Nashville showed up. 1,100 strong.
Tickets are gone — every Nashville Entrepreneur Day has sold out, and Spring 2026 is no different. Over 1,100 supporters, investors, connectors, and community members will be in the room for our founders. Here’s everything you need to know before doors open.
A city’s founder economy, all in one room.
Nashville Entrepreneur Day is where the EC’s accelerator cohorts graduate out loud. This spring — TakeOff, InFlight, and Project Healthcare — three programs, 100+ companies, one afternoon at GEODIS Park.
You’ll walk a founder market that stretches the entire concourse. Sample products from food, beverage, and consumer goods founders. Meet healthcare innovators building the next generation of medical technology. Talk to the operators who just spent twelve weeks building something real.
Inside the WeHo Club, ten founders will take the stage to pitch for the EC Impact Grants — $25,000, $10,000, and $5,000 in non-dilutive funding. Awarded on the spot. No equity. No strings. You’re in the room when it happens.
Sold out at 1,100. See you tomorrow.
What a thousand+ people saw last year.
Spring opened with Mayor Freddie O’Connell welcoming founders to the concourse — and the afternoon turned into the kind of room where connections get made and introductions actually follow. In December, three founders walked off stage with non-dilutive capital. Everyone else walked off with something they wouldn’t have found on their own.
A full afternoon. Here’s how it runs.
Founder Expo runs from 12:45 to 2:45 PM on the North Concourse — grazeable and always on while the stage programming happens.
Everything you need to know before doors open.
Three programs, graduating in one day.
Twelve weeks of work. Dozens of companies. Meet them before the rest of the market does.
TakeOff
Early-stage founders getting to first traction.
For the earliest-stage founders in the EC pipeline. Twelve weeks of structure, mentorship, and customer discovery.
InFlight
Post-revenue founders scaling up.
Growth-stage companies with customers and traction, building the systems to scale to the next order of magnitude.
Project Healthcare
Health innovators in the healthcare capital.
Medical devices, digital health, and care-delivery founders building in the country’s healthcare hub.
What founders and connectors say.
This has been a transformational experience for us coming to the healthcare capital of the country. There’s no place like this.
Kareem Elfoulie · Senior Shield Technologies · $25K Impact Grant winner
We’re going to use this to accelerate development and build better business relationships that accelerate our path to market.
Mark Norton · Adele Health · $10K Impact Grant winner
I wish I’d had the kind of guidance these founders are getting when I was building my first company. Being a connector is how I give that back.
Dan Stevenson · Consumer packaged goods connector
Look ahead ten years. After you build something successful, look back — and remember to give back.
Robert A. Frist, Jr. · Former Board Chair, Nashville Entrepreneur Center · EC Endowment co-chair
Apply for the Fall 2026 accelerator cohorts.
Want to share your business with 1,100 investors, connectors, and community?
Apply for the Fall 2026 cohorts — TakeOff, InFlight, and Project Healthcare. Twelve weeks of structured work and a direct line to the Premier Club stage at the next Nashville Entrepreneur Day.