Jim Sohr

Pointing growth-oriented Founders to NVL's 6th Dealmakers Conference

Feb 07, 2025 at 08:58 am by miltcapps

Update: Due to Winter weather, this event rescheduled to May 1, 2025. Details. The link to the VNC Reader discount included in the story below remains available. IN 12.... Read More

Venture Notes - February 3, 2022

Feb 03, 2022 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

Venture Notes - Aug. 5, 2021

Aug 05, 2021 at 10:00 am by miltcapps

Venture Notes - June 30, 2021

Jun 30, 2021 at 07:45 am by miltcapps

Venture Notes - Sept. 15, 2020

Sep 15, 2020 at 04:00 pm by miltcapps

LifeScienceTN report bolsters case for more 'intentional' industry strategy

Nov 19, 2019 at 04:30 pm by miltcapps

TED TOWNSEND, who is now in his second term as chairman of the board of Life Science Tennessee Inc., recently told Venture Nashville that the time is ripe for new plans for th.... Read More

Venture Notes - October 24, 2019

Oct 24, 2019 at 11:00 am by miltcapps

Leadership open as Nashville Fashion Alliance runs out of runway, dissolves

May 06, 2019 at 02:41 pm by miltcapps

NASHVILLE FASHION ALLIANCE, which was launched in 2014 to accelerate development of local fashion-industry businesses, advisors and jobs, was dissolved a few days ago. V.... Read More

Venture Notes - April 24, 2019

Apr 24, 2019 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

Emerging blockchain-industry is focus of TokenizeTN skull session at ECD

Oct 23, 2018 at 05:30 pm by miltcapps

STAKEHOLDERS in the creation, growth and connectedness of blockchain- or distributed ledger-enabled jobs and wealth creation in Tennessee gathered twice within the past 24 hou.... Read More

Venture Notes - October 19, 2018

Oct 19, 2018 at 01:30 pm by miltcapps

LifeScienceTN chairman is now UM's Townsend, former ECD Staff Chief

May 04, 2018 at 04:15 pm by miltcapps

EARLIER this week, Ted Townsend was named chairman of Life Science Tennessee, the advocate for the industry that spans research, products, devices, equipment and other goods a.... Read More

7th Round: Latest Sohr Grants help fund tenant-matching,<br>carp-harvesting startups led by VU Owen alumni

May 02, 2018 at 02:30 pm by miltcapps

The OwenGSM at VU __ Romance? Shrewdness? Chaos driven by the flapping of entrepreneurial butterfly wings? __ Who really knows what causes Founders to fix their gaze.... Read More

WeCounsel relocates headquarters to Franklin from Chattanooga

Apr 30, 2018 at 11:40 am by miltcapps

WeCounsel Solutions, creator of the VisuWell telehealth technology platform, has relocated its headquarters to Franklin from Chattanooga, said Sam Johnson, who is the startup'.... Read More

Local advisors: Punching Nun's Cecconi has advised 25+ portfolio companies

Mar 05, 2018 at 12:15 pm by miltcapps

It's little wonder Amanda Cecconi found her career in helping companies that are competing for market share, the lifeblood of venture-backed businesses. After all, the woman w.... Read More

Venture Notes - 6 December 2017

Dec 06, 2017 at 04:00 pm by miltcapps

FINTECH: Leaf virtual banking startup eyes global markets, capital raises

Dec 01, 2017 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

Updated: On July 2, 2019, Leaf filed for a $145K raise involving 2 investors. On Dec. 12, 2017, Leaf learned that it had won a Sohr grant of $25K. Robinson pitched in the Sohr.... Read More

Sohr-backed MEDarchon taps CEO, puts growth ahead of any capital raise

May 08, 2017 at 03:30 pm by miltcapps

THIS might have been 'just another healthIT startup story', if the grave harm often caused by medical errors wasn't so shocking and if MEDarchon was not making some very strik.... Read More

Mid-TN's SafeSurv preps $1MM capital raise for ID validation startup

May 08, 2017 at 11:30 am by miltcapps

CHARLIE Jordan, the Hendersonville native now CEO of ID scan and validation startup SafeSurv today confirmed the company plans to raise $1MM to ramp marketing and begin addres.... Read More

Jim Phillips CEO of relaunched XMI backed by Engelbrecht's SCI of Evansville

May 02, 2017 at 09:56 am by miltcapps

Updated July 25, 2017: XMI announced it bought 6-year-old accounting/CFO outsourced services company, ConServ Business Services, based in Nashville. XMI said in a release it n.... Read More

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