politics

Nashville Mayor O'Connell taps campaign treasurer Isaac Addae as Metro's business engagement, entrepreneurship lead

Oct 06, 2023 at 01:16 pm by miltcapps

NASHVILLE Mayor Freddie O'Connell today announced his appointment of Isaac Yao Addae PhD to manage Small and Minority Business Engagement matters within the new Administration.... Read More

Nashville Mayoral candidates' views on Nashville entrepreneurial ecosystem

Aug 07, 2023 at 12:13 pm by miltcapps

AMID WHITE-HOT campaigning to succeed incumbent Mayor John Cooper via Sept. 14 run-off voting for mayor of Metropolitan Nashville Davidson County, candidates Freddie O'Connell.... Read More

Harry Jacobson, Tony Harkin advance iCitizen civic-engagement platform

Dec 31, 2021 at 03:43 pm by miltcapps

INVESTOR and entrepreneur Harry Jacobson MD has quietly been backing the new iCitizen civic-tech engagement platform since 2019, the year he and cofounders shuttered a predece.... Read More

Venture Notes - June 18, 2021

Jun 18, 2021 at 03:41 pm by miltcapps

Today: Politics | Nearest | Adair | Vesalio | JSF | PhosCyber | Fast | SurgePays | Ditto | River | SouthPoint | TPG | TSIAF | RISE | 5X5X5 | FwDyn | Concert | ICX | EIR | Ange.... Read More

Venture Notes -- May 31, 2019

May 31, 2019 at 02:30 pm by miltcapps

Today: Heritage | LaMend | Branch | Chef | RTSWS | TCRS | Demo | Shore | Flex | SimplifyASC | Triad | Dolla | GreenPal | Sedgwick | GreenHold | Paul Wallace ► HERITA.... Read More

Lee Molette eyes new fund for minority- and women-owned businesses

May 21, 2019 at 12:00 pm by miltcapps

LEE MOLETTE II, the Nashville advisor, entrepreneur, developer and Angel investor who moved here nearly 30 years ago, says he is preparing to push forward the idea of forming.... Read More

Studio Bank's Shmerling offers reality check for Nashville entrepreneurs

Feb 06, 2019 at 03:36 pm by miltcapps

EARLY-STAGE Studio Bank brands itself with an iconic French bulldog and aims to serve entrepreneurs and other Creatives in Nashville and beyond. The de novo bank recently adde.... Read More

TN General Assembly, Lobbyists + Clients engage on ed, tech,<br>medicine, taxes, myriad other issues

Feb 04, 2019 at 04:00 pm by miltcapps

DREW Rawlins, the executive director of the Tennessee Bureau of Ethics and Campaign Finance -- where he has served 28 years in one role or another -- told Venture Nashville la.... Read More

CEO Charlie Brock announces departure from Launch Tennessee

May 17, 2018 at 02:40 pm by miltcapps

Update 4:13 pm: Search leader Tom Ballard said after our article appeared that the group will be actively searching nationally and accepting other applicants, with no candidat.... Read More

LifeScienceTN chairman is now UM's Townsend, former ECD Staff Chief

May 04, 2018 at 04:15 pm by miltcapps

EARLIER this week, Ted Townsend was named chairman of Life Science Tennessee, the advocate for the industry that spans research, products, devices, equipment and other goods a.... Read More

iCitizen eyes $5MM-$10MM Series A, cites increased traction

Jan 22, 2017 at 04:00 pm by miltcapps

22 January 2017: Joel Lee, who had served earlier as president and chief marketing officer of iCitizen, returned within the past week. The company is moving into the Center615.... Read More

Outgrowing startup ranks, Confirmation.com keeps pushing its envelope

Jan 17, 2017 at 12:30 pm by miltcapps

Updated 21 June 2019: Capital Confirmation has agreed to sell on undisclosed terms to Thomson Reuters, release here. Overall coverage of the company here. Update: 18 Aug. 2017.... Read More

Gov. Haslam says ECD Commissioner Randy Boyd returning to private sector

Jan 09, 2017 at 03:52 pm by miltcapps

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam today announced Department of Economic and Community Development (ECD) Commissioner Randy Boyd will return to the private sector February 1, serving.... Read More

Life Science TN convenes GOP panel here to mull Election 2016's impact

Nov 02, 2016 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

JUST ahead of the nation's pivotal Presidential election, representatives of Life Science Tennessee (LSTN), an industry association, say LSTN wants to keep journalists out of.... Read More

Former US Senator Frist 'cautiously optimistic'<br>nation will address healthcare effectively

Oct 27, 2016 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

BILL FRIST M.D., the cardiothoracic surgeon and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader, said today he is "cautiously optimistic" there "will be a window of about two years" after.... 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

NEA partner eyes 'huge opportunity' for Nashville healthcare technologists

May 16, 2016 at 10:45 am by miltcapps

FOR A MOMENT, New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Partner Mohamad Makhzoumi seemed ready to accord Nashville something like a gentleman's "C" on healthcare technology, but landed.... Read More

Notable: Project Music + Music Biz team for tonight's Startup Showcase II

May 16, 2016 at 09:00 am by miltcapps

SOLD OUT, reads the Music Business Association (MusicBiz) webpage for tonight's Project Music Startup Showcase, which cranks up late this afternoon in the CMA Theater of the C.... Read More

CampusQuad: Ingram Content announces 2d Edtech investment in five days

Feb 02, 2015 at 08:15 am by miltcapps

Update 15 Dec. 2015: ICG bought Aer.io Retail Network, a content sales and fulfillment platform developed by Invention Arts, in which Ingram had previously invested. Our Feb..... Read More

Nashville Technology Council dips cyber-toe into public policy waters

Feb 02, 2015 at 08:00 am by miltcapps

NASHVILLE Technology Council (NTC) recently became affiliated with a grassroots industry coalition that advocates federal, state and regional policies that it asserts are "imp.... Read More

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