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Update: FinTech accelerator initiative in Nashville+Tennessee

Mar 16, 2015 at 10:30 am by miltcapps

FINTECH NASHVILLE at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center on Feb. 13 featured an executive panel that seemed to galvanize an audience of roughly 120, and set the stage for cultiv.... Read More

X Factor: NextGxDx eyes fresh capital raise, dismisses exit notion

Mar 11, 2015 at 03:15 pm by miltcapps

Update: 8 Feb 2018 - Concert Genetics expands insurance workflow, clinician guidance etc via platform, release here. 1 March 2017 - The company changed its name to Concert Gen.... Read More

Life Science TN 'ups its game' on Capitol Hill in pursuit of funding

Mar 09, 2015 at 03:42 pm by miltcapps

Updated: April 22, 2015 The General Assembly adjourned with no new funding for the LSTN program. -Ed. THE LIFE SCIENCE TENNESSEE (LSTN) annual visit to the General Assembly on.... Read More

For the record:<br>Nashville and other TN cities gain roles in workforce, innovation initiatives

Mar 09, 2015 at 09:00 am by miltcapps

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA today announced his TechHire initiative, in which Nashville and Memphis are involved, details of which are here. A complementary fact sheet is located h.... Read More

CEO: Optio Labs may pursue 'significant' Series B raise within 12 months

Mar 05, 2015 at 02:25 pm by miltcapps

Updated: OptioLabs announced April 27, 2016 its partnership with Ridge Global. Sept. 30, 2015 the company announced its integration partnership with AMD. It announced further.... Read More

HealthIT: Scale-focused RoundingWell in Super-Angel raise, may double staff

Feb 27, 2015 at 09:45 am by miltcapps

Updated 29 June 2016 RoundingWell in Rogosin Institute pact for kidney disease care here. 15 March 2016: Strategic relationship with Redox Engine for API path to major EHR ven.... Read More

FinTech: Seed-stage BancList pops-up in Nashville, eyes capital raise

Feb 17, 2015 at 11:00 am by miltcapps

BANCLIST, the successor to a FinTech startup born near Atlanta, has chosen Nashville as home and plans to pursue bridge financing and capital totaling about $1MM. The company.... Read More

Sohr-backed DataFi mulls further Seed capital for fintech platform

Feb 03, 2015 at 03:30 pm by miltcapps

Updated 21 January 2020: Built bought lienwaivers.io, release here. 29 April 2019: Built announced it has completed its Series B financing round of $31 million led by Goldman.... Read More

Healthbox grad Atlas Health Technologies eyes Seed capital round

Feb 02, 2015 at 08:30 am by miltcapps

Updated 30 March 2016 0727: Kelso announced today the company is now branded Healthcare Blocks.-Ed. ATLAS HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES, a Nashville-based application-hosting and manage.... Read More

Edtech: Ingram Content Group Ventures invests in Austin's Querium Corp

Jan 30, 2015 at 12:45 pm by miltcapps

QUERIUM CORPORATION, a two-year-old Austin edtech startup, won a minority-stake investment from Tennessee's ICG Ventures and has raising further capital very much in mind. ICG.... Read More

Silicon Heartbeat: Comments from NTC Award speakers set the tone

Jan 23, 2015 at 09:01 am by miltcapps

VERY PERSONAL comments from honorees and other speakers during last night's Nashville Technology Council Awards event are likely to have left lasting impressions. Among other.... Read More

Legacies & Leadership: Nashville Technology Council Awards unveiled

Jan 23, 2015 at 09:00 am by miltcapps

Update: Brian Moyer became CEO of NTC in September 2016.-Ed. NASHVILLE Technology Council (NTC) last night unveiled winners of the 2014 NTC Awards during its 6th Annual event,.... Read More

PEOPLE: Anand Sanwal's CB Insights has eyes on Nashville + Tennessee

Dec 08, 2014 at 01:30 pm by miltcapps

THOUGH publisher CB Insights inevitably focuses much of its attention on VC and Private Equity investors in much larger markets, the company is thus far tracking hundreds of T.... Read More

Internet of Things: BLEON's Filaroski eyes $1MM raise for Beacon entry

Dec 04, 2014 at 01:15 pm by miltcapps

NASHVILLE serial Tech entrepreneur Mark Filaroski doesn't aim to spend a decade or more on his newest startup. Been there, done that. His earlier high-growth CompNation ventu.... Read More

Mid-TN plan boosts universities, entrepreneurs, accelerators + businesses

Dec 04, 2014 at 10:00 am by miltcapps

THREE of Middle Tennessee's state universities are jointly exploring creation of a Distributed Research Park (MT-DRP) to drive technology commercialization and generate attrac.... Read More

Commercialization: UTRF, VU execs aim to raise awareness of TN's IP assets

Oct 27, 2014 at 07:45 am by miltcapps

HEADLINING a conference panel just ahead of the cocktail hour is a daunting assignment. But, making the best of it last week were David Millhorn, Ph.D., CEO of the Unive.... Read More

Bares to lead LifeScience Tennessee toward advocacy, capital objectives

Oct 22, 2014 at 04:30 pm by miltcapps

STEVE BARES, Ph.D., president and executive director of Memphis Bioworks Foundation, yesterday became chairman of the Life Science Tennessee (LSTN) board of directors, and its.... Read More

Startup Garage Coffee enters E. Nashville,<br> Garage Leathers widens accessories line

Oct 20, 2014 at 12:42 pm by miltcapps

Update: Aug. 6, 2015 - Garage Coffee's in a JV with The Family Wash music/dining venue at 626A Main Street, E. Nashville. - Ed. GARAGE COFFEE, headquartered in Nashville's Mar.... Read More

Populr's progress attracts potential bidders,<br> creates fork in road for Nick Holland

Oct 20, 2014 at 12:30 pm by miltcapps

Updated 28 April 2015: Holland sold Populr to Kindful, on undisclosed terms, NBJ's Eleanor Kennedy reported today.-Ed. NASHVILLE entrepreneur Nicholas Holland, who drives bot.... Read More

Histories unfolding: Maker-entrepreneur Barry Walker + Marathon Village

Oct 20, 2014 at 07:55 am by miltcapps

BARRY WALKER, the Maker who saved Marathon Village in Nashville from the scrapheap of history, told VNC that during more than 30 years of adventurous projects, "I never even t.... Read More

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