Meet the TakeOff Spring 2026 Cohort
The Nashville Entrepreneur Center’s early-stage accelerator — 30 companies ready to build. Meet the Spring 2026 Cohort In 2016, Jessika Cunningham arrived in the U.S. from Brazil through the Au...
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Meet the Project Healthcare Spring 2026 Cohort
The Nashville Entrepreneur Center’s healthcare accelerator — 22 companies building what’s next. Meet the Spring 2026 Cohort A practicing physician spent 17 years caring for the most medically fragile patients...
88 Founders Just Showed Up. Here’s What That Means for Nashville.
Danny Glushenkov is flying from Tel Aviv to Nashville this week. His company, Project M, builds causal AI for real-time clinical decisions — not just predicting what might happen to...
Mental Health Is a Leadership Skill — And She Has the Experience to Prove It
“You’re either going to slow down on your own or your body is going to slow you down.” Dr. Courtney Williams says this often. She says it to therapy clients,...
You Missed the Future of Work (And It Happened Over Free Lunch)
While you were eating a desk salad, a room full of EC members watched someone casually ask AI to remote into a Raspberry Pi and generate a motion graphics video....
Michael Burcham Got 30 Nos from Nashville Investors. Then He Built the Nashville Entrepreneur Center.
Michael Burcham was 31 years old, sitting in the parking lot of one of Nashville’s biggest investors, unable to turn his ignition. The investor’s first words had been: “What the...
He Didn’t Know LaunchTN Existed. Then the EC Made an Introduction.
A student nurse shows up to a hospital for clinical training. She needs to know which building, which floor, which unit, and who her preceptor is. Before she walks through...
You’re Not Too Late: Why Now Is the Best Time for Founders to Actually Start Using AI
Last year, Luke Thompson found a process one of his clients didn’t even know they were running. It was costing them $400,000 annually. The fix? A $200-per-month tool. They had...
The Five Questions That Got a Founder Unstuck: A Board Member’s Lesson
Elise Mitchell just joined the Nashville Entrepreneur Center board. She built Mitchell Communications Group from zero to 500% growth in five years, ran it for 18 years, then sold it....