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Posted on:  January 16, 2025TTDC-LaunchTN board gets earful on importance of prepping + retaining vital talent in TN.Posted on:  December 24, 2024Serial entrepreneur's Brim Analytics helps accelerate and advance research, pharma-clinical trials, medical student preparation and more.Posted on:  August 18, 2024Co-founder Abhishek Dubey PhD has led much of the R&D and deployment this startup is leveraging.Initiative seeks economic expansion and inclusive prosperity.Posted on:  January 24, 2024By:  By Milt Capps  Updated 8 March 2024UPDATED 8 March 2024 A myriad of scheduled events lies just ahead and we're pointing you to several dozen in this collection.Posted on:  November 9, 2023RTI report illuminates TN funding + performance lag, advancement opportunitiesPosted on:  August 26, 2023Scenario: VU could garner up to $422MM, as fight against neurospsych disorders, degenerative diseases advances.Posted on:  April 20, 2023While budget heads to Leadership and then to the Governor, the LaunchTN board preps for road ahead.Posted on:  November 15, 2022A baker's-dozen of venture updates, including ClearTrack, TraceFemcare, Writerly, Invergarry, Swingzen and more.Posted on:  August 11, 2022Five TN cities home to 10 Engine candidates seeking to strengthen region's entrepreneurship, innovation ecosystem.Posted on:  December 7, 2021By:  By Milt Capps    updated[updated] Build Back Better funding via EDA for ventures, biomaking, cyber and more could lift Nashville region's lifesciences ecosystem.Posted on:  August 17, 2021By:  By Milt Capps  updated[Updated] Tech-advancement may be among programs getting fresh look, with funding increased and likely to grow further.Posted on:  August 5, 202130 actionable newsbits on capital raises, execs, pandemic and events, relocations and more.Opry Entertainment exec eyes YUDU, Shore Cap, Wellview, Martin Ventures, ProCredEx, NOFs and more.VU-propelled startup, AI for VC, MB Ventures, Claritas, Harbert, McWhorter, lifesci fund, ed tech, SBIR, and more...By:  By Milt Capps   Updated 30 Sept. 2021UPdated - EDA's Build to Scale is assessing three 2021 entrepreneurship, commercialization proposals from Memphis.TN U.S. Senators oppose Innovation bill over China issues, capital raises, big day for Uncle Nearest, new startup cohorts, EIR + grant invitations,Posted on:  April 28, 2021Current and future startups being spawned by TTO focused on commercializing innovation.ETN startup Stone Mountain Tech maps capital, foresees global reach, hundreds of homegrown E.TN jobs.Posted on:  March 30, 2021By:  By Milt Capps Updated May 12, 2021[Updated] Late-breaking budget amendment proposal may improve odds for funding core SBIR-STTR grant-matching program.Posted on:  March 29, 2021By:  By Milt Capps - Updated Sept. 15, 2021Today: ObjectiveGI | AgAdvisory | EPI Capital | TechTrans | IPE | Lemonade | IMAC | SESAC | Agilon | NikolaWhite House scitech advisors suggest AI, biotech, comms, quantum infoscience, advanced manufacturing initiatives.Posted on:  March 13, 2020Nearly 30 items of extraordinary range, from capital raises, to exec appointments, uncertainty and more.Serial entrepreneur leverages technology create by Vanderbilt University investigators.Posted on:  February 25, 2020A sample of what VU student and faculty ideas for producing better life experiences.Posted on:  August 5, 2019By:  By Milt Capps updated Aug. 6, 2019[updated] Straight-talking commercialization and capital advisors from Austin, Nashville and Lexington converge, Aug. 29.The startup/venture cauldron bubbles across Tennessee. 