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Guest Column: Don't risk demoting your brand with Artificial Intelligence

Aug 06, 2024 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

"Content is King" remains a business axiom, but overreliance on artificial intelligence in communications for marketing and customer experience is already undermining some bra.... Read More

TN conservative media: Daily Wire's Bentkey seeks $120MM investment

Oct 25, 2023 at 04:31 pm by miltcapps

CEO Jeremy Boreing NASHVILLE-based Bentkey Holdings reported to the SEC it aims to raise $120MM, showing $50MM money-in, all apparently going to support its emerging.... Read More

Venture Notes - July 11, 2023

Jul 11, 2023 at 04:28 pm by miltcapps

Today: DynamoVC | WavMaker | Artist Growth | Relode | GTCR | Bambu | FCV | NKore | AgLaunch | Angels | EVA | LaunchTN | Ferdowsi | Caduceus | Payments | Datadose |Haslams | Th.... Read More

CME-CE startup ConveyMED begins $2MM Seed for mobile audio platform

May 12, 2022 at 02:55 pm by miltcapps

MEMPHIS-based Co-founders CEO Mike Donoghue and CCO Chris West have set out to raise $2MM Seed capital to expand their ConveyMED mobile audio education and digital community p.... Read More

Nashville bitcoin founder David Bailey also seeks growth in Puerto Rico

Jan 20, 2022 at 03:36 pm by miltcapps

DAVID BAILEY, the Nashville cryptotech media entrepreneur and advocate, is shepherding his BTC Inc. team in Music City; preparing to convene a huge bitcoin conference in Miami.... Read More

Nashville EC cohort CEO raises capital for Iconic Moments NFT marketplace

Sep 22, 2021 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

CHRIS CUMMINGS, an entrepreneur now enrolled in the Project Music and Entertainment business development program of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, announced he has raised.... Read More

Venture Notes - June 11, 2021

Jun 11, 2021 at 03:42 pm by miltcapps

TODAY: Meraki | LUCD | Blackburn | Cooper | RBM | PID | TICI3 | Hulsa | DRG | Landers | EdgeTheory | Monogram Joel Arberman JOEL ARBERMAN, the Nashville-based managi.... Read More

Tennessee's scitech industry mentor networks finalize LaunchTN grants

Sep 24, 2020 at 03:42 pm by miltcapps

LAUNCH TENNESSEE has finalized grant contracts for four state-supported mentorship networks focused respectively on intelligent mobility, agriculture and food, energy innovati.... Read More

CEO TJ Wilt says E|Spaces multiplies partners as it enters new markets

Oct 11, 2018 at 02:15 pm by miltcapps

ESPACES INC., the Nashville-based network of co-working places, is creating new-market partnerships and testing its way into an upsized venue model, according to investor and.... Read More

Founder: Startup ALECIA maps capital raise, keeps IPO option in its sites

Oct 05, 2018 at 01:00 pm by miltcapps

NASHVILLE media entrepreneur and CEO Alecia Vimala says she is preparing for a sizable equity-capital raise to scale-up her ALECIA-branded "shoppable entertainment" business,.... Read More

We asked TN Gubernatorial aspirants about State industry incentives, risk-capital formation, tech commercialization and more

Aug 13, 2018 at 10:29 am by miltcapps

VENTURE NASHVILLE on Aug. 6, 2018 simultaneously posed five economic-development issues to Tennessee gubernatorial candidates Bill Lee (R-Franklin) and Karl Dean (D-Nashville).... Read More

Startup AVVAY taking the Oy! out of briefly using venues, talent, services

Aug 09, 2018 at 02:30 pm by miltcapps

Update: AVVAY said Sept. 13, 2018 that it's raise is coming in at $1MM, led by Zero G Capital, based in Denver, with participation from Matchstick Ventures, SpringTime Venture.... Read More

Venture Notes - May 2, 2018

May 02, 2018 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

Today: LaunchTN | Fintech | K-TENN | SIGNiX | VisuWell UEG | McWhorter | Metova | Neuterra | LAUNCH TENNESSEE: CEO Charlie Brock recently confirmed that his team and.... Read More

American Hometown Publishing to 'saturate' mid-TN with Rover media

Apr 30, 2018 at 02:45 pm by miltcapps

Updated 5 Feb 2019: Sic transit: NBJ reports Rover sold to Texas-based Community Impact. THE FIRST iteration of Rover hyperlocal media has been unveiled in affluent Green Hil.... Read More

Healthy Eating: Jumpstart Capital takes a taste of startup Menud

Dec 18, 2017 at 05:30 pm by miltcapps

NASHVILLE's Jumpstart Capital has subscribed to the thesis that Menud Co. has honed through two pivots, which have left the startup positioned at the intersection of Celebrity.... Read More

Beacon Center poll says State incentive wasteful, while Entertainment, Blockchain, other industries mobilize for Capitol Hill action

Dec 12, 2017 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

CEO Justin Owen JD BEACON Center of Tennessee, the "free market" think tank that regularly accuses state and local governments of wasting taxpayer dollars, today rele.... Read More

Jammber CEO eyes capital raises, confirms buyout approaches

Nov 01, 2017 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

Update 3 July 2019: Steve Case's Rise of the Rest and other undisclosed investors put $2.2MM into Jammber, bringing total capital raised to $5.5MM, according to Chicago Inno t.... Read More

Founder Mason: Nashville's StudioNow eyes M&A,<br>capital, global markets and $1BN revenue goal

Oct 26, 2017 at 04:50 pm by miltcapps

DAVID MASON, founder and CEO of StudioNow, says the company he started in Nashville, then sold and later spun-back-out of AOL, aims to be an M&A consolidator in its sector.... Read More

Reg A+ candidate? Franklin startup Grabbr<br>eyes Publishing, Music, Med, Financial

Oct 24, 2017 at 01:45 pm by miltcapps

Updated 12 March 2019: Further SEC filings for Grabbr, right here. June 2018: Founder David W. Dunham, 65, passed away. 14 May 2018: VNC learned Grabbr recently closed a capit.... Read More

Venture Notes - 23 June 2017

Jun 23, 2017 at 02:38 pm by miltcapps

Today: SynchHealth | Nichols | IHT | CarePayment | Wamp | Telecom | Banking | Tips ► JULY 7 is the deadline to compete in Sept. 21 Startup Day Pitch in Knoxville, details her.... Read More

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