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VC healthtech and automation studio advances effort to 'catalyze innovation across the nation'.

Cross-border trade, entrepreneurship and investment likely to flow from this week's step forward.

Nashville seller of non-core line focuses on Edtech, Regtech, Healthcare software markets

Summit III speakers' savvy, calibrated comments may contain 'signals' for domestic and global listeners.

Founder's early track record and discipline of 'value lens' investing may be generating sustained momentum.

Early-stage fintech and health tech targets are priority for firm with deep operator and securities experience.

Founder-CEO's renewed focus on roles of voice and expression part of launch impetus.

Labordemic hits employers recovering from COVID19 pressures + workers drive for upskilling, certification and licensing.

New Strategic Limited Partner says Altitude is a 'good fit', given it understands how to add value beyond capital.

Scenario: VU could garner up to $422MM, as fight against neurospsych disorders, degenerative diseases advances.

Edtech and healthcare SaaS veteran with stripes in credentialing, training and other businesses offers advice.

Updated 17 April 2024 - Institute announced. Chancellor says VU has strategic advantage in confronting challenges in a 'networked world'.

[updated] Amid sector consolidation, Wellvana financings now total at least $150MM.

[updated] Firm pursues $100MM raise, with progress reported for Early Stage Digital Health Fund I.

Nashville HC and technology veterans plan to co-found multiple SaaS businesses in the next few years.

Private equity execs and their strategic investors set sail on next fund amid crosswinds.

Early-growth startup with EBITDA enters third phase of life amid growing environmental concerns.

Venture bullets: DARVIS, Dropper, SeeSnap, Rockmont, Simple Solutions, AngelEye, HotPoppy, Campus Protein, AgLaunch, SmartRIA and more.

Updating PathGroup Recap | Lirio | Ursa Health | Thynk Health | Unity Wellness | EasyVet | Artemis | Iron Path | TSG.Mammoth

Continuing-ed content purveyor also sees Series A + diverse markets ahead in U.S. and beyond.

Venture updates on new Funds, raises in Fintech, Music-Ent, Wealth, LifeSci, HCare, Media, HRtech, blockchain and other arenas.

Backed/advised by key players, firm hits quick first close, attracts Kleiner Perkins veteran Deshpande

Expanding team and advisors include Nashville serial healthcare entrepreneur Joe Hutts

The challenges are real, but this mission-oriented entrepreneur is 'grateful for the journey'.

Updated: VC Marcus Whitney, entrepreneurs Victoria Butler, Courtney Hale are empaneled to share and to judge presentations.

Dozens of updates on capraises, new funds, exec moves, startups and more.

Its $25M Series A in-hand, its healthcare- and tech-deep board, investors and management chart an ambitious path.

Nashville HC venture veteran marshals team and money to sort hundreds of potential targets, against the clock.

With discipline and fresh capital, firm aims for control investments up to $30MM per firm in businesses that match its criteria.

B2B2C startup confirms convertible raise ahead of a Series C, expands services, values leverage of GM and other strategics.

Updated 4/18/22: Of the healthcare-focused VC's 22 currently active portfolio companies, 12 are located in the Greater Nashville area.

Optimized nutrition startup producing revenue, eyes roadmap + milestones, with a possible A-round ahead.

Healthcare, transportation, mobility among targets of new Chattanooga Regional Catalyst Fund

Veteran of finance, recruitment and development and other fields cites fintech as hypothetical target vertical.

Eighteen updates on startups, capital raises, and more from TN, KY, ALA

New organization promises to raise even further Meharry's regional and national standing among innovators.

Couple-dozen bulletins on spacs, letter rounds, startups, innovators, execs in motion, resources from around the ecosystem

Care management tech company has new customers for repointed platform, mulls priced round guided by advisor.

Twenty updates on VC/PE moves, startups, innovation funding, family offices and more, plus Resources.

Current and future startups being spawned by TTO focused on commercializing innovation.

[Updated] Serial healthcare entrepreneur stacks C-round capital for TEND business from his Tennessee base.

