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Hello 👋 to Nashville's startup scene Here's what happened this week and last in Nashville StartupLand: - Nashville Entrepreneur Center hosted the NEXT Awards - Artiphon launched the Orba 3, as covered by TechCrunch - Founders have just a few weeks to fill out our BOI Reports -"Go To Network" marketing is on the rise Read about what is happening on The StartupNash Highlights

This week's newsletter is out!! This week, Jamie Cox helped us learn why branding is important for early stage startups, and she gave our community a branding blueprint to follow. Check out the slides in this newsletter for details. Other news: - Possip is expanding their services - Nashville Health Care Council Sessions were this week - Venture Atlanta Conference is this week as well Have you met these founders and startups? - Ledgr - Katie Merth, Founder of Oloman - Chris Hefley, Founder of LLMasaService Read more in the StartupNash highlights below: https://lnkd.in/eaV_S6Mn

We are learning ✨ branding ✨ today at 12 noon CT online. This discussion is perfect for Nashville based founders who: - Are launching a product soon - Trying to raise awareness about their business - Creating an early marketing/growth roadmap - Tech-focused folks who need help getting started with the marketing side - Marketing folks who want a refresher on day one marketing/growth strategy Come join us! Read the post below to get the event info.

Wake up babe, Embarc Collective and Build In SE's list of VCs just dropped in their annual Capital landscape report. Plus: - Gust's Angel Collective is well underway - Spinach AI launched on Product Hunt (and landed in the top 10 products of the day - Nashville Entrepreneur Center restructures and adds flexible programming to support founders in Nashville - A member of our group is searching for a cofounder in a B2C music tech app for collaboration (DM for intro) - And StartupNash has an updated site with new stuff: members-only office hours for on-demand growth help, new ways to help you build your startup teams with Wendy Taylor, and a brand new workshop coming up on October 3rd with Jamie Cox. All this and more in our community highlights: https://lnkd.in/eFa2fUBm

Calling all Nashville founders who want to take some time to talk about branding: registration for this is LIVE at startupnash.com

What's happening in Nashville's startup scene this week? This newsletter is powered by: 🚀 25m Health: a first-of-its-kind healthcare studio focused on building and investing in early-stage companies. Our expert sponsors: 🚀 NS804 🚀 2520 Consulting 🚀 Twin Sun, LLC Featuring Startups: Calendaristic Stoplyte Knowing CX Infinite Wonder Here's the latest: Electrovia Technologies secured a new grant and partnership with UTC to advance high-powered wireless charging. Trunk Tools raised 20MM in a round led by Redpoint Ventures, which is great news for executive employees in Nashville. Podcraftr launched on Product Hunt yesterday, landing in the top 10 products of the day. StartupNash Member Updates: 🚀 Infinite Wonder LLC is currently building two communities. 1. Their discord online community, which hosts weekly one-hour sessions for people to come and seeks project/goal advice as well as problem solving and demoing projects people are working on. 2. They are also growing in the in-person meetup space with a meetup group called PyWonder that currently meets every other Wednesday to have lunch with other members in the Nashville area. This group has grown to 75 members. 🚀 NS804 is working with a group called Prevue raising capital for their video based dating app. Events 📆 LaunchTN’s 3686 Conference is TWO WEEKS AWAY. If you are a startup in Nashville, it’s the place to be from September 9-11th. Use the code AMBASS3686 for a discount. 📆 Please come to the StartupNash Founder’s Happy Hour :) It’s a way to come out, meet other founders, and share what you’re working on. It’s during 3686 on September 10th at 6:30 at East Nashville Beer Works. Community Asks 🌞 A member is looking for an internal tech recruiter and an executive coach who works with VP + C-suite executives on their careers to round out a panel. 🌞 A member is looking for a co-founder for a new tech startup. 🌞 A member needs help creating a BOI report. 🌞 A member is looking for advice on evaluating the equity component of an offer from a pre-IPO company. Weekly wins - The community celebrated 8 weekly wins this month 🎉 including: - Revamping merch for a kid’s STEM company - Hiring a social media manager - Making this year’s Inc 5000 - Named a 2024 Trendsetter from Meetings Today - Had 3 great discovery calls last week If you want to join these conversations or post a win, please join StartupNash. Here's the full issue. If you have colleagues who want to know about Nashville and the startup community, forward them here: https://lnkd.in/eaTMg6nw

Hey y'all! StartupNash is a virtual peer mentorship community for high-growth founders. Every few weeks, we've committed to sharing founder updates, interesting news, and folks you should know in Nashville's startup scene on behalf of the community. Nashville Founders, Funders and startups: here's what you need to know this week: 📆 Come to the StartupNash Founder’s Happy Hour! It’s during 3686 on September 10th at 6:30 at East Nashville Beer Works. (View newsletter for invite) News items: - Applications are now open for Company Ventures first Nashville Residency. - There’s an opportunity for startups to recruit full-time and/or internship positions from Vanderbilt University. - Venture For America shut down, affecting some startups in Nashville. StartupNash Member Updates: 🚀 Infinite Wonder published their first game demo on itch.io, participating in Pirate Software’s July Game Jam. Out of 14,000 participants, only 2,400 games were submitted for review. The jam focused on learning Pygame, and Infinite Wonder plans to use insights gained to continue developing their demo for a full release later this year. 🚀 NS804 recently launched an unmanned paddle box rental kiosk, highlighting their expertise in automated solutions. The company is also assisting Prevue, a video-based dating app, in raising capital after its successful reception. NS804’s CEO Nick Jones is additionally advising four startups on app growth, user retention, and technical challenges around fraud prevention. Want to add your business update? Become a paid member of StartupNash and we’ll include your updates in our emails. Events: 📆 LaunchTN's 3686 Conference is quickly approaching. If you are a startup in Nashville, it’s the place to be from September 9-11th. Use the code AMBASS3686 for a discount. (View newsletter for link) Those are this week’s highlights. If you’d like to share ongoing updates with founders and funders on this email list, sign up to be a member of StartupNash. StartupNash uses Britepeer, a tool my team built, to connect members in our community by skill. We believe sharing knowledge through peer mentorship spreads wealth in our community. I hope you’ll consider joining us. https://lnkd.in/eBgDF_UV Want to join StartupNash? Go to https://lnkd.in/e85SAyXg.

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Mark your calendars founders 📆 Our next in-person event is called "Launch Week" and is scheduled for week of LaunchTN's 3686 🎉 Please tell us if you're headed to the conference that week in Nashville. Some of us will be there. Our featured member companies for the happy hour include: - 25M (Ryan Macy) - Calendaristic - KnowingCX - StopLyte (Barrett Wood) - NS804 - Grey Garner The happy hour is on September 10th from 5:30-7:30pm at East Nashville Beer Works. Thank you for hosting us Anthony Davis!! (details in comments). We are looking forward to hanging out with Nashville's startup community soon.