Mark Kendall
Venture Capitalists (VC) play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top Tennessee Venture Capitalists (VC). We have tried to select a variety of different types of investors across a variety of niches.
This list is designed to show off the investors with exceptional track records, industry experience and a unique understanding of the ecosystem.
Top Tennessee Venture Capitalists (VC)
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
FINTOP Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Venture
FINTOP Capital seeks B2B SaaS companies in the FinTech space.
HCA
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Seed
Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) provides healthcare services in locally managed facilities in 20 states in the U.S. and England.
Caduceus Capital Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Caduceus Capital Partners is an investment firm that invest in early-stage companies.
Innova Memphis
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Investor Type: Government Office, Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Innova Memphis invests in early stage businesses related to biosciences, healthcare, technology, and AgTech.
Jumpstart Foundry
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Jumpstart Foundry is an investment firm that funds and supports early-stage healthcare companies.
Heritage Group
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Private Equity
Heritage Group is a venture capital firm with a track record of investing in leading healthcare companies.
Martin Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Martin Ventures provides capital, operational support and mentoring to assist entrepreneurs who want to be catalysts for change.
Altitude Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Altitude Ventures provides early-stage venture capital financing to healthcare services and technology startups that improve healthcare.
Pinnacle Financial Partners
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Pinnacle Financial Partners is a bank headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee operating in middle and East Tennessee.
BPV Capital Management
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
BPV Capital Management is a private long-term investment manager and adviser that offers full-suite of RIA-focused products and services.
Brickyard
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Investor Type: Accelerator, Angel Group, Incubator, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Builders backing builders. Early stage capital & startup outfitter. Chattanooga, TN.
Starr Investment Holdings LLC
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture, Private Equity
Starr Investment Holdings LLC (“SIH”) is an investment adviser investing in software and tech-enabled services businesses.
Clayton Associates
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Clayton Associates is an investment firm founded in 1996 by R. Clayton McWhorter, former founder of HealthTrust, Inc. and Chairman of
Innovation Valley Partners
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Knoxville, Tenn.-based Innovation Valley Partners (IVP) is the affiliate fund of Battelle Ventures, an independent venture fund based in
SIGMA Venture Partners
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Investor Type: Corporate Venture Capital, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
SIGMA Venture Partners is an early-stage fund that invests in fast-growing, high-margin, scalable technology companies.
S Ventures
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Investor Type: Angel Group, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
S Ventures is an investment company for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs.
Sandlot Partners
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Sandlot Partners is an independent private investment firm
MB Venture Partners
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Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
MB Venture Partners is a Tennessee-based venture capital firm that specializes in investments in the life sciences sector.
Solidus Company
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Solidus Company is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in growth-stage companies.
Blank Slate Ventures
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Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Blank Slate Ventures is a seed fund designed specifically for pre-revenue startups.
ICG Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
ICG Ventures is an Ingram Content Group company. Ingram Content Group Inc. is a subsidiary of Nashville-based Ingram Industries Inc. The
Solas BioVentures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Solas BioVentures is a biotech and medical device and venture fund based in Tennessee that finances early stage investments.
Council Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Council Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm that invests in growth- and early-stage healthcare companies.
Jumpstart Capital
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Jumpstart Capital (JSC) focuses on growth-stage healthcare venture capital investing,
Veteran Ventures Capital
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Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Investment company all about vetrepreneurs – a seed fund & consulting firm focused on entrepreneurs who happen to be military veterans
Whistler Capital Partners
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Venture
Whistler Capital Partners is a private equity firm focused on healthcare growth equity and growth buyouts.
Powered Health
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Investor Type: Incubator, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Powered Health engages in hybrid venture capital and healthcare technology incubator.
Nicol Investment Company
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Nicol Investment Company invests multifamily, senior housing, self-storage, office, retail, and agriculture properties.
NEST-TN
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Investor Type: Government Office, Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
NEST-TN, L.L.C. (NEST-TN) is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm started in 2009 by Fran F. Marcum, Managing Partner of Marcum
Relevance Ventures (formerly Relevance Capital)
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Relevance, is a venture firm that engages early-stage startups delivering disruptive solutions through technology and health focused solutions.
