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Epicenter CEO: Mobilizing Black-owned firms can bring Memphis surge (relevance: 4.1%, date: Jan 15, 2019)
With Black-owned ventures front and center, CEO shares playbook for forging just, inclusive, growing regional economy.

Briovation drops Festival V, will instead draw on Health:Further
as it pursues innovation advisory roles + investor entrée (relevance: 4.1%, date: Jan 22, 2019)
Co-founders Gatto & Whitney keep tacking in healthcare's crosswinds, complete 6th capraise of $21MM, its largest to date.

Vanderbilt University Innovation Center's first chief to be Robert Grajewski (relevance: 4%, date: Feb 1, 2016)
[updated] North Carolina-based entrepreneur and scholar begins work April 1.

Mayor O'Connell, Nashville Chamber close gap, uplift AI, spotlight BNA chief (relevance: 4%, date: Oct 24, 2023)
Speakers seemed to strike genuinely responsive chords among the audience.

Edtech: RANDA Solutions says growth precedes outside-money decision (relevance: 4%, date: Feb 25, 2019)
CEO has deflected suitor interest, but after RANDA expands to more states, investment may get a re-think.

FINTECH: Franklin-based Core10's Series A propelled by FINTOP Capital (relevance: 3.9%, date: Nov 27, 2017)
Nashville entrepreneur Joe Maxwell's win-win strategy spurs 'here-shoring' initiative.

Whitney unmasks Jumpstart Nova VC focused on Black-led HC companies (relevance: 3.9%, date: Jan 12, 2022)
[Updated] Four Black-led companies are already in the portfolio of $55MM fund, with a half-dozen more deals likely in the next 12 months.

Reporter's Notebook:
VU Music, Mind & Society Program may feed Nashville innovation (relevance: 3.9%, date: Aug 15, 2016)
Within this scientific work are pain-points that could spawn inventions, innovations and startups.

Roadtrip! Memphis Demo Day startups beckon entrepreneurs, investors (relevance: 3.8%, date: Jul 18, 2018)
Consider going: Array of startups queued-up for the Aug. 16 culmination of 'Summer of Acceleration'

ECD-LaunchTN's 3686 could spike capital, entrepreneurial velocity (relevance: 3.8%, date: Sep 27, 2022)
Fintech entrepreneur Eric Satz (AltoIRA) is one of 60+ VCs, entrepreneurs, advisors playing 3686 Festival roles.

Tech-talented VU School of Engineering alumni quickly spread afar (relevance: 3.7%, date: Feb 5, 2016)
The local shortage of computer science, other engineering talent oft-cited, while recruiters swarm.

Venture Notes -- April 8, 2019 (relevance: 3.5%, date: Apr 8, 2019)
Weaver mulls spinout, Angels active, fintech adds, SiRanch bucks, tech commercialization, Briovation bread on the waters and more...

Jeff Cohu now leads Center for Entrepreneurship at Lipscomb University (relevance: 3.5%, date: Mar 15, 2019)
Entrepreneurship, innovation, social impact, blockchain, networking are threads running in parallel.

Harry Jacobson, Tony Harkin advance iCitizen civic-engagement platform (relevance: 3.5%, date: Dec 31, 2021)
Veteran investor, serial entrepreneur and data scientist advance civil engagement platform, mull capital raise.

Transparency Health startup BaseCamp seeks partners + Ascend adopters (relevance: 3.4%, date: Jul 9, 2020)
Backed by Transparency Health and Noon Management, this TN startup aims to help folks get safely back to work or school.

Nashville's Global VC Ecosystem Rankings miss might spur imagination (relevance: 3.4%, date: Oct 20, 2023)
Tennessee cities can take reinforcement from the dynamics reflected in analysts' methodology.

Venture Notes 14 July 2016 (relevance: 3.4%, date: Jul 14, 2016)
[updated] A baker's dozen oughta-reads on startups and capital from around the state.

FINTECH: Leaf virtual banking startup eyes global markets, capital raises (relevance: 3.3%, date: Dec 1, 2017)
[updated] A seasoned crossborder entrepreneur says he's homesteading in Nashville, for now.

CEO: Gimme Radio $3MM raise targets Country, Metal artist-fan engagement (relevance: 3.3%, date: May 24, 2021)
Tyler Lenane relo'd to Nashville from San Francisco to ramp a series of online communities built around music genres.

Monique Villa Capra holds pivotal role in ECD-LaunchTN $1BN SSBCI vision (relevance: 3.2%, date: Aug 29, 2022)
U.S. Treasury verdict still out, but more staff being recruited for developing TN ecosystem's capital stack.

Healthcare accelerator pact among Company Lab, Erlanger, Unum
leverages Chattanooga's broad innovation impulse (relevance: 3.2%, date: Nov 1, 2018)
Months and years of ecosystem development might help make Chattanooga an 'overnight' entrepreneurial success.

Venture Notes - December 2, 2021 (relevance: 3.1%, date: Dec 2, 2021)
Silicon Ranch, Claritas, Resolute, Innova and other PE/VC and corporate fundraising, plus news on two-dozen startups.

Gun.io CEO keeps finger off fund-raising trigger, outlines broad ambitions (relevance: 3.1%, date: Feb 25, 2015)
[updated] Founder on a mission sees world of opportunity, with a dash of charlatanism, here and there.

COPILOT TRAVEL remaps capital, pursues pent-up leisure-trip surge (relevance: 3.1%, date: Apr 5, 2022)
Local CEO adds advisors, launches project involving American Airlines, eyes international scale

Innovator AgLaunch seeks EDA grant for agrifood value-chain disruption (relevance: 3.1%, date: Aug 17, 2022)
UPDATES Memphis-based hub sees diversity, agtech, national ecosystem development and innovation acceleration as vital.