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CEO: MyPro platform breaks stealth, eyes capraise + future IPO

Oct 29, 2015 at 04:30 pm by miltcapps

ANDREW MCGARRY's MyPro platform for digital content from celebrities, experts and other inspiring figures has quietly hopped from storyboard to Mobile/Web; collected $1.5MM in.... Read More

Scorebird mobile sports-data startup preps $1MM-plus Series A raise

May 20, 2015 at 09:15 am by miltcapps

SCOREBIRD LLC, the mobile sports-data startup based in Nashville, is preparing to pursue a Series A capital round of $1MM or more. Scorebird Co-Founder and CEO Jason Damewood.... Read More

Tailwind: Snaproll Media pursues UAV growth, mulls smart-capital raise

May 20, 2015 at 08:30 am by miltcapps

SNAPROLL Media, a Franklin unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) services startup, isn't TRYing to be stealthy. They're just busy. CEO Steve Brugman told VNC the company has played a.... Read More

Nashville's Project Music music+tech accelerator names 2015 startup cohort

Jan 06, 2015 at 09:57 am by miltcapps

PROJECT MUSIC of Nashville today announced the eight members of its 2015 music-and-technology accelerator program, which convenes Jan. 18 in the Nashville Entrepreneur Center,.... Read More

PE-backed Aegis Sciences acquires startup Diagnovus' assets

Jan 06, 2015 at 09:00 am by miltcapps

AEGIS Sciences Corporation, based in MetroCenter, announced today its acquisition of assets of VC-backed molecular-diagnostics startup Diagnovus, also based in Nashville. Term.... 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

Roy Dano: Sports & Entertainment focus for NVille entrepreneur-investor

Aug 25, 2014 at 10:30 am by miltcapps

ROY DANO, founder and CEO of Brentwood-based Sports & Entertainment Advisory Group (SEAG), says he and other investors are likely to add to SEAG's portfolio of early-stage.... Read More

Advisors: LBMC took its time picking pivotal M&A services leader

Aug 25, 2014 at 10:00 am by miltcapps

LATTIMORE BLACK Morgan & Cain, the Brentwood accounting and consulting firm, took at least a year to determine who would be the first fully dedicated transaction-advisory.... Read More

Nashville's women-owned Collegiate Sports Data considers partnerships

Aug 13, 2014 at 10:37 am by miltcapps

BECKY SHARPE has "trouble imagining" exiting either of her two Nashville businesses, Collegiate Sports Data (CSD) and International Scholarship and Tuition Services, (ISTS), s.... Read More

Chattanooga JumpFund makes 1st investment in Woman-owned startup company

Aug 13, 2014 at 10:00 am by miltcapps

               Kristina Montague Update: October 19, 2016 - JumpFund announces it'll raise $5MM-$7MM for Fund II, Nooga has it her.... Read More

High on Nashville, tech startups 24/7 Sports,<br>Comicbook.com mull growth strategies

Jun 23, 2014 at 12:55 pm by miltcapps

[May 24, 2016 - Terry et al in $1.7MM raise for ComicBook.com. Cites Terry, Bill King, Stuart McWhorter, et al. Filing here. Dec. 16, 2015: 24/7 Announced it's been sold on un.... Read More

Commercialization: Eagle's VU team launching Vitalnx Corporation

Sep 12, 2012 at 07:45 am by miltcapps

VITALNX CORPORATION is the name of an emerging medical-devices venture created by Vanderbilt University Medical and VU Biomedical Engineering faculty and students. The group.... Read More

AirStrip attracted HCA strategic capital and expanded operational ties

Feb 17, 2012 at 05:15 pm by miltcapps

Updated, March 5, 2012: AirStrip announced creating a Nashville-area office, headed by Connie McGee, formerly with KPMG. Release here.-Ed. HCA's Insight Capital subsidiary ha.... Read More

Jason Kyle's Pro Player Connect has TNCV backing<br>-- plus a $3MM C-round in its playbook

Feb 16, 2012 at 10:19 am by miltcapps

Updates: Nov. 21, 2014: Pitchbook shows round closed at $1.8MM, with Atlas and United Talent now also aboard. Oct. 21, 2014: Overdog files for $2MM raise. LimeStone Fund (a TN.... Read More

Ferguson CEO of ClearPractice, backed by VC Doerr

Apr 05, 2010 at 04:28 am by miltcapps

Nashville's Gary Ferguson has been named president and CEO of ClearPractice LLC, an electronic medical records (EMR) and revenue-cycle spin-off backed by fabled venture capita.... Read More

VoicesHeard Media ends A-round, eyes TNInvestco funds

Mar 30, 2010 at 02:02 pm by miltcapps

Update 13 July 2015: CrunchBase says VoicesHeard raised $2.9MM through 8/2012.-Ed. Voices Heard Media management is meeting with TNInvestco funds in Nashville today, having ju.... Read More

With NEC running, Echomusic execs launch Rockhouse

Sep 24, 2009 at 01:52 pm by miltcapps

Update: Rockhouse sold to Raleigh, N.C.-based Etix in January 2011. Original story follows-Ed. Former Echomusic product leader Joe Kustelski is turning his focus to his new d.... Read More

Startup: Network Contract Solutions leverages legal experience

May 26, 2009 at 10:22 am by miltcapps

Updated: In 1Q19, the company announced buying TruePoint Partners, which supports bank lending compliance. In May 2017, it acquired Supernal Software. The company changed its.... Read More

Aegis Sciences muscles-up for growth in Nashville

May 26, 2009 at 10:16 am by miltcapps

Nashville-based Aegis Sciences Corp. has been quietly expanding its workforce to meet rising demand for its drug- and chemical-testing services. In a VNC interview Friday, fou.... Read More

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