Richland Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture
Richland provides expansion capital for healthcare service companies, medical devices and technology, and other diversified service
Massey Burch Capital Corporation
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture
A Venture Capital Firm Focusing On High Growth Investments In Information Technology, Communications and Health Care Services
Dioko Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Dioko Ventures targets early stage investment opportunities with a focus on healthcare services and information technology
MedCare Investment Funds
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture
MedCare Investment Funds is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, start-up, early venture, mid venture, and late venture financing.
Health Insight Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Health Insight Capital is a venture capital business that invests in early stage companies.
Jetstream Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity
Jetstream Capital is a venture capital fund specialized in early stage venture and private equity investments.
Paradigm Capital Partners
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Paradigm Capital Partners
Ingram Digital Ventures
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Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Ingram Digital, a division of Ingram Industries, was launched in January 2006 as a company focused on the creation of next generation
Fortnum Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Fortnum Capital is a financial planner.
Council & Enhanced Tennessee Fund
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Council & Enhanced Tennessee Fund, LLC (C&E) is a Nashville-based investment partnership focused on building transformational companies in
Lunch Van Fund
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Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Seed
Lunch Van Fund is a venture capital firm specialized in seed investments.
Delta Capital Management
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Delta Capital Management, LLC is a Memphis-based venture capital firm founded in 1992 that manages over $90 million in venture capital
Eastman Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Eastman provides chemicals, fibers and plastics materials that our customers use as key ingredients to make products people use every day.
Swiftwing Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
We invest in great people with proven concepts that are ready to scale.
Rugosa Partners
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Rugosa Partners in an investment firm which invests in innovative companies seeking capital in the private markets.
McNamara Family Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
MFV is a family investment office which provides venture and growth capital to companies operating in the healthcare industry.
Cloud Venture Capital
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Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Cloud Venture Capital is a venture capital for the cloud that focuses on early-stage Big Data and cloud software companies.
Maple Row Partners
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Maple Row Partners is a venture capital firm
1440 Accelerator
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
1440, Ingram Content Group’s accelerator, fosters innovative products and technologies used to create, distribute, or consume book content.
Tennessee Community Ventures
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Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Seed
Tennessee Community Ventures is a venture firm based in Tennessee.
Morgan Keegan Ventures
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Investor Type: Investment Bank, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Founded in 1969, Morgan Keegan Ventures invests in early-stage technology companies and is a Tennessee-based regional venture capital firm.
a>m ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Seed
a>m ventures provides startups with branding, content development, public relations strategy development, and other services.
Epiphany Health Ventures
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Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Epiphany Health Ventures (“EHV”) is an organization specifically designed to enable innovation in the healthcare delivery system through
JRI Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Early-stage investment firm
Voyent Partners
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
The company’s line of business includes providing management consulting services.
Paramount Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Paramount Capital is an award-winning commodities trading advisor in Memphis, Tennessee.
Sixeight
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Sixeight is a growth equity firm that finds, invests in, and transforms regional businesses into high-impact enterprises.
Castle Venture Group
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
CVG helps new, emerging and established companies focus their efforts, access capital and grow profitably.
First Avenue Partners
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
First Avenue Partners specializes in healthcare investments.
Burch Investment Group
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Burch Investment Group is a private venture capital firm based in Nashville, Tennessee.
TNInvestco
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Investor Type: Government Office, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
TNInvestco is a state-sponsored, “venture capital type” program
SEAG Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Seed
SEAG Ventures
DeMoss Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Private Equity
DeMoss is a wealth management firm that serves Chattanooga families not only as an advisor, but as a partner and trusted resource.
HMS Investment Advisors
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
HMS Investment Advisors is an investment advisory firm.
Springhouse Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Spring House Capital is a New York based investment firm that provides superior investment returns.
Eddleman Venture Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Eddleman VC is an investment firm providing clients and interested partners with offerings outside of publicly traded securities.
Healthmark Ventures LLC
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Venture
Healthmark Ventures, LLC operates as a venture capital firm.
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