Update: Moontoast's cap round closes, CEO named

Jun 18, 2009 at 10:12 am by miltcapps

UPDATED and corrected 3:20 p.m. : Moontoast LLC, the online knowledge network, has completed a seed-round capital raise and named an acting chief executive. Accord.... Read More

Update: VGT's Yarbrough investing along twin paths

Jun 18, 2009 at 10:12 am by miltcapps

As previously reported by VNC, Smyrna-based Video Gaming Technologies founder and CEO Jon Yarbrough is still aiming to invest roughly $100 million in other ventures, during th.... Read More

Venture Capital tax credit approved by General Assembly

Jun 18, 2009 at 10:12 am by miltcapps

UPDATED: 5:52 P.M. June 18, 2009 -- Enabling legislation will go to Gov. Bredesen and is likely to become law, soon. The Senate voted 30-0 in favor of passage at 5:52 p.m. T.... Read More

Bredesen's Qualifacts, NC ally push for e-health consortia

Jun 16, 2009 at 02:55 pm by miltcapps

Updated: NBJ reported April 14, 2016, that Qualifacts now has about 150 FTE and forecasts strong organic growth.-Ed. Nashville's Qualifacts Inc. and strategically well-placed.... Read More

Judges like 'Nashville: Where Innovation Sings' for city branding

Jun 12, 2009 at 02:20 pm by miltcapps

During the annual Owen Accelerator competition this morning, "Nashville: Where innovation sings" topped seven other brand themes for marketing Nashville. Students in the Acce.... Read More

Briefly: edo Interactive files for $8MM private placement

Jun 12, 2009 at 01:38 pm by miltcapps

In October, when edo Interactive announced completion of a $5 million A-round, CEO Ed Braswell said at the time he thought the funding would be sufficient to fund the company'.... Read More

Airplay Direct chooses Nashville, attracts investors

Jun 11, 2009 at 03:01 pm by miltcapps

Airplay Direct LLC CEO Robert Weingartz told VNC today his early-stage company will soon be headquartered in Nashville. With its founder still its primary fulltime employee,.... Read More

Tech venture is newest focus for networker Adam Small

Jun 10, 2009 at 06:10 am by miltcapps

Nashville's Adam Small, founder of the former eConception incubator and Strategic Business Networks, is now leveraging his expertise in a technology venture. Small told VNC h.... Read More

Apple Inc. approves Nashville techies' iPhone game

Jun 09, 2009 at 11:18 am by miltcapps

Nashvillian Nicholas Holland believes that, at age 30, with a new baby at home and his business thriving, it's time to take some freshly calculated risks. Thus, this week, ro.... Read More

Briefly: Council Ventures leads New Day Pharmacy raise

May 28, 2009 at 03:46 pm by miltcapps

Second Avenue denizen Council Ventures today announced it recently led a $10.2 million Series A preferred financing for Nashville-based New Day Pharmacy, which outsources serv.... Read More

Startup: Network Contract Solutions leverages legal experience

May 26, 2009 at 10:22 am by miltcapps

Updated: In 1Q19, the company announced buying TruePoint Partners, which supports bank lending compliance. In May 2017, it acquired Supernal Software. The company changed its.... Read More

NEWSBITS May 26, 2009

May 26, 2009 at 10:22 am by miltcapps

VNC has learned scholar-entrepreneur Harry Jacobson's (at left) new office is at 3401 West End, where many tenants are VU or VU-linked offices and businesses. Jacobson's term.... Read More

Aegis Sciences muscles-up for growth in Nashville

May 26, 2009 at 10:16 am by miltcapps

Nashville-based Aegis Sciences Corp. has been quietly expanding its workforce to meet rising demand for its drug- and chemical-testing services. In a VNC interview Friday, fou.... Read More

CredenceHealth leverages Angel money and Feds' pressure

May 14, 2009 at 08:58 am by miltcapps

Note: CredenceHealth sold in March 2011 to Xerox's Affiliated Computer Services, release here. Data Advantage, referred to in this story, was sold in 2010 to sector consolidat.... Read More

State venture-capital incentive gains traction in Gen. Assembly

May 01, 2009 at 08:37 am by miltcapps

A House subcommittee voted earlier this week to support increasing venture-capital investment in Tennessee businesses. On Tuesday, after a series of pointed questions from an.... Read More

Sidebar: Opinions on CAPCO vary among VCs

May 01, 2009 at 08:35 am by miltcapps

As previously reported by VNC, venture capitalists, particularly those who want state incentives managed by Tennessee firms, have differing opinions on the legislative proposa.... Read More

NEWSBITS May 1, 2009

May 01, 2009 at 08:35 am by miltcapps

The Oak Ridge-based Energy, Technology & Environmental Business Association (ETEBA) appointed lawyer Nithin Akuthota (left) its new executive director. Akuthota was previo.... Read More

Informatics Corp. 'no longer a startup', imagines IPO

Apr 27, 2009 at 10:18 am by miltcapps

Informatics Corporation of America asserts it has graduated from the ranks of health IT startups. The pronouncement by Gary Zegiestowski, CEO of the West End Avenue company,.... Read More

Nashville execs say they'll launch 'smoke-free cigarette'

Apr 21, 2009 at 12:12 pm by miltcapps

Two Nashville executives say they'll launch their smokefree cigarette-like electronic device in Europe by year's-end. Chairman Evert Wilbrink and CEO Thomas Schroepfer of Smo.... Read More

TTDC, Mind2Marketplace relationship expands

Apr 21, 2009 at 12:12 pm by miltcapps

Mind2Marketplace, a nonprofit based in Murfreesboro, may soon play a larger role in strengthening Middle Tennessee's high-growth industries. The board of directors of Tenness.... Read More

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