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Wellford Dillard is about to seal the largest acquisition yet for Nashville’s email marketing conglomerate that began with one of the city’s early technology stars. Dillard is CEO of CM Group, which evolved from investors’ 2017 purchase of local startup Emma to a company with nine brands and almost 1,000 employees worldwide. Those brands include […]

“Every month we have what we call ‘thanks day,’” said Brendan Kamm. “Most recently we hooked up with Youth Village, which provides foster care for young girls without a home, and while they were in school one day we did their entire landscaping.”Kamm is the CEO and co-founder of Thnks, a Franklin-based digital gratitude platform […]

Companies and entrepreneurs created tech jobs in Greater Nashville at a faster pace than the state and nation in the last five years — and will continue to hold that edge in the years ahead. Those are two of the takeaways from the newly released annual analysis of the region’s tech scene from Middle Tennessee […]

Nashville is moving toward its new status as a premier destination for tech talent, as the industry continues to smash records. In fact, the tech sector is predicted to be the engine behind Nashville’s economy in the coming years, nearly doubling the area’s overall job growth rate. A new report from the Greater Nashville Technology […]

Nashville technology job postings jumped 44 percent year-over-year in the third quarter, according to CompTIA, a trade association focused on IT. A number of nonprofit and for-profit entities such as Vanderbilt, the Greater Nashville Technology Council and the Nashville Software School have created boot camps to help foster the local talent pool to try and […]

When New York-founded startup Thnks started outgrowing its first office in Midtown Manhattan, Brendan Kamm and Larry Rubin sat down to discuss the next move. “We both said we should go south because that would be cheaper. At the time, “south” meant 14th Street Manhattan,” Kamm told Hypepotamus. But as the two started really thinking […]

In this city on the rise, there’s a big push to bring in tech workers to Nashville. The Greater Nashville Technology Council says it has a goal to double the number of tech workers in Nashville in just four years — to a total of 92,000 workers. To help get there, several companies are backing […]

Mployer Advisor is ending 2021 with a fresh cash infusion. The Nashville-based health tech firm has secured a $1.6 million investment, according to a news release, led by Martin Ventures, with participation from other investors. This is the second round of funding that Mployer — which helps businesses search and evaluate insurance brokers — has […]

Belmont University will spend more than $60 million over the next five years to expose students across all majors to data science, in a new effort to meet rising demand for tech skills and bolster the Christian school’s profile in the community. The Belmont Data Collaborative is among the first priorities university president L. Gregory […]

Heads up, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Boston and Washington, D.C. – Nashville has you in its sights. The six cities are targeted in an aggressive marketing campaign launched this month to recruit tech talent to Music City, which is rapidly evolving into a preferred destination for tech companies and workers See the […]