News & Views

Scratching the surface, we get 24+ interesting events from around the state of Tennessee.

Nashville team could invest up to $25MM in each attractive B2B Services or Healthcare deal done.

Looks like the FINTECH program has grown legs and may keep an interesting travel agenda.

Council Fellows 2025 may weigh healthcare fortunes & flaws

Digital health flywheel named executive director overseeing expanding UK-anchored global ecosystems in the US

Keynoters include Mark Cuban, speaker/attendee ranks include VU Alumni + VU allies seeking innovation connections.

Nashville investors expand interest in healthtech growth company's prospects in perioperational vendor management.

[updated] Startups in Nashville Cluster may need to adjust funding plans during region's opportunity bulge.

TTDC-LaunchTN board gets earful on importance of prepping + retaining vital talent in TN.

10-founder cohorts seen as assets for accelerated empowerment, innovation that strengthen region.

Updates on new SSM fund, Mobius AI, Ulys Holdings, Azra AI, Lone Oaks' next SPAC, NashvilleSC shifts

With applications deadline in 78 days, VC execs prep for first 'AcceleratorPlus' cohort, to be followed this fall by a second.

Updates on RepScrubs, fintech SPIDR, Market Square raise, Capacity Capital, Remote Care, RAAPID medtech, and Belle.

[Updated] Senior Capital Associate Lasawni Reynolds among recruits tackling SSBCI and related opportunities.

17-year Chamber staff member gets the nod from Chamber board, as Partner 2030 advances 5-year plan.

Solo GP files to raise $10MM, builds-out investment committee and platform.

[Updated] Applications window to open in June 2025 and close in July. Four to six seats to be filled.

CEO Jimmy St Louis leverages PE firm's platform model and growing Nashville presence.

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?

Links to Ascent, B2B Activate, Cache, ExpressWages, Halitra startups.

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.