Impetus for fund has been growing amid rampant awareness of inequities in backing for Black entrepreneurs.

PE-backed fintech, services company expands role as consumers, providers seek solutions.

UPDATED Advisors in place, early conversations with potential investors underway, founder seeks increased market traction.

TN IPO enlarges, Pharos and other VC updates, plus action in spacs, fintech, insuretech, sports odds and more.

EQHA plans for offering come after long period of scant IPO activity in healthcare services sector.

Amid pandemic and General Assembly session looming, 'broadest sandbox program in the U.S.' is the goal.

Platform company draws Greater Nashville venture, policy veterans + mulls further advisors and capital options.

[Updated] With Data/AI target filter, former Google CEO preps to lead SPAC sortie into healthtech, fintech, consumer internet and marketplace

Fund passes $100M, raises in healthcare, fitness, musictech, fintech, insurance, plus policy push, Angel credit, Smokies and more.

With perilous Winter ahead, startup continues support of response to COVID19, while preparing for 'next pandemic'.

Dozens of news items on startups, capital raises, executive moves and business resources.

20 pieces of evidence that startup-, innovation- and deal-oriented folks find plenty to like in Kentucky.

Jumpstart Health Investors deploys new VC to pursue compelling opportunities among Black-owned firms.

Nashville Founder/GP targets fintech, insurtech, digital-health verticals, affirms cap-table diversity goal

Nashville+ Calgary startups partnered more than a year, chose to merge, now raising capital.

A veteran of tough slogs, CEO sees lift in enterprise demand for critical care monitoring of seniors in communities.

Backed by Transparency Health and Noon Management, this TN startup aims to help folks get safely back to work or school.

Music innovation push, startup scouts, fintech, Y-Combinator entrant, Angel Tax Credit takers, partnerships, exec moves, resources + more...

New CEO charts rapid path toward 40 markets, says indie physician model both disruptive, scalable

[updated] Data science, machine learning tech and prediction services startup brings to bear its SDOH learning curve.

Opportunities for startup growth and service are plentiful in the new Pandemic Era.

Serial entrepreneur leverages technology create by Vanderbilt University investigators.

[updated] Frist discloses details about what's under the hood of the healthtech startup now in stealth mode.

A new healthtech spinout, capraises, M&A, people moves, advisors, key events and a couple dozen more nuggets.

[Updated 25 July 2024] Healthcare specialists file on Fund IV companion.

[Updated] VNC seeks comment from team, meanwhile research suggests interesting ecosystem forming around company.

The five-year-old company has already secured $70MM capital and is at 400 employees.

Founder says he continues planning for capital raise and Nashville presence.

[updated] Fighting colorectal cancer, CEO eyes growing Knoxville biotech scene and Euro and U.S. markets

Founder says consumers will transform healthcare; she eyes series of raises, senior hires, partnerships.

Eight teams are enrolled in the Erlanger-Unum-CoLab HealthTech Accelerator.

[updated] Medical Decisions team believes it has unique offering, propelled by quality-of-care and economics tailwinds.

News from Frist Cressey, fintechs, Washtopia, Episode Sols, Sphere, Veterans VC, FedEx, Ballast, VendEngine, and many more.

Serial social-impact entrepreneur creates several potentially investable Pharmacy-related startups.

HealthStream ties-up with early-growth cos, Alphabet-backed Clover hits Music City, a startup's $6MM raise, money for June Medical, HempTenn, BeastBrands, SmartRIA, and much more.

CEO maps course for Series A-2, Series B raises and views Goggle and Apple moves as reinforcing vision.

As bill-filing deadlines loom, bills that shape TN economy, startups, entrepreneurial momentum are in prospect.

Co-founders see sector receptive to Cloud-linked technology and sensitive to search and review costs.

Years of work have prepared Meharry researchers to play influential role by drawing data from Nashville General Hospital.

A sobering report from Brookings Institution researchers inevitably shows there's work yet to be done.

[update] A unique Tennessee business makes its way step-by-step through SaaS growth-company terrain.

[Updated] While still growing its $30MM-$50MM growth fund, JSCap adds notches to its moneybelt.

