ConnectivHealth

Disruptive Capital: Dr. Harry Jacobson's push for investment could help make Nashville 'the Silicon Valley of Healthcare'

Jul 04, 2011 at 02:37 pm by miltcapps

HARRY JACOBSON, M.D., believes U.S. healthcare needs a dose of reality and that Nashville needs injections of growth capital before it can truly become the Silicon Valley of H.... Read More

Fetherling joins Moore in rebranded Stratasan startup; Nashville Tech Council CEO search makes strides, says Sloan

Jul 02, 2011 at 03:27 pm by miltcapps

STRATASAN, the healthcare marketing analytics firm originally known as HealthDataSource, announced July 1 that investor, Chairman and Founder Tod Fetherling is now fulltime in.... Read More

VenturePeople: Heritage Group gains Wallace from SVLS

Jun 28, 2011 at 09:20 am by miltcapps

Paul Wallace, a Nashvillian long associated with private-equity funds and Healthways, has joined Burton Hills-based Heritage Group LLC, according to his LinkedIn posting. Wall.... Read More

HealthTeacher reaches venture's 'inflection point'; backer Chrysalis joined by SSM as Petra exits

Jun 28, 2011 at 08:31 am by miltcapps

HealthTeacher may have reached a veritable "inflection point" in its 12-year campaign to make a growth business out of improving the health, fitness and physical and emotional.... Read More

Startup Tennessee launch to draw Gov. Haslam, Startup America CEO to Entrepreneur Center

Jun 27, 2011 at 10:15 am by miltcapps

UPDATE 1:14 P.M. 28 June: ECD issued a request for information (RFI here) from potential bidders representing regional business accelerators, with responses due by July 1.... Read More

Apple Inc.'s Herbold joins HealthTeacher drive to make U.S. youth health 'cool & aspirational'

Jun 21, 2011 at 09:25 am by miltcapps

HealthTeacher, the online health-education curriculum provider based in Brentwood, has hired former Apple Inc. senior product manager John Herbold as vice president-product, s.... Read More

Digital Nashville launches innovation mentorship service

Oct 26, 2009 at 11:01 am by miltcapps

Digital Nashville has launched a mentorship program for corporate innovators, freelancers, entrepreneurs and others. In an announcement Saturday to the Digital Nashville comm.... Read More

Briefly: Petra Capital invests in med transcription company

Oct 23, 2009 at 03:18 pm by miltcapps

Nashville-based Petra Capital Partners has invested $6 million in sub-debt and preferred stock in Plano, Texas-based Superior Global Solutions Inc. According to a Petra relea.... Read More

Venture Strategy: HealthTeacher mobilizing community allies to advance contract sales

Sep 14, 2009 at 08:03 am by miltcapps

HealthTeacher, which supports K-12 health teachers, aims to attract community funding for its customers' purchases, nationwide. With U.S. schools' budgets drained and health.... Read More

TNInvestco: 'Creativity incredible' among interested firms

Sep 14, 2009 at 08:03 am by miltcapps

Updated 2:58 p.m. Sept. 17, 2009: Coleman Swenson Crist; Southern Appalachian TNInvestco Management Co. LLC; and, Richland Ventures IV LLC have now also applied for TNInvestco.... Read More

C-level team-building: e+CancerCare names CAO

Aug 03, 2009 at 07:30 am by miltcapps

Update 2:45 p.m.: Although e+CancerCare staff have not responded to a query regarding Lang Aston's duties, a contact at Stephens Inc. said today that Aston is e+'s chief.... Read More

Healthcare entrepreneurs, investors convene tomorrow

Aug 03, 2009 at 07:30 am by miltcapps

The nation's early-stage venture capital community is "broken," and VCs are investing "later and safer" in proven companies, rather than in startups. Fort.... Read More

ConnectivHealth divests unit, focuses on key business

Feb 20, 2009 at 10:15 am by miltcapps

Nashville-based and venture-backed ConnectivHealth has sold its VerusMed medical-information division to Intellerus LLC, led by a long-time media investor based at Hilton Head.... Read More

NEWSBITS Feb. 20, 2009

Feb 20, 2009 at 10:13 am by miltcapps

VCs: Oak Ridge-based Meritus Ventures announced its first investment in Arkansas. With three other VCs, Meritus invested in Arkansas Automatic Sprinklers. Meritus says it is c.... Read More

Nashville tech ventures to pitch at Southeast Venture Conference

Jan 28, 2009 at 07:36 am by miltcapps

Corey Cleek, the CEO of Uloop Inc., told VNC yesterday his two-year-old venture has links via students to more than 1,000 colleges and universities. That's up from the 50 cam.... Read More

Petra Capital's Blackburn: Maybe 'everyone's on-strike'

Jan 27, 2009 at 10:00 pm by miltcapps

Injecting wry humor into discussion of the nation's woebegone economy, Mike Blackburn said the slowdown has left him "feelin' a little idle." Then, during an interv.... Read More

VU Notebook: Stoll's Markets center will honor Dewey Daane

Oct 07, 2008 at 07:06 am by miltcapps

The Financial Markets Research Center at Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management will honor J. Dewey Daane during the FMRC's annual conference, April 17-18,.... Read More

$5MM E-Dough: Edo Interactive re-loads with local VCs

Oct 06, 2008 at 03:49 am by miltcapps

Nashville-based edô Interactive has closed a $5 million Series A round of funding, with investment from venture-capital firms Claritas Capital and Clayton Associates. The rais.... Read More

McQuigg tweaks management at ConnectivHealth

Oct 05, 2008 at 03:32 pm by miltcapps

ConnectivHealth CEO Scott McQuigg is putting more weight on Steve NeSmith, the company's former director of technology operations, appointing him to the newly created position.... Read More

Fetherling to helm of Nashville Technology Council

Oct 01, 2008 at 09:25 am by miltcapps