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Industry could reach favorable inflection, particularly if supply of domain's sophisticated capital grows.

Serial SaaS entrepreneurs' GrowthTech Fund I makes first bet under modeled $50MM target

GNVCA board is aggregating clout as it begins partnering and other work.

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

Serial entrepreneur Bruce also leads Techstars Industries of the Future Accelerator backed by UTSys, TVA, ORNL

[updated] Nashville advocates prepare potentially unprecedented stimulus for expansion of the region's capital stack.

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

Team is apparently leaning further into its latest raise, with TAUM now over $100MM.

Dynamo VC, FUSE, Cercano, Ironspring, Innovation Endeavors, and others backers are early-in. [updated]

Joe Maxwell, MP of Fintop Capital and Co-EIR for Project Fintech of the Nashville EC sees rise in diligence.

[Updated] TN House FW&M Chair Patsy Hazlewood is among Tennessee legislators expressing support.

There are 16 firms aboard now, each starting with a $250K investment and a supportive non-distracting work-life environment.

$1BN+ impact could rise in TN in decade of mobilizing investment capital and lending power.

Backed by Cercano Management, Relevance Ventures, Angels, TNInvestco, INCITE, et al, its team shifts principal office.

VentureSouth Fund V raise underway targets $10MM to augment Angels' individual bets and sidecar participation.

[Updated] Co-founders seek $2MM, as VU OwenGSM, VU The Wond'ry and others seem to recognize startup's promise.

Memphians Lackie, Roberts, Sousoulas and San Mateo-backed Chou are among leaders.

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

[Updated] Deadline set for comments on needed investment capital, loans, training, microlending and more, U.S. Treasury-funded program.

TN U.S. Senators oppose Innovation bill over China issues, capital raises, big day for Uncle Nearest, new startup cohorts, EIR + grant invitations,

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

Nashville VC adds advisor marketing-automation startup Snappy Kraken to portfolio, has other initiatives afoot.

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

TN-based VC maps capital, aims to be top-ranked Tech VC in SE and frequent actor on national VC scene.

The raise seems to be peaking more than four years after Fund II was closed.

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

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[Updated] A gamble, sure, but the Pandemic Vintage of startups, capraises + executive moves may rival any we've seen in the past decade.

[updated] Longtime Nashville i-bankers will apply experience as venture-capital investors.

[Updated] Due to COVID19-induced recession, recent years' stellar fund performance may be 'ancient history'.

Gov. Bill Lee updates us, plus 17 venture updates and resources on telemed, M&A and more.

Nashville entrepreneur's business and social-impact lenses are focused on venture gap.

Education champion + entrepreneur is raising Seed capital, mapping growth

Biannual Science & Technology Index shows some TN gains, but weakspots among growth factors

[Updated] Birmingham among alternatives, as some Women, Blacks and other minorities report struggling for traction.

Updated - Those who knew this Nashville new-era software entrepreneur will gather this weekend.

Founders with Nashville stripes and strategic partners vow to leverage ties for innovation, growth.

Exits may be ahead for Brentwood-Tullahoma firm seeking stakes in early-stage coastal targets, but at Nashville valuations.

UT, VU, KY officials see hundreds of successfully exited entrepreneurs possibly leading startup teams.

[Updated] $6MM raise apparently found quick acceptance - McWhorter foresees $100MM impact.

Twenty-one-year-old firm could hit $600MM raised since inception.

[updated] With dry powder and 60 transactions under its belt, SSM relishes HealthIT, ecommerce, marcom companies.

Her competitive spirit was partly honed by being a standout player in competitive sports.

HealthStream has been minority stakeholder since 2013.

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

Exec says harassment 'unacceptable' and LaunchTN will advocate broad adoption of planned policy model

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

Exec averse to encouraging all to 'shoot for the middle', notes need for champion investors.

New firm is closely allied with ATDC and Georgia Tech, first cohort app deadline July 8.

'We're not shy about our ambitions' as they eye tips of entrepreneurs' tongues.

[updated] Former Pathfinder exec is CEO in the business that got running start in Centerstone.

[Updated] New entity focuses on "underserved" small and medium-sized businesses.

Speakers discuss investor interest in blockchain, and Nashville's preparation for HealthIT leadership.

After six years at ECD agency, Tennessee native returns to private sector.

Research and services for VNC Members and prospective Members focused on Nashville and the Mid-South.

New NTC CEO and Health IT strategy coming, VC motives, Noro-Moseley exec, Women Angels coalesce and more.

