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Napster moves HQ to Nashville to capitalize on the city's music innovation

The OG of the music streaming world is moving to Nashville. Napster, the twenty-four-year-old online music service, announced today it is moving its corporate headquarters to Nashville from the West Coast. This makes it the first global media company to set up shop in ‘Music City.’ Jon

With launch of $100 Million Venture Fund, Catalyst by Wellstar looks to shape the future of healthcare

With launch of $100 Million Venture Fund, Catalyst by Wellstar looks to shape the future of healthcare

Attention startup founders: There’s a new fund in town ready to deploy capital. The Georgia-based healthcare system giant Wellstar announced last week that Catalyst by Wellstar is launching its $100 million fund designed to “shape the future of healthcare.” The fund is certainly not just looking to back

CareYaya expands across the Southeast, bringing tech-savvy college students into caregiving roles

CareYaya expands across the Southeast, bringing tech-savvy college students into caregiving roles

There’s a caregiving crisis in the US that is hard to ignore. The population is aging quickly, and despite the fact that the at-home care industry’s market size is close to $130 billion, it is simply impossible to find enough qualified caregivers across the country. In fact,

For Wilmington startup OpiAID, better data can create healthier communities

For Wilmington startup OpiAID, better data can create healthier communities

David Reeser moved to Wilmington, North Carolina, a beach town that he describes as “paradise,” in 2016 with his family. But a report came out around that time suggesting it was far from paradise for many of Reeser’s neighbors. Upwards of 11.6% of Wilmington residents were abusing opioids,

The optimistic side of AI: Are endless emails and boring meetings *finally* a thing of the past?

The optimistic side of AI: Are endless emails and boring meetings finally a thing of the past?

Survey says: Knowledge workers are actually ready for artificial intelligence to join the workplace. Or at the very least, they are ready for AI to take over many of their daily tasks. 70% of those surveyed in Microsoft’s latest Work Trend Index report said they would be willing to

Nashville procurement startup GoodShip brings in $5 million investment

Nashville procurement startup GoodShip brings in $5 million investment

The startup GoodShip already has big names backing its cloud-based procurement platform. Its pre-seed round, announced in October of 2022, has Stord CEO Sean Henry, Convoy founder Dan Lewis, and FreightWaves founder Craig Fuller listed as investors. Now in the spring of 2023, the Nashville-based startup is

Alumni of the Atlanta startup scene launch their own VC automation startup

Alumni of the Atlanta startup scene launch their own VC automation startup

Coming out of stealth mode, the team behind Dori has a big vision for the future of the VC world. Specifically, the Atlanta-based startup wants to “help a first time founder fundraise like a serial entrepreneur,” said CEO and co-founder Sarosh Shahbuddin. The fundraising world is brutal for