40 abstracts here.Mixture of Entrepreneurship and innovation are further stirred and shaken at VU.Posted on:  January 7, 2019Ventures, partnerships accelerate VUMC lifesciences, plus VUMC and VU's independent commercialization programs.Posted on:  December 18, 2018The latest in a series of biannual rankings of the States on science and technology competitiveness.Posted on:  November 29, 2018Teaming with ORNL + Innovation Crossroads, power producer looks tech targets, maybe some surprises.Posted on:  September 27, 2018Regardless of grant outcomes, these strategic proposals warrant scrutiny across Tennessee.Posted on:  August 13, 2018Many of these issues gained salience during the Haslam and Bredesen years.Posted on:  August 10, 2018UT, VU, KY officials see hundreds of successfully exited entrepreneurs possibly leading startup teams.By:  By Larisa Brass and Milt Capps[updated] The applications window will soon open for the DOE-backed technology commercialization program.By:  By Larisa Brass and Milt CappsClean Energy commercialization gets boost via ORNL's Innovation CrossroadsTechnology commercialization venture preps Seed and letter-round raises.By:  adapted from submitted releaseMore nondilutive capital for data-oriented lifesciences company.Posted on:  March 29, 2018Startup's expanding universe of advisors, allies and potential funders may be approaching critical mass.Posted on:  March 19, 2018Startup commercializing VU IP to reduce injury, death and mitigate $50BN annual medical spend.'Erosion' in TN investment? Major IT and software cos' raises, TN fund recruiting, startup updates and more.Incubator management plans to keep potential businesses on-pace for development, commercialization.Posted on:  April 24, 2017Former BioMimetic Therapeutics executives at center of new initiatives.Posted on:  February 13, 2017LaunchTN CEO agrees it'd be great to have more data and analyses about all this.Posted on:  February 13, 2017By:  from submitted statementsPosted on:  January 30, 2017By:  By Milt Capps  SoS Transcript added 31 Jan 0726Gov. Bill Haslam delivers his State of the State Address this evening.Posted on:  April 26, 2016By:  Milt Capps  updated 5:48pmAmerican Sentinel veteran takes the helm in Music City.Posted on:  March 17, 2016Updates on VU venture staff, raises by SmartFurniture and RelevanceCapital and more.Posted on:  March 14, 2016Some new public-private stratagems for commercialization may emerge this spring and summer.By:  Milt Capps  updated 7 May 2018[Updated] Team says rapid Angel-investor enlistment is one reason this is a 'W' for region's LifeSciencesPosted on:  February 16, 2016By:  By Milt Capps  updated with ECD comments 4pm 17 February 2016[updated] Treading carefully to 'get program right', industry aims for step-by-step progress.Posted on:  October 22, 2015Step by step, ECD agent LaunchTN charts a fresh path forward on knotty issue.By:  Milt Capps  Updated 1 Nov. 2015[update] There'll be plenty of interest on-campus and off- for this job.Charlie Brock shares his topmost objectives, and we review a bit of the agenda.By:  Milt Capps  edit 12:49 p.m.Bio veteran Jim Monsor leads pilot effort to deepen TN's startup resourcesPosted on:  March 16, 2015By:  Milt Capps  edits 6:42pmEntrepreneurship, events and attracting capital may have revved-up. 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Not so much.Posted on:  January 27, 2015By:  Milt Capps  Updated 10:02 a.m. 28 January 2015[updated] Litigation, uncertainty over INCITE funding, turnover and more.Posted on:  October 13, 2014By:  Milt Capps  Last updated July 2022[updated] Protecting personal health information resident in electronic medical records is startup's timely focus.Posted on:  October 10, 2014Partners plan to invest mainly human capital in promising startupsPosted on:  October 3, 2014By:  Milt Capps  edits 10:07 a.m. Oct. 4, 2014After a decade widening Nashville's lifesciences entrepreneurship, a strategic move.Posted on:  September 18, 2014VTC CCE director brings lessons learned from his own startups, adjusted for the academic setting.Posted on:  September 15, 2014Doug Schmidt is but one of the sparkplugs firing the school's innovation and commercialization push.By:  Milt Capps  Updated 12:51pm Oct. 27, 2016Index delivers composite image of state's economic development, innovation statusBy:  By Milt Capps  updated 14 May 2013Murfreesboro group seeks to regain traction by serving othersBy:  By Milt Capps  updated 9:01 p.m.Brentwood sister company is among allies for Oak Ridge-linked startupTTDC now seems to be fully staffed to further pro-venture programsPosted on:  November 13, 2012Drug-discovery, partnerships and