Farsheed Ferdowsi

Venture Notes - July 11, 2023

Jul 11, 2023 at 04:28 pm by miltcapps

Next Nashville Technology Council CEO is Liza Lowery Massey

Aug 09, 2011 at 01:29 pm by miltcapps

Updated 11 July 2013 11:34 a.m.: Nashville Business Journal reports NTC CEO Liz Massey has a resigned and a search is being mounted for her successor. The 2011 NTC CEO job des.... Read More

TNInvestco portfolios: Hapten, ConsensusPoint, iScreen, Cagenix updates

Aug 09, 2011 at 10:54 am by miltcapps

Several TNInvestco funds and their portfolio companies are reporting investments or hires. Rebrovick Consensus Point, the predictive-markets firm led by CE.... Read More

MB Ventures makes its first TNInvestco bet: Veracity Medical Solutions

Jul 11, 2011 at 08:38 am by miltcapps

MB VENTURES' TNInvestco affiliate has weighed-in with its first investment, a $1 million allocation to Veracity Medical Solutions, an orthopedic device-prototyping and -manufa.... Read More

Inova Payroll gets $1MM bump from CRF, Nashville Angels

Jul 07, 2011 at 11:13 am by miltcapps

Inova Payroll announced July 7 it, indeed, raised another $1 million, bringing the total to about $4.2MM, as hinted in our June 6 story (below). Newly announced entrants are:.... Read More

Solidus' Venture Incite options ORNL technology to bring its start-up 'assembly line' to life

Jun 19, 2011 at 02:32 pm by miltcapps

VENTURE INCITE (VI), based in Oak Ridge and thus far funded by Nashville-based Solidus, has secured an option to license Oak Ridge National Laboratory technology that is likel.... Read More

Ferdowsi's latest venture was obvious path after his Austin Ventures gig ended

Jun 06, 2011 at 06:25 am by miltcapps

Farsheed Ferdowsi, now 56, was failing at retirement even more miserably than we realized. For several months in 2010, the founder and successfully exited CEO of Paymaxx quie.... Read More

Deep Cuts: Songness discovers 'invisible' performers

Dec 20, 2010 at 07:25 am by miltcapps

Songness, an online artist-rating and song-recommendation platform, is being upgraded and readied for formal launch, according to CEO Bill Geissler, a Shelbyville entrepr.... Read More

Notes on the Songness model

Dec 20, 2010 at 06:49 am by miltcapps

These notes accompany our Songness story. Despite the skepticism that surrounds most startups, CEO Bill Geissler believes Songness can within three years achieve stature simi.... Read More

POV: Ventures at risk mean C-level IT role must change

Nov 06, 2008 at 07:51 am by miltcapps

Consultant Dave Chapman, who commutes between his 200-acre ranch in the Nashville area from another home in his native Massachusetts, began his career as an IBM engineer fifty.... Read More

PayMaxx Founder Ferdowsi is 'failing' at retirement

Nov 05, 2008 at 07:07 pm by miltcapps

Farsheed Ferdowsi, the Tehran-born, Vanderbilt Engineering-educated, long-time Nashville entrepreneur is failing miserably at what most of us think of as retirement. Though h.... Read More