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Tennessee is brimming with more young businesses than ever before recorded. Nearly 20,000 new companies and corporations flooded the state from January to March, a new data analysis revealed. The influx isn’t just because so many people were waiting for the end of pandemic business restrictions to launch a new project, state economic leaders say. […]

A wave of tech workers has trekked to Nashville during the Covid-19 pandemic. A Bloomberg analysis of LinkedIn data shows that Greater Nashville attracted the second-largest net gain of tech talent in the U.S. from May 2020 to April 2021. It amounted to a net inflow of 155 software and information technology workers per 10,000 […]

A Texas company that’s part of the S&P 500 is buying one of Nashville’s fastest-growing private companies, in a deal that ranks among the largest tech acquisitions on record for the region. Tyler Technologies Inc. (NYSE: TYL) is paying $84 million cash for Nashville-based VendEngine Inc., according to an announcement Tyler made on Thursday. VendEngine […]

One of Nashville’s few, but growing, biopharma companies added fresh funds to its coffers Thursday. August Bioservices LLC — which focuses on drug discovery, research and manufacturing — has closed a $23.6 million round of funding, according to a news release, led by Polaris partners and joined by existing investor Oak HC/FT. The funds will […]

United States Space Force Chief of Space Operations Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond visited Vanderbilt University to learn about the pioneering aerospace engineering projects at the university’s research institutes and trans-institutional programs. The visit also presented areas for collaboration with the newest independent service of the U.S. military. After an introduction by Vice Chancellor for […]

Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG -2.02% Google and national hospital chain HCA Healthcare Inc. HCA -1.11% have struck a deal to develop healthcare algorithms using patient records, the latest foray by a tech giant into the $3 trillion healthcare sector. HCA, which operates across about 2,000 locations in 21 states, would consolidate and store with Google data […]

Nashville ranks among the top 10 “Best Cities for New College Grads.” SmartAsset, a financial technology company based in New York, evaluated 106 major U.S. cities on 10 metrics that fell into three categories — jobs, affordability and fun, or lifestyle. Those were combined into a final ranking index. Nashville ranked No. 9 on the […]

Nashville composer Cristina Spinei made history this weekend when “Prelude” became one of the first newly composed orchestral pieces to be released as an NFT, or nonfungible token. Spinei’s piece premiered on Sunday with the help of Gateway Chamber Orchestra and is now available to 20 people on the digital marketplace OpenSea. The NFT includes […]

A San Francisco health tech startup that offers artificial intelligence tools to automate operations for health care providers is moving its headquarters to Nashville. A five-person team at DARVIS, an acronym for Data Analytic Real-World Visual Intelligence System, will move into a MetroCenter office space at 240 Great Circle Road in June. The company also […]