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Enexor BioEnergy taps Wond'ry's Grajewski as SVP ahead of Series A (relevance: 47.8%, date: Sep 24, 2019)
CEO Lee Jestings confirms appointment and continued focus on capital-raising, advisor-selection planning.

As General Assembly grinds along, some notes on TNInvestco and more (relevance: 47.5%, date: Apr 17, 2017)
Resources that might provide refreshment for those looking to advance Tennessee innovation.

Nashville Entrepreneur Center update on startup capital recruitment (relevance: 47%, date: Feb 25, 2022)
EC staff, led by COO John Murdock provide fresh details on EC capital-formation efforts.

LaunchTN, UpSkill 901 seek grants for innovation marketplace, talent (relevance: 46.9%, date: Jul 29, 2020)
Despite massive headwinds, NGOs and other nonprofits seek to help drive transformation of state and its regional economies.

Nashville execs join board of Greater Nashville Venture Capital Association (relevance: 46.8%, date: Aug 27, 2024)
GNVCA board is aggregating clout as it begins partnering and other work.

RAD^x Innovation Challenge cohort of May 15, 2017 (relevance: 46.7%, date: Jun 19, 2017)
Seventeen concepts that could become businesses, spawned by new incubator.

VU OGSM reveals Ventures Group; Owens succeeds Grajewski at Wond'ry (relevance: 46.1%, date: Jun 7, 2019)
Mixture of Entrepreneurship and innovation are further stirred and shaken at VU.

Year-old Nashville-Seattle platform startup Goodship raised at least $7.4M (relevance: 46%, date: Apr 14, 2023)
Dynamo VC, FUSE, Cercano, Ironspring, Innovation Endeavors, and others backers are early-in. [updated]

Ascension's incubation chief invites solutions for 'jobs that need to be done' (relevance: 46%, date: Dec 13, 2017)
Focusing on success criteria, outcomes takes priority.

VU Law & Innovation, Blockchain, Hack events set this week (relevance: 45.9%, date: Apr 3, 2017)
Exploring ramifications of blockchain, hacking for nonprofits and more at VU.

Update: Launch Tennessee presses forward on Commercialization (relevance: 45.7%, date: Mar 14, 2016)
Some new public-private stratagems for commercialization may emerge this spring and summer.

Charlie Martin on the Disruptive Potential
of Blockchain Technology for Healthcare (relevance: 45.6%, date: Sep 7, 2016)

Healthcare accelerator pact among Company Lab, Erlanger, Unum
leverages Chattanooga's broad innovation impulse (relevance: 45.4%, date: Nov 1, 2018)
Months and years of ecosystem development might help make Chattanooga an 'overnight' entrepreneurial success.

President of S-RAM Dynamics sees near-term opportunity in Tennessee (relevance: 45.3%, date: May 11, 2016)
Tech-dev exec, active Angel with Bioenergy interests surveys the region.

LifeSciences: NashBio in SFO showcase; VUMC + GE Health partner (relevance: 45.2%, date: Jan 7, 2019)
Ventures, partnerships accelerate VUMC lifesciences, plus VUMC and VU's independent commercialization programs.

VUMC Brock Center GM to forge R&D ties for pharma, digital transformation (relevance: 45%, date: Sep 3, 2024)
Chosen exec is to provide strategic leadership for the Brock Family Center for Applied Innovation

Nashville Technology Council outlines Tech progress, priorities (relevance: 44.9%, date: Oct 5, 2017)
Update spans emphasis on 'Creativity', new HealthTech vertical group and more.

TN General Assembly urged to de-couple state R&D tax deductions rule (relevance: 44.9%, date: Jan 25, 2022)
Beacon Impact advocates seek to preserve status quo (ante) of Tennessee companies' R&D-cost expensing.

Beacon CEO: Tennessee 'Innovation Fast Track' is goal in General Assembly (relevance: 44.6%, date: Jan 8, 2021)
Amid pandemic and General Assembly session looming, 'broadest sandbox program in the U.S.' is the goal.

ISO Capital: LaunchTN expands innovation-capital investment committee (relevance: 44.5%, date: Nov 20, 2019)
[Updated) There's sharpened focus on capital, as well as on entrepreneurial infrastructure and regional strategy.

LaunchTN and allies pick startups for 36|86 Pitch & Demo events Aug. 28-29 (relevance: 44.5%, date: Jul 21, 2019)
Event could top last year's 1,200 registrants, including 100 or more presenters, hundreds of serial entrepreneurs and investors.

ITIF: Tennessee has risen sharply in New Economy Index (relevance: 44.4%, date: Nov 6, 2017)
[updated] A pronounced rise in overall ranking comes with weaker showing on some of 25 dimensions.

Startups: TN's autoXLR8R up for adoption by UT Institute for Public Service (relevance: 44.3%, date: Mar 9, 2016)
A fourth cohort of startups is likely to be invited to Knoxville, but timeline TBD.

EC says Twende event Feb. 15 coincides with 'Black Innovation & Entrepreneurship Day' proclaimed by Nashville Mayor Cooper (relevance: 44.2%, date: Feb 14, 2022)
Updated: VC Marcus Whitney, entrepreneurs Victoria Butler, Courtney Hale are empaneled to share and to judge presentations.

VC Innova Memphis ignites $31MM RBIC fund,
projects 20 transactions by year-end 2018 (relevance: 43.5%, date: May 15, 2017)
Robotics, analytics, decision-support tech -- it's not your Grandma's Ag anymore.