Who Decides When There’s No One to Ask
Jay Zigmont built Childfree Trust to be the next of kin for people without kids. Now it has an NIH grant and a spot on TIME's Best Inventions.
Programs
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.
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...
EC Kicks Off Fall 2025 Accelerators with 95 Companies, 100+ Founders Across 5 Programs
Something remarkable just happened at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center. We selected 95 companies and 100+ founders for our Fall 2025 programs from hundreds of applications. These aren’t your typical early-stage...
InFlight Accelerator Welcomes Fall 2025 Cohort
With great pride, we introduce the Fall 2025 Cohort of the InFlight Accelerator—our program built for founders who’ve proven their business works and are now focused on scaling. This cohort...