venture capital

Latest TTDC grants meant to vault Tennessee<br>startups beyond 'Valley of Death'

Mar 21, 2011 at 08:27 am by miltcapps

Eight startup tech firms have each won $50,000 Tennessee Technology Development Corporation (TTDC) proof of concept grants to help the companies advance toward commercializati.... Read More

Will Pinkston takes lessons learned into Sync Strategies

Mar 21, 2011 at 08:07 am by miltcapps

Will Pinkston, a veteran of "Bredesen Democrat" politics and policy, says he has gained traction in his new Sync Strategies LLC practice. Pinkston, 38, is positioned as&.... Read More

TNInvestco: State ECD updates on process

Mar 15, 2011 at 10:15 am by miltcapps

Update: State ECD released the promised data late on Friday, March 25, posting it here.- The story as originally published follows, below. Ed. The Tennessee TNInvestco p.... Read More

Angel-backed Chattanooga Renaissance Fund launches

Mar 15, 2011 at 09:56 am by miltcapps

The Chattanooga Renaissance Fund (CRF), an angel network, has been launched in that city with an initial $3 million, said general partner Charlie Brock, who is also a partner.... Read More

Noted: Digital Reasoning Systems announces patent

Mar 15, 2011 at 09:56 am by miltcapps

TNInvestco: Welcome to the 'Messy World' of Capitalism

Mar 14, 2011 at 08:38 am by miltcapps

TNInvestco, the capital-formation and jobs-creation initiative crafted by a momentarily bi-partisan Tennessee General Assembly and the Administration of then-Gov. Phil Bredese.... Read More

NewBits, March 14, 2011

Mar 14, 2011 at 08:38 am by miltcapps

Nashville Medical Trade Center's spokesman Cole Daugherty (at right) recently told VNC that developer Market Center Management Company (Dallas is "even more confident t.... Read More

JumpStart Foundry wants tech-enabled startups by Friday

Mar 13, 2011 at 10:41 pm by miltcapps

Entrepreneurial teams with startup ideas they can articulate by Friday, March 18, may have viable businesses to launch by Aug. 25, 2011. That's the scenari.... Read More

Tough Love: Local VCs and Silicon Valley<br>consultant work separately to keep it real

Mar 13, 2011 at 05:09 pm by miltcapps

Menlo Park-based Sramana Mitra says Tennessee startups can raise the odds of success by adopting the bootstrap guidance and the window onto Silicon Valley that she offers. Re.... Read More

FCA Venture Partners, TN Angel Fund<br>bless Silvercare 3MM B-round

Mar 09, 2011 at 02:09 pm by miltcapps

Silvercare Solutions, an on-site incontinence care provider, today announced completing its $3 million B-round led by FCA Venture Partners and Tennessee Angel Fund, the TNInve.... Read More

TriStar, Limestone TNINvestco funds<br>form Device Innovation Group

Mar 08, 2011 at 10:49 am by miltcapps

Two Nashville-based TNInvestco-funded companies, TriStar Technology Fund and Limestone Fund, have created and seed-funded Device Innovation Group (DIG), a Delaware LLC. DIG wi.... Read More

VCs hope to avoid 'smoking holes', look for passion<br>and aim for 'great companies' over jobs-creation

Mar 07, 2011 at 08:04 am by miltcapps

Solidus Co. Managing Partner Townes Duncan apparently shares a fear common among Ace fighter pilots: He really doesn't want to end-up being part of a "smokin' hole" in the gro.... Read More

NewsBits, March 7, 2011

Mar 07, 2011 at 08:04 am by miltcapps

NASHVILLE MISSES-OUT on 105 jobs spawned by Vanderbilt University tech-transfer portfolio company TyraTech, the natural pest- and parasite-fighting solutions producer, which i.... Read More

Law + Leverage: Baker Donelson adds Sloan<br>for technology & emerging companies

Mar 07, 2011 at 08:04 am by miltcapps

Beginning today, Chris Sloan dons the colors of Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, expanding the law firm's presence in the emerging-company and technology secto.... Read More

Solidus-SeedHatchery mentees named

Mar 02, 2011 at 02:26 pm by miltcapps

Clayton Associates partners team with Entrepreneur Center<g> for Bullpen Ventures startup mentoring program

Feb 22, 2011 at 10:16 am by miltcapps

The Nashville Entrepreneur Center (NEC) and Clayton Associates partners Stuart McWhorter and John Ingram are partnering to support a new Bullpen Ventures mentoring and startup.... Read More

UTRF: Genera Energy launches Innovation venture fund

Feb 22, 2011 at 07:32 am by miltcapps

Genera Energy, a wholly owned for-profit subsidiary of the University of Tennessee Research Foundation, will soon begin recruiting investment in the first of two or more ventu.... Read More

Healthcare leaders aboard, Parental Health builds traction

Feb 22, 2011 at 07:23 am by miltcapps

Parental Health, the Franklin-based telemedicine startup, has attracted heavyweights to its board and a Fortune 100 technology partner. According to a VNC source, the company.... Read More

Bailey-Curran deal signals more entrepreneurial activity

Feb 22, 2011 at 07:23 am by miltcapps

Resource Communications Group President Melinda Curran says she'll allow six months or more to absorb Andy Bailey's NationsLink Wireless, and then may begin preparing for anot.... Read More

Google exec who launched Earth, Moon & Mars<br> returns to Vanderbilt School of Engineering

Feb 22, 2011 at 07:23 am by miltcapps

Yesterday when he took a quick call from VentureNashville, Chikai Ohazama, the 38-year-old co-founder of Google Earth who earned his biomedical engineering degree within Vande.... Read More

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