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

Racing toward the future, Nashville and TN innovators and businesses must be prepared.

[updated] A baker's dozen oughta-reads on startups and capital from around the state.

That old chestnut, Film-TV industry production incentives, gets a fresh take.

Question mark hangs over Nashville's shot at being a Consumer startup breeder.

[Sale confirmed] New money, strategic inflection, or much hubbub about nothing? Time will tell.

VTC Grady Vanderhoofven is likely to lead the repurposed nonprofit and some allies.

VTC - [Updated] Two years after a successful exit from logistics business, a new venture launches.

Updates on VU venture staff, raises by SmartFurniture and RelevanceCapital and more.

[updated] North Carolina-based entrepreneur and scholar begins work April 1.

With 3686 ahead, new University and Researcher programs, weaker capital ecosystem and more

Vic Gatto and Marcus Whitney are creating an important fund, and exit accelerator universe.

Updates on investors, startups and ideas with ties to our region.

VTC State's AgLaunch initiative should get a boost, along with allies.

[Updated] Nashville VC continues building its healthcare portfolio.

Relocated Michigander rips-off startup's stealth cloak to seek growth fuel.

The state's accelerator-linked ecosystem continues to evolve, it seems.

Questions about institutional GPs' reporting get fresh attention in some quarters.

Serial entrepreneur says he's preparing to 'chase his passion' for venture.

[updated] Having raised $10.5MM in Angel capital, CEO says the company had room negotiate with VC

With the closing of its Fund IV, Frontier activity here may rise.

Actionable business opportunities, plus a discount code right here.

[update] The vast potential of the global IoT market has many players in a virtual land rush.

Bio veteran Jim Monsor leads pilot effort to deepen TN's startup resources

VTC Seed, Early- and Growth-stage startups may all benefit from USDA RBIC effort.

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

Bootstrapping event may be about to get a reboot.

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

[updated] Founder on a mission sees world of opportunity, with a dash of charlatanism, here and there.

Steady-as-she-goes seems to be the watchboard at cautious, high-performing pension plan.

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 e-signature company has its team and some advisors already in place for a capital move.

[Updated 5 March] This entrant to the red-hot sector is banking on rapid B2B growth.

Two Tennessee-born science-centered companies are united

[updated] Only rudimentary financial and compliance reporting was explicitly called for by law

$300K Seed raise could target Angels in Cincinnati, as well as Tennessee

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

There's a least one TNInvestco that isn't yet exhausted, and is still looking for investible deals

VTC: Effort continues to build LifeSciences to critical mass and influence in TN

UPDATED Entrepreneur aims to win; 'location thing' often a problem when Coastal VCs chat.

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

Sharing our perspective on the challenges associated with covering the next potential TNInvestco debate.

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

TCRS PE program seems to be maintaining its investment pace.

Founder sees slew of logical future bidders from ranks of strategic corporates

Collaboration leverages VC Solidus, Jumpstart, CapitalTN and other allies

The real test may be a $10MM capital round not so far away.

[updated] Crews PE role formalized after months as interim at TCRS.

VC opens new chapter amid a climate of lingering dread and anticipation

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

Council doubles-down on mail-order institutional pharmacy startup

In a down economy, this startup aims to serve underemployed recent grads and their parents

Long-rumored 'for sale', ENA and CEO of 10 years open new chapter

Fred Goad, Eric Satz, Beth Seigenthaler: entrepreneurs older and newer are hard at-work

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

This private-equity firm attracted out-of-state institutionals to its $222MM fund VI

There are some new faces among the 'usual suspects' applying at INCITE Fund

[EMIDS update Dec. 5, 2013] Maybe it's time to focus on something more than our reported shortage of coders

[Updated] Law-tethered entrepreneur thinks e-discovery vein is far from mined-out

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

A little realism about the burdens and advantages of IPO go a long way at decision time

Updated: Rock Morphis and David McClellan are adding tons of dry powder to their healthcare venture arsenal.

Jozef Nuyens and partners plant a venture flag in Tennessee, and demonstrate broader reach

[Updated] Martin Companies leads round, Boston-based CEO says startup is getting traction

Just days after parent HIG added to its management team, Tri-Star reports it has begun one of Tennessee's larger recent fund raises

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

Hudsmith's HP-allied startup executes on its telemedicine strategy for seniors aging-in-place

University aims to allow all interested students access to business and social entrepreneurship curricula

The gut-wrenching ups and downs of a tech startup haven't quelled this startup's drive

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

With relatively little fanfare, one TNInvestco fund is rebranding and entrepreneurial activity heats-up statewide.

