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Nashville IT: McKinney named CIO of U.S. Transportation Department

May 05, 2013 at 01:34 pm by miltcapps

RICHARD MCKINNEY, who has held key roles in Nashville information technology for nearly three decades, has been named CIO for the U.S. Department of Transportation. Ray LaHoo.... Read More

Mentor Capitalist: Gary Peat reboots after Council Capital

Apr 09, 2013 at 05:10 pm by miltcapps

GARY PEAT, the Nashville venture-capital executive known for his acumen and his patented intensity, has relaunched as an independent "mentor capitalist," after nearly 13 years.... Read More

LaunchTN appoints commercialization director from Nashville startup ranks

Mar 05, 2013 at 09:54 am by miltcapps

JIM STEFANSIC, Ph.D., an entrepreneur and biomedical engineer, has taken point as commercialization director for LaunchTN, officially the state-sponsored Tennessee Technology.... Read More

This week's LifeScienceTN program lineup is likely to spark venture ideas

Nov 13, 2012 at 09:10 am by miltcapps

LIFESCIENCE Tennessee's annual meeting in Nashville brings venture pitches, innovation imperatives and a deeper dive into many things Bio. Some VNC readers will call that with.... Read More

LifeScienceTN: Drug discovery gets spotlight in venture-oriented event

Nov 13, 2012 at 08:36 am by miltcapps

AN INCONSPICUOUS, but science-heavy panel discussion here this week may help eventually broaden Nashville's Bio-reputation. At the Vanderbilt Marriott this Thursday, Jeff Con.... Read More

VentureNotes: Tennessee Venture Council moving to starting-blocks?

Nov 01, 2012 at 12:14 pm by miltcapps

TENNESSEE VENTURE COUNCIL, a proposed nonprofit organization for VC's, seems to have moved closer to becoming operational. According to a new website that purports to represe.... Read More

Startup POPVOX could double as case study for LaunchTN tech-venture push

Nov 01, 2012 at 12:02 pm by miltcapps

POPVOX, the California-, DC- and Jackson, Tennessee-based legislative-action platform created by a Tennessean and her co-founder, could prove to be a case study for the state'.... Read More

Not Invented Here:<br>HealthPrize 'engagement engine' increases medication compliance

Sep 10, 2012 at 07:52 am by miltcapps

Nashville healthcare entrepreneurs might want to examine HealthPrize Technologies' use of online games and other techniques to induce healthier consumer behavior. HealthPrize.... Read More

Franklin-based Metova mobile-appmaker sells control to Arkansas' A4Solutions

Sep 05, 2012 at 10:57 am by miltcapps

Franklin-based Metova, the mobile-app developer, has sold majority interest in the firm to Cabot, Arkansas-based A4 Solution, which will do business as Metova. Metova founder.... Read More

Nashville's Education Networks of America now owned by Atlanta PE firm

Aug 16, 2012 at 10:37 am by miltcapps

Education Networks of America (ENA), the Nashville-based managed-networks and Internet services provider, has been sold to MSouth Equity Partners, in Atlanta. David Pierce, EN.... Read More

VentureNotes

Aug 16, 2012 at 10:36 am by miltcapps

Seigenthaler [updated 9 July 2014: SEC filing today shows heavy Healthcare allocation, Healthstream only Tech target, filing here.-Ed.] LOCAL SHARES, the finan.... 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

Growing TN: Hagerty chairs ECD-funded TTDC development group

Aug 18, 2011 at 02:24 pm by miltcapps

Update Aug. 19: The TTDC Board voted at 3:15 p.m. August 19, 2011, to name Bill Hagerty its chairman. The continued service of Leslie Wisner-Lynch as president, on a month to.... Read More

NewsBits, August 1, 2011

Aug 01, 2011 at 07:59 am by miltcapps

► [Update] Steve Turner, Joe Galante and Mark Montgomery -- previously associated with Dollar General, Sony Music and Echomusic, respectively -- will invest a total $500K in.... Read More

TNInvestco-backed VenX vein-treatment device gets FDA nod

Jul 19, 2011 at 01:02 pm by miltcapps

VenX, the medical device company backed by TNInvestco TriStar Technology Fund in Nashville, announced 18 July it recently received the FDA's 510(k) pre-market notification for.... 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

NewsBits, February 22, 2011

Feb 22, 2011 at 07:23 am by miltcapps

ECD's Smith Gov. Bill Haslam's Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bill Hagerty appointed Brad M. Smith his assistant commissioner. Smith was previously e.... Read More

VC Coleman Swenson Booth realized $44MM in 2010; portfolio exits likely to continue in 2011

Jan 18, 2011 at 07:38 am by miltcapps

Coleman Swenson Booth's exits from portfolio firms in 2010 yielded $44 million and further exits lie ahead, said CSB Managing Partner Larry Coleman. Full or partial exits fro.... Read More

'Pinky Gonzales' meets the digital Age of Fanatics

Jan 17, 2011 at 06:01 pm by miltcapps

Editor's note: In a move apparently planned well in advance of this interview, Jansen subsequently relocated to Portland, Ore. The story as it originally appeared follows. Jo.... Read More

VU's Conn advocates new models for drug discovery

Dec 22, 2009 at 01:15 pm by miltcapps

A crisis of innovation grips "the entire biomedical research enterprise," according to the leader of the Vanderbilt Program in Drug Discovery. VPDD Director Jeff Conn, Ph.D.,.... Read More

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