Lead Capital Partners advances on $125MM LCP II goal for healthcare deals

Dec 12, 2024 at 05:15 pm by miltcapps

EXECUTIVES in Nashville private-equity firm Lead Capital Partners reported to the SEC yesterday on a prospective $125MM raise, showing north of $61.4MM raised and 41 investors.... Read More

Mid-state's GNVCA ramps-up onboarding venture execs, investors, sponsors

Dec 10, 2024 at 04:07 pm by miltcapps

GREATER Nashville Venture Capital Association (GNVCA), which registered in Tennessee 474 days ago, has outlined its prospective 2025 events and is stealthily expanding its boa.... Read More

Innovation, threats and more at core of US Financial Stability report

Dec 06, 2024 at 01:40 pm by miltcapps

The U.S. Department of the Treasury today issued the nation's Annual Report of the The Financial Stability Oversight Council (Council). Also, earlier today, a fresh job.... Read More

SportsMedia, Lifestyle player Shannon Terry's On3 Media raises $36.M+

Nov 21, 2024 at 01:27 pm by miltcapps

UPDATED: 30 April 2025 - According to an On3 press release today, Shannon Terry, co-founder and CEO of sports publisher On3 and co-owner of On3's parentco, has agreed with cur.... Read More

CEO: TTDC-LaunchTN 'not anticipating' SSBCI funding changes under Trump Administration

Nov 20, 2024 at 05:01 pm by miltcapps

LINDSEY COX MBA, CEO of Tennessee Technology Development Corporation dba Launch Tennessee, said today that contracts previously executed between the State of Tennessee.... Read More

Healthtech: VanderbiltHealth said joining Aegis Ventures Digital Consortium

Nov 19, 2024 at 05:17 pm by miltcapps

STARTUP studio Aegis Ventures today announced Vanderbilt Health has joined Aegis's 11-system strategic Digital Consortium of health systems that have allied to build, invest i.... Read More

New $100MM Jumpstart Nova Fund II now JS Health Investors flagship

Nov 18, 2024 at 03:20 pm by miltcapps

AGAINST the backdrop of current U.S. politico-economic and judicial tensions, Jumpstart Health Investors' Jumpstart Nova Fund II LP sallied-forth last week, making its initial.... Read More

CEO: Express Wages signs corporate beta, readies Next Big Thing pitch

Nov 18, 2024 at 10:45 am by miltcapps

ALFRED MILAN, founder and CEO of startup Express Wages LLC, recently completed the Project Fintech curriculum at Nashville Entrepreneur Center and is back home in Memphis pr.... Read More

CEO search at Nashville Technology Council as Cambournac departs EOY24

Oct 24, 2024 at 09:25 am by miltcapps

NASHVILLE TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL today announced it will form a search committee to recruit a successor to current CEO Elise Cambournac, whose departure, effective Dec. 31, 2024,.... Read More

NEXT Awards 2024 Winners chosen by Nashville Entrepreneur Center

Oct 22, 2024 at 07:00 am by miltcapps

Nashville Entrepreneur Center (NEC) has announced details on its 2024 NEXT Awards finalists and Hall of Fame inductions, scheduled for Schermerhorn Symphony Center. S.... Read More

BioTN Life Science Venture Program now led by Karrie Dudek PhD

Oct 16, 2024 at 04:00 pm by miltcapps

BioTN Foundation, which helps propel bioscience entrepreneurship and STEM education in Tennessee, has named Karrie Dudek PhD director of its Life Science Venture Progr.... Read More

Nashville, UK's West Yorkshire CA team for MedTech-innovation & trade

Oct 11, 2024 at 07:45 am by miltcapps

THIS WEEK'S Global Health Innovators Summit in Nashville's Omni Hotel addressed innovation, challenges and impact of emerging technologies in the healthcare sector. Exe.... Read More

State's new AI Advisory Council eyes risks and leadership opportunities

Oct 01, 2024 at 05:45 pm by miltcapps

Jim Bryson THE TENNESSEE Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council (AIAC), created by the General Assembly and signed into law by Gov. Bill Lee last spring,.... Read More

TCRS: Tennessee Consolidated report includes PE-Alt Assets angle

Sep 30, 2024 at 07:45 am by miltcapps

TENNESSEE Consolidated Retirement System (TCRS) on Sept. 26 issued a press release saying it had realized an actual 10.06% rate of investment return for the year, via a portfo.... Read More

Haslam Family Capital, Ara Partners detail $725MM decarbonization scenario

Sep 26, 2024 at 01:27 pm by miltcapps

HF CAPITAL, the Knoxville-based investment arm of multi-generational Haslam family investors, stands ready to invest up to $725MM to support and help shape the emerging Energy.... Read More

Acquisitive techcos i3 Verticals, Payroc WorldAccess wrap $438MM M&A deal

Sep 23, 2024 at 01:00 pm by miltcapps

i3 VERTICALS INC (IIIV), based in Burton Hills, Nashville, today announced the Sept. 20 closing of the sale of its previously announced merchant services business -- deemed "n.... Read More

Company Lab wants Sustainable Mobility Accelerator entrants to grow in TN

Sep 21, 2024 at 09:55 am by miltcapps

CHATTANOOGA-based The Company Lab (CO.LAB) and accelerator gener8tor announced earlier this week that five startups originating outside Tennessee were inducted into the.... Read More

Bruck + Bruce-led Market Square Ventures might average deal-a-month

Sep 19, 2024 at 03:45 pm by miltcapps

John Bruck Brandon Bruce BASED on its current pipeline trends, Market Square Ventures LLC, the pre-Seed and Seed-stage-oriented venture capital firm co-found.... Read More

Memphis: VC Ridgeline Ventures Fund II reports raising $28MM+

Sep 19, 2024 at 08:46 am by miltcapps

MEMPHIS-based, early-stage-oriented Ridgeline Capital Management's Ridgeline Ventures Fund II has thus far raised nearly $28.8MM, according to its Sept. 18 SEC filing. Record.... Read More

Chris Hefley advances LLM As A Service toward market, maps capital raise

Sep 09, 2024 at 03:15 pm by miltcapps

NATIVE Tennessee tech entrepreneur Chris Hefley now co-leads Predictability at Scale LLC and is mapping a capital raise with an eye toward propelling the AI-oriented company's.... Read More

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