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

ACG plans to open five new city chapters soon; for now, its Memphis outpost is semi-shuttered

Scholar and entrepreneur will co-found molecular diagnostics startup in Nashville

Executive transitions, capital raises, alliances and innovations.

Claritas has been broadening its footprint in a number of ways, not content to be just another regional VC. But, no details.

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

As widely anticipated, the Feds came through with $29.7MM in funding for Gov. Bill Haslam's innovation-breeding program

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

Nashville leader says the sometimes controversial program is 'worthwhile experiment' in jobs creation.

[Updated capraise] Nashville will be testbed for service matching users with opps to 'work, play, do good'

The Row's Galante eyes startups and Crom's at it again, as well as Ganier, Van Hoesen and others.

Now there's a cap-raise ahead - the accelerating shift to digital media drive this multinational startup

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

Nashville VC's Oak Ridge affiliate has focused one of its startups on commercializing 'the Moses effect'

New VC council forming, less TNInvestco info, Marcums' Tullhoma venture Launch Pad and news here and elsewhere

Digital-music entrepreneurs exit a crowded field; new owners plan a 'bigger umbrella'

The man, the plan, the brand...an energetic entrepreneur with a flair for promotion may typify players who 'leave it all on the field'

Governor addresses fast-growth sector; details of venture funding, entrepreneur award and tech-transfer still unfolding

' Overhaul and investment ' could lead to accelerated enterprise development from VU research and development

JumpStart's 'brightest'... EmergeMemphis' 45 startups.. Haslam-Hagerty gameplan... David Wilds in cap raise.. Blackstone venture aid...

[name change] Chattanooga entrepreneurs are looking to score in the social media, lifestyle space

In Nashville's highly charged entrepreneurial atmosphere, this partnership aims to create both heat and light

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

Legislators make an energy-tech 'grab', plus venture events and training and more statewide.

Airing of issues simmering beneath TNInvestco's surface has prompted a reprise of comments pro and con the program

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

New ECD appointee, TNInvestco clone idea, updates on Silicon Ranch, JumpStart, Bizen, entrepreneurship and much more

The first of several potential new funds will soon test the waters for venture investment

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

Nashville Capital Network has plans, that Amazon deal, a new incubator in Bradley and more.

Herewith, items of interest from around the state.

News and notes from around Tennessee on science, technology, innovation and related policy.

EMMA.. HMS Tech hire.. Lodge helps for-profits ..Noro and Chrysalis announce staffing ..PerfectServe ..IMI Health and more..

Knoxville-based ad-streaming venture has fresh perspective regarding TN investment in technology startups

A Nashville MoonPie? Plus, a Claritas exec on i-couponing and Innova walks away from an interesting technology

For more than a decade, this e-signature innovator has found champions amid adversity

Spawning a more robust entrepreneurial culture calls for more give-and-take, not more 'control' in the eyes of this veteran of ventures and IPOs

A stalemate on reform of healthcare policy and reimbursements may provide stability that will embolden fence-sitters

Gen. Assembly gets Film bill..CredenceHealth..Busy Debut exec..M&A panel..Burch firm partners..Hedge fund operator..HMS, Bondware appointments..

[updated] StudioNow fundraising again, years after being bought by AOL

New healthcare technology push rumored, start-up said relocating to Nashville, as activity heats up

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

Some believe the General Assembly should next move to increase the TNInvestco pot to $200 million

For perhaps the next six months, the pace of development of Tennessee's emerging New Economy will be largely in the hands of elected officials

Developers may think they're only toiling in obscurity, but they may well be under the observant eye of local VCs and Angels

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

UR has a tight grip on its Vanderbilt technology license, as it prepares to go to market, globally

Online startup previously won $1.2MM from friends and family to marry kids, music and education

Nashville Angels and TNInvestco winner among targets of much-touted Nooga startup

Departure from Vanderbilt was always in the cards, but university has now launched a review for possible conflicts of interest

At left, Dr. Harry Jacobson

At left, Eric Satz

At left, Fran Marcum

At left, Gary Stevenson

At left, Joe Cook Jr.

