INCITE

General Assembly endorses Haslam 'Angel Tax Credit', passes commercialization and rural-development measures

Apr 21, 2016 at 04:15 pm by miltcapps

BOTH Chambers of the Tennessee General Assembly yesterday passed legislation creating an Angel Tax Credit in Tennessee, allowing taxpayers to offset some of their obligations.... Read More

National Advisory Council on Innovation-Entrepreneurship seeks members

Apr 19, 2016 at 02:45 pm by miltcapps

THE NATIONAL Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship is recruiting new members to succeed its current slate, including out-going Co-Chair Michael Burcham, who is F.... Read More

Urgent Team may turn to large PE house if $100MM M&A target looms

Apr 14, 2016 at 04:30 pm by miltcapps

Update: Jan. 23, 2019: Urgent Team filed 10/12/18 for a roughly $7.4MM raise, with some Pharos execs associated with the filing.-Ed. URGENT TEAM, the Nashville consolidator of.... Read More

Venture Notes - 12 April 2016

Apr 12, 2016 at 04:15 pm by miltcapps

ROUNDUP: Nashville Edge - Amplion CEO - HCCA Kudos! - Council Capital Pilot/Flying J Health:Further - John Murdock - Joe Kustelski - EdTech - Proton capraise - LaunchTN.... Read More

Medical Decisions LLC plans $2MM-plus Series A for EvidenceCare platform

Mar 03, 2016 at 05:11 pm by miltcapps

Updated Feb. 3, 2018: EvidenceCare has joined the 6th Accelerator cohort of Texas Medical Center in Houston, details here. 15 May 2017: Chicago's Auctus Group has been mandate.... Read More

Venture Notes - March 1, 2016

Mar 01, 2016 at 11:15 am by miltcapps

Mac Bartine TODAY: Smart-RIA, ECD's Randy Boyd, LaunchTN INCITE,Impact Investing, Rebrovick move FINTECH is bubbling-up again in Tennessee: Knoxville-based newco Smar.... Read More

March 18 app deadline for EPIcenter Logistics Innovation Accelerator

Feb 17, 2016 at 06:30 pm by miltcapps

LaunchTN details INCITE investment tallies, investors, portfolio companies

Feb 17, 2016 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

LAUNCH TENNESSEE recently reported that since the INCITE program's inception, its staff have administered 86 transactions involving 42 eligible early-stage companies, consumin.... Read More

SIIA: C-levels eye Software-cos' finance, performance 3/16 at the EC

Feb 17, 2016 at 02:45 pm by miltcapps

SPEAKERS have been added for SIIA's daylong 'Deciphering Finance' conference March 16 at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center. The Software and Information Industry Association e.... Read More

Life ScienceTN seeks General Assembly support for readying commercialization program, opts to defer $40MM ask

Feb 16, 2016 at 04:30 pm by miltcapps

AS PROMISED a year ago, Life Science Tennessee (LSTN) has suited-up again to try to create a path toward eventual funding for innovation and Tech commercialization during the.... Read More

Media: NVille's Ayumi Bennett preps launch of regional Startup Southerner

Jan 27, 2016 at 03:45 pm by miltcapps

AYUMI Fukuda Bennett plans to go-live Feb. 1 with Startup Southerners, a site devoted to the Southeast's tech and entrepreneurial scene. Founder and Editor-in-Chief Bennett, 3.... Read More

LaunchTN grapples with robust agenda of opportunities, challenges

Jan 25, 2016 at 06:00 pm by miltcapps

ROBUST discussion may prove the new hallmark of LaunchTN, if last week's quarterly meeting of the nonprofit's board of directors is any indication. Here's a partial collection.... Read More

Jumpstart Foundry creates Healthcare fund, knocks accelerator model

Jan 22, 2016 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

SINCE they were going to pivot from the Jumpstart Foundry accelerator to a fund that would operate akin to a VC, JSF owners reasoned that they could best inform the public and.... Read More

People: Charleson Bell, Ph.D., innovator at Vanderbilt University

Jan 18, 2016 at 03:39 pm by miltcapps

CHARLESON BELL's comment during the recent Maker-Space Planning meeting at Vanderbilt University really stuck with some of us in the audience. As reported by Venture Nashville.... Read More

Haslam Admin asks GenAssembly for Angel Tax Credit to mobilize early-stage investors and energize Tennessee 'Angel ecosystem'

Jan 15, 2016 at 04:15 pm by miltcapps

Update: April 14, 2016: Credit bill deferred in both chambers til week of April 18. March 2, 2016 1:57pm - The companion bill introduced by Sen. Norris is SB2539. Bills are wo.... Read More

March 16: Tech sector Execs focus on Software growth + finance in Nashville

Jan 11, 2016 at 04:15 pm by miltcapps

RAMPING-UP Software companies' growth, performance and value is the focus March 16 at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, during an Executive event convened by the Software and.... Read More

ECD's Boyd prepping ideas for stimulating TN entrepreneurship, investment

Jan 05, 2016 at 02:45 pm by miltcapps

RANDY BOYD, Tennessee commissioner for economic and community development, is staffing proposals for further energizing the State's entrepreneurial ecosystem and may submit on.... Read More

Update: Nashville BLEON IoT startup names Interim CEO

May 06, 2015 at 04:15 pm by miltcapps

BLEON Co-founder Mark Filaroski has taken-up fulltime business development duties and former advisor Gaurav Khanna, Ph.D., is now the startup's Interim CEO, the two men confir.... Read More

Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, experts sought for LSTN statewide network

May 04, 2015 at 12:00 pm by miltcapps

LIFESCIENCE entrepreneurs-in-residence, mentors and other experts are being recruited to provide startup founders additional savvy and connections for their fledgling Tennesse.... Read More

Citizengine eyes capital raise, sees 2016 election cycle as inflection point

Apr 30, 2015 at 01:30 pm by miltcapps

Update on capital: See our subsequent story, here.-Ed. CITIZENGINE, the Nashville parent of civic-engagement startup iCitizen, will probably pursue another capital raise later.... Read More

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