Venture Nashville

Venture Notes - Oct. 16, 2025

Oct 16, 2025 at 03:45 pm by miltcapps

Shore Capital passes $14BN AUM with $850M Healthcare + Search closings

Oct 14, 2025 at 04:34 pm by miltcapps

CHICAGO- and Nashville-based PE Shore Capital Partners today announced the successful closing of its Healthcare Fund VI and Shore Search Partners Fund II, reporting $850MM in.... Read More

Monique Villa Capra's Daytrip Ventures eyes pre-scale startups in South

Oct 13, 2025 at 11:30 am by miltcapps

NASHVILLE-based Monique Villa Capra has launched Daytrip Ventures LLC to pursue opportunities in "the New American South," where "pre-scale (pre-Series A)" startups are in sea.... Read More

Caradonna leads Collective Ventures, SPV-wielding ally of Torch Collective

Oct 11, 2025 at 09:50 am by miltcapps

NASHVILLE-based Ryan Caradonna MBA leads newly formed Collective Ventures LLC, which uses special purpose vehicles (SPVs) to facilitate investments in Seed- to Series A-s.... Read More

Tammy Hawes sells Virsys12 to HealthStream in potential $17M exit

Oct 09, 2025 at 07:45 am by miltcapps

IN-LINE with options she described for VNC six years ago, Founder and CEO Tammy Hawes has exited her 14-year-old VirSys12 through sale to Nashville-based HealthStream (Nasdaq:.... Read More

Venture Notes - Oct. 7, 2025

Oct 07, 2025 at 04:08 pm by miltcapps

CO.LAB Sustainable Mobility Accelerator brings pilot, market connections

Oct 06, 2025 at 11:30 am by miltcapps

FROM THE OUTSET, Chattanooga-based The Company Lab (CO.LAB) has promised each of the five members of its newest Sustainable Mobility Accelerator (SMA) cohort that they will be.... Read More

Douglas Grindstaff Sr., executive, investor, civic partisan, dies at 85

Oct 05, 2025 at 03:30 pm by miltcapps

Corporate executive, Angel startup investor and prominent Williamson County Republican Edward Douglas Grindstaff Sr. of Brentwood died October 2 at age 85. He was born in Kno.... Read More

Bulletin: Global Health Innovators Summit culminates in Nashville

Oct 01, 2025 at 05:20 pm by miltcapps

BELFAST-based Global Health Connector late today completed its Global Health Innovators Summit II, an event held in collaboration with the Nashville Area Chamber of Comme.... Read More

VU Owen Armed Forces Club connects Veterans, entrepreneurs, executives

Sep 30, 2025 at 03:58 pm by miltcapps

LED BY an MBA-seeking former U.S. Marine named Pete Witte, on Sept. 26 the Armed Forces Club at the Owen Graduate School of Management convened roughly 150 Veteran and no.... Read More

VNC Venture Calendar October 2025

Sep 30, 2025 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

•West | •Central | •Eastern | •Other Updated 10 Oct. 2025 - Send events info to Milt Capps via LinkedIn. OCTOBER Oct. 1.... Read More

Yarbrough Capital among 69 in Greater Nashville Private Capital Assn

Sep 29, 2025 at 01:06 pm by miltcapps

YARBROUGH CAPITAL, the family office created by entrepreneur, investor and Managing Director Jon Yarbrough, is now listed among members of the expanding Greater Nashville Priv.... Read More

Gov. Bill Lee: ECD's Stuart McWhorter to succeed Deputy Gov Butch Eley Oct. 15

Sep 17, 2025 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee today announced fellow Cabinet member Stuart McWhorter will succeed Deputy Governor Butch Eley as Deputy Governor of Tennessee, effective Oct. 15..... Read More

Five medtech startups inducted into Memphis Epicenter’s ZeroTo510 accelerator

Sep 17, 2025 at 08:45 am by miltcapps

Epicenter, the Memphis regional entrepreneurship center, announced the admission of five early-stage medtech startups to its ZeroTo510 accelerator. ZeroTo510 Programs Di.... Read More

Julia Polk of startup ClimateWiser convenes stakeholders, treks to ClimateWeek NYC

Sep 16, 2025 at 03:16 pm by miltcapps

JULIA POLK, a highly regarded business advisor based in Nashville, says her bootstrapped startup, ClimateWiser LLC, is moving stepwise through a process that will allow it to.... Read More

$20MM gift propels Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School full steam on Entrepreneur Center, Angel net + VC

Sep 15, 2025 at 06:00 pm by miltcapps

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY and its Owen Graduate School of Management today announced that a $20MM gift from an undisclosed donor is designed to further the transformation of the O.... Read More

Nashville on course for Global Health Innovators Summit II landing Oct. 1

Sep 08, 2025 at 04:00 pm by miltcapps

GLOBAL Health Innovators (GHI) Summit II convenes Oct. 1 at Nashville's Cannery Hall, as the result of collaboration between Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, The Global Hea.... Read More

Sherry Deutschmann maps $7MM BrainTrust equity raise, new markets, credit fund

Sep 05, 2025 at 03:44 pm by miltcapps

FOUNDER-CEO Sherry Stewart Deutschmann is launching her Nashville-born BrainTrust women's business programs into Charlotte, Austin and other markets. She told Venture Na.... Read More

VentureNVTN: VNC's September 2025 Venture Calendar

Aug 29, 2025 at 03:33 pm by miltcapps

•West | •Central | •Eastern | •Other Updated Sept. 27. Please send adds, comments via LinkedIn. SEPTEMBER Sept. 1 •&nbs.... Read More

PhaseWell Research platform arises in Nashville by Shore Capital Partners

Aug 28, 2025 at 04:38 pm by miltcapps

CHICAGO- and Nashville-based PE Shore Capital Partners announced the formation of Nashville-based PhaseWell Research, which owns dedicated clinical research sites and, as appr.... Read More

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