Mark Kendall
Investment Partners play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top Tennessee Investment Partners. 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 Investment Partners
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Al Gore
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Former Vice President Al Gore is co-founder and chairman of Generation Investment Management, a partnership that is focused on a new approac…
Jim Sohr
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Jim Sohr has served as president of AIM HealthCare Services, Inc. since its founding in 1995. Mr. Sohr co-founded AIM and over-saw all as…
David Solomon
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
David Solomon has 14 years of operating and entrepreneurial experience, and 13 years of public accounting experience. He is a Founder an…
Bill Frist
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Bill Frist is the Chairman & Founder at Hope Through Healing Hands.
Harry Jacobson
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Prior to co-founding EHV, Jacobson was Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs at Vanderbilt University (CEO of Vanderbilt University Medical Cen…
Stephen Culp
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Stephen Culp is the Co-Founder at ProDiligence.
Bryan Frist
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Venture
Bryan Frist – CEO & Co-Founder @ Yoshi
Barry Large
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Barry Large is a General Partner at Lamp Post Ventures. He is currently employed at Lamp Post Group. Barry Large is responsible for financia…
Jared Stone
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Mr. Stone has served as a Managing Director of Northgate since 2001. Prior to Northgate, Mr. Stone was an Associate at Bain Capital. While a…
David Adair
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
C. David Adair, MD (Chairman and CSO) is a board certified maternal-fetal medicine specialist and president of Regional Obstetrical Consulta…
Santosh Sankar
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Santosh Sankar – Co-Founder and Partner @ Dynamo
Allan Davis
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Allan Davis serves as the Managing Partner and Partner of Lamp Post Group. He is a General Partner at Lamp Post Ventures. Allan Davis serves…
John Philpott
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
John Philpott began his career as one of the founding team members of S1 Corporation (NASDAQ: SONE). S1 originated as the creator of the Wor…
Joe Maxwell
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Joe Maxwell is the Managing Partner at FINTOP Capital. Joe was most recently the EVP and MD of IPreo Inc. where he led the Private Capital M…
Rock Morphis
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Rock Morphis co-founded Heritage Group, LLC in 1986 and has served as a Managing Director of the firm since its inception. Heritage Group is…
Bruce Crosby
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Bruce Crosby – Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ Health Velocity Capital
Landon Gibbs
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Mr. Gibbs is a Managing Partner at Altitude Ventures and serves on the Investment Committee for Resolute Venture Partners. Prior to this rol…
Devin Carty
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Devin Carty is the Chief Executive Officer of Martin Ventures. In this leadership capacity, Devin leads the investment committee and provid…
Christopher Rand
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Mr. Rand co-founded TriStar Technology Ventures in 2009. Through his role at TriStar, he serves on the Board of Directors for Cerebrotech, a…
David McClellan
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
David McClellan – Partner @ Heritage Group
Ted Alling
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Ted Alling is a Co-Founder & Partner at Lamp Post Group.
Lauren Brueggen
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Lauren Brueggen is a Principal in SMC’s private equity group and has been with the firm since 2011. Lauren Brueggen was previously an Associ…
Jordan Lipson
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Jordan Lipson works with the investment team and contributes to sourcing, analysis, structuring, due diligence and ongoing support of existi…
Jan Bouten
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
currently works as the Partner for Innova Memphis. He previously worked at Restore Medical Solutions as the Board Member.
Joe Cook III
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Prior to his involvement with MGC, Mr. Cook was a Director, Private Placements in the Investment Banking Group of Robert W. Baird & Co. in N…
Marcus Whitney
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Marcus Whitney is the Founding Partner of Jumpstart Health Investors.
Byron W. Smith
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
After receiving an MBA from the University of Chicago, Byron began his career at Procter & Gamble and Pepsico in brand management and classi…
Cameron Newton
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Cameron is an Investment Manager based in Nashville, TN. Cameron is a founding member and managing partner of Relevance Capital and Presiden…
David Gould
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage: Seed
Dave Gould is a Partner at TechOperators. Having held leadership roles with both start-ups and larger technology companies, Dave offers a b…
Ken Woody
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
As President of Innova, Ken leads our team focused on finding, funding and growing startup technology businesses in Tennessee and helps them…
Jared Winegrad
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Jared is a Managing Director at FINTOP Capital. Prior to FINTOP, Jared was the Director of Finance and Operations at a small venture studio …
Dean Didato
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Dean has consulted with Innova since 2009 on several due diligence projects focused on qualifying new technologies, patents, competition, an…
David Fitzgerald
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
David Fitzgerald – General Partner @ Petra Capital Partners
Charles Byrge
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Charles Byrge – CEO and President @ Harpeth Capital
Casey West
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Casey focuses on investments in Healthcare and Software & Technology companies. Prior to joining SSM, he worked at Petra Capital Partners an…
Phil Shmerling
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Phil Shmerling – Managing Member @ InCrowd Capital
Green Campbell
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Green Campbell
Jack Tyrrell
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Jack Tyrrell – Managing Partner @ Richland Ventures
Bob Rolfe
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Prior to co-founding West End Holdings, Mr. Rolfe spent the last six years as CEO and Chairman of MyOfficeProducts, Inc., a $125 million off…
Derren Burrell
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Passionate about decrypting complex financial scenarios and integrating operations within high-growth companies to increase shareholder valu…
Rob Readnour
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Dr. Readnour currently serves on or has visitation rights to the following companies: AgTech Accelerator, a unique startup accelerator focus…
John H. Chadwick
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
John Chadwick is a Founder of Claritas Capital. John has over twenty years of experience in financial services, with over fifteen years of e…
Jesse Bland
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Jesse Bland – Partner @ Heritage Group
Dean Newton
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Dean Newton is an General Partner of Relevance Capital, based in Nashville, Tennessee. Prior to joining Relevance Capital, Dean served as A…
Gary Stevenson
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Gary Stevenson co-founded MB Venture Partners in 2001 after six years in healthcare investment banking and equity research. Previously, …
Marshall Leslie
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Marshall Leslie Group SVP, Quality & Operations at Vizient, Inc.
Dan Shockley
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Founder at LFM Capital.
Tatsuya Otsubo
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Tatsuya Otsubo – Alternative Investments (Private Equity) Manager @ The Norinchukin Bank
Chase Perry
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Director at Nashville Capital Network.
Dave Vreeland
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Dave Vreeland is the Managing Director at Jumpstart Capital and the Member of the Board of Directors at Simplify ASC.
Doug King
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Doug King
Lyle Beasley
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Prior to co-founding West End Holdings, Mr. Beasley spent the past ten years as founder and CEO of IXT, the nation’s leading healthcare cons…
Andy Patton
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Andy Patton
Chris Lin
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Chris Lin – Vice President @ LFM Capital
Brennan Mason
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Brennan Mason
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