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Alchemist Accelerator propels Memphis Hub alongside Epicenter, Ridgeline (relevance: 20.9%, date: Mar 6, 2023)
Influential Bay Area accelerator reserves seats in global accelerator for qualified businesses.

Obit: Bob Duthie, Nortel+GTE exec who built e-learning biz in Nashville (relevance: 20.1%, date: Jul 23, 2023)
Through it all, this groundbreaking tech founder's journey spanned decades.

Chris Hefley advances LLM As A Service toward market, maps capital raise (relevance: 19.9%, date: Sep 9, 2024)
Serial tech entrepreneur says he won't 'dilly-dally' in raising money to address AI opportunity.

Erstwhile Nashville change-agent Ratliff leads AdaptX amid capraises (relevance: 19.9%, date: Nov 21, 2023)
Where Are They Now? series traces current and former Nashville influentials having impact here and elsewhere.

DigitalSelf eyes $300MM raise, has 'major' focus here + fan of Nashville SC (relevance: 19.7%, date: Nov 20, 2023)
CEO sees office open in Nashville by January, major focus on Music City brands and other targets.

Memphis: VC Ridgeline Ventures Fund II reports raising $28MM+ (relevance: 19.5%, date: Sep 19, 2024)
Targets businesses with solutions for complex enterprises.

Socialmedia entrant PARLER raises $22MM + CloutHub too eyes Music City (relevance: 19.4%, date: Jan 7, 2022)
[updated] Nashville-based PARLER and peer platforms rev-up funding and stride line between discourse and mere cacophony.

BullVC eyes $75MM raise, aims to help founders, teams sell startup shares (relevance: 19.4%, date: Nov 30, 2020)
[Updated] New firm seems industry agnostic, tech-oriented, with entrepreneurial, financial and related experience.

Greater Nashville Venture Capital Association advances toward kickoff (relevance: 19.3%, date: Oct 13, 2023)
[updated] Nashville advocates prepare potentially unprecedented stimulus for expansion of the region's capital stack.

CEOs of Titans, Nashville SC likely fans of Music City entrepreneurship (relevance: 19.3%, date: Jun 27, 2024)
Longer term, CEOs Ayre and Nihill seem positioned to create sparks off the pitch, as well as on.

LaunchTN names Kelliher chief investment officer amid SSBCI push (relevance: 19.2%, date: Oct 17, 2023)
Tennessean succeeds Monique Villa.

Capital: Tarby Bryant summons Gathering of Angels from Chattanooga (relevance: 19%, date: Sep 5, 2023)
Four startups -- including one led by a co-founder of Ancestry.com and one by a Chattanooga entrepreneur -- will appear in person.

Shore Capital makes waves raising $640MM+ for industrial, healthcare funds (relevance: 19%, date: Jul 13, 2023)
Chicago-Nashville PE has raised an estimated $2.3BN or more through at least 10 funds, and has $6BN+ assets and related.

Gov. Lee samples major 2021 feats -- no entrepreneurial gains highlighted (relevance: 19%, date: Jan 4, 2022)
Commentary: Does list of TN gains in 2021 reflect actual lack of 'major' entrepreneurial achievements?

Vanderbilt University launching Institute for National Defense & Global Security (relevance: 18.8%, date: Apr 18, 2024)
Summit III speakers' savvy, calibrated comments may contain 'signals' for domestic and global listeners.

Venture Notes - December 1, 2022 (relevance: 18.6%, date: Dec 1, 2022)
[updated] 15 bulletins on newcomer VCs, fintech, healthtech, edtech, Web3, logistitech, materials, med devices and more.

Obit: Nashville's Ed Braswell, 65, serial fintech-payments entrepreneur (relevance: 18.5%, date: Apr 16, 2023)
Entrepreneur's tech gambits had rippling impact. No decision yet on G2Lytics succession.

NW TN's Donaldson leads The Mill's emergence as LaunchTN regional EC (relevance: 18.4%, date: Oct 10, 2023)
After 7 years without a formal regional entrepreneurship partner in NW Tennessee, The Mill contracts for the work.

Ted Townsend: Despite Fed grant miss, Memphis and 'Digital Delta' allies remain undeterred in pursuing Digital Delta initiative (relevance: 18.1%, date: Sep 3, 2022)
Updated 3 September 2022: 8 Tennessee economic-development coalitions pursued federal grants of $25MM+ more each. Only Memphis remained in the hunt.

CME-CE startup ConveyMED begins $2MM Seed for mobile audio platform (relevance: 17.9%, date: May 12, 2022)
Continuing-ed content purveyor also sees Series A + diverse markets ahead in U.S. and beyond.

Nashville Mayor O'Connell taps campaign treasurer Isaac Addae as Metro's business engagement, entrepreneurship lead (relevance: 17.7%, date: Oct 6, 2023)
A fresh look at Nashville innovation-entrepreneurship ecosystem, and specifically EC ties, seems in-the-offing.

Michael Dukes' brand coming to life in high-touch Royal Circus retailer (relevance: 17.5%, date: Aug 15, 2017)
[Updated] Decades after busking in Paris, adopting a child in Nepal and building brands for others, Nashvillian unfurls new banner.

Lead Capital Partners' ApolloLIMS seeks growth in sector 'ripe' for M&A (relevance: 17.4%, date: Feb 24, 2020)
[updated] PE-backed lab optimization company ramps sales, regards M&A as future option.

Tennessee Technology Development Corporation dba Launch Tennessee pilots statewide TTAC consortium (relevance: 17.1%, date: Sep 8, 2023)
Pilot project could lead to bolstering state's tech transfer and commercialization.

Menūd, Plankk merge for growth via fitness influencers, pro's, brands, fans (relevance: 16.8%, date: Sep 11, 2020)
Nashville+ Calgary startups partnered more than a year, chose to merge, now raising capital.