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Techstars Industries of the Future has drawn 20 deeptechies to Tennessee

Apr 06, 2023 at 02:41 pm by miltcapps

TECHSTARS Industries of the Future Accelerator (TIFA), which is led in Knoxville by Managing Director Tricia Martinez-Saab, has now inducted a total 20 companies into t.... Read More

CivicEye's $12.4MM A-round fuels US growth and team-building

Aug 03, 2022 at 08:00 am by miltcapps

Awareness of safety-security factors grows, CivicEye deepens US presence Founders, VC, Angels, TNInvestco, INCITE, SSBCI initiative sustained vision VC Cercano has phase-gate.... Read More

Fintech entrepreneur McGugin expands CoreCommerce role in payments

Jul 16, 2020 at 05:04 pm by miltcapps

CEO DANIEL MCGUGIN is moving apace to expand Nashville-based CoreCommerce's role in the e-commerce ecosystem from successful shopping-cart and software provider to a robust fi.... Read More

Transparency Health startup BaseCamp seeks partners + Ascend adopters

Jul 09, 2020 at 03:55 pm by miltcapps

BASE CAMP HEALTH's recent pact with Franklin, Tenn.-based RxGenomix may turn out to be part of a bigger series of partnerships forged to advance BaseCamp's new Ascend digital.... Read More

TVA is looking to startups to help solve its big energy problems

Nov 29, 2018 at 12:15 pm by miltcapps

The federally owned electric power provider that serves Tennessee and portions of five adjoining states has been working in an advisory capacity with the federally-funded Inno.... Read More

Entrepreneur preps DOT-Ready trucking tech, mulls partner + capital ideas

Nov 28, 2018 at 04:00 pm by miltcapps

ENTREPRENEUR Tyna Bryan believes the technology she's launching in January can help improve trucking companies' operational safety, regulatory compliance, economics and retent.... Read More

As General Assembly grinds along, some notes on TNInvestco and more

Apr 17, 2017 at 04:15 pm by miltcapps

MIXED reviews of the state's TNInvestco program, the wind-down of the original INCITE co-investment program, lingering questions about the health of Tennessee technology comme.... Read More

Wearables startup WiseWear's Series A underway, plans Nashville office

Apr 13, 2017 at 01:45 pm by miltcapps

WISEWEAR, the health, safety and security wearable technologies brainchild of a Vanderbilt University biomedical engineering alumnus, plans to establish a Nashville office and.... Read More

Kozicki: Brentwood Capital Advisors eyes pure-play Technology deals

Dec 18, 2014 at 01:06 pm by miltcapps

PURE-PLAY TECHNOLOGY companies in Nashville seem likely to get unprecedented attention from 15-year-old Brentwood Capital Advisors (BCA). Recently appointed BCA Managing Direc.... Read More

XOEye Technologies wearables gameplan could include Series B in 2015

Dec 15, 2014 at 03:27 pm by miltcapps

Updates: Aug. 7, 2019: XOi announced $11MM Series C raise, with PeakSpan, Grotech, Vocap and NCN. Could mean total capital-in has passed $18MM, based on Crunchbase. Dec. 11, 2.... Read More

LaunchTN's Gindt departs to lead LinkdCare healthcare startup

Oct 10, 2014 at 02:45 pm by miltcapps

Updated 2 Nov. 2015: Gindt and Hart seem to have dropped LinkdCare, and Gindt's apparently pursuing an MBA at INSEAD. His LinkedIn is here. Hogin also moved on to CMS Nashvill.... Read More

Griffis' FanSafety seeks Seed-capital for venue-security gameplan

Oct 06, 2014 at 08:26 am by miltcapps

FANSAFETY.ORG, based in Gallatin outside Nashville, is in conversations with potential investors in its Seed-capital raise. Founder-CEO Don Griffis told VNC that FanSafety is.... Read More

Music Council co-chair Randy Goodman adds Lipscomb Univ. Business EIR role

Feb 21, 2012 at 08:00 am by miltcapps

July 8, 2015 - Goodman was named chairman and CEO of SONY Music Nashville. The announcement was made by Doug Morris, CEO, Sony Music Entertainment.-Ed. RANDY GOODMAN, a CMA bo.... Read More

The Raise: Split|Secnd helps save lives, tests local investors' tech-readiness

Feb 21, 2012 at 06:51 am by miltcapps

Update: 13 May 2016 - On 12 May, Cyber Physical Systems, reported its $2.4MM debt raise bringing its total capital-in to about $9.2MM, according to SEC and Crunchbase. In Apri.... Read More

Proponents of 'OneC1ty' techbiz campus may need a bigger Bandwagon

Dec 07, 2011 at 09:50 am by miltcapps

Updated 14 Dec. 2012: The Tennessean reports that construction on the first medical building, a 100K SF facility with a clinical-practice tenant, is likely to begin in 1H13. A.... Read More

Franklin-based PureSafety sells to Underwriters Laboratories (UL)

Dec 06, 2011 at 01:49 pm by miltcapps

Franklin-based PureSafety has sold on undisclosed terms to Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL) of Northbrook, Ill., according to a release issued today. VNC research suggests.... Read More

Inova Payroll gets $1MM bump from CRF, Nashville Angels

Jul 07, 2011 at 11:13 am by miltcapps

Inova Payroll announced July 7 it, indeed, raised another $1 million, bringing the total to about $4.2MM, as hinted in our June 6 story (below). Newly announced entrants are:.... Read More

Cumberland Signal startup takes off in aviation sector with investors onboard

Jul 05, 2011 at 07:42 am by miltcapps

RICHARD HARDIN'S Cumberland Signal Labs is taking off on more than a wing and a prayer. Hardin's wiring hub for aircraft instrumentation has attracted investors, the cur.... Read More

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