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Noted: Tailwind, McWhorters buy into Cumberland Consulting

Jan 05, 2012 at 06:58 am by miltcapps

Health IT services provider Cumberland Consulting Group, based in Franklin, announced Jan. 4 that some of its management team have joined with New York City-based Tailwind Cap.... Read More

Parental Health attracts Innova Fund II as investors close Series A cap raise

Dec 01, 2011 at 10:16 am by miltcapps

Update Jan. 4, 2012: An Innova filing with State ECD indicates the fund has invested at least $750K in Parent Health.-Ed. PARENTAL HEALTH, the two-year-old Franklin "age-in-pl.... Read More

Rabbit Hole Creative projects disruptive video, with more to be revealed

Dec 01, 2011 at 10:11 am by miltcapps

Note 22 Sept. 2016: Rabbit Hole was acquired by Nashville/Boston-based Ovation. founded by Clay Sifford. Former Rabbit Hole Operations Director Mark Eicher remains with Ovatio.... Read More

ShareableInk CEO 'not yet convinced' he can build techco in Nashville

Oct 11, 2011 at 07:58 am by miltcapps

Shareable Ink, the startup that digitizes physicians’ handwritten documentation for electronic health records, relocated here from Boston mainly because of Nashville's h.... Read More

Briefly: NEXT Nashville Legacy Entrepreneurs named

Oct 07, 2011 at 10:20 am by miltcapps

The Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce and Nashville Entrepreneur Center announced today they've named the five individuals who will be honored during their Oct. 18 NEXT Award.... Read More

Nashville Entrepreneur Center gains Galen Partners as lead Healthcare sponsor

Oct 07, 2011 at 08:06 am by miltcapps

Galen Partners, the Stamford, Conn.-based private-equity firm specializing in healthcare, has become the Nashville Entrepreneur Center's 2012 healthcare sector sponsor. Galen.... Read More

Newsbits, August 29, 2011

Aug 29, 2011 at 08:01 am by miltcapps

CEO Burcham Nashville Entrepreneur Center CEO Michael Burcham has, with the blessing of the Entrepreneur Center board of directors, taken on as a personal responsibil.... Read More

Regional Roundup, Aug. 29, 2011

Aug 29, 2011 at 08:01 am by miltcapps

Sean Carson VENTURE INCITE (VI), backed by Solidus TNInvestco, has signed a license Agreement With Babcock & Wilcox Y-12 that could lead to production of body arm.... Read More

Bullpen Ventures preps for pitches, aims for the fence

Apr 04, 2011 at 08:11 am by miltcapps

Bullpen Ventures is warming-up to fund up to 12 start-ups per year, said the VC-backed incubator's co-founder, Stuart McWhorter. Bullpen's home plate is within the Nashville E.... Read More

Founder of local $95MM Hope Investments fund<br>aims to support Just Hope global relief work

Apr 04, 2011 at 08:11 am by miltcapps

Updated 15 January 2017 - Brentwood fund manager Karen Bruton filed Jan. 13 on a $238.5MM raise. Our original April 4, 2011 story is below.-Ed. Karen Bruton, a Brentwood fund.... Read More

Solidus-SeedHatchery mentees named

Mar 02, 2011 at 02:26 pm by miltcapps

Lackey: Entrepreneur Center shows city<br>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

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<br> 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

Gov.-Elect Haslam names Hagerty to key Economic Development post

Jan 09, 2011 at 03:56 pm by miltcapps

Gov.-Elect Bill Haslam has chosen private-equity executive William F. "Bill" Hagerty IV as commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development,.... Read More

In Burcham's mind, Entrepreneur Center is in Trolley Barn creating 'Wow!' companies to serve state and nation

Jan 03, 2011 at 10:05 am by miltcapps

Perhaps realizing no one else is going to push Michael Burcham harder than he pushes himself, the Nashville Entrepreneur Center's founding director uses goals and performance.... Read More

Nashville mobilizes for U.S. Health technology leadership

Jan 25, 2010 at 03:31 pm by miltcapps

Nashville industry, academe and government are said to be creating an alliance that could breathe reality into Music City's dream of becoming the Silicon Valley of Healthcare..... Read More

Health IT Roundup: Executives comment on Nashville's leadership options

Jan 25, 2010 at 03:31 pm by miltcapps

As reported in today's accompanying article, Nashville is mobilizing to strengthen its leading role in healthcare information technology and related domains. Here are excerp.... Read More

People: Nix leads Deloitte M&A transaction services here

Jan 14, 2010 at 04:44 pm by miltcapps

Nashville has become the aerie-of-choice for executives with an eagle's-eye on the nation's healthcare sector. One of those sharp-eyed professionals is Lisa Nix, who is direc.... Read More

Clayton McWhorter to chair Nashville Entrepreneur Center

Jan 13, 2010 at 12:21 pm by miltcapps

Updated 3:15 p.m. - NTC's Fetherling called after publication of this story to ensure we understood he didn't handpick the NEC board. Our story makes clear the picking was don.... Read More

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