Jim Phillips

Venture Notes -- October 18, 2019

Oct 18, 2019 at 10:45 am by miltcapps

Pharos Capital Partners Fund IV-A filing eyes $250M healthcare investing

Oct 10, 2019 at 04:30 pm by miltcapps

Updated 25 July 2024: Pharos filed 23 July 2024 updating Pharos Capital Partners LP to nearly $184.2MM in. On Nov. 22, 2022, Pharos updated Pharos Capital IV-A (fka Pharos Cap.... Read More

Venture Calendar - 2018 - Updated

Dec 31, 2018 at 07:30 am by miltcapps

Also Visit : 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | January 15 - Rev. Martin Luther King Day Observed. January 16 - CEO-CTO meetup, VU, The Wond'ry, details here. January.... Read More

Drug-discovery linchpin PMI BioPharma Solutions hoists flag in Tennessee

Sep 19, 2018 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

CHARTERED less than a year ago, PMI BioPharma Solutions LLC of Nashville and Celina, Tenn., is a privately held contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) that.... Read More

Hytch LLC arrives intersection of cars, carbon and Series A capital

Sep 12, 2018 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

Updated 2 March 2020: Hytch announced new transport partnership with City of South Bend, of which Pete Buttigieg is mayor. Hytch earlier announced adoption within San Francisc.... Read More

CEO: XMi Acquisition has $15MM dry powder, more M&A moves likely

Oct 25, 2017 at 04:55 pm by miltcapps

XMi Acquisition CEO Jim Phillips told Venture Nashville his firm has ties to a handful of funds with about $15MM in aggregate capital available for investments and XMi has its.... 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

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

Venture Notes - 24 February 2017

Feb 24, 2017 at 01:00 pm by miltcapps

Capital raises to advance Smart-RIA platform among investment advisor

Feb 24, 2017 at 11:45 am by miltcapps

Eyeing Owen MBA, Vrion founder may apply Sohr Grant to Tech needs

Jan 13, 2016 at 02:15 pm by miltcapps

WAITING for a check represents a sort of baptism of fire for freshly minted entrepreneurs. That's particularly true when they're like Vrion Holdings Founder Trisha Fridrich, w.... Read More

Nashville entrepreneur Mike Shmerling offers Seed Capital reality-check

Jan 11, 2016 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

MIKE SHMERLING, chairman of Nashville-based XMi Holdings, said that while tax-funded capital-formation programs such as Tennessee's TNInvestco certainly "have their place," co.... Read More

Updated: LaunchTN board of directors

Jul 20, 2015 at 02:00 pm by miltcapps

LAUNCHTN's Chairman Randy Boyd and three new board members are highlighted below. For other incumbent board members' bios, please visit the LaunchTn website here. An asterisk.... Read More

Tennessee VCs and institutional partners ask opinions on ecosystem

Jul 20, 2015 at 09:00 am by miltcapps

VNC's previous reporting on exploration of the concept of the TennesSeed POC Fund is located here. Release below provided July 15, 2015, by Grady Vanderhoofven of Meritus Ven.... Read More

Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, experts sought for LSTN statewide network

May 04, 2015 at 12:00 pm by miltcapps

LIFESCIENCE entrepreneurs-in-residence, mentors and other experts are being recruited to provide startup founders additional savvy and connections for their fledgling Tennesse.... Read More

XMi Holdings' XMi High Growth & Opportunity Fund sets $20MM fund raise

Apr 30, 2015 at 04:00 pm by miltcapps

XMi High Growth & Opportunity Fund LP, affiliated with Nashville-based XMi Holdings, yesterday reported to the SEC that it is pursuing a $20MM fund raise, and as of April.... Read More

M&A ahead: Fetherling's Perception Health<br> teams with PYA Analytics, XSolis/Advent

Sep 19, 2014 at 11:30 am by miltcapps

PERCEPTION HEALTH LLC entrepreneur Tod Fetherling's latest data startup, long anticipated in some quarters, has launched with healthcare analytics allies and eyes selective ac.... Read More

VentureNotes: Jumpstart Foundry, TNovation initiative

Sep 19, 2014 at 11:15 am by miltcapps

Updated 27 Oct. 2014: Jumpstart confirmed its shift to Healthcare-only, at least for the 2015 cohort, because JSF's had best success in that vertical.-Ed. JUMPS.... Read More

Technology Entrepreneurship Task Force<br> advances at VU School of Engineering

Sep 15, 2014 at 03:46 pm by miltcapps

BEDROCK blasting is set to begin Wednesday morning for construction of the new Engineering and Science Building of the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering (VUSE), whic.... Read More

HealthTech: Stratasan sharpens messages ahead of capital-raise decision

Sep 11, 2014 at 08:00 am by miltcapps

STRATASAN, the healthcare intelligence data management company based in Nashville, is putting fresh emphasis on sharpening its communications and is considering raising.... Read More

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