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Our key events list shows Tennessee's 2025 Venture + Innovation calendar is bubbling-up, not yet at full boil.

Serial entrepreneur's Brim Analytics helps accelerate and advance research, pharma-clinical trials, medical student preparation and more.

Multiple indigenous candidates may be queuing. It remains to be seen how widely NTC will cast its net.

Announcement occurs amid rising allies, assets and challenges for Metro Nashville entrepreneurship and innovation.

Posited: 'U.S. healthcare is broken...Unless and until employers, consumers, elected officials and community leaders step up, nothing will change.'

Sadly, iconic financial professional passed on the 16th anniversary of our only prior coverage of him.

VNC updates impending shifts, updates campus entrepreneurship, pitch contest and more

Action, Community, Empowerment (ACE) to support advance of Women in AI

LCP has acquired control of eight companies since its inception in 2011.

[updated] Entering Year 2 of backing by Vanderbilt University, nonprofit seeks sustained momentum.

CRE, cybersec, nonbanks, fintech, investments and mitigating systemic risks among key topics.

UPDATED: The offering attracted 27 investors, according to this week's SEC filing.

Nonetheless, all hands are likely to keep a weather eye peeled.

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

Seeking more institutional standing for JHI funds, with reduced potential for political-regulatory risk.

Founder exits EC Project Fintech, completes F&F round, maps $3MM round

UPDATED Next NTC leader will follow Elise Cambournac's term, ending 12/31/24

UPDATED Winners announced among dozens of young companies

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

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

Ahead: AI council's 2nd meeting, a milestone in '25 and a 4-year ramp amid enthusiasm and uncertainty.

Today, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is scheduled in Nashville to address the NABE.

PE seeks leadership in industry transformation, no interest in being 'zeitgeist'-driven fund with 'impact' label affixed.

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

Tennessee-based applicants have yet to win a seat ahead of more competitive out-of-state entrants.

Propelled by aggressive ecosystem builders whose 121 Tech Hub rivals Fund in salience.

Targets businesses with solutions for complex enterprises.

Serial tech entrepreneur says he won't 'dilly-dally' in raising money to address AI opportunity.

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

Whatever your stage, act now to present Alchemist ideas, experience for surmounting supply-chain challenges.

Chosen exec is to provide strategic leadership for the Brock Family Center for Applied Innovation

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

Short fuse: Metro hiring to fill pivotal role in entrepreneurship, innovation slot open.

[updated Aug. 26] With apartment, home and shelter pricing and AI deployment top o' mind in U.S. and elsewhere, this is timely.

CEO says Nashville 'uniquely' ready for scalable ventures and partnerships that advance health equity.

[updated] VU makes clear it's looking at mission-oriented options, including new Florida presence, to increase its impact.

Co-founder Abhishek Dubey PhD has led much of the R&D and deployment this startup is leveraging.

Despite transition to independent operations, Center's Bankable Bootcamp is taking applications.

Arkansas native joins from exec ranks of a Texas power cooperative.

Startups, growthcos or enterprises can start AI governance journey quickly without sapping resources.

Two pivots in, this clinical technology management platform lashes its future to a kinetic sector.

It's early days in AI usage for content, but risks to brand are real and immediate.

Market and tradeoff assessments, rapid development and accreditation yield a win for university and Nashville.

[updated] Pols Trump, Kennedy, Hagerty, Blackburn to join throngs of cryptocurrency and related fans in Music City

Catalyst allies Metro Housing Division, Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, First Horizon, Vanderbilt University, et al.

Longer term, CEOs Ayre and Nihill seem positioned to create sparks off the pitch, as well as on.

Are too many actors are 'worrying too little' about sanctions and-or prosecution under securities laws?

Initiative seeks economic expansion and inclusive prosperity.

Leading the charge in our region is Christopher Sugden.

Platoon of fellow Vanderbilt alumni investors congregate around Bay Area startup.

Surely some think Austin or Raleigh is sitting in Nashville's future seat on this leaderboard.

Opre team anchors locally, aims for growth that helps spawn wealth and regional capital resources.

[updated] Founder David Trainer may have hit a true inflection point, amid an evolving, target-rich environment.

Owner and CEO Bill Farr is on his fourth tech venture, prepping options for funding runway.

CoMobility Summit could fire-up Chattanooga alliances for data, energy, mobility, workforce pushes

President Farabaugh builds reliability for platform clients, cashflow for parent Core10 + sees future suitors likely.

Nashville Entrepreneur Center's unique-in-state ProjectFintech, backed by ECD & LaunchTN, closes 2.0 window May 3.

Dr. Rick Mukhurjee relocating from Germany to Chattanooga to lead UTC Quantum Center initiatives.

20 bullets on up-and-comers, investors, startups, investors and more.

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

Startup veteran structures company, sets priorities with growth and independence in mind.

Project Fintech, Montecito, Altitude VC, SubSplit, Sharecare, Claritas, EQL Games, Melt Pharma

Depending on market conditions, there could be more dividends and share buybacks, as well as deals.

Relevance, Skoden eye targets, lean into NACIA push to close capital gap facing Native entrepreneurs

Local VC association advances, updates on Lasso, Whistler, AgyleAI, Terry's On3, Investor Ten31, Herowear, and more...

Leaders to consult with experts, local stakeholders as they look to generate impetus akin to city's 1Gig push.

Updates: Accelerator revival, Lodestone Advisory, Homeware, We Are Nations, Mamaya Health

14-year-old EC prioritizes community, program-member alignment, revenue, capital connection.

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.

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

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

WAP founder-CEO says he's no classic sector consolidator, but eyes more value-adding technologies for his platform.

[updated] Such small steps as this often lead somewhere interesting.

UPDATED Okay, we're easy, but it's good to see Nashville CPG products flying-off grocery shelves.