScience filed a Form D citing raising $2.2MM vs a $5MM target. In a release today, YouScience said they're raised $3.9MM vs the $5MM.... 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<br>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

Mentor Capitalist: Gary Peat reboots after Council Capital

Apr 09, 2013 at 05:10 pm by miltcapps

GARY PEAT, the Nashville venture-capital executive known for his acumen and his patented intensity, has relaunched as an independent "mentor capitalist," after nearly 13 years.... Read More

LaunchTN appoints commercialization director from Nashville startup ranks

Mar 05, 2013 at 09:54 am by miltcapps

JIM STEFANSIC, Ph.D., an entrepreneur and biomedical engineer, has taken point as commercialization director for LaunchTN, officially the state-sponsored Tennessee Technology.... Read More

New LaunchTN CEO Brock cites innovation 'momentum', surveys challenges

Jan 08, 2013 at 11:11 am by miltcapps

CHARLIE BROCK'S widely anticipated appointment as CEO of LaunchTN was confirmed today by the high-growth advocate's board of directors. Brock, 48, takes-up his duties later t.... Read More

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