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Advisors: LBMC took its time picking pivotal M&A services leader

Aug 25, 2014 at 10:00 am by miltcapps

LATTIMORE BLACK Morgan & Cain, the Brentwood accounting and consulting firm, took at least a year to determine who would be the first fully dedicated transaction-advisory.... Read More

High on Nashville, tech startups 24/7 Sports, Comicbook.com mull growth strategies

Jun 23, 2014 at 12:55 pm by miltcapps

[May 24, 2016 - Terry et al in $1.7MM raise for ComicBook.com. Cites Terry, Bill King, Stuart McWhorter, et al. Filing here. Dec. 16, 2015: 24/7 Announced it's been sold on un.... Read More

CEO: Angel Capital Group ready to strengthen Nashville ties, U.S. footprint

Jun 18, 2014 at 10:49 am by miltcapps

NASHVILLE is among markets slated for increased attention from the Angel Capital Group (ACG), the investor network originally based in Middle Tennessee, said CEO Eric Dobson..... Read More

Video Venture -- Nashville's HouseLens positions for Series A raise

Jun 16, 2014 at 01:18 pm by miltcapps

Update: HouseLens said Feb. 17, 2016 it had added drone video, photog to its mix. Earlier: It told the SEC 15 October 2015 that it plans a $6MM raise and has $1MM-in. - Ed. TH.... Read More

Tennessee State official applauds Pantheon Park innovation aims, but rejects proposal to sell Old TN State Prison as site

Oct 28, 2013 at 04:23 am by miltcapps

FAILURE to develop an idea like the proposed Pantheon Park campus for software and performing arts education, production and business in Nashville would be "a great loss for o.... Read More

Nashville's investor-backed YouScience startup charts paths to marketplace

Oct 27, 2013 at 01:45 pm by miltcapps

Updates: 7 May 2015: Earlier this week, YouScience filed a Form D citing raising $2.2MM vs a $5MM target. In a release today, YouScience said they're raised $3.9MM vs the $5MM.... Read More

Bizplans: Churchill asks no equity from Young Entrepreneur Contest entrants

Dec 20, 2012 at 12:22 pm by miltcapps

Updated 12 March 2013: Churchill announced its winners, 11 March, in a release here. The original VNC story appears below.-Ed. MIDSTATE ENTREPRENEURS under age 30 still have.... Read More

'City on Fire': Nashville.com licensed to local entrepreneurs for relaunch

Dec 20, 2012 at 12:22 pm by miltcapps

NASHVILLE.COM has been quietly licensed for relaunch to DevDigital by the owners of the potentially iconic Web address, Castello Cities Internet Network (CCIN). The Nashville-.... Read More

Venture Exit: Jim Cumbee united Metova-A4, drawing on M&A experience

Dec 12, 2012 at 06:16 am by miltcapps

Updated 13 December: Metova Founder Kevin Ross announced today that he'll remain on the Metova board, but former VP David McAllister is now president. Ross said he hopes to be.... Read More

Series A: Holland hopes Populr shows Nashville techies can be 'global players'

Dec 03, 2012 at 11:18 am by miltcapps

Updated 11:35 a.m. June 12, 2013: Holland told participants in the LaunchTN Southland conference today that Populr is now generating about $7K per month revenue with more than.... Read More

Commercialization: Eagle's VU team launching Vitalnx Corporation

Sep 12, 2012 at 07:45 am by miltcapps

VITALNX CORPORATION is the name of an emerging medical-devices venture created by Vanderbilt University Medical and VU Biomedical Engineering faculty and students. The group.... Read More

BootstrapsX2: At BRS, Reed's plans for Idezi Group reflects IndieBiz realities

Sep 10, 2012 at 07:53 am by miltcapps

EVEN doggedly independent business owners often come to believe that four bootstraps are better than two. Then, they have to find boots that fit the business. It's been nearl.... Read More

Not Invented Here: HealthPrize 'engagement engine' increases medication compliance

Sep 10, 2012 at 07:52 am by miltcapps

Nashville healthcare entrepreneurs might want to examine HealthPrize Technologies' use of online games and other techniques to induce healthier consumer behavior. HealthPrize.... Read More

VentureNotes: Council Capital, Solidus at Work

Aug 27, 2012 at 12:54 pm by miltcapps

Dennis Bottorff COUNCIL CAPITAL-backed NuScriptRX, the Nashville-based mail order institutional pharmacy, has reached a $30MM revenue run-rate and has closed on a gro.... Read More

From Cicero to Church Street: Startup Contigo Financial challenges payday lending

Aug 27, 2012 at 12:53 pm by miltcapps

[Update: July 1, 2013] Contigo announced it has been merged with San Francisco-based Emerge Financial, following the two companies' restructuring by Serious Change, a social i.... Read More

Gradspring startup gains Carmichael, ConduIT backing 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

Nashville's Education Networks of America now owned by Atlanta PE firm

Aug 16, 2012 at 10:37 am by miltcapps

Education Networks of America (ENA), the Nashville-based managed-networks and Internet services provider, has been sold to MSouth Equity Partners, in Atlanta. David Pierce, EN.... Read More

VentureNotes

Aug 16, 2012 at 10:36 am by miltcapps

Seigenthaler [updated 9 July 2014: SEC filing today shows heavy Healthcare allocation, Healthstream only Tech target, filing here.-Ed.] LOCAL SHARES, the finan.... 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