education

Startup retention: Will edtech entrant Coursicle be a Tennessee keeper?

May 20, 2016 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

2016 Memphis Accelerator Portfolios announced

May 02, 2016 at 04:00 pm by miltcapps

2016 Memphis Portfolios announced

May 02, 2016 at 01:12 pm by miltcapps

Solidus-backed Healthcare Learning Innovations plants flag in Nashville

Apr 26, 2016 at 04:15 pm by miltcapps

HEALTHCARE Learning Innovations, owned by American Sentinel University, has planted its flag in Nashville, where it will market its interactive online courses, simulation tech.... Read More

Deadline May 15 for startups seeking Knoxville's<br>Scripps Networks Interactive investment

Apr 26, 2016 at 09:30 am by miltcapps

14 Startups to spend Summer launching high-bandwidth biz in Chattanooga

Apr 26, 2016 at 09:00 am by miltcapps

Nashville's Trinocity raises $1.2MM for educational marketplace platform

Apr 25, 2016 at 02:34 pm by miltcapps

Note: In 2015, the company rebranded as CEAdvisory.-Ed. TRINOCITY, a Nashville startup that provides an online marketplace for exchange and monetization of peer-to-peer traini.... Read More

Update: Launch Tennessee presses forward on Commercialization

Mar 14, 2016 at 11:26 am by miltcapps

LAUNCH Tennessee's staff and a board-level Innovation and Commercialization committee are moving stepwise toward defining new programmatic initiatives. In 2H 2015, the committ.... Read More

LaunchTN selects partners for Statewide University Pitch Competition

Mar 11, 2016 at 03:31 pm by miltcapps

LAUNCH TENNESSEE (LaunchTN) announced today it has selected 17 entrepreneurially focused business competitions supported by ten host universities as partners in its statewide.... Read More

Carmichael-backed Tandum LLC's extended Seed round approaches $2MM

Mar 08, 2016 at 04:47 pm by miltcapps

Update: VNC learned that in 4Q16 the owners exited the business through a sale to one or more parties.-Ed. TANDUM LLC, the Nashville startup that offers mobile consumer ticket.... Read More

Venture Notes - March 7, 2016

Mar 07, 2016 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

Updates on Angel tax credit, dev fund, EC emissaries, JourneyPure,Martin Ventures, IMAC, Healthcare raises, LaunchTN and more Update 10 March 2016: Both House & Senate com.... Read More

Tech-talented VU School of Engineering alumni quickly spread afar

Feb 05, 2016 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

NASHVILLE has a major concentration of Vanderbilt University alumni, generally. But, samplings of the whereabouts of recent School of Engineering (VUSE) undergraduates and do.... Read More

Startup assistive-device maker TabletTable considering recruiting capital

Feb 03, 2016 at 05:30 pm by miltcapps

Updated 11 January 2017: TabletTable announced a licensing and distribution deal with Wisconsin-based Attainment Company.-Ed. MANY healthcare products have their origins in a.... Read More

Vanderbilt University Innovation Center's first chief to be Robert Grajewski

Feb 01, 2016 at 12:00 pm by miltcapps

ROBERT S. GRAJEWSKI, a North Carolina entrepreneur, has been chosen through a national search to be the first executive director of the new Vanderbilt University Innovation Ce.... Read More

$26MM+: EdTech consolidator LTG buys Rustici SW, stake in Watershed

Jan 29, 2016 at 08:00 am by miltcapps

Updated: In his LinkedIn post Nov. 15, 2018, Founder Mike Rustici, dealing with cancer, said LTG would also buy the balance of Watershed. 1 June 2018: Former Products Director.... Read More

VESTA Technology seeks TORCH brand lead in Internet parental controls

Jan 28, 2016 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

Update: Oasis Venture youth social-enterprise program nears launch

Jan 27, 2016 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

OASIS VENTURE, the new social-enterprise program for youth formed by a partnership between Oasis Center and Marcus Whitney of The Unlikely Company, will soon launch a pilot co.... Read More

Media: NVille's Ayumi Bennett preps launch of regional Startup Southerner

Jan 27, 2016 at 03:45 pm by miltcapps

AYUMI Fukuda Bennett plans to go-live Feb. 1 with Startup Southerners, a site devoted to the Southeast's tech and entrepreneurial scene. Founder and Editor-in-Chief Bennett, 3.... Read More

LaunchTN grapples with robust agenda of opportunities, challenges

Jan 25, 2016 at 06:00 pm by miltcapps

ROBUST discussion may prove the new hallmark of LaunchTN, if last week's quarterly meeting of the nonprofit's board of directors is any indication. Here's a partial collection.... Read More

Accelerators: Boring, Rip-roaring or somewhere in between?

Jan 22, 2016 at 02:45 pm by miltcapps

VENTURE Nashville asked seven people familiar with the Vic Gatto's statement on accelerators (related story here) for their thoughts on Vic Gatto's comments on the 'boring' Ac.... Read More

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