PreFlight · Fall 2026
Founders starting with an idea, ready to prove.
PreFlight is where a business starts before it is a business. These 15 founders joined Nashville Entrepreneur Center in Fall 2026 to test an idea, find a customer, and work out whether the thing in their head is worth building. Some arrived with a name and a product. Some arrived with a question.
ThroughLine helps leaders turn complexity into clarity through a curated marketplace of trusted experts, proven tools, and AI-powered support for better execution.
Prestige Imaging is a state-of-the-art outpatient diagnostic imaging center dedicated to clinical excellence offering advanced imaging technology through MRI, CT, ultrasound, and X-ray, ensuring patients receive the care they need when they need it most.
To sell a mobile phone accessory to connect to a product.
Southern Fried Fuel™ is the Nashville’s first dedicated renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel distributor, building local supply, a regional brand, and verified carbon intensity feedstock provenance.
Unmapped designs patient education and experience infrastructure for radiology practices helping women navigate the dense breast diagnostic journey with clarity and confidence.
Exploring two concepts: a dog bar and daycare built around social gathering, and an AI tool that reads restaurant wine and cocktail menus for distributors, consumers and restaurants.
Secret Burrito is Nashville's first membership QSR combining a public drive-thru, a private member lane, and an exclusive members private indoor dining room where founders, athletes, and community belong.
We connect Human Artists and human fans creating revenue for the artists
I am creating a fractional consulting business focused on assisting F&B/hospitality companies, creating practical, quick solutions for businesses in crisis.
Augmented reality children's games customized for local businesses and third places.
VerbaPost is a prospecting campaign for financial advisors that replaces the seminar dinner. Advisors upload a list, we mail each person an invitation to record a family story, and their story arrives at a loved one’s door as a linen letter with the advisor’s name on it. The advisor gets a warm call instead of a cold one.
66 apps, one surface
I am offering quick service, chef inspired, brunch style food to the employees thar run nashville. Hospitals, construction workers, universities, and local events.
Gaited is a professional platform for the equestrian industry, combining networking, a job board, and a marketplace for tack, consignment, and horse sales in one place.
SilvaLuxe Experiences offers research-backed forest immersion and nature wellness for burned-out professionals and corporate teams, building toward a treehouse micro-resort on Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau.
Most represented industries: Food and Beverage, Healthcare, Hospitality. Founders are listed alphabetically by last name. Descriptions are the founders’ own words, recorded when they joined the program, and reflect where each venture stood at the start of Fall 2026 rather than today. Interested in PreFlight? Read about the program.