Healthtech startup signals emergence from customer validation -- and it's ready to tackle Nashville market.

After three decades in health-sector Finance/Technology, founder makes another run at processes and outcomes.

Here's the skinny on HHS Startup Day in Nashville, cosponsored by NHCC, LSTN, et al.

More nondilutive capital for data-oriented lifesciences company.

Simplr's $8MM Series A, Resolute and Americoin raises, Blockchain congregating and more.

Money, moves and management in 30 telegraphic updates from MidTn and State ecosystems.

Startup commercializing VU IP to reduce injury, death and mitigate $50BN annual medical spend.

HealthStream has been minority stakeholder since 2013.

BunkerLabs grad and cofounders pushing forward toward possible capraise.

Solaster capraise out of Jumpstart, new crypto fund, some blockchain plays and more.

Focusing on success criteria, outcomes takes priority.

27 short takes on Venture developments statewide, from robots and healthcare, to hair dye and video security.

Digital Health from wearables and IT to blockchain and more will be Daisley's bailiwick in international group

[updated] Healthcare IT, solutions and consulting provider has apparently passed a revenue milestone.

Publisher rating VCs!? plus new capital raises, deals, NVille EC scholarships and more.

[updated] Startup has already won key role in creating Canada's digital marketplace for licensing.

CEO wasting no time in preparing for push with private-equity backing.

Years after his initial appeal, Waller IP attorney sticks to his guns.

VU seeks reputational gains, greater awareness of research, more diversity.

Global continuing professional education demand is viewed as rising sharply.

Founder spent nearly a decade here earning degrees at Vanderbilt University.

Entrepreneur and investor seems Nashville momentum growing, despite traffic and other concerns.

Opportunity helps close gap after closure of EC's healthcare cohort accelerator.

Converging activities could raise Nashville profile on global blockchain map.

[updated] Grad of Boomtown, StartupHealth accelerators presses forward.

Journalists to be excluded, Dem's not invited to panel.

Expresses confidence stage is set for constructive engagement about insurance exchanges and more.

Boyd & Brock of LaunchTN respond on sustainability, Healthcare, Rural Metrics and more.

Startup has attracted a Tech Coast Angels participant.

[Updated] Blockchain initiatives now said to be expanding in Nashville.

VU spawns Predictgov, Clayton Associates, REDCap Cloud update, NextGxDx raise, Project Healthcare, The TENN and more.

More than a dozen nuggets from around the state.

Healthcare entrepreneur believes status quo may be no more 'impregnable' than storied city's walls.

A tech-savvy chief executive lays-out what he sees as some hard truths.

Sponsored by BTC, publisher of Distributed Magazine, unprecedented event addresses lawyers' needs.

TriStar and Innovation Institute leaders 'get along well as human beings'

Within this scientific work are pain-points that could spawn inventions, innovations and startups.

(updated) The CellJournalist veterans have brought another startup to the starting-line, this time in marketing software.

Speakers ahead and a Nashville startup joins Louisville healthcare accelerator.

User-authentication startup pledges to grow Nashville headquarters.

VTC Chattanooga startup made very strategic pivot, and builds bizdev presence in Nashville.

[updated] Long-time Nashville resident Kelso rather not relocate, but needs Tech-savvy investors.

HealthIT entrepreneur Eric Winter signs-on for another startup rodeo.

Departing tech-centric Bay Area, co-founder cites Nashville's numerous advantages.

John Bass, CEO of HCA's InVivoLink, has joined the Blockchain expedition.

While talk of industry consolidation and impediments continues, entrepreneurs keep innovating.

[Updated] The EC also seeks an Entrepreneur in Residence for the PH initiative.

[Updated] Effort intended to engage student-led startup teams statewide.

Updated - Nashville's BTCMedia is examining Blockchain in Nashville and St. Louis.

Behavioral Health, particularly addiction treatment, is the launchpad.

VTC Founder and investors express strong confidence in market headway.

VTC Teams arriving for array of Memphis accelerators.

