venture capital

Feds greenlight VCs Meritus Kirchner & Innova Memphis to pursue $125MM+ for new rural-oriented funds

Dec 05, 2015 at 12:15 am by miltcapps

RURAL America probably got a boost today, when the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Meritus Kirchner Capital and Innova Memphis have been certified under a Federal pro.... Read More

TuLook Exchange eyes $1MM Seedcap for hyperlocal sharing platform

Nov 10, 2015 at 12:21 pm by miltcapps

TULOOK EXCHANGE seeks $1MM Seed capital for its free-to-consumers platform for sharing, shopping or trading goods and services among a circle of friends identified by each use.... Read More

Claritas Capital-backed PGT entrant Genomind pursues $13MM capraise

Nov 06, 2015 at 01:30 pm by miltcapps

Updated: 18 Sept. 2020: Genomind files for $21.7MM raise. 8 Feb 2017: Genomind completed an $11MM financing with Silicon Valley Bank and existing investors. 20 April 2016: Pro.... Read More

NVille Chamber's 'Business Studio' to run SBA-backed Scaleup America push

Nov 02, 2015 at 09:09 am by miltcapps

The Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce today announced [in this press release] the availability of applications for the ScaleUp Nashville program, administered by the Chambe.... Read More

CEO: MyPro platform breaks stealth, eyes capraise + future IPO

Oct 29, 2015 at 04:30 pm by miltcapps

ANDREW MCGARRY's MyPro platform for digital content from celebrities, experts and other inspiring figures has quietly hopped from storyboard to Mobile/Web; collected $1.5MM in.... Read More

SMTEC accelerator's Marcum retires, LaunchTN Rural plans nears debut

Oct 20, 2015 at 11:45 am by miltcapps

DAN MARCUM plans to retire Dec. 31 from his post as founding executive director of Tullahoma-based Southern Middle Tennessee Entrepreneur Centers (SMTEC), the ongoing role of.... Read More

Tennessee rural economy is focus of new econ-development Fund

Oct 15, 2015 at 11:15 am by miltcapps

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and Economic and Community Development Commissioner Randy Boyd announced today [via this press release] the state is investing $8 million in a new R.... Read More

Jumpstart Foundry's Health:Further - presenting companies

Aug 03, 2015 at 01:15 pm by miltcapps

The Health:Further Demo Day produced by Jumpstart Foundry, with lead sponsor Parallon (HCA), is Aug. 19-20, 2015, at the Omni Nashville Hotel, downtown. The full 2015 agenda i.... Read More

TN State Treasurer demurs on petition of SEC on PE fees transparency

Jul 28, 2015 at 03:30 pm by miltcapps

TENNESSEE Treasurer David Lillard did not join a coalition of some of his state and city peers, when in a letter July 21 they petitioned the Securities & Exchange Commissi.... Read More

After Ipreo, Maxwell will shift to raising a Nashville-based FinTech fund

Jul 23, 2015 at 11:45 am by miltcapps

JOE MAXWELL, the Nashville-based financial-technologies entrepreneur, says he'll next raise a specialized FinTech venture fund. In November 2014, Maxwell, now 47, sold to Ipre.... Read More

Nashville Technology Council a step closer to policy-advocacy role

Jul 23, 2015 at 11:27 am by miltcapps

Update: Sept. 28, 2015 - Former DC open-Internet advocate, wonk and communicator Alex Curtis has become NTC's director of communications and public affairs.-Ed. NASHVILLE TECH.... Read More

Updated: LaunchTN board of directors

Jul 20, 2015 at 02:00 pm by miltcapps

LAUNCHTN's Chairman Randy Boyd and three new board members are highlighted below. For other incumbent board members' bios, please visit the LaunchTn website here. An asterisk.... Read More

LeanKit's $16MM raise shows resolve to grow local techco 'that matters'

Jul 15, 2015 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

Updated: Dec. 11, 2017 - Austin, Texas-based Planview, backed by PE Thoma Bravo, announced it bought LeanKit on undisclosed terms, with undisclosed plans for the company. Nov..... Read More

ProjectMusic: EVAmore in business/platform dev push + pursuing capraise

Jun 25, 2015 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

Update Sept. 8, 2016 10:21a: Evamore announced it has completed a Series A round of undisclosed amount, and a spokeswoman for the firm said the lead investor in the company is.... Read More

Charlotte's Frontier Capital eyes Nashville market for investments

Jun 24, 2015 at 12:30 am by miltcapps

FRONTIER CAPITAL, based in Charlotte, N.C., may invest in "one or two" Tennessee companies via its recently closed Fund IV, and those targets are likely to be based in Nashvil.... Read More

CEO McWhorter names Julia Polk program officer at Entrepreneur Center

May 21, 2015 at 09:21 am by miltcapps

Stuart McWhorter, president and CEO of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, announced today that Julia Polk [LinkedIn] will be the EC's new chief program officer effective June.... Read More

Venture fusion: LaunchTN's 36|86 attracts People, Ideas, Capital

May 20, 2015 at 10:00 am by miltcapps

LAUNCHTN's 36|86 conference June 8-10 is arguably the most visible stratagem in Tennessee's campaign to establish the state as "the best place in the Southeast to start and gr.... Read More

VentureNVTN: Tennessee happily braces for Entrepreneurial avalanche

May 08, 2015 at 05:30 pm by miltcapps

THANK YOU for your readership of Venture Nashville Connections, founded seven years ago this spring, and its sibling Venture Tennessee Connections. An avalanche of busines.... 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

Internet of Things: BKON Connect tacks toward Seed and Series A raises

May 06, 2015 at 04:15 pm by miltcapps

Update: BKON reported to SEC 2 Nov. 2015 that it's raised nearly $1MM capital. The original VNC story of May 6, 2015, is below-Ed. BKON Connect is crossing that ocean known as.... Read More

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