Rapper "Master P" (left) is kicking off a new interview series for Launch Tennessee.
Brooke Timmons
Nashville's tech scene is about to radically change with the arrival of Oracle and as Amazon and other firms fill their downtown hubs. But there's plenty of action right now. Tech Bytes is a twice-monthly roundup highlighting news on startups, capital raises, acquisitions and other activity in the region's tech sector.
- The number of Nashville tech job postings in the third quarter jumped 44% compared to the same quarter in 2020, according to the latest CompTIA analysis. It's the 28th largest increase in the nation.
- Franklin-based Core10, a fintech software development company, acquired St. Louis-based Accrue Technologies Inc. Terms were not disclosed. Core10, founded five years, is backed by Nashville's Fintop Capital. "We see an incredible opportunity to use the tech talent at Core10 and the iPaaS platform at Accrue to enable scalable innovation that generates revenue for these organizations," said Joe Maxwell, managing partner at Fintop and a Core10 board member.
- I dropped by the downtown Nashville office of NTT Data Services to meet with Andrew Corbett, hired in late summer to lead what NTT is branding as its Innovation & Delivery Center. The company, which announced its arrival in March, already has about 50 employees and expects another wave of hires early next year. Corbett is a former U.S. Army officer who previously worked at Deloitte and Cognizant.
Andrew Corbett, Nashville office chief for NTT Data Services.
Adam Sichko
- The Nashville chapter of Blacks In Technology announced a partnership with Culturally Tech. That new Nashville nonprofit — co-founded by Stephen Castaneda, Namita Manohar and Mehreen Butt — teams with local tech companies to host hands-on programming at area high schools. "A functioning tech pipeline has to start long before students pick a major in college," said Holly Rachel, co-founder of the Blacks In Technology chapter. "If we can reach young people at an earlier point in their education, there is more opportunity for them to be exposed to a variety of tech skills and careers. This expands their view of what ‘tech’ is and helps them begin to see a future for themselves in the industry."
- Brentwood's Groups360 announced a deal with French multinational hotel company Accor, which will use its GroupSync meetings and events platform at the majority of its 5,200 properties worldwide. It's the latest hotel company to sign on for the service.
- Generous, a Nashville startup whose platform focuses on donations in the nonprofit sector, is partnering with Jackson-based ObituaryShare.com in an effort to make it easier for people to make a charitable donation in the name of a deceased person, instead of sending flowers for the funeral.
- Nashville's Pathway Lending won a $1 million grant from the Wells Fargo Open for Business Fund to expand its Flex Fund to minority- and woman-owned businesses in markets across the state, including Nashville. Small businesses that qualify could receive funding between $25,000 to $250,000.
On the docket
- The Greater Nashville Technology Council's annual Analytics Summit wrapped up today, Oct. 19.
- Launch Tennessee is starting a new fireside chat interview series Oct. 22, named #BuildTN Conversations. The first guest: Rapper and entrepreneur Percy "Master P" Miller. The interview with Miller will be live-streamed for free and happen at downtown's National Museum of African-American Music.
- The Nashville Entrepreneur Center's NEXT Awards will happen Oct. 25 at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center.
Tech talk
"This building … will serve multiple functions and has one main goal – to be the new 'front door' of the university."
Dr. Greg Jones, president of Belmont University
• Jones was speaking about the school's proposed "3-D Building," which will house its Thomas F. Cone Sr. Center for Entrepreneurship and the new Belmont Data Collaborative.
Belmont University's "3-D Building."
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