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VentureNotes: McWhorter, Ingram, Bredesen touch on venture investment

Sep 15, 2015 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

Stuart McWhorter STUART MCWHORTER, CEO of Nashville Entrepreneur Center, told Venture Nashville he didn't realize til he succeeded Michael Burcham as CEO of the Nashv.... Read More

FinTech: Capital Confirmation eyes $20MM revenue, broadens global stride

Jan 12, 2015 at 09:00 am by miltcapps

Update: Oct. 28, 2016 - The company reported raising $60MM from investors including Great Hill Partners. 10 May 2016 Capital Confirmation announced it acquired India-based Ver.... Read More

Mobile in Memphis: SynapsePay's backers give Fintech startup rare footing

Jan 08, 2015 at 04:00 pm by miltcapps

Mobile in Memphis: SynapsePay's backers give Fintech startup rare footing

Jan 08, 2015 at 11:43 am by miltcapps

Updated: May 22, 2015: Memphis Daily News reported today that Synapse has raised $700K, mainly from Marchant and Webb, investors named in our Jan. 8 story, and from Hilliard C.... Read More

Memphis StartCo CEO updates Angel, Accelerator plans

Dec 18, 2014 at 09:45 am by miltcapps

ERIC MATHEWS told VTC the StartCo Angels group he leads has 10 Angels actively engaged, after adding "three or four" in the past year, through a deliberately "slow a.... Read More

Gradspring startup gains Carmichael, ConduIT backing<br>for college-grad employment search platform

Aug 20, 2012 at 11:51 am by miltcapps

Gradspring co-founder Sean Clem says he and his seed-stage investors can do well, by taking some of the work out of job searches by unemployed and underemployed recent college.... Read More

Noted: NuScriptRx's Taylor succeeds Mercadante as CEO

Aug 20, 2012 at 11:47 am by miltcapps

NuScriptRx, the Nashville mail-order institutional pharmacy company formerly known as New Day Pharmacy, today announced appointment of Donald Taylor as CEO, succeeding Ed Merc.... Read More

Gov. Haslam's INCITE program stirs to life via 'Venture Incite' A-round

May 14, 2012 at 10:08 am by miltcapps

VENTURE INCITE, the Oak Ridge-based company founded by Nashville-based Solidus and its TNInvestco fund, will use recent A-round funding to "attract the best regional and natio.... Read More

'Educating the money' may be answer to diversifying Nashville techventures

May 08, 2012 at 10:17 am by miltcapps

Update 5 December 2013: eMids has recruited $13.3M from Council Capital & Baird Capital (Chi.), according to 4 December 2013 story by NBJ.-Ed. SAURABH SINHA, Nashville's E.... Read More

Jumpstart class arrives in a cloud of dust, as Gatto cooks-up Angel move

May 03, 2012 at 10:10 am by miltcapps

BIG DAY for Vic Gatto & Friends: The Solidus partner and Jumpstart Foundry founder this morning announced JSF's new class of entrepreneurs in Nashville. Also today, Gatto.... Read More

A-Round: Frazer's Cicayda tech startup emerging into Nashville sunlight

May 02, 2012 at 07:22 am by miltcapps

Updated: Cicayda told VNC in August 2013 that its headcount was then 35.-Ed. GREEN HILLS-based Roe Frazer aims to raise $2MM in capital for Cicayda, an e-discovery-.... Read More

'Corner man' Forrest Shoaf joins Dobie Media as advisor

Apr 30, 2012 at 09:02 am by miltcapps

FORREST SHOAF, formerly Cracker Barrel Old Country Store's chief financial officer, has joined Dobie Media as advisor and investor, founder Bruce Dobie confirmed for VNC. Wor.... Read More

Dobie Media adds Rick Blair; A-round to give EvieSays more to talk about

Mar 13, 2012 at 10:06 am by miltcapps

DOBIE MEDIA, the West End startup that provides its EvieSays online events calendars for media outlets, has enlisted strategic advisor and former Examiner.com CEO Rick Blair&n.... Read More

Cybersecurity startup Optio Labs creates Nashville dev foothold with VUSE grad

Mar 07, 2012 at 10:37 am by miltcapps

OPTIO LABS, a venture-backed cybersecurity startup currently focused on the mobile sector, says it will maintain a development outpost in Nashville. John Serafini, the Optio.... Read More

Noted: Pathfinder Therapeutics has named Jim Cloar president, CEO

Mar 05, 2012 at 02:24 pm by miltcapps

Updated: Goode left Pathfinder in April 2012, according to his Linkedin profile. Our original story is below.-Ed. Pathfinder Therapeutics, a startup with products for "s.... Read More

Updated: Former Frist staffer Ketchel files for MDSave capital raises

Mar 05, 2012 at 10:18 am by miltcapps

Updates: 26 Feb 2020: Greg Born recently joined as president and COO. 9 January 2019 Change Healthcare announced Jan. 7 it had taken a minority stake in MDSave on undislcosed.... Read More

Managers see TNInvestco benefits, Sen. Kyle restates case for outreach

Mar 05, 2012 at 09:15 am by miltcapps

VenturePeople: LeShane Greenhill and Sagents

Mar 05, 2012 at 09:10 am by miltcapps

LeShane GreenHill SAGENTS, a Cloud-based startup, aims to be the "premier online sales connector," said its 34-year-old Founder LeShane Gree.... Read More

Chattanooga's 'Gig City' aims for explosion of techventures and investment

Feb 21, 2012 at 06:51 am by miltcapps

'CHATTANOOGA Choo Choo' and See Rock City will drift into the background this summer, surrendering the city's branding spotlight to Gig City, an initiative spawned by a broad.... Read More

Feb. 22nd: Mind2Marketplace spotlights Tennessee<br>regional accelerators for entrepreneurs

Feb 20, 2012 at 01:28 pm by miltcapps

MIND2MARKETPLACE, Middle Tennessee's consortium for technology commercialization and entrepreneurship, is host for lunchtime presentations Wednesday (Feb. 22) from representat.... Read More

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