venture capital

Entrepreneurship: Nashville's dueling Venture events create quandary

Mar 27, 2009 at 01:12 pm by miltcapps

Next Tuesday, competing entrepreneurship events at Belmont and Vanderbilt may give new meaning to the term "rush hour." Coincidentally, at 5:30 p.m. on March 31 two local ent.... Read More

Briefly: Luminetx adds 3rd CEO

Mar 25, 2009 at 01:36 pm by miltcapps

Memphis-based Luminetx Inc.'s third CEO started work a week ago.  Richard Kindberg (left, in a shot lifted from Linked-In) has succeeded interim CEO Al Gossett, a Me.... Read More

Local FiledBy startup asks authors to claim 1.8 million webpages

Mar 25, 2009 at 12:41 pm by miltcapps

Nashville's FiledBy Inc. formally ended the private phase of its beta launch today by inviting authors to claim web pages created for them at the company's online venue. In a.... Read More

Star-backed Nashville startup toasts global knowledge

Mar 22, 2009 at 08:27 pm by miltcapps

Nashville-based Internet startup Moontoast LLC aims to connect people with problems to experts with solutions, worldwide. Moontoast is claiming a giant step forward in the cr.... Read More

ConnectivHealth divests unit, focuses on key business

Feb 20, 2009 at 10:15 am by miltcapps

Nashville-based and venture-backed ConnectivHealth has sold its VerusMed medical-information division to Intellerus LLC, led by a long-time media investor based at Hilton Head.... Read More

NEWSBITS Feb. 20, 2009

Feb 20, 2009 at 10:13 am by miltcapps

VCs: Oak Ridge-based Meritus Ventures announced its first investment in Arkansas. With three other VCs, Meritus invested in Arkansas Automatic Sprinklers. Meritus says it is c.... Read More

Gov. Bredesen: Talks underway for Solar Institute

Feb 10, 2009 at 09:39 am by miltcapps

Updated Feb. 11, 0709: In an AP story appearing this morning in the Times Free Press, ORNL Director Thom Mason indicated ORNL will prepare a proposal for t.... Read More

TTDC funds bioscience entrepreneurship initiative

Feb 10, 2009 at 09:39 am by miltcapps

Tennessee Technology Development Corporation has awarded a $270,000 grant to support biotech entrepreneurs and commercialization of technologies. Grant recipient Memphis Biowo.... Read More

STHS Ventures 'accelerates' companies reshaping healthcare

Feb 05, 2009 at 10:39 am by miltcapps

STHS Ventures, a unit within Saint Thomas Health Services, helps accelerate early-stage companies that could transform and improve healthcare delivered by community hospitals..... Read More

Life Sciences: VC-backed Nodality opens Franklin lab

Feb 03, 2009 at 08:55 am by miltcapps

Nashville-centered scientific talent has lured venture-backed Nodality to establish a key research and development facility in Franklin. Nodality Inc., a South San Francisco.... Read More

Trade Mission: Local execs take Nashville story to Big Apple

Feb 02, 2009 at 12:07 am by miltcapps

With the nation focused on healthcare and two big manufacturing wins under Tennessee's belt, a delegation of Nashvillians will be knocking on New York City doors this week. R.... Read More

Kisber: VC says 'Tennessee on map' for Green investment

Feb 02, 2009 at 12:05 am by miltcapps

Bredesen Administration Economic and Community Development Commissioner Matt Kisber isn't backing-off earlier prognostications. Friday, Kisber told a local Nashville Kiwanis.... Read More

Tennessee layoffs rising at dawn of 2009

Jan 29, 2009 at 03:43 pm by miltcapps

Article originally published Jan. 1, 2009, 0830. Accompanying chart updated Jan. 29, 2009, 3:45 p.m. Body of article unchanged.-Ed.   Just as Tennessee was putting the.... Read More

Vanderbilt responds to news report on endowment loss

Jan 28, 2009 at 06:31 pm by miltcapps

As originally posted Jan. 28, 2009, 6:21 p.m.  UPDATED Feb. 5 / 1421: See The VN Blog Post here.   Early this afternoon, The Tennessean's newsfeed informed e-.... Read More

Nashville tech ventures to pitch at Southeast Venture Conference

Jan 28, 2009 at 07:36 am by miltcapps

Corey Cleek, the CEO of Uloop Inc., told VNC yesterday his two-year-old venture has links via students to more than 1,000 colleges and universities. That's up from the 50 cam.... Read More

Petra Capital's Blackburn: Maybe 'everyone's on-strike'

Jan 27, 2009 at 10:00 pm by miltcapps

Injecting wry humor into discussion of the nation's woebegone economy, Mike Blackburn said the slowdown has left him "feelin' a little idle." Then, during an interv.... Read More

VNC Member Release: Nashville's Nexus Group expands leadership ranks

Jan 27, 2009 at 10:37 am by miltcapps

FROM THE NEXUS GROUP NASHVILLE -- The Nexus Group Inc. CEO Jerry Dunlap today announced the appointment of Joy Mangrum as director of operations. Nexus is Tennessee's.... Read More

Tennessee Pension Fund names private-equity investment director

Jan 22, 2009 at 11:19 am by miltcapps

The Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System (TCRS) today announced its selection of Lamar Villere to lead TCRS' newly authorized private-equity investment program.   V.... Read More

Discovery: VU launches universe-class Internet highway

Jan 18, 2009 at 01:24 pm by miltcapps

Spurred by ties to an extraordinary laboratory in Europe, Vanderbilt University has established "leading-edge" broadband access to the rest of the world. On Friday, the unive.... Read More

Passport Health not retreating from M&A strategy

Jan 16, 2009 at 08:47 am by miltcapps

Passport Health cautiously says the grim economy is actually reinforcing its commitment to growth through mergers and acquisitions. Executive Vice President Scotte Hudsmith (.... Read More

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