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CEO: SimplyAgree could trigger Series A after 'right partner' emerges (relevance: 21.4%, date: Oct 15, 2019)
Conversations continue as startup mulls investment terms, milestones, and preps for hiring and dev.

Launch Tennessee names Van Tucker to strategic COO role (relevance: 21.4%, date: Jan 14, 2020)
CEO Margaret Dolan has gained an exec who apparently knows a valuable badass when she sees one.

TN ECD today may announce innovative investment in Clarksville area (relevance: 21.3%, date: Nov 9, 2022)
[Updated with Kewpie news] Ahead of an impending press conference, we offer a thought experiment on investment scenarios.

State of the Startups: Tennessee Technology Development Corporation,
aka Launch Tennessee, wants to shed some commercialization emphasis (relevance: 21.2%, date: Jan 30, 2017)
Gov. Bill Haslam delivers his State of the State Address this evening.

General Assembly leader, advocates keep LaunchTN SBIR fund hopes alive (relevance: 21.1%, date: Mar 30, 2021)
[Updated] Late-breaking budget amendment proposal may improve odds for funding core SBIR-STTR grant-matching program.

Venture Notes 14 July 2016 (relevance: 20.8%, date: Jul 14, 2016)
[updated] A baker's dozen oughta-reads on startups and capital from around the state.

Milken Institute says Tennessee advances, yet struggles with tech commercialization and venture funding (relevance: 20.8%, date: Dec 18, 2018)
Biannual Science & Technology Index shows some TN gains, but weakspots among growth factors

EC says Twende event Feb. 15 coincides with 'Black Innovation & Entrepreneurship Day' proclaimed by Nashville Mayor Cooper (relevance: 20.8%, date: Feb 14, 2022)
Updated: VC Marcus Whitney, entrepreneurs Victoria Butler, Courtney Hale are empaneled to share and to judge presentations.

FINTECH: TN AG Skrmetti joins USDOJ action vs RealPage, which rejects price-fixing complaints (relevance: 20.6%, date: Aug 24, 2024)
[updated Aug. 26] With apartment, home and shelter pricing and AI deployment top o' mind in U.S. and elsewhere, this is timely.

Apto maps capraises through 2019, targets expat adaptation in U.S., abroad (relevance: 20.4%, date: Nov 28, 2016)
[updated] Startup near-term to add Mandarin, Spanish, Arabic and support for English-speakers abroad.

Launch Tennessee seeks US EDA funding to expand Industry Networks (relevance: 20.4%, date: Aug 16, 2022)
Consumer Products, Advanced Manufacturing, Fintech, would join advanced energy, agritech, mobility, life-sciences concentrations.

LaunchTN IMPACT group grows to 21, with $65.4MM SSBCI decisions due (relevance: 20.3%, date: May 20, 2021)
If Tennessee enlists for SSBCI funding, TTDC investment committee could get pretty busy.

LifeScienceTN report bolsters case for more 'intentional' industry strategy (relevance: 20.2%, date: Nov 19, 2019)
A rigorous study of TN lifesciences is afoot and advocates are clearly positioning to push for public and private support.

NVille startup raises Seed for Solar Site Design, draws strategic interest (relevance: 20.2%, date: Dec 20, 2017)
Construction services marketplace startup rides cresting economic wave, says founder.

Innova Memphis's $75MM farmtech raise advances to first-close at $40MM (relevance: 20.2%, date: Jun 28, 2023)
Team is apparently leaning further into its latest raise, with TAUM now over $100MM.

Gov. Haslam senses Tennessee 'making headway' in tech commercialization (relevance: 20.2%, date: Feb 13, 2017)
LaunchTN CEO agrees it'd be great to have more data and analyses about all this.

MidTN Coalition may launch Lifeworks Accelerator and VC+AI+Data initiatives to deepen Greater Nashville life-sciences ecosystem (relevance: 20%, date: Dec 7, 2021)
[updated] Build Back Better funding via EDA for ventures, biomaking, cyber and more could lift Nashville region's lifesciences ecosystem.

Tennessee entrepreneurs, government
coalesce for COVID-19 counterattack (relevance: 20%, date: Apr 9, 2020)
Opportunities for startup growth and service are plentiful in the new Pandemic Era.

Impact Lab cohort members unveiled by Nashville Social Enterprise Alliance (relevance: 19.9%, date: Jul 18, 2017)
Teams' targets range from community dev, to opioid addiction and improving human rights in apparel supply chain.

Innovation, threats and more at core of US Financial Stability report (relevance: 19.8%, date: Dec 6, 2024)
CRE, cybersec, nonbanks, fintech, investments and mitigating systemic risks among key topics.

Techstars Industries of the Future has drawn 20 deeptechies to Tennessee (relevance: 19.6%, date: Apr 6, 2023)
The accelerator has enlisted startups from 13 other states and 3 other nations. No native TN ventures, yet.

U.S. Marine Veteran forms ECD Capital Partners,
Opportunity Zone Fund in Nashville (relevance: 19.6%, date: Aug 7, 2018)
Federally legislated OZFund prepares for take-off roll in Tennessee.

Mayor Barry seeks 'Nashville Vision' for economic inclusion, empowerment (relevance: 19.6%, date: Sep 30, 2016)
A new platoon of civic-minded influentials picks-up the challenge.

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LaunchTN to ask 5-year, $44MM State support for maturing action plan (relevance: 19.2%, date: Jul 23, 2018)
Brock steams ahead, with a successor CEO likely to be tapped before year-end.