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Launch Tennessee beefs-up board of directors,<br>sheds TTDC branding while CEO search continues

Nov 01, 2012 at 12:09 pm by miltcapps

Update: 21 November 6:26 a.m.: Chattanoogan.com reports that TN House Speaker Beth Harwell appointed UT COO David Milhorn to the board of LaunchTN/TTDC. Milhorn succeeds Alex.... Read More

Commercialization: Eagle's VU team launching Vitalnx Corporation

Sep 12, 2012 at 07:45 am by miltcapps

VITALNX CORPORATION is the name of an emerging medical-devices venture created by Vanderbilt University Medical and VU Biomedical Engineering faculty and students. The group.... Read More

Gradspring startup gains Carmichael, ConduIT backing<br>for college-grad employment search platform

Aug 20, 2012 at 11:51 am by miltcapps

Gradspring co-founder Sean Clem says he and his seed-stage investors can do well, by taking some of the work out of job searches by unemployed and underemployed recent college.... Read More

Noted: NuScriptRx's Taylor succeeds Mercadante as CEO

Aug 20, 2012 at 11:47 am by miltcapps

NuScriptRx, the Nashville mail-order institutional pharmacy company formerly known as New Day Pharmacy, today announced appointment of Donald Taylor as CEO, succeeding Ed Merc.... Read More

NCN-NHCC reports Startup surge and growing venture-capital gap for Nashville

Aug 09, 2012 at 08:31 am by miltcapps

TNInvestco has recently been among the drivers in a sharp uptick in Nashville-area venture capital investment and startup activity, according to a report released early this m.... Read More

LaunchTN seeks traction on many fronts as it seeks to close deal for a CEO

Aug 06, 2012 at 11:25 am by miltcapps

Note 3:24 p.m.: After publication, LaunchTN confirmed that Denenberg is the new entrepreneur director and that StartupTN remains separate, but the accelerators will be primari.... Read More

TCRS private-equity commitments approach $700MM, agency says

Jul 16, 2012 at 12:14 pm by miltcapps

THE PRIVATE-EQUITY investment program of the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System (TCRS) has made fresh commitments totaling $190MM to four private-equity firms, according.... Read More

VentureNotes: June 25, 2011

Jun 25, 2012 at 11:12 am by miltcapps

LEAD CAPITAL PARTNERS, a year-old venture-capital and private-equity firm based in Nashville and backed by an undisclosed number of high net-worth families, will eventu.... Read More

TTDC-as-LaunchTN gets vital runway extension from Haslam Administration

Jun 07, 2012 at 02:55 pm by miltcapps

OPTIMISM and concern, alike, have arisen in the wake of the most recent slow-motion shakeup at Tennessee Technology Development Corporation (TTDC). TTDC, which now uses the st.... Read More

NBIC: Nashville incubator seeks next executive director, while strategy unfolds

Jun 06, 2012 at 11:43 am by miltcapps

NBIC, the Nashville Business Incubation Center, is expected to launch its search for a new executive director after it receives an impending consultant's report on its develop.... Read More

TN companies at pivot-points might attract funding via River Associates

May 17, 2012 at 10:05 am by miltcapps

AFTER 22 years in operation, Chattanooga-based's River Associates has secured its first institutional partners, completing a $222 million private-equity fundraise in "a very c.... Read More

Gov. Haslam's INCITE program stirs to life via 'Venture Incite' A-round

May 14, 2012 at 10:08 am by miltcapps

VENTURE INCITE, the Oak Ridge-based company founded by Nashville-based Solidus and its TNInvestco fund, will use recent A-round funding to "attract the best regional and natio.... Read More

Gov. Haslam's performance Dashboard is mostly welcomed, but some want a deeper view of results

Feb 13, 2012 at 06:42 am by miltcapps

VentureTools: Moonlighting while Starting-Up

Feb 13, 2012 at 06:34 am by miltcapps

WHETHER you're the owner, or not, your Startup may be imperiled by someone "moonlighting" in second employment. That's one of the tidbits found in scanning articles on the to.... Read More

Nashville's SeniorMetrix sells to stealthy NaviHealth,<br>backed by Welsh Carson, Select Medical, Universal American

Feb 08, 2012 at 02:40 pm by miltcapps

Brentwood, Tennessee-based SeniorMetrix, provider of predictive modeling to optimize post-acute care of the frail elderly, has sold to NaviHealth, a recently created and not p.... Read More

Voices Heard Media CEO wishes he'd known 'Customer' priority sooner

Feb 07, 2012 at 10:51 am by miltcapps

Noted: Gibson Guitar $3.8MM SEC filing notes Tek Group

Feb 06, 2012 at 09:37 am by miltcapps

GIBSON Guitar's $3.8MM filing Jan. 3 with the SEC may or may not signal another aquisition. The registration filing gives no clue, but mentions The Tek Group Inc., which VNC.... Read More

App-deadline April 2nd: Jumpstart Foundry will forge up to 10 new ventures

Feb 05, 2012 at 11:08 pm by miltcapps

JUMPSTART FOUNDRY, the Nashville business accelerator, is taking applications for its third annual challenge of would-be entrepreneurs' commitment and endurance. April 2nd is.... Read More

VenturePeople: Highly interactive Dave Delaney makes a move

Feb 05, 2012 at 05:14 pm by miltcapps

DAVE DELANEY, the social-marketing thought-leader who personifies a vaguely defined, but zesty slice of Nashville's Geek culture, has returned to full-time consulting and spea.... Read More

Wealth Access SaaS startup targets high net-worth clients and their advisors

Feb 05, 2012 at 02:38 pm by miltcapps

Updated Sept. 25, 2014: WealthAccess reported 22 Sept. it has raised nearly $1.5MM more, with Nashville entrepreneur Joe Maxwell and St. Louise Angel-entrepreneur Rick Holton.... Read More

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