111 Companies Just Walked Through the Nashville Entrepreneur Center’s Front Door
Three programs, 111 companies, 120 founders — TakeOff, InFlight, and Project Healthcare kick off September 1.
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The 2026 NEXT Awards Finalists
Meet the 2026 NEXT Awards finalists: 24 Middle Tennessee companies, and what this class says about who is building in Nashville.
The Entrepreneurs’ Hall of Fame Class of 2026: Three Founding Teams Who Built the Bank, the Buildings, and the Restaurants
It was October 1999. AmSouth had just acquired First American National, the $20B Nashville-headquartered bank where Rob McCabe was Vice Chairman and Terry Turner ran the General Bank. McCabe and...
Meet the InFlight Spring 2026 Cohort
The Nashville Entrepreneur Center’s growth-stage accelerator — 19 companies scaling what works. Meet the Spring 2026 Cohort Chase Michalek has founded multiple companies since 2019, including one sold to a...
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...
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...
“We Just Won $25,000”: What Happened When 10 Founders Pitched for Impact Grants
Almost 500 people showed up to GEODIS Park on December 3 for Nashville Entrepreneur Day. The Premier Club where Impact Grant pitches happened was standing room only. Three rows of...
Mark Deutschmann Built Neighborhoods Before Anyone Wanted Them
In 1993, Mark Deutschmann went door to door with flyers in Belmont. “I’ve already sold 40 homes, and yours could be next.” He had a hunch about Nashville neighborhoods nobody...