Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Goba Foursquare
John Dayani Jr.'s GOBA (get out, be active) has done a partnership with Foursquare, release here. Our related story here.
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Foursquare,
GOBA,
John Dayani,
social media
Monday, January 23, 2012
4 guys to watch
Alex Tolbert, David Box, William Griggs, William Paddock... four bootstrappers pushing their startups along. Catch up with 'em here.
Al Ganier venture
Al Ganier, co-founder of Education Networks of America, is now pursuing a $6MM raise for his VMT startup. Read about it here.
$200MM Health raise
Rock Morphis and crew have a $200MM raise underway for healthcare investments, read it here.
HCA CIO retires
Noel Williams, SVP/CIO for HCA, is retiring and a search for her successor is underway. Read it here.
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CIO,
HCA,
information technology,
Noel Williams
Thursday, January 19, 2012
FCA Venture Partners
FCA Venture Partners Managing Partner Matt King provides an update on the venture-capital firm's investment plans. Right here.
Biz advocates sought
The Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce and EmergeMemphis are looking for growth-business champions. Read about it.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Action Alignment
Nashville's Artist Growth is the first of what is likely to be a series of offerings for different industry-verticals - this one's targeting performing artists, with a new technology platform. Worth a look.
Atiba-Cabedge
Atiba has acquired assets and hired key folks, including Chris Blanz, to create a new company, Cabedge Design LLC. Read more.
VentureNotes
DAIO, which helps mobile-app developers breathe life into their prototypes, and Pearescope, which helps you find like-minded folks on the free range, both attracted Angel capital. Read it here.
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Ben Stucki,
DAIO,
Pearescope,
software development,
Whit Schrader
Shareholder InSite
Joe Maxwell pulls-off a merger and rebranding, transforming CapControls into Shareholder InSite. Right here.
NeighborMD
NeighborMD, a Nashville-based urgent care group, has a $2.5MM raise underway. Reported here.
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fundraising,
investment,
NeighborMD,
SEC
Sunday, January 08, 2012
TNInvestco's Update
A half-dozen TNInvestco funds recently finessed additional investments. Get the update here.
SourceYourCity
Nashville-based Neely Burks, the former PR person who believes journalists and professionals who need to tap-into local expertise need the help of SourceYourCity, is lining-up a part-time market developer for the Bay Area. Read more here.
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Internet,
JumpStart Foundry,
media,
Neely Burks,
SourceYourCity
Saturday, January 07, 2012
Cumberland Consulting
Cumberland Consulting got a Tailwind Capital investment, with a kicker of some sort from father-son Clayton and Stuart McWhorter. Read about the investment in the Nashville-area healthcare IT firm, right here.
Nuyens on Fivestone
Jozef Nuyens sketches-out big portions of Fivestone Partners' strategy, making clear there's more to come for this Franklin-based investment and consulting group. Read more here.
Labels:
accelerators,
Fivestone Partners,
incubators,
Jozef Nuyens
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
Jericho in N'ville
Jericho Sciences slipped into Nashville six months ago and is quietly preparing to develop a therapeutic approach that could help dramatically improve HIV treatment. Story here.
StartupTN+Angels
StartupTN's contract with state economic development officials calls for increasing Angel investor ranks in Tennessee. Story here.
TCRS PE commitments
Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System (TCRS) recently made private-equity asset commitments of $25MM and $50MM to General Catalyst and Denham, respectively.
OneC1ty touted
Nashville healthcare office complex is proposed and seems to be gaining some traction. Story here.
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economic development,
healthcare,
One C1ty
Moontoast capraise
Moontoast is raising $6MM capital. Story here.
Logogarden buy
LogoGarden has bought Whoosh! interactive from the founders of Franktown. Story here.
Populr unveiled
Nick Holland will incubate and accelerate Populr within the Entrepreneur Center, with support from Bullpen Ventures. Story here.
FiledBy sold
FiledBy, the authors' portal based in Nashville, is now owned by Atiba affiliate SLK. Story here.
Healthbox launch
Healthbox launches under Hal Andrews and Ron Styers. Story here.
Labels:
Hal Andrews,
health IT,
Healthbox Technologies,
healthcare,
Ron Styers
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