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Brookings Fellow: Nashville has 'very serious' HealthIT opportunity

Aug 24, 2016 at 05:45 am by miltcapps

Update: The full Brookings report on Nashville's HealthIT leadership opportunity is located here. Listing of related VNC stories here. -Editor NASHVILLE has a "very serious" o.... Read More

Will Emma's discipline attract partner who shares Nashville commitment?

Aug 23, 2016 at 05:45 pm by miltcapps

THIRTEEN years ago, Co-Founder Clint Smith told this reporter that by February 2003 the company had signed 30 users for its then-fledgling Emma email platform, with all or mos.... Read More

Reporter's Notebook:<br>VU Music, Mind & Society Program may feed Nashville innovation

Aug 15, 2016 at 10:30 am by miltcapps

THE PROGRAM for Music, Mind and Society at Vanderbilt University will on Sept. 12 convene its Annual Symposium, "Science of Song," at the Blair School of Music. Tech innovator.... Read More

ECD's Brewer joins Cate's Stones River Group

Aug 11, 2016 at 04:35 pm by miltcapps

Stones River Group President Mark Cate , until a year ago the chief of staff to Gov. Bill Haslam, announced yesterday the addition of former journalist and former State Econom.... Read More

LaunchTN names Capital Formation, Entrepreneurship leaders

Aug 11, 2016 at 02:45 pm by miltcapps

LAUNCH TENNESSEE once again has a full-time director of Capital Formation, having recruited John Lanahan, formerly a senior associate of Cambridge-, New York- and Palo Alto-ba.... Read More

Entrepreneur, Angel investor Freedman still has eye for startups<br>after selling majority of tents-events biz to PE funds

Jul 21, 2016 at 02:45 pm by miltcapps

NASHVILLE Angel investor Joe Freedman may have a bigger cache of pixie dust for startup investments following the sale of majority interest in Nashville and Atlanta tents and.... Read More

Venture Notes 14 July 2016

Jul 14, 2016 at 05:30 pm by miltcapps

Today: LaunchTN directors hired - EvolveWomen redux? - Martin money in IHT - GetStarted startup - FiveWorx M&A - SolMates - Carmichael rides again - Angel Tax Credit - Ort.... Read More

Village Capital-Kresge healthcare startup initiative<br>anchored in Nashville, San Francisco, Philadelphia

Jun 22, 2016 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

NASHVILLE, San Francisco and Philadelphia are being tapped to collaborate in support a push for more startups addressing "social determinants of health." Village Capital and T.... Read More

Bunker Labs Nashville startups on firing line in June 28 event

Jun 21, 2016 at 05:15 pm by miltcapps

Updated: An additional startup, Menud led by Neil Whitney, is also to present. JPMorgan Chase and Bunkerlabs announced JPM will provide a $100K grant to the Nashville bunker.-.... Read More

36|86 startups: BrewFund ready to blow the head off craft beer market

May 17, 2016 at 05:15 pm by miltcapps

BREWFUND, the Johnson City startup with an app that helps you give, receive or trade gifts of beer from your favorite local breweries, is one of the Village 36 startups headed.... Read More

20 Days: Launch Tennessee bets heavily on impact of 36|86 conference

May 17, 2016 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

THE NON-PROFIT formed 18 years ago to raise the value of technology enterprise in Tennessee remains strategically aggressive on many fronts, since regaining its footing in the.... 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

Overdog sale was assets deal; buyer Odd Networks mulls capraise

May 16, 2016 at 10:30 am by miltcapps

THE recent sale of Nashville-based Overdog was a one-off asset transaction involving transfer of technology and cash between two former collaborators. The buyer, Saratoga Spri.... Read More

Venture Notes - May 11, 2016

May 11, 2016 at 05:13 pm by miltcapps

Travis Broome RESONANCE defined: When Vanderbilt School of Medicine Dean Jeff Balser MD PHD tells his Health:Further audience, as he did yesterday, that each day, yea.... Read More

President of S-RAM Dynamics sees near-term opportunity in Tennessee

May 11, 2016 at 02:15 pm by miltcapps

LEE JESTINGS, the Nashville-based president of S-RAM Dynamics, arrived Nashville in 2008, by way of California and Arizona. Among other assets, Jestings brought with him Energ.... Read More

Vanderbilt University Board of Trust taps Private Equity execs as chairs

Apr 25, 2016 at 02:00 pm by miltcapps

Updated April 22, 2017: Evans and Rothschild assume their duties July 1, 2017.-Ed. VANDERBILT University said Friday the next leaders of its Board of Trust are to be Chairman-.... Read More

General Assembly endorses Haslam 'Angel Tax Credit', passes commercialization and rural-development measures

Apr 21, 2016 at 04:15 pm by miltcapps

BOTH Chambers of the Tennessee General Assembly yesterday passed legislation creating an Angel Tax Credit in Tennessee, allowing taxpayers to offset some of their obligations.... Read More

BeachyApp: Nashville's Beach Chairs pursues $2MM Angel raise

Mar 31, 2016 at 09:15 am by miltcapps

BEACHYapp, the e-concierge startup based in Nashville, is pursuing a $2MM Angel-investor round ahead of its Florida launch in May. Co-founder/CEO Matt Houston yesterday told V.... Read More

New Chattanooga accelerator, $12MM Fund target Logistics, Drones, Software

Mar 29, 2016 at 05:30 am by miltcapps

Stony Creek Colors eyes $8.6MM capital raises now thru 2018

Mar 28, 2016 at 05:30 pm by miltcapps

STONY CREEK COLORS based here has raised more than $600K toward a $1.6MM round and projects raising a further $7MM in equity and debt financing, in steps between now and 2018..... Read More

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