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BlueSky Medical stands-up NurseBackPack for credentials management

Oct 31, 2018 at 12:30 pm by miltcapps

NASHVILLE-based BlueSky Medical Staffing Software has launched NurseBackPack LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary offering an algorithm-driven mobile app for managing, tracking, upd.... Read More

Emerging blockchain-industry is focus of TokenizeTN skull session at ECD

Oct 23, 2018 at 05:30 pm by miltcapps

STAKEHOLDERS in the creation, growth and connectedness of blockchain- or distributed ledger-enabled jobs and wealth creation in Tennessee gathered twice within the past 24 hou.... Read More

TN innovators seek i6 Challenge grants for innovation, entrepreneurship

Sep 27, 2018 at 04:44 pm by miltcapps

This covers four i6/RIS proposals: Collaboratory | POC | NFA | Smart Cities - None of these proposals won in the 2018 RIS cycle. TENNESSEE institutions and their corporate and.... Read More

Venture Notes - September 26, 2018

Sep 26, 2018 at 08:45 am by miltcapps

Drug-discovery linchpin PMI BioPharma Solutions hoists flag in Tennessee

Sep 19, 2018 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

CHARTERED less than a year ago, PMI BioPharma Solutions LLC of Nashville and Celina, Tenn., is a privately held contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) that.... Read More

Hytch LLC arrives intersection of cars, carbon and Series A capital

Sep 12, 2018 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

Updated 2 March 2020: Hytch announced new transport partnership with City of South Bend, of which Pete Buttigieg is mayor. Hytch earlier announced adoption within San Francisc.... Read More

Vreeland confirms Jumpstart Capital's<br>SimplifyASC and HIGI SH LLC investments

Aug 03, 2018 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

Updated March 11, 2019: SimplifyASC should pass $7MM cap-in milestone soon, full story here. 22 Aug 2018 - CyramedX filed today on a $2MM raise with $1.8MM reported in.-Ed. JU.... Read More

Venture Notes - Aug. 2, 2018

Aug 02, 2018 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

Charlie Coiner CHARLIE COINER, former Dooley-era UT football assistant coach, is back in Knoxville and working with developers at Austin's Workhorse Marketing on V2.0.... Read More

JumpFund spurs women-led investment,<br>entrepreneurship, economic development

Aug 02, 2018 at 03:30 pm by miltcapps

BASED in Chattanooga, Kristina Maurer Montague is a woman using her human and financial capital to use capital to ignite more women-led ventures in the southeastern U.S. and b.... Read More

Entrepreneurs, Investors place bets on LaunchTN 3686 & Health:Further

Jul 30, 2018 at 01:20 pm by miltcapps

WHETHER out of inspiration or insanity, those who have crammed LaunchTN's 36|86 and Health:Further events into August 27-30 in Nashville have created what they hope will bring.... Read More

HC adaptive learning entrant OnSomble targets Nashville, mulls capraise

Jul 25, 2018 at 05:15 pm by miltcapps

ONSOMBLE Inc., the Nashville adaptive-learning platform company serving the healthcare industry, recently booked consecutive profitable quarters and could soon provide a liqui.... Read More

LaunchTN to ask 5-year, $44MM State support for maturing action plan

Jul 23, 2018 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

CEO Charlie Brock said his goal upon taking the reins of Launch Tennessee in January 2013 was always to "come in sprinting, and go out sprinting." Brock recently announced tha.... Read More

Roadtrip! Memphis Demo Day startups beckon entrepreneurs, investors

Jul 18, 2018 at 04:15 pm by miltcapps

A DOZEN startups (listed below) are expected to show their wares during an Aug. 16 Demo Day in Memphis, as part of the entrepreneurial community's "Summer of Acceleration," no.... Read More

LaunchTN CEO search draws 900 resumes, dozens of qualified candidates

Jul 17, 2018 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

THE nationwide search for a successor to Launch Tennessee CEO Charlie Brock has drawn interest from nearly 900 persons, of which 60 or more have been deemed valid and qualifie.... Read More

EC's new Project Healthcare model now full-bore with 17 startups

Jul 13, 2018 at 08:45 am by miltcapps

THE NASHVILLE ENTREPRENEUR CENTER announced Thursday evening its enrolment of five Nashville healthcare startups and 12 startups drawn from 11 other states for concentrated su.... Read More

ORNL's Innovation Crossroads energy startup accelerator preps for Cohort 3

Jul 06, 2018 at 02:30 pm by miltcapps

Update 13 Sept. 2018: Cohort 3 apps will be taken through Oct. 29, 2018. Landing page link in story below.-Ed. It's never easy being a startup, and for startup energy companie.... Read More

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

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