Amazon has named its two office towers at downtown's Nashville Yards development.
Martin B. Cherry | Nashville Business Journal
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 recurring roundup highlighting news on startups, capital raises, acquisitions and other activity in the region's tech sector.
- Built Technologies, which raised $125 million in the middle of last year at a $1.5 billion "unicorn" valuation, added three vice-president-level executives to its growing roster of top officials. Here's who they are.
- Nashville posted the largest one-year gain in data science jobs of any U.S. metro, according to a new analysis that compared 2019 to 2020. In that span, the number of local data science jobs leaped by almost 700%. The average annual salary went up 11% in that time, the seventh-largest percent increase. Here's more from Colorado-based analytics software company Unsupervised, which studied federal data.
- On the topic of data science: Meharry Medical College now is offering a doctorate in biomedical data science from its School of Applied Computational Sciences.
- Belmont University is hiring a program coordinator for its Thomas F. Cone Sr. Center for Entrepreneurship.
- Nashville startup Vodium may get a chance to pitch at this weekend's South by Southwest festival in Austin (better known as SXSW). Vodium, which makes a virtual teleprompter for video calls, is one of three alternates in the "Future of Work" category at the event's pitch competition. Five finalists are scheduled to pitch in that category; alternates are tapped if a finalist drops out, said a SXSW spokesman.
- Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) has named its two office towers at downtown's Nashville Yards development after key figures in the women's suffrage movement a century ago, NewsChannel 5 reports.
- Nashville-based Discovery Sound Technology LLC is pursuing a $6.5 million equity raise, according to a federal regulatory filing. The 13-year-old company uses ultrasound technology to detect issues in HVAC systems.
- We're holding our first Inno Madness bracket-style competition for local startups — click here to vote.
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