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The Music City wants a piece of the Windy City’s tech talent. The city of Nashville is embarking on an “aggressive” marketing campaign this month that targets tech workers in Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Boston and Washington, D.C. Led by the Greater Nashville Technology Council, the “TechIntoNashville” initiative is part of a […]

The Greater Nashville Technology Council officially embarked Thursday on tech-talent hunting trips to Boston, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, and Washington, D.C. Tech workers in those six major markets are the target of a new marketing campaign aimed at enticing them to relocate to Greater Nashville — a land where there are more […]

Tennessee’s enormous growth momentum accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic, vaulting Nashville’s real-estate market into the top slot for investors nationwide. Home prices seemed to reach impossible highs over the past year, jumping a record 21% in July statewide year-over-year, according to CoreLogic. That may be just the beginning. Investors are more bullish than ever on […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–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. […]

Multinational business and technology consulting firm Slalom announced Thursday the opening of its new office in Nashville, describing the local market with one word: “opportunity.” Seattle-based Slalom LLC brings deep partnerships with the likes of Amazon, Google and Microsoft to a shared space in Suite 300 of the Gulch Crossing building. Despite penning a lease […]

On Nov. 6, 100 Belmont music students will be composing something a little different — code. For its first event, the newly founded Belmont Data Collaborative is collaborating with the Mechanical Licensing Collective to assess the rights and ownership of more than 21.5 million songs. The MLC is a nonprofit organization created in 2019 by […]

Nashville-based GoCheck has closed a $10 million investment round that will be used to expand its team, platform and customer partnerships. GoCheck currently offers a digital screening platform for children — GoCheck Kids — that leverages artificial intelligence to detect vision diseases using an iPhone. Their technology currently serves 6,500 pediatric teams on three continents, […]

Nashville-based health care virtual reality firm BehaVR has signed an agreement with a Japanese pharmaceutical company that could be worth as much as $140 million. The deal, with Osaka-based Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., is for the companies to develop and commercialize prescription digital therapies and general wellness products for the treatment of anxiety disorders, according […]

Nashville has a new private equity giant. The team from Whistler Capital Partners LLC has completed a spin out from Starr Investment Holdings LLC, Managing Partner Geoff Clark said, forming a new private equity firm in Nashville. Whistler is taking with it more than $1 billion of assets under management, Clark said. The spinout comes […]

Jeff Engle has moved the headquarters of his cybersecurity software company to Nashville, which he will use as his springboard to double headcount in a year as revenue surges into nine-digit territory. In an interview, Engle said he’s looking to grow the workforce at Conquest Cyber from 120 people to about 250 people within the […]