commercialization among conference highlights Posted on:  November 13, 2012Here's a rundown on this week's venture pitches during LST's annual meetingPosted on:  November 1, 2012By:  By Milt Capps  updated Nov. 21, 2012 6:26 a.m.A true startup leader, investment pros and others are aboard for the continuing relaunchPosted on:  September 12, 2012Med Center and Biomed Engineering faculty and students collaborate in commercialization effortPosted on:  August 6, 2012By:  By Milt Capps  corrected 3:24 p.m.Re-launch puzzle coming into focus; filling the CEO chair is priorityBy:  By Milt Capps     updated 2:17 p.m.The Cyber-industrial complex creates a foothold in Music City, as cyber risks proliferatePosted on:  February 20, 2012Briefings on the state's new regional business accelerators' mission and how to work with them.Posted on:  February 13, 2012IDEAS begins with straight talk from the VU campus about Nashville's IT challenges and opportunitiesPosted on:  February 9, 2012By:  By Milt Capps   updated March 5, 2012Helping doc's pick the right genetic tests is the mission of this Web-based marketplacePosted on:  February 9, 2012By:  By Milt Capps  updated 10:35 a.m.Students have decided they can't wait on the rest of the world to create the great jobs they wantPosted on:  January 30, 2012By:  By Milt Capps   Updated 30 Aug. 2014 9:45 a.m. CT[Updated: Morris departing, 30 Aug 14] Tennessee's 19-year-old growth advocate transits to new leadershipPosted on:  January 2, 2012By:  By Milt Capps    updated Jan. 4, 2012Entrepreneur says she's found more than a good lease in NashvillePosted on:  December 6, 2011By:  By Milt Capps   updated 10:01 a.m.Just days after parent HIG added to its management team, Tri-Star reports it has begun one of Tennessee's larger recent fund raisesPosted on:  December 5, 2011An Owen grad and former Cybera exec puts his venture skills to work for an Alabama startup that's eying NashvillePosted on:  November 7, 2011By:  By VNC Staff  Updated 6:27 p.m.Gleanings from Tennessee media touching upon life-sciences issues and opportunitiesPosted on:  November 7, 2011By:  By Milt Capps  updated 1:55 p.m.Streamweaver 'stealth' no more...Unconference events... ECD budget comments... much more in this regional roundupPosted on:  November 7, 2011By:  By Milt Capps  updated 12:19 p.m.Joe Cook Jr. seems to be executing with precision a gameplan to establish momentum for a still-small sectorPosted on:  September 20, 2011By:  By Milt Capps  Updated 2:08 p.m.Executive transitions, capital raises, alliances and innovations.Posted on:  August 18, 2011By:  By Milt Capps    Updated August 19, 2011  3:38 p.m.Leadership shift was accomplished August 19, with Hagerty now chairman of TTDCTech2020 embraces state initiatives, keeps its own counsel in pressing ahead with regional initiativesTo be the seat of innovation in healthcare delivery, Nashville must attract new capital and novel ideasBy:  By Milt Capps Updated July 7, 2011Remember when things used to slow down for Summer? Tennessee's venture scene seems busier than everBy:  By Milt Capps  Updated 2:47 p.m.Nashville VC's Oak Ridge affiliate has focused one of its startups on commercializing 'the Moses effect'By:  By Milt Capps  Updated June 6, 2011, 9:25 p.m.East TN developments... Entrepreneur Center rebrands Future 50, Nashville 'on the edge' and news roundup.By:  By Milt Capps  Updated 2:41 p.m.No one's surprised to see Fetherling back in venture garb; he earlier invested in Jason Moore's startupBy:  By Milt Capps  Updated 7:05 p.m., May 23, 2011He took a break after his successful exit from Investment Scorecard, now he's pushing his startup toward deeper watersAn overhaul of Tennessee connections, communications and capital is prerequisite to strong gains in commercializationBy:  By Milt Capps   Updated 9:14 a.m.Speaker Harwell's tech agenda.. Schulz on ECD strategy.. new TN tech jobs.. Chattanooga Ventures.. Dream CS, DigiChart and more..By:  By Milt Capps  Updated 12:30 p.m.This economic-development lender is deepening its footprint statewidePosted on:  April 27, 2011' Overhaul and investment ' could lead to accelerated enterprise