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Angels gas-up Iridium's SmartFuel, but the venture's trip has just begun

Jun 19, 2011 at 10:49 pm by miltcapps

George Sibble, the 28-year-old founder, president and CEO of Iridium Development, got about 24 friends and Angels to put $500,000 into his startup's gas tank to launch its Sma.... Read More

NewsBits, June 6, 2011

Jun 05, 2011 at 04:31 pm by miltcapps

► GO FIGURE: Nashville is listed 27th among the nation's "Cities on the Edge" that are "poised for greatness," according to Sperling's BestPlaces, which considers pro sports,.... Read More

TCRS PE commitments hit $424 Million with nods to Khosla Ventures IV, Berkshire Partners fund

May 26, 2011 at 09:50 am by miltcapps

THE Tennessee Consolidated Retirement Systems (TCRS) board of trustees' investment committee has committed a total $75 million to two funds, bringing the pension fund's c.... Read More

NewsBits, May 23, 2011

May 23, 2011 at 08:29 am by miltcapps

Stuart McWhorter NEW COUNCIL of TN venture capitalists? Stuart McWhorter, co-founder of Bullpen Ventures and co-founder and president of Clayton Associates here confi.... Read More

Bandbox, RedRovor founders sell to Social Chutes

May 22, 2011 at 10:16 pm by miltcapps

Updated 10:02 a.m. corrections in italics. BRIAN PETERSON and Mike Taylor, founders of both Bandbox and its RedRovor widget, have sold both to Social Chutes, a holding company.... Read More

Dan Hammond whets VCs' appetites for 'Just A Pinch' media spin-out

May 11, 2011 at 09:22 am by miltcapps

Dan Hammond, the Nashville media-culture entrepreneur, has apparently consulted his heartland gut and decided to keep 'dancing with the one that brung him'. Hammond, the 51-y.... Read More

NEXT TN: Research-industry-capital links are key to state's intellectual-property commercialization

May 10, 2011 at 07:54 am by miltcapps

Too few Tennessee-born ideas are translating into start-up businesses, but stronger outreach and collaboration could improve upon the state's "mixed record of entrepreneurial.... Read More

Vanderbilt University picks Cleveland Clinic exec to drive transfer and commercialization of IP

Apr 27, 2011 at 11:00 am by miltcapps

Vanderbilt University is reinforcing its technology transfer and enterprise development program by appointing Cleveland Clinic Innovations' Alan Bentley to the new post of ass.... Read More

Vanderbilt science, technology translated by news pro's

Apr 27, 2011 at 10:09 am by miltcapps

Update: VU announced 25 November 2013 that Salisbury had been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.-Ed. Vanderbilt University's pursuit o.... Read More

Vanderbilt University shifts tech-transfer portfolio

Apr 14, 2011 at 11:32 am by miltcapps

Dr. Gordon Bernard Update: To read about the appointment of Alan Bentley to the position reported here, click here. The story as originally publis.... Read More

Digital ventures: NEC & Music City allies strike a match

Apr 14, 2011 at 11:21 am by miltcapps

Potentially explosive digital-entertainment ideas fill the air in Nashville. We just need someone to strike a match. That belief seems to be driving a new mentoring and promo.... Read More

TNInvestco pace mounts; Consensus Point next up?

Apr 04, 2011 at 08:11 am by miltcapps

CONSENSUS POINT, the Nashville-based predictive markets provider, is believed close to securing a $1 million investment from TNInvestco NEST-TN, according to VNC sources..... Read More

NewsBits, April 4, 2011

Apr 04, 2011 at 08:11 am by miltcapps

TripRaiser may have legs: Nashvillians Lauren and Wade Honeycutt (left), both age 23 and 2009 Auburn grads, told VNC they plan a May launch for their software as se.... Read More

Angel-backed Chattanooga Renaissance Fund launches

Mar 15, 2011 at 09:56 am by miltcapps

The Chattanooga Renaissance Fund (CRF), an angel network, has been launched in that city with an initial $3 million, said general partner Charlie Brock, who is also a partner.... Read More

Noted: Digital Reasoning Systems announces patent

Mar 15, 2011 at 09:56 am by miltcapps

TNInvestco: Welcome to the 'Messy World' of Capitalism

Mar 14, 2011 at 08:38 am by miltcapps

TNInvestco, the capital-formation and jobs-creation initiative crafted by a momentarily bi-partisan Tennessee General Assembly and the Administration of then-Gov. Phil Bredese.... Read More

JumpStart Foundry wants tech-enabled startups by Friday

Mar 13, 2011 at 10:41 pm by miltcapps

Entrepreneurial teams with startup ideas they can articulate by Friday, March 18, may have viable businesses to launch by Aug. 25, 2011. That's the scenari.... Read More

VCs hope to avoid 'smoking holes', look for passion and aim for 'great companies' over jobs-creation

Mar 07, 2011 at 08:04 am by miltcapps

Solidus Co. Managing Partner Townes Duncan apparently shares a fear common among Ace fighter pilots: He really doesn't want to end-up being part of a "smokin' hole" in the gro.... Read More

Law + Leverage: Baker Donelson adds Sloan for technology & emerging companies

Mar 07, 2011 at 08:04 am by miltcapps

Beginning today, Chris Sloan dons the colors of Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, expanding the law firm's presence in the emerging-company and technology secto.... Read More

Solidus-SeedHatchery mentees named

Mar 02, 2011 at 02:26 pm by miltcapps

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Angels gas-up Iridium's SmartFuel,<br>but the venture's trip has just begun