At left, Ken Woody

At left, Denny Bottorff

Warning TNInvestco's not enough, TTDC hopes to keep its mission alive, maybe by spinning-off new ventures

A serial entrepreneur continues to embrace Nashville, even tho its investors are 'too damn nice'

The yet-to-be-operational TNInvestco capital-formation program seems to have kindled fresh interest in key sectors

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

Sid Chambless has gained a third leadership hat, as Nashville Capital Network and its allies launch a third investment vehicle

[Updated] Top lighting executive says he declined West Coast offer til company relented and allowed him to stay in Nashville

Some are shoppers, some are bidders, some are there to keep an eye on others...and some are committed to vying for TNInvestco certification

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

With the leverage of the game-changing TNInvestco program becoming more apparent, Bredesen Cabinet officials move to establish control, for the long-haul

Those who would be fund managers in the state's new program are taking a close look at the groundrules and the competition

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

There may be fences to mend, but now it's time for the state's VCs to Cowboy Up and make a move

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

[Updated] As the stakes get higher for tech transfer and R&D, UT makes far-reaching changes in governance of its research, licensing and venture arm

[Updated 5:52 p.m.] The TNSBICCA passed in both House and Senate today, and will next go to Gov. Bredesen. The Senate vote was 30-0. It passed in the full House this morning, 94-0, and in Senate Finance this afternoon 9-0-1PNV. The insurance industry provides the leverage for this economic development and venture-funding move.

There's a job open at Video Gaming Technologies, where entrepreneur is investing $100MM

The annual Accelerator endurance and innovation test produces much food for thought.

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

Digital Reasoning, tech transfer, Metro development, Innotec, nTelagent, Memphis venture forum, ICA, M&A, bankruptcies and more...

Legislators want to demonstrate support for smaller ventures, advocates say the CAPCO model has been improved since early adopters found serious flaws

Tennessee executives see both problems and opportunities in proposal for stimulation of early-stage investment

Goad reported suing former TVA director, Petra and Innova invest, $20MM the number for startup, tech transfer event, views on IPO climate...

The state's new private-equity director debuts and a VC panel gets the lowdown on controversial venture-funding proposal

Notes from Northshore Capital Management, TTDC, VCs, wealth-management moves and more...

Bootstrapping or pitching Investors? Simultaneous March 31 events may force entrepreneurs to set their learning priorities

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

With former VC hired to lead program, grant for entrepreneurship helps flesh-out tech-development ecosystem

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

North Carolina deal-flow prospector says his firm is focusing more attention on Music City

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

Townes Duncan and Vic Gatto now say grace over quite a clutch of portfolio companies

Barring an ardent suitor, Nashville's first free-standing online grocery gambit has played out, but the CEO's staying put

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

Tennessee Technology Development Corporation has a great gameplan, but the clock is ticking for policymakers, VCs, scientists and entrepreneurs

The Pitt Hyde-founded life-sciences investor will soon be on the prowl again, in a target-rich marketplace of down-valued companies

Nashville's creative roots are strong and the juices are flowing. Now, the 'sustainability' theme is due a hearing.

Nashville-based investor's fourth asset may prove to be a casualty of the economic crisis

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

Sailing into fierce economic headwinds, this Nashville-based consultant says it's time for denizens of the C-level to give up their secrets

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

They're still paid to invest wisely, but watch-out for VCs wearing neckties. Yesterday's NCN panel provided depth for current outlook

[Sale update] VC-supported venture promises new products, more allies and net hiring

A transplant to Nashville, this former attorney is extending his entrepreneurship with digital delivery of 'live' entertainment

Even with $600MM, Pharos confronts investors' expectations and portfolio-companies' ripple-down challenges

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

Techies, marketers, inventors and lawyers are expected among the throng gathering tomorrow on the Vanderbilt campus

With an eye toward the long haul, and against a backdrop of economic crisis, Co-Chairs Frist and Shmerling (L-R) release Entrepreneur Project recommendations

Entrepreneur who hit jackpot in technology for gambling is establishing a rigorous process for targeting his investments

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

While critics sound off and Biotech targets General Assembly, an economy-shaping executive keeps pushing education and innovations

Beating-out more than 800 competitors, a confident Statzen hopes a few minutes elevator-pitching West Coast investors will shorten the fund-raising cycle for this emerging company.

TTDC convenes investors and scientists in Nashville -- and Chancellor Zeppos announces new money for VU's academic discovery fund

Claritas appreciates recognition for its early-stage investing, but the Nashville VC wants more Tennessee funds to join the party

State pension fund is hiring equities director, developing investment policy and will seek advice on targeting a portion of TCRS' $32 billion

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.

There are still 21 active portfolio companies over which Chris McKinney says grace.

Reflections on lifestyle and venture-backed businesses, amid the Great Recession.