development from VU research and developmentPosted on:  April 18, 2011Petra, VU commercialization, HealthStream, Sustainability Summit, Owen GSM honors, Unum CIO, entrepreneurs young and older and morePosted on:  April 14, 2011By:  By Milt Capps  Updated 11:53 a.m.Further signals of increasing emphasis on pursuit of opportunities in translational research and tech transfer, commercializationPosted on:  March 21, 2011Two pharmas are already aboard and other allies for accelerating drug development may be in-the-offingBy:  By Milt Capps    updated 3:15 p.m. March 8, 2011VU porfolio co goes elsewhere, TNInvestco company, startup ecosystem spreads, PdCamp, ORNL, MyOutdoorTV and morePosted on:  February 28, 2011Our latest roundup of VU searches, capital raises, marketing pushes, digital music, tech commercialization and morePosted on:  February 22, 2011By:  By Milt Capps  Updated 7:49 a.m.The first of several potential new funds will soon test the waters for venture investmentPosted on:  February 14, 2011By:  By Milt Capps  Updated 4:44 p.m.New chair at lifesciences association..Parental Health update.. Bredesen aide moves.. Silicon Ranch and Venture Incite add staff.. PE investors disappear after liquidation.. bio-entrepreneurs..morePosted on:  February 7, 2011By:  By Milt Capps Updated 7:54 a.m. 9 FebTTDC chief to Gov. Haslam, IP, Claritas, incubators, Angels, Louisville innovation, HiMSS-TN descends on Orlando and morePosted on:  January 3, 2011By:  Milt Capps  Updated 2:43 p.m.Scott Massey to connect leaders, knowledge, culture and commerce to advance the region and its people.Posted on:  January 3, 2011By:  By Milt Capps  Updated 6:03 p.m.After a Dutch-owned firm snaps-up Knoxville startup's technology, the venture team is reloadingPosted on:  December 19, 2010Entrepreneurs are commercializing sensor technology that leverages the ecosystem.By:  By Milt Capps  Last updated Mon., April 5, 2010  12:11 p.m.Nashville and Tennessee are quickly becoming year-round innovation venues, as this sampling of events makes clearPosted on:  March 26, 2010By:  By Milt Capps  Last updated 10:04 p.m.It may be only the tip of the Engineering iceberg at Vanderbilt, but here's a sample of the fruits of education and researchPosted on:  March 11, 2010By:  By Milt Capps  Updated 12:17 p.m.With B-round in offing, CEO says demand 'remarkable' for data-driven alignment of employer trends and providers' servicesBy:  By Milt Capps  Last updated 11:39 a.m.Health care organizations' performance improvement is focus of seed-stage startup by VUMC faculty memberPosted on:  February 24, 2010By:  By Milt Capps  Last updated 4:23 p.m.Lynch cites workforce challenges and the need for more collaboration throughout the region as essential to lift Nashville from lower tier of life-science centersPosted on:  February 18, 2010By:  By Milt Capps  Last updated 8:52 a.m.TTDC forum, TNInvestco website, VU tech transfer, PureSafety, Tricycle, Memphis leadership, and more...Posted on:  February 11, 2010By:  By Milt Capps  Updated 4:40 p.m.Carried-interest threat to VCs' takehome..VU on entrepreneurship..Microloans in the Boro..Solar investment and more...Posted on:  February 8, 2010By:  By Milt Capps  Last updated 9:52 a.m. Feb. 9, 2010Quiet figure behind the scenes of a Vanderbilt-spawned startup steps forward with observations and appreciationPosted on:  February 1, 2010TSU, Vanderbilt, and local business and government may seek to replicate Memphis' initiative in the Capital CityPosted on:  January 28, 2010By:  By Milt Capps  Updated Jan. 29, 2006 7:16 a.m.Biomed venture that spun-out of Oak Ridge National Laboratory now has intellectual property to address heart damagePosted on:  December 22, 2009By:  By Milt Capps  Last updated 4:17 p.m. Dec. 24, 2009Vanderbilt pharma program inches cautiously toward tech transfer, while key faculty member keeps firm hand on the tillerPosted on:  December 16, 2009The boom in genetic research and some apparently market-ready technology suggest an interesting vehicle for early-stage investmentPosted on:  December 16, 2009By:  By Milt Capps Updated 8:50 a.m.Nanotechnology innovation promises