More than 50 entrepreneurs represented in companies in flock of Memphis accelerators.

VNC Discount: Healthcare consolidation is robust and the landscape rapidly shifting.

VTC PYA's long-standing 'dream' of attracting ORNL talent is paying off in varied forms.

Managing General Partners gives fresh view of region's Healthcare sector.

Engineering Dean sees opportunities to address large-scale global needs.

[updated] Chairman/CEO says company can be in Top 10 ranks nationally by EOY16.

Center for Medical Interoperability begins ramping-up its architectural and assessment work.

CEO Winkelspecht is working with HC customers on proof of concept technologies.

VTC P2S-Covenant JV tackles Big Data analytics for array of verticals.

Spying opportunity to speed adoption of evidence-based medicine, startup asserts itself.

[Updated] Team says rapid Angel-investor enlistment is one reason this is a 'W' for region's LifeSciences

Frank Coliano shares the view from one of Nashville's most interesting vantage-points.

A consolidator has been quietly established in Nashville, focusing on an aging-driven sector.

[updated] Raises by SertintyONE, Lincor, MedPass and others updated here.

[updated] Entrepreneur says he knows his limits, wants assistive-device mission to succeed.

[updated] Advocates believe Healthcare could be linchpin in new cyberindustrial role for Nashville.

[updated] Prepared for change, EC CEO has already sketched-out 2016 strategy.

[updated] Its Angel ranks could rise to 50 in 2016, and it may do a half-dozen deals.

Here's an update on salient capital raises and related.

[updated] CEO McQuigg has had quite a journey. Now, he sees a global opportunity.

Updated No matter where you are in Tennessee, you'll want to consider many of these.

[updated] Startup greenlighted with patient capital, golden Roladexes.

[Updated] Partnership would support a network of investors and entrepreneurs.

[updated] Even terrorism and immigration issues may affect performance monitoring.

[Update] A panel focuses on the need for value-adding innovation and public-policy advocacy.

New services for Veterans who aim to become entrepreneurial troopers may lie ahead.

[Updated] Nashville VC continues building its healthcare portfolio.

Healthcare analytics player follows $5MM raise with a smaller, possible bridge move.

VTC By year-end, this Chattanooga group could be buying personal-care brands.

Seed to B-round scenario begins to emerge, with pharmacogenetic testing a driver.

[CONFIRMED] Cardinal takes majority stake; naviHealth's model examined for other verticals.

Here's the up-to-date listing of presenting companies.

[Updated with IDS sale] California Corrections confirms major edtech contract for early-stage company.

[Update] In 3rd outing, CEO focuses on technology for enterprises that 'don't go out of business'.

Founder views new entrants to Internet of Things market as validation.

[Updated] Investors bide their time, to catch the wave they see building.

Year-old company may consider Series B raise within 12 months

Initially targeting health systems, startup is advised by Harpeth Capital.

Co-founder says Seed money seems more likely to come for the Coast.

Exec sees new digs, job growth, sales - plus cultural + media challenges.

[updated] This immunization data-collection startup is being accelerated via a university alliance.

[updated] Suitors queued, this compliance and insights specialist considers tapping the private market.

[updated] With sector veterans on its board and access to capital, this startup girds for raise.

[updated] Though relo'd from Nashville to Portland, CEO keeps eye on Nashville.

[updated] Smithwick says early market penetration signals 'time to step on the gas'.

[updated] Accelerator grad moving toward an inflection point, and Healthbox tweaks its model.

Education content and assessment are hot segments that Ingram seems to eye.

VTC First exit for the fund affiliated with Memphis-based MB Venture Partners.

The question remains whether the Change Agents' enthusiasm is contagious.

Veteran executive gains helm of company seeking strong growth.

[updated] Chris Ferrell will focus on operations, while Cygnus exec takes the company's helm

Two Tennessee-born science-centered companies are united

Veteran of the Nashville HIT, software and entrepreneurial scenes joins boutique.

[updated] Google Glass is not a large blip on this startup's radar, thus far.

