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VU School of Medicine ramps-up The Rad^x incubator
with 17 entrants in Innovation Challenge (relevance: 7.7%, date: Jun 19, 2017)
Incubator management plans to keep potential businesses on-pace for development, commercialization.

Venture Notes - 10 August 2016 (relevance: 7.7%, date: Aug 10, 2016)
New NTC CEO and Health IT strategy coming, VC motives, Noro-Moseley exec, Women Angels coalesce and more.

HRtech: Memphis Meats veteran Will Clem's Bite Ninja raises hit $15MM+ (relevance: 7.7%, date: May 9, 2022)
Memphis Y Combinator grad scales-up restaurant tech, after helping launch what's now Bay Area cell-cultured meat Unicorn.

Venture Notes - 17 January 2017 (relevance: 7.6%, date: Jan 17, 2017)
$40MM raise at Claritas, accelerator and startup news, and more from around the state.

Relevance Ventures Fund IV eyes $75MM target, Native founders pipeline (relevance: 7.6%, date: Mar 28, 2024)
Relevance, Skoden eye targets, lean into NACIA push to close capital gap facing Native entrepreneurs

CEO: Entrepreneur Center views Jumpstart accelerator exit as opportunity (relevance: 7.5%, date: Jan 22, 2016)
[updated] Prepared for change, EC CEO has already sketched-out 2016 strategy.

Clayton Associates' McWhorter increases stake in Clemson University (relevance: 7.5%, date: Jun 12, 2017)
VC co-founder takes a paws for philanthropy that may inspire other executives.

MedHaul startup propelled by Erica Plybeah, backed by InnovaMemphis (relevance: 7.4%, date: Feb 17, 2022)
The challenges are real, but this mission-oriented entrepreneur is 'grateful for the journey'.

Venture Notes -- May 31, 2019 (relevance: 7.4%, date: May 31, 2019)
Heritage pops new fund, plus raises for healthcare, crypto, CBD, Growth Fund model notes and more.

Relevance Capital pursues Fund IV raise + regional tech-VC leadership (relevance: 7.3%, date: Oct 25, 2018)
Exits may be ahead for Brentwood-Tullahoma firm seeking stakes in early-stage coastal targets, but at Nashville valuations.

Nashville startups scouted by Cedars-Sinai
Healthcare Accelerator with Techstars (relevance: 7.3%, date: Mar 17, 2017)
Opportunity helps close gap after closure of EC's healthcare cohort accelerator.

Venture Notes - January 16, 2020 (relevance: 7.3%, date: Jan 16, 2020)
13 new capital moves by Pharos, Relode, Blueprint, Curex, Claritas, and more.

Relevance Ventures seeks 'first-call' from Technology entrepreneurs (relevance: 7.2%, date: Mar 8, 2021)
TN-based VC maps capital, aims to be top-ranked Tech VC in SE and frequent actor on national VC scene.

Steve Case: Nashville entrepreneurial scene can be 'better still' (relevance: 7.2%, date: Jul 20, 2016)
Racing toward the future, Nashville and TN innovators and businesses must be prepared.

Nashville-based CrowdVest.co investment-target website cranks up (relevance: 7.2%, date: Mar 21, 2017)
Regulatory changes spawn new entrants, one of which plants flag in Nashville.

Tennessee's innovation, econ-dev allies again free to pursue US EDA grants (relevance: 7.2%, date: Jan 3, 2020)
[Updated] EDA has $33MM pot, says previous grant wins no reason to withhold well defined, competitive ideas.

Moyer-led Innovation Studio raising $2.5MM to advance Industry AI mission (relevance: 7.2%, date: Dec 13, 2023)
Filing could be precursor of larger raise. Staff expansion seems imminent.

TVA is looking to startups to help solve its big energy problems (relevance: 7.1%, date: Nov 29, 2018)
Teaming with ORNL + Innovation Crossroads, power producer looks tech targets, maybe some surprises.

Venture Notes - 19 October 2016 (relevance: 7.1%, date: Oct 19, 2016)
Boyd & Brock of LaunchTN respond on sustainability, Healthcare, Rural Metrics and more.

Touching base: Van Tucker, John Murdock on growing TN Angel capital (relevance: 7.1%, date: May 24, 2021)
A simple question, because the issue of early-stage capital formation in TN probably warrants further discussion.

Studio Bank's Shmerling offers reality check for Nashville entrepreneurs (relevance: 7%, date: Feb 6, 2019)
Particularly if you're trying to grow a business that's not in Healthcare or Music, you may need to hear this -- again.

Rubicon Founders' Fund II said to have commitments of $1BN+ (relevance: 7%, date: Mar 18, 2024)
Founder's early track record and discipline of 'value lens' investing may be generating sustained momentum.

Nashville's Global VC Ecosystem Rankings miss might spur imagination (relevance: 7%, date: Oct 20, 2023)
Tennessee cities can take reinforcement from the dynamics reflected in analysts' methodology.

State-backed Launch Tennessee puts total $626K+ into startups
in Healing Innovations, Hera Health, Hytch, Possip (relevance: 6.9%, date: Nov 21, 2019)
Launch Tennessee builds the profile of its Innovation Capital Continuum.

Briovation likely to invest in 20+ Health startups outside Nashville in 2018 (relevance: 6.9%, date: Dec 7, 2017)
[updated] Company recently had first close for its targeted $30MM early-growth fund and has invested.