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2017 Project Music selects 4 startups from 120+ accelerator applicants

Feb 06, 2017 at 09:30 am by miltcapps

PROJECT Music, the year-round accelerator and mentoring program resident in the Nashville Entrepreneur Center (EC), has recruited its smallest batch of startups yet: Four, inc.... Read More

State of the Startups: Tennessee Technology Development Corporation,<br>aka Launch Tennessee, wants to shed some commercialization emphasis

Jan 30, 2017 at 09:18 am by miltcapps

IN JUNE 2011, months into his first term, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam (R) told attendees at a venture-capital conference that Tennessee institutions and private companies must.... Read More

Nashville Technology Council opens Tech Hill Commons with Comcast help

Nov 29, 2016 at 09:00 am by miltcapps

Allies Nashville Technology Council (NTC) and Comcast today announced plans to open a gigabit-powered facility -- Tech Hill Commons -- which is designed as NTC headquarters an.... Read More

Apto maps capraises through 2019, targets expat adaptation in U.S., abroad

Nov 28, 2016 at 08:45 am by miltcapps

Updated: On July 12, 2019, Apto filed with the SEC for a $1.5MM raise.-Ed. APTO LLC, which offers a cultural-linguistic training platform to help internationals adapt with con.... Read More

Venture Calendar - 2016 - Updated

Nov 25, 2016 at 12:00 pm by miltcapps

Also Visit : 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | January 6 - 9 - CES - Consumer Technology Association re Music-Communications interests, Nashville panelists, details h.... Read More

The TENN master accelerator cohort for 2016-17

Oct 20, 2016 at 06:43 am by miltcapps

Launch Tennessee (Tennessee Technology Development Corp.) on Oct. 19 announced the 2016-17 cohort of The TENN, the master accelerator program for startups selected from among.... Read More

Nashville Software School eyes new offerings, leadership succession plans

Oct 19, 2016 at 12:30 pm by miltcapps

Updated July 25: The Greenville (S.C.) News reported July 20 that competitor Ironyard closing 15 sites, including Nashville.-Ed. JOHN WARK, a co-founder, president and self-av.... Read More

Digital Nashville set to idle

Oct 02, 2016 at 05:45 pm by miltcapps

Updated: 2 Oct. 2016 - After several years of near-dormancy, Digital Nashville announced it currently has no plans to resume actively serving the community, and indicated it i.... Read More

Brookings Fellow: Nashville has 'very serious' HealthIT opportunity

Aug 24, 2016 at 05:45 am by miltcapps

Update: The full Brookings report on Nashville's HealthIT leadership opportunity is located here. Listing of related VNC stories here. -Editor NASHVILLE has a "very serious" o.... Read More

Venture Notes 15 August 2016

Aug 15, 2016 at 04:53 pm by miltcapps

Petra's Rob Smith FRONTIER Capital (N.C.) and Petra Capital Partners (Nashville) recently announced collaborating on funding geospatial/data-oriented PlanetRisk, whic.... Read More

Reporter's Notebook:<br>VU Music, Mind & Society Program may feed Nashville innovation

Aug 15, 2016 at 10:30 am by miltcapps

THE PROGRAM for Music, Mind and Society at Vanderbilt University will on Sept. 12 convene its Annual Symposium, "Science of Song," at the Blair School of Music. Tech innovator.... Read More

Franklin entrepreneur raises Seed for CommuniGift, plans D.C. headquarters

Aug 12, 2016 at 04:15 pm by miltcapps

COMMUNIGIFT Inc. offers a platform that enables celebrants headed for birthdays and other special events to direct gifts to children in need, instead of to themselves. The com.... Read More

VentureNotes June 29, 2016

Jun 29, 2016 at 05:05 pm by miltcapps

Today: Addiction campus, VRTIFY music tech, InCrowd Capital, Arkis Biosciences PALO ALTO-based startup VRTIFY, founded is 2014, is led by CEO Facundo Martin Diaz, who a.... Read More

Oasis Venture's PitchDay is June 30 in Nashville

Jun 28, 2016 at 04:04 pm by miltcapps

SIXTEEN Nashville youth made it all the way through training for the first entrepreneurial cohort of Oasis Venture, a youth-development joint venture between the Oasis Center.... Read More

Update: Brody-Waite named CEO of Nashville Entrepreneur Center

Jun 22, 2016 at 12:00 pm by miltcapps

MICHAEL Brody-Waite has been selected the third CEO of Nashville Entrepreneur Center. The announcement came this morning from EC Board Chairman John Ingram, who co-chaired th.... Read More

Galante, Trahern, Artists & Allies take Music issues to nation's capital

Jun 21, 2016 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

TODAY is "Make Music Day" in Nashville and elsewhere. Coincidentally or not, the day of observance provides a grassroots backdrop for Music advocates' efforts to affect legisl.... Read More

Startup capital raises reported for HoneyCo indie-living + Ampersand Health

Jun 14, 2016 at 05:30 pm by miltcapps

WHILE executives gathered today in Nashville to hear elite panelists discuss the evolving healthcare delivery continuum, two local startups today filed SEC reports on capital.... Read More

Nashville EC Vision2020 suggests global ambitions<br> and quiet building of entrepreneurship warchest

Jun 09, 2016 at 02:00 pm by miltcapps

NESTING quietly on the Nashville Entrepreneur Center website is the provocative outline for the nonprofit's VISION 2020 Capital Campaign. The landing page for the campaign sug.... Read More

Winners announced from Statewide University Pitch Competition

Jun 07, 2016 at 12:30 pm by miltcapps

LAUNCH Tennessee on May 26 announced four winners of its Statewide University Venture Challenge, a new initiative launched in March. The programs aims to engage student entrep.... Read More

AeroWALL Dynamics: NVille startup to leverage TN's transportation sector

Jun 06, 2016 at 02:15 pm by miltcapps

THOUGH it's preparing for a long journey, AeroWALL Dynamics might instead gain enough traction among trucking operators to make the Nashville startup's trip to an exit a very.... Read More

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