[Updated] Private equity firm with $200MM capital managed, seeks to increase its opportunities

[updated] Board named. Nashville's role with a transformative Tech-standards player

[updated] Protecting personal health information resident in electronic medical records is startup's timely focus.

Partners plan to invest mainly human capital in promising startups

Updates on Endorsee, Sagents, Tandum, EO Nashville, PBM365, Back Porch Group, Exile.

Serial entrepreneur doesn't understand why the Tech sector consolidation is so hesitant.

[Yes is answer] Might JSF become a single-vertical startup accelerator? TN HiMSS unveils new program identity.

With products defined, this startup aims to cut through the 'Big Data' hype.

HFCP is a familiar name to Emdeon, Amsurg, Sedgwick and others in the region.

[Updated] President Aylward said he believes the market is now coming more in MedCenterDisplay's direction

Firm feels it surprised some folks by doubling-down on transactions-services work.

New Jersey-based engagement and loyalty company says Healthcare may become its sole focus.

Entrepreneurial Nashville physician, a strategic advisor and a startup CTO rally Seed investors

Despite deep financial experience, CEO has taken deliberate steps to ensure startup success

[updated] Dan Hogan earned his stripes in healthcare delivery, aims to win stars in predictive analytics

Kemp Dolliver says ties to developing nations' companies are important

Agency's entrepreneurship director seems to have caught the bug.

John Ingram asks the founder of AOL about ways to 'disrupt' politics-as-usual.

The votes are in for the 2013 NTC Awards!

Vanderbilt University Medical Center fights readmissions, teams with Institute and major process outsourcer on outpatient healthcare

President James Stover says company has good talks with potential strategic partners

[update 15 May 2015] Hal Andrews new CEO. A company drawn here by the healthcare magnet gets a new leader.

Brentwood sister company is among allies for Oak Ridge-linked startup

TTDC now seems to be fully staffed to further pro-venture programs

A true startup leader, investment pros and others are aboard for the continuing relaunch

Med Center and Biomed Engineering faculty and students collaborate in commercialization effort

Galen, VentureIncite, LaunchTN, Dobie Media, FamilyVenture Management and more

There are other shoes to drop at Care Technology, but today's is a good start

Tech entrepreneurs tackle the healthcare engagement knot from a different angle

The rising tide of diabetes attracts investment to companies with convincing models

VTC TNInvestco's network effect is just one source of encouragement, but there remain issues to ponder

[Updated] Patient-pay firm continues its capital-raising.

Long-time allies go to the well once more for one of their many healthcare businesses.

Performance, occupational safety and other fields are supported by PureSafety software and services

An Owen grad and former Cybera exec puts his venture skills to work for an Alabama startup that's eying Nashville

It seems that as promised, this portfolio of private equity and venture capital assets will be deployed for innovation

Veteran emissary to institutions' stakeholders and allies is re-potting himself after a 41-year-career

Milestone events, capital raises, a whiskey resurrected, and local venture news recapped.

[UPDATED] A newly created healthcare fund gives the nod to a Nashville startup, plus updates from XMi, Shareable Ink and more

Galen-Burcham alliance goes back years; other firms had a shot at top-billing in NEC healthcare work

Executive transitions, capital raises, alliances and innovations.

McWhorter shepherds EC, JumpStarters wait verdict, a rash of local SEC filings, Collins rides an IPO and more

Bottorff-, Gambill-led firm is amassing quite a healthcare brain trust

[Sale updated] Early-stage company has room for further capital recruitment, as it aims to leverage rising interest in electronic health records-related technology

To be the seat of innovation in healthcare delivery, Nashville must attract new capital and novel ideas

Strategic allies will include marketing, PR and healthcare strategy firms, among others

Nashville VC finds his way home and once more into the healthcare arena

East TN developments... Entrepreneur Center rebrands Future 50, Nashville 'on the edge' and news roundup.

A Brailer exec joins regional VC, Nutraceuticals' Grindstaff, Investor Days ahead for incubators, Amazon thing gets awkward and more

[updated] A former Franklin corporate executive hopes to turn her investment-management savvy into a boon for the impoverished

Get that extra cup o' coffee, you'll need it for news from McWhorter, Council Ventures, Vaden Landers and more.