better drug delivery for treatment of numerous diseasesPosted on:  December 14, 2009Legislator sees synergies not yet tapped in Middle Tennessee, and wants to see discussion of Tullahoma-centered proposalPosted on:  December 8, 2009By:  By Milt Capps  Last updated 1:54 p.m.Hopes fired, worst fears confirmed in latest iteration of the art form known as venture panelsPosted on:  December 7, 2009By:  By Milt Capps  Last updated 12:40 p.m.UPDATED 12:40 p.m. -- Suddenly, there are two groups targeting VU technology to improvement treatment of degenerative eye diseasesPosted on:  November 24, 2009Congressman argues Mid-TN and corridor could play a bigger role in Defense, Homeland Security and related arenasPosted on:  November 19, 2009By:  By Milt Capps  Last updated 8:10 a.m.If advanced degrees and the tenacity of two athletes can make a difference, this could be the yearPosted on:  November 5, 2009At left, Dr. Harry JacobsonPosted on:  November 4, 2009By:  By Milt Capps  Last updated 9:38 a.m. Nov. 5, 2009Vanderbilt institute gets a key role with ORNL and UT, in scenario for improving university collaboration and state's entrepreneurismPosted on:  October 21, 2009Tennessee Technology Development Corp. faces the proverbial 'Valley of Death' in its own funding, and looks to the Bredesen Administration for a liferopePosted on:  September 28, 2009By:  By Milt Capps Last Updated 5:46 a.m., Sept. 29TTDC gets its second wind, releases funding for technology and commercialization grants, looks toward futurePosted on:  September 17, 2009By:  By Milt Capps Last Updated 4:56 p.m.Christopher Rand's presentation underscores gaps in the capital continuum, but suggests a target-rich environment for seed-stage investorsBy:  By Milt Capps  Last updated 12:16 PM, July 28Those who would be fund managers in the state's new program are taking a close look at the groundrules and the competitionBy:  By Milt Capps Last Updated 8:59 a.m. Oct. 30, 2009[Updated] As the stakes get higher for tech transfer and R&D, UT makes far-reaching changes in governance of its research, licensing and venture armDigital Reasoning, tech transfer, Metro development, Innotec, nTelagent, Memphis venture forum, ICA, M&A, bankruptcies and more...Posted on:  April 21, 2009By:  By Milt Capps Last Updated 1:08 p.m.With ties to key members of the Congressional delegation, M2M has a leg-up in seeking funding of various sortsPosted on:  April 20, 2009By:  By Milt Capps Last Updated 2:29 p.m.Goad reported suing former TVA director, Petra and Innova invest, $20MM the number for startup, tech transfer event, views on IPO climate...Posted on:  February 10, 2009With former VC hired to lead program, grant for entrepreneurship helps flesh-out tech-development ecosystemPosted on:  January 28, 2009Two very different enterprises - Uloop and Pathfinder Therapeutics - are on the money trail, once againPosted on:  December 22, 2008By:  Milt Capps LAST UPDATED Dec. 23 - 8:42 A.M.Rep. Gordon's 6th District was recently inducted into tech-jobs initiative, and now will host a key annual conference Posted on:  November 23, 2008Hundreds of discoveries and patents on-hand, Vanderbilt expands its efforts to commercialize intellectual propertyPosted on:  October 21, 2008By:  Milt Capps Last Updated 11:08 a.m.Life-sciences company says it's still focused on move, but sales lag and economic conditions creating headwindPosted on:  September 4, 2008TTDC convenes investors and scientists in Nashville -- and Chancellor Zeppos announces new money for VU's academic discovery fundPosted on:  September 2, 2008Although slow to crystallize, the Mind2Marketplace technology initiative has won support from a growing number of participants, as it attempts to become a formal organizationPreparing for a visit to Mount Microsoft, this VU Engineering scientist shares his thoughts about his low-profile work in an area some others think could provide further energy for the Big Bang in video-on-demand. Given a glimpse of the findings, one local entrepreneur doesn't find it 'trivial', at all.There are still 21 active portfolio companies over which Chris McKinney says grace. |  |  |