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VU alum Megan Feely raises capital, preps EDDY Aesthetic's market entries

Jun 14, 2024 at 12:00 pm by miltcapps

SINCE MAY 2022, Bay Area-based Founder-CEO and sole designer Megan Eddings Feely has been selling her startup EDDY Aesthetic's elevated-bohemian outfits and accessories for wo.... Read More

Venture Notes - February 7, 2024

Feb 07, 2024 at 09:36 am by miltcapps

Nashville Boston Indy execs eye Zapata AI + Andretti SPAC combo

Oct 31, 2023 at 06:15 pm by miltcapps

Serial entrepreneur with global chops leads talented core. Andretti SPAC eyes 1Q24 closing with Nashville-born Industrial Gen AI firm. News comes as interest in genAI, LLM, Q.... Read More

SPAC: Live Oak Crestview Climate Acquisition Corp may seek new deadline

Sep 07, 2023 at 05:45 pm by miltcapps

UPDATED Nov. 16, 2023 - Live Oak filed Nov. 15, reporting winding-down the program. Sept. 26, 2023 - Stockholders voted to extend the combo deadline til Jan. 12, 2024, SEC fil.... Read More

Innova Memphis's $75MM farmtech raise advances to first-close at $40MM

Jun 28, 2023 at 07:05 am by miltcapps

MEMPHIS-based VC Innova Memphis this morning announced having reached a first close at the $40 MM mark in its planned $75MM campaign for its farmtech-focused Innova Ag Innovat.... Read More

Tennessee's innovators rally toward NSF Regional Innovation Engines

Aug 11, 2022 at 02:23 pm by miltcapps

THERE ARE AT LEAST 10 teams with strong Tennessee roots that have signaled they are prepared to compete for major, potentially transformative grant funding through the Nationa.... Read More

SaaS: ESG Impact exits beta, seeks capital, opts for VU Wond'ry Founder

May 03, 2022 at 03:14 pm by miltcapps

Update Nov. 7 2022: The company rebranded to Atmos AI Inc. as of Oct. 1, 2022. ESG careers link here. ESG IMPACT Inc. (ESGi) Co-founder Max Mona confirmed that his revenue-gen.... Read More

Menūd, Plankk merge for growth via fitness influencers, pro's, brands, fans

Sep 11, 2020 at 02:01 pm by miltcapps

MENŪD Co. and Plankk Technologies Inc., two software startups that had been collaborating for more than a year, recently tied the merger knot, in order to accelerate their exp.... Read More

'Build To Scale' entries target TN entrepreneurial pipeline, capital, rural

Aug 04, 2020 at 03:24 pm by miltcapps

UPDATE: US Commerce EDA announced Sept. 16, 2020, that the CoLab proposal below was a WINNER. Scroll down.-Ed. THREE NEW proposals from Tennessee ask the federal Economic Deve.... Read More

Launch Tennessee names Partnerships Coordinator

Jul 18, 2019 at 03:36 pm by miltcapps

ASHLIN WILDUN shouldered her duties as partnerships coordinator a week or so ago within Launch Tennessee, aka Tennessee Technology Development Corporation, TTDC. Wildun was fo.... Read More

TN-based Genera Energy raises $118MM to advance Earthable line

Jul 17, 2019 at 02:45 pm by miltcapps

Genera Energy Inc., dba Genera, has secured "more than $118MM" in new investment to develop its first manufacturing facility for production of its Earthable® agricultural fibe.... Read More

TN General Assembly, Lobbyists + Clients engage on ed, tech,<br>medicine, taxes, myriad other issues

Feb 04, 2019 at 04:00 pm by miltcapps

DREW Rawlins, the executive director of the Tennessee Bureau of Ethics and Campaign Finance -- where he has served 28 years in one role or another -- told Venture Nashville la.... Read More

Venture Notes - January 23, 2019

Jan 23, 2019 at 03:45 pm by miltcapps

VentureTools: Moonlighting while Starting-Up

Feb 13, 2012 at 06:34 am by miltcapps

WHETHER you're the owner, or not, your Startup may be imperiled by someone "moonlighting" in second employment. That's one of the tidbits found in scanning articles on the to.... Read More

ERM Legal Solutions startup is thinking big beyond its $1.25MM A round

Feb 13, 2012 at 06:08 am by miltcapps

ERM Legal Solutions, the Nashville startup that provides software for management of complex legal projects, is easing into a $1.25 MM A Round, according to Larry Bridgesmith,.... Read More

Life Science Tennessee sets priorities, rallies industry,<br>leverages support of Gov. Bill Haslam for commercialization

Nov 07, 2011 at 07:49 am by miltcapps

Life Science Tennessee has fewer than 80 corporate members today, but will soon be knocking on doors of nearly 700 non-member firms within the state, as well as strategizing t.... Read More

BIONewsTN, Nov. 7, 2011

Nov 07, 2011 at 06:29 am by miltcapps

Pitt Hyde ► University of Tennessee Research Foundation is host for "Invention to Venture" Friday, Nov. 11, for those interested in entrepreneurship i.... Read More

Regional Roundup, Nov. 7, 2011

Nov 07, 2011 at 05:48 am by miltcapps

Erik Carlson Streamweaver may be in self-avowed "stealth" mode, but LinkedIn indicates the TNInvestco-backed company is the result of an acquisition and it has a new.... Read More

NewsBits, April 18, 2011

Apr 18, 2011 at 09:38 am by miltcapps

Commercialization: Vanderbilt University School of Engineering Center for Intelligent Mechatronics (CIM): Irvine, Calif.-based Freedom Innovations announced worldwide l.... Read More

Launch Like it Counts: LifeKraze eyeing $5MM B-round

Apr 18, 2011 at 07:48 am by miltcapps

Update: LifeKraze announced 28 October 2013 it had changed its name to Spire. Our 2011 intro story follows-Ed. LIFEKRAZE, the pro-active social media platform based in.... Read More

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