Medical devices may get a boost from the collaboration of two life-science weighted funds and an innovation driver

[updated] Tech-sales leader joins private-equity backed firm with announced M&A ambitions

Another 'complaining' serial entrepreneur is having trouble retiring, as one venture happily leads to another

New chair at lifesciences association..Parental Health update.. Bredesen aide moves.. Silicon Ranch and Venture Incite add staff.. PE investors disappear after liquidation.. bio-entrepreneurs..more

TTDC chief to Gov. Haslam, IP, Claritas, incubators, Angels, Louisville innovation, HiMSS-TN descends on Orlando and more

Vanguard's Martin, Community Health's Smith among those signing-on to to drive outcomes, drive down costs.

One CEO says 'meaningful use' may be the Y2K of this decade, and these firms see opportunities

Herewith, items of interest from around the state.

With B-round in offing, CEO says demand 'remarkable' for data-driven alignment of employer trends and providers' services

Shifts in command, marketing duties may add momentum in company now backed by entrepreneur with deepest pockets

Energy and ideas abound among a sample of Nashville healthcare, investment and technology executives rounded-up in just the past few days

Vanderbilt pharma program inches cautiously toward tech transfer, while key faculty member keeps firm hand on the tiller

[updated] HealthStream co-founder's latest technology play aims to awaken sleeping value in medical niche

Innovative healthcare technology company has completed an Angel round, and looking ahead to valuation and B-raise

A desire to master a niche in healthcare technology, patience and an engineer's eye for detail may produce a leader on 3rd Avenue

An accomplished young entrepreneur tackles his next venture in Music City, starting with moving photos from your cellphone, perhaps ending in healthcare

Keep an eye on what your 'constrained' customer must buy, suggests E&Y exec for the hemisphere.

[Updated] In the best Nashville tradition, a veteran healthcare entrepreneur takes another dip in the nation's hospital gene pool

[updated] As 'transparency' and payment-cycle issues converge, PatientPay targets the front-end of the revenue cycle

CEO says despite growth, the specter of failed implementations by any vendors 'keeps him up at night'

Council Ventures tells raise for once-fragile Nashville company, with an undisclosed strategic partner

Jacobson's new digs, Universal Robotics' placement, WSJ taps local analysts, Solidus' stake, antitrust cautions and more...

Corporate ambitions may suggest a role for outside capital in this high-profile local growth company

With $17.2 billion soon under the scalpel, startup feels it has a better mousetrap for improving quality and financial returns

[updated] Bracing for 'intense shakeout' and scouting for talent, company now counts HCA, Lifepoint among its clients, playing the upside among distressed properties

Evolving Brentwood company focuses fresh capital on latest acquisition, divests once flagship business

From his Nashville vantage-point, Jason Dinger works to find opportunities that produce a plus for the community's healthcare

The stakes for hospitals are high and rising, amid disasters and other incidents, and two tech-driven Nashville companies respond

CEO-driven initiative aims to heighten employee engagement in the company's success

Eight-year-old VC adds its fourth general partner, heading into a buyer's market

A supposed transformation of education, plus sustained support from key moneymen seem to have given ALS staying-power

While waiting for chaos to subside, entrepreneurs should be careful not to overplay their hands, but they should come to bargain hard

After a long sojourn in the VC desert, a VU spinout finds it A-round lead in North Carolina

This private-equity funded Brentwood firm aims to make healthcare organizations transparent for management teams under pressure for quality and performance

At deal-making summit, investment bankers and others say focus on regulatory pressure for cost-reductions, rather than on next President

Former U.S. Sen. Bill Frist (left) predicted 'we're going to spend more on healthcare', but four VCs told local execs that few investors know much about Nashville's healthcare track record -- unwelcome news for Kin Clinton's Woolsthorpe Technologies.

Now, after selling its first FDA-approved product to a close ally, BioMimetic is flush with cash and experience -- and committed to developing biotechnologies in Middle Tennessee.