INCITE

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

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

No leg-up? TCRS pension-assets 'Set-aside' for TN firms uncertain

May 13, 2013 at 06:44 am by miltcapps

THE NOTION of creating allocations of Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System (TCRS) assets expressly for investment by in-state private-equity firms remains an idea with few.... Read More

TCRS private-equity commitments reach $900MM as Villere departs

May 13, 2013 at 06:44 am by miltcapps

Update: 28 January 2014 - TCRS announced that formerly Interim PE director Daniel Crews was named successor to Lamar Villere.-Ed.   MAJOR PLAYERS among national and global v.... 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

Launch Tennessee beefs-up board of directors,<br>sheds TTDC branding while CEO search continues

Nov 01, 2012 at 12:09 pm by miltcapps

Update: 21 November 6:26 a.m.: Chattanoogan.com reports that TN House Speaker Beth Harwell appointed UT COO David Milhorn to the board of LaunchTN/TTDC. Milhorn succeeds Alex.... Read More

INCITE's latest co-investments announced

Oct 08, 2012 at 11:49 am by miltcapps

From Cicero to Church Street:<br>Startup Contigo Financial challenges payday lending

Aug 27, 2012 at 12:53 pm by miltcapps

[Update: July 1, 2013] Contigo announced it has been merged with San Francisco-based Emerge Financial, following the two companies' restructuring by Serious Change, a social i.... Read More

TNInvestco funds still had $84 Million dry powder at year-end 2011, ECD says

Aug 21, 2012 at 08:11 am by miltcapps

The state's TNInvestco-supported venture-capital funds had deployed roughly $55.3 million for 76 firms by year-end 2011, according to a report posted today by the program admi.... Read More

INCITE program announces more grant winners

Aug 20, 2012 at 02:33 pm by miltcapps

NCN-NHCC reports Startup surge and growing venture-capital gap for Nashville

Aug 09, 2012 at 08:31 am by miltcapps

TNInvestco has recently been among the drivers in a sharp uptick in Nashville-area venture capital investment and startup activity, according to a report released early this m.... Read More

LaunchTN seeks traction on many fronts as it seeks to close deal for a CEO

Aug 06, 2012 at 11:25 am by miltcapps

Note 3:24 p.m.: After publication, LaunchTN confirmed that Denenberg is the new entrepreneur director and that StartupTN remains separate, but the accelerators will be primari.... Read More

Chattanooga's 'Gig City' aims for explosion of techventures and investment

Feb 21, 2012 at 06:51 am by miltcapps

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

Feb. 22nd: Mind2Marketplace spotlights Tennessee<br>regional accelerators for entrepreneurs

Feb 20, 2012 at 01:28 pm by miltcapps

MIND2MARKETPLACE, Middle Tennessee's consortium for technology commercialization and entrepreneurship, is host for lunchtime presentations Wednesday (Feb. 22) from representat.... Read More

HIV among targets: Jericho Sciences bio-startup chooses Nashville as home

Jan 02, 2012 at 11:37 am by miltcapps

A 2010 SEARCH for laboratory space led CEO Heidi Kay, Ph.D., to relocate Jericho Sciences from Northern Virginia to Nashville's Cumberland Emerging Technologies' Life Sci.... Read More

Startup Tennessee to cultivate more Angel investors, among other goals

Dec 28, 2011 at 11:50 am by miltcapps

Updates: Warren's start-date on StartupTN work has been corrected, links to final INCITE co-investment materials added and better links to Memphis Res.... Read More

VentureNote: Digital Reasoning Systems $7MM raise reported

Nov 29, 2011 at 10:05 am by miltcapps

Digital Reasoning Systems, the Brentwood-based provider of advanced data-analytics technologies, yesterday filed with the SEC a report on a $7 million capital raise, involving.... Read More

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