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Chamber's Leadership Connect empowers competitive SMB and entrepreneurial owners for business and community gains (relevance: 45%, date: Jan 14, 2025)
10-founder cohorts seen as assets for accelerated empowerment, innovation that strengthen region.

TVA is looking to startups to help solve its big energy problems (relevance: 44.8%, date: Nov 29, 2018)
Teaming with ORNL + Innovation Crossroads, power producer looks tech targets, maybe some surprises.

Touching base: Van Tucker, John Murdock on growing TN Angel capital (relevance: 44.8%, date: May 24, 2021)
A simple question, because the issue of early-stage capital formation in TN probably warrants further discussion.

FOH&BOH: Nashvillians raise capital to soothe global Hospitality painpoint (relevance: 44.7%, date: Dec 2, 2019)
VC led signal raise, now founders map a Seed-plus + Series A to take turnover solution to market.

LaunchTN leverages State, EDA funding to spark Nashville EC and Proof Programs industry networks for Fintech, Consumer Products (relevance: 44.7%, date: Jan 30, 2023)
[Updated] Network teams led by Jane Allen and Michael Robinson will be unwrapping details soon.

Minding the Gap: Re:Generate funds grants for Black, Hispanic founders (relevance: 44.4%, date: Dec 20, 2023)
Entrepreneurs and change-agents focus on early capital access for founders of color.

New $75MM+ Nashville Catalyst Fund to create, preserve, develop affordable housing (relevance: 44%, date: Jun 28, 2024)
Catalyst allies Metro Housing Division, Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, First Horizon, Vanderbilt University, et al.

Jeff Cohu now leads Center for Entrepreneurship at Lipscomb University (relevance: 43.9%, date: Mar 15, 2019)
Entrepreneurship, innovation, social impact, blockchain, networking are threads running in parallel.

Keckley Health System Manifesto, December 18, 2024 (relevance: 43.8%, date: Dec 18, 2024)
Posited: 'U.S. healthcare is broken...Unless and until employers, consumers, elected officials and community leaders step up, nothing will change.'

Nashville ECD Director Pogue reaches out, preps plan, mulls target options (relevance: 43.7%, date: Jun 9, 2021)
Veteran of finance, recruitment and development and other fields cites fintech as hypothetical target vertical.

TN ECD, LaunchTN, allies await $117M SSBCI impact-funding call (relevance: 43.1%, date: Aug 8, 2022)
$1BN+ impact could rise in TN in decade of mobilizing investment capital and lending power.

Haslam Admin asks GenAssembly for Angel Tax Credit to mobilize early-stage investors and energize Tennessee 'Angel ecosystem' (relevance: 43%, date: Jan 15, 2016)
[updated] ECD Commissioner Randy Boyd expresses strong support for bill enrolled this week.

CEO: XMi Acquisition has $15MM dry powder, more M&A moves likely (relevance: 42.8%, date: Oct 25, 2017)
With access to funds that have total $50MM AUM, XMi believes it can complete 1-2 deals per year.

BullVC eyes $75MM raise, aims to help founders, teams sell startup shares (relevance: 42.7%, date: Nov 30, 2020)
[Updated] New firm seems industry agnostic, tech-oriented, with entrepreneurial, financial and related experience.

TNECD-LaunchTN $117MM SSBCI request still under US Treasury's review (relevance: 42.6%, date: Oct 26, 2022)
Funding infusion at stake, as TNECD answers Treasury queries, LaunchTN replenishes board, adds staff as ops grow.

3 Winners! among TN challengers for 2019 EDA Regional Innovation grants (relevance: 42.6%, date: Jul 23, 2019)
$3MM+ will go to new capital formation, entrepreneurship, mentoring and related initiatives. 3 winners in the state. 6 teams submitted compelling ideas.

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Comicbook.com mull growth strategies (relevance: 42.5%, date: Jun 23, 2014)
[updated] CBS Sports Digital buys 24/7 Sports, led by Shannon Terry.

Tennessee reflections on PitchBook list of 'World's top startup cities' (relevance: 42.5%, date: Jun 12, 2024)
Surely some think Austin or Raleigh is sitting in Nashville's future seat on this leaderboard.

TTDC Launch Tennessee preps for its Sunset hearing at Comptroller request (relevance: 42.4%, date: Aug 6, 2020)
Both LaunchTN and its sponsor, TN ECD, have begun responding to Comptroller requests ahead of hearings later this year.

Venture Notes 15 August 2016 (relevance: 42.4%, date: Aug 15, 2016)
Frontier Capital, Petra Capital, TextRequest, CEAdvisory raise, Pharos Cap, VU Med Innovators, MDSave.

Tom Bancroft sees Pencilish Animation Studios as industry disruptor (relevance: 42.1%, date: Apr 2, 2021)
Franklin-based veteran of Walt Disney has passion for creating path for direct investment in Animation business.

Whitney to lead Jumpstart fund investing in Black-owned Health startups (relevance: 42%, date: Oct 12, 2020)
Jumpstart Health Investors deploys new VC to pursue compelling opportunities among Black-owned firms.

Mid-state's GNVCA ramps-up onboarding venture execs, investors, sponsors (relevance: 41.7%, date: Dec 10, 2024)
[updated] Entering Year 2 of backing by Vanderbilt University, nonprofit seeks sustained momentum.

Vanderbilt University launching Institute for National Defense & Global Security (relevance: 41.6%, date: Apr 18, 2024)
Summit III speakers' savvy, calibrated comments may contain 'signals' for domestic and global listeners.

CEO Tasia Malakasis ramps-up The Company Lab in Chattanooga (relevance: 41.2%, date: Jul 19, 2022)
After seven workdays at the helm of the regional entrepreneur center, CEO looks at capital, staffing, budgets and more.