BioMimetic shakes-off FDA bruise,<Br> carves-out Biotechnology niche

May 16, 2008 at 12:53 am by miltcapps

Updated March 1, 2013: Wright Medical completed its acquisition of BioMimetic, in a transaction valued at $190MM or more. Release here.-Ed. BioMimetic Therapeutics provides a.... Read More

Nashville loses Veran Medical Technologies

May 12, 2008 at 12:28 pm by miltcapps

Updated: May 25, 2016 - CardioNXT raised $1.5MM from Chattanooga's Solas BioVentures. March 12, 2015 - Edwards left Veran in 2012 and is currently Colorado-based and in "steal.... Read More

KravTek Media prepares pitch to Nashville investors

May 08, 2008 at 03:11 pm by miltcapps

Nashville-based KravTek Media could help trigger the next wave of global innovation in digital on-demand entertainment. What's more, if the emerging company's projections pr.... Read More

Music Disrupter: Jill Sobule's 'People Power'

May 07, 2008 at 07:29 am by miltcapps

World Trade Center in Nashville moves closer to reality

May 01, 2008 at 02:22 pm by miltcapps

Venture Nashville has confirmed that a Nashville entrepreneur has secured a license to create a World Trade Center in Middle Tennessee. Robert Thompson said his application to.... Read More

Belmont University is hatching new ventures

Apr 29, 2008 at 01:35 pm by miltcapps

Belmont University Senior Kevin Jennings, age 23, told me yesterday that "not starting sooner" is the only regret he has about his startup, soundAFX. soundAFX is a marketing.... Read More

HealthStream faces another round of challenges

Apr 28, 2008 at 06:33 am by miltcapps

One can only wonder whether 43-year-old Jeff Doster (at left) of Brentwood has yet listened to the online replay of HealthStream's April 23 conference call with analysts. D.... Read More

Cycles: Nashville CEO makes sagacious reports for The Fed

Apr 23, 2008 at 10:34 am by miltcapps

Updated 11:49 a.m. Sage Group CEO Rich Ford told VNC this morning his company's recently completed first quarter was the "best we've ever had," since he and co-inve.... Read More

Founder: Video Gaming Technologies ponders investing $100MM in deals

Apr 17, 2008 at 10:24 am by miltcapps

Smyrna-based Video Gaming Technologies Founder Jon Yarbrough (left) told us earlier this week he plans to invest "around $100 million in private deals over the next 3 to 5 yea.... Read More

Waddey argues for Nashville R&D Park

Apr 16, 2008 at 10:17 am by miltcapps

Smryna-based VGT will invest $100 million in deals

Apr 16, 2008 at 08:07 am by miltcapps

Nashville Capital Network prepares twin deals

Apr 16, 2008 at 07:39 am by miltcapps

[In the months following publication of this article, the "twin" deals materialized as investments in BreatheAmerica and Pathfinder Therapeutics.-Ed.] Nashville Capital Netwo.... Read More

Nashville 'venture creed' could be powerful

Apr 15, 2008 at 01:03 pm by miltcapps

Google has shaken and stirred the world by harnessing intelligence, technology and a corporate creed that draws a line in the sand: "Don't be evil." While some se.... Read More

The VN Blog: What's wrong with Lifestyle Entrepreneurs

Apr 14, 2008 at 06:44 am by miltcapps

VU Tech Transfer takes company's liquidation in stride

Apr 14, 2008 at 06:35 am by miltcapps

Posted at The VN BLog, April 10, 2008 "This is a high-risk business," said Vanderbilt Tech Transfer & Enterprise Development Director Chris McKinney (at left), as he resp.... Read More

Amid the recession, Gazelles, Geezers and LifeStyle Businesses

Apr 09, 2008 at 10:00 am by miltcapps

Bruce Lynskey This VNC item, lightly edited here, debuted as a VentureNashville post on Blogger, in 2008.-Editor Hugh Hefner Bruce Lynskey (right) likes Sen..... Read More

Analysis: Cromwell still pushing for traction at TTDC

Apr 08, 2008 at 09:02 am by miltcapps

Nearly five years after the Bredesen Administration began focusing on how to beef-up technology-based economic development, Eric Cromwell is making a fresh push to move the ne.... Read More

Catching-up with Ryan Wuerch

Apr 04, 2008 at 08:25 am by miltcapps

VC Cyberinvestment in Tennessee reported by AeA

Apr 02, 2008 at 02:46 pm by miltcapps

Tennessee Angels investors expanding U.S. reach

Apr 01, 2008 at 01:23 pm by miltcapps

Rachael Qualls, founder and CEO of the Angel Capital Group, said this morning she has aligned with a North Carolina angel fund to create a national network of angel investors.... Read More

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