healthcare

NewsBits, March 28, 2011

Mar 28, 2011 at 03:25 pm by miltcapps

McWhorter Startup investment: Stuart McWhorter, co-founder and president of Clayton Associates, the Brentwood venture-capital firm, has personally invested in 24/7 Sp.... Read More

NewsBits, March 21, 2011

Mar 21, 2011 at 08:35 am by miltcapps

Rep. Shipley Clean energy 'technology grab for Tennessee': Some State lawmakers are pushing for TNInvestco and State ECD support for two pilot plants that would gene.... Read More

VUMC scientists seek partners for neuro-drug discovery

Mar 21, 2011 at 08:07 am by miltcapps

Vanderbilt University Medical Center scientists, allied institutions and industry partners may be stepping-up their assault on pharmaceutical business-as-usual via VU's n.... Read More

Tough Love: Local VCs and Silicon Valley consultant work separately to keep it real

Mar 13, 2011 at 05:09 pm by miltcapps

Menlo Park-based Sramana Mitra says Tennessee startups can raise the odds of success by adopting the bootstrap guidance and the window onto Silicon Valley that she offers. Re.... Read More

FCA Venture Partners, TN Angel Fund bless Silvercare 3MM B-round

Mar 09, 2011 at 02:09 pm by miltcapps

Silvercare Solutions, an on-site incontinence care provider, today announced completing its $3 million B-round led by FCA Venture Partners and Tennessee Angel Fund, the TNInve.... Read More

TriStar, Limestone TNINvestco funds form Device Innovation Group

Mar 08, 2011 at 10:49 am by miltcapps

Two Nashville-based TNInvestco-funded companies, TriStar Technology Fund and Limestone Fund, have created and seed-funded Device Innovation Group (DIG), a Delaware LLC. DIG wi.... Read More

Solidus-SeedHatchery mentees named

Mar 02, 2011 at 02:26 pm by miltcapps

Lackey: Entrepreneur Center shows city putting 'money where mouth is'

Feb 28, 2011 at 08:43 am by miltcapps

Updated On Dec. 17, PatientFocus announced investors Lucius Burch IV and Phil Hertik joined its board. Oct. 22, 2012 PatientCredit adopted new d/b/a PatientFocus and announced.... Read More

Nashville's Frank Grant leaves Cisco to lead Adreima growth

Feb 28, 2011 at 08:43 am by miltcapps

Updated: Sept. 16, 2013 - Amplion announced Grant had joined the clinical communications firm as chief sales and marketing officer. - Ed. Nashville-based Frank Grant, recently.... Read More

Healthcare leaders aboard, Parental Health builds traction

Feb 22, 2011 at 07:23 am by miltcapps

Parental Health, the Franklin-based telemedicine startup, has attracted heavyweights to its board and a Fortune 100 technology partner. According to a VNC source, the company.... Read More

Google exec who launched Earth, Moon & Mars returns to Vanderbilt School of Engineering

Feb 22, 2011 at 07:23 am by miltcapps

Yesterday when he took a quick call from VentureNashville, Chikai Ohazama, the 38-year-old co-founder of Google Earth who earned his biomedical engineering degree within Vande.... Read More

QuickTake: Will the Google algorithm like your content?

Feb 14, 2011 at 07:58 am by miltcapps

Some of Nashville's search-engine optimization and interactive marketing pro's seem to live and breathe Google rules, rumors and rants. We know: It's dirty work, but somebody'.... Read More

NewsBits, Feb. 14, 2011

Feb 14, 2011 at 07:58 am by miltcapps

Joe Cook Jr. Joe Cook Jr. became chairman of Life Science Tennessee, effective Feb. 3. In a VNC interview a year ago, Cook said Nashville needed a culture of "true in.... Read More

NewsBits, February 7, 2011

Feb 07, 2011 at 07:53 am by miltcapps

Bill Evans Bill Evans, CEO and director of St. Jude Children Research Hospital in Memphis, and chairman of the Tennessee Technology Development Corporation (TTDC) boa.... Read More

CEO says Moontoast considers A-round capital raise

Feb 07, 2011 at 07:40 am by miltcapps

Moontoast, the Boston-based and Nashville-linked social-commerce platform that enables "brands" and their owners to generate fan income, may conduct an A-round capital raise t.... Read More

Heritage Healthcare Innovation Fund launches in N'ville

Jan 26, 2011 at 06:40 am by miltcapps

Private-equity investors Rock Morphis and David McClellan yesterday announced their Heritage Group will manage Heritage Healthcare Innovation Fund, backed by major hospital co.... Read More

VC Coleman Swenson Booth realized $44MM in 2010; portfolio exits likely to continue in 2011

Jan 18, 2011 at 07:38 am by miltcapps

Coleman Swenson Booth's exits from portfolio firms in 2010 yielded $44 million and further exits lie ahead, said CSB Managing Partner Larry Coleman. Full or partial exits fro.... Read More

Local newspaper relaunches as The Nashville Ledger

Jan 18, 2011 at 07:28 am by miltcapps

The Nashville Ledger, the rebranded successor to the 32-year-old Westview suburban weekly, recently expanded local business news coverage and introduced a new print layout and.... Read More

Dalcon and C7 Technologies put new alliance in context

Jan 18, 2011 at 05:36 am by miltcapps

The recently announced alliance between C7 Technologies and Dalcon Communications allows C7 to commercialize proven healthcare technology without diluting C7's focus on servi.... Read More

'Pinky Gonzales' meets the digital Age of Fanatics

Jan 17, 2011 at 06:01 pm by miltcapps

Editor's note: In a move apparently planned well in advance of this interview, Jansen subsequently relocated to Portland, Ore. The story as it originally appeared follows. Jo.... Read More