A longtime Nashville parking business has joined with a parking-tech startup based in Los Angeles that banked a $41 million round of fundraising last year.
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Nashville Inno: Greater Nashville Technology Council hires HCA Healthcare tech executive as new CEO
Nashville’s tech community has a new ambassador. The board of the Greater Nashville Technology Council has hired Elise Cambournac as its new president and CEO.
Memphis Inno: Med tech startup Spesana scales up with leadership team hires, more funding, and new offerings
In August, Forbes contributor Seth Joseph wrote a piece about electronic health care records that was tellingly titled “The EHR Is Dead. Long Live The EHR Platform.”
Nashville Business Journal: Bridgestone Americas invests in autonomous vehicle company May Mobility
Bridgestone Americas’ investment will allow May Mobility to integrate Bridgestone’s digital tire technologies into its fleet of vehicles, while providing Bridgestone insights into autonomous vehicle operations.
WBBJ: Tennessee State expanding technology program in Africa
Tennessee State University is expanding a technology program for underserved students in Africa to four additional countries. The school says Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria and Zambia will join Liberia and South Africa with online courses taught by Tennessee State professors.
Memphis Inno: Arrowhealth out of ‘stealth mode,’ shoots to top of market with innovative tech solution
With routine hospital visits becoming a health risk in the middle of a pandemic, a growing number of medical practitioners looked at ways to monitor and track patient health virtually.
School Transportation News: Tennessee District Uses AI Technology to Improve Fleet Efficiency
“The driver shortages have impacted everyone — the transportation department, parents, students, schools…we’re having to change our day-to-day operations,” she stated. Cassidy Beam, account representative for TransAct, explained that the TravelTracker software, includes features that allow for easy rerouting, notifications and a parent portal. It is built to assist districts with adapting and changing to the constantly changing situations that transportation staff are faced with.
Nashville Inno: Possip builds on history-making raise with larger investment aimed at tripling scale this year
Shani Dowell made some history in 2019 by raising more than $1 million of venture funding for her Nashville-based startup. She was touted as the first Black woman entrepreneur in Tennessee to reach that milestone, which fewer than 40 Black women nationwide had reached at the time. That tally is growing, and so is Dowell’s business.
Memphis Inno: ‘Stock in Motion’: This local startup, founded by former FedEx execs, has big plans for e-commerce
On a summer day in 2021, Aly Hancock could tell that Mike Rude wasn’t in a good mood. Both worked at FedEx, and he had been her mentor for six years. Hancock knew him well.
Nashville Business Journal: Why technology is a factor you can’t afford to flub in your hybrid office
Slack vs. Teams and the other tech decisions that are critical for the hybrid office.
