This month in StartupNash
Site relaunch, new business profiles, upcoming event, and tons of new folks to welcome to the club.
📆 IRL Announcement:
We have a happy hour coming up! Founders and funders, we will meet at East Nashville Beer Works on Thursday, June 6th. If you’re a founder/funder, you’re invited. Significant others and kiddos are welcome too! (Yes, it’s a brewery and a playground with plenty of room). It also has a great selection of small pizzas, appetizers, salads and non-alcoholic drinks. See you there!
🌟 Founder question of the day:
What is your unique value proposition, and how effectively does it differentiate your startup from competitors?
🚀 New business launches:
🚀 Ifrah Khan launched Swiftstay in Nashville. It’s a members’ club for travel (home exchange) where you only pay the cleaning fee. If you’re interested get on the waitlist here and put StartupNash as a referral so if you’re approved, you have a first year free membership.
💡 How you know Ifrah:
- 3x Founder / serial entrepreneur
- Active in the Atlanta tech/startup scene
📁 About the business:
- Home Exchange Club
- Just launched in the Southeast
- Launched out of Neighborhood Studios in Atlanta
- Second startup spun out of the VC Studio🚀 Gust launched Angel Guide, a new program that combines proven processes, built-in deal flow, and great tools to make it easier than ever to make money and have fun investing in early-stage companies.
💡 How you know the Gust team:
- Peter Swan and Ryan Nash are active members in the group
- They've helped several group members through early-stage challenges
📁 About the business:
- Gust helps founders incorporate
- Now they help funders too
- Backed by New York Angels🌞 Other launches or raises:
🚀 Gun.io launched Discover Talent where you can search their entire database of engineers for your org. Congrats Teja Yenamandra, Taylor Desseyn and team!
🚀 Opre announced a 3M raise! Very excited for this Kate O'Neil
🚀 GoodShip announced an 8M raise, HQ'd in Nashville!! Very excited for what your team is doing Ryan Soskin!
🚀 Katie Merth hosted Nashville Product Meetup's 4th Community Demo Day. Potluck, Inc. (Justin Gray), IceBrekr (David Castro) Xuron (Ian Nott) and Spinach.io (Yoav Grossman) pitched their startups at Vaco.
🚀 VetVerifi closed a pre-seed round of 1.5M. Congrats David Servodidio!
🚀 The Nashville Entrepreneur Center InFlight Founders also had their demo day last night! virsitour (Debbie Garcia, CMP), The bKYND Company (Alexa Newkirk)
Full list of startups and businesses in Inflight: Apple & Anchor, Boutique Disposal Company, CITY NOW NEXT, Corsair Communications, Design In House, Flowmingo, Global PMO Partners, Kindred Media, Love + Freedom Education, MADKAT MGMT, Onyx Capital Financial Solutions, Orbital Ink, PWP Products LLC, Rental Guard, Research Lifecycle Solutions LLC, Sequential Potential Comics, Stakd.co, and TNT Goods.
🏡 What’s happening on StartupNash
Member is looking for marketing operations roles.
Company is hiring their first UX Designer role.
Member is taking on additional software work with their team.
📣 Online announcement
We are adding Business profiles! Ever since we started, StartupNash been focused on individuals, because businesses change, but getting to know founders and connecting them with other people was most important to me. Now, we are trying something new. Business profiles are here! It’s a way to capture early attention for your startup from members. Use this opportunity to uniquely position your startup for early growth. Businesses who will find this valuable have the goal to increase awareness and adoption of products/services.
Business profiles are on our brand new website. Learn more below.
🌞 New from Britepeer
Got a question or want to make a connection with StartupNash? Ask Britepeer. I use it to match members of our community by skill, completely free. How do you ask Britepeer? Simply type /britepeer in any public channel in StartupNash to get started.
Every new member has a landing page that helps each member onboard and connect to other members in the group. This experience helps everyone discover some of the startup resources we have here in Nashville.
Celebrate good times: 🎉 We’ve had 17 weekly wins in May 🎉
I measure the group's progress by meaningful connections. If you met someone that led to a job, a sale, an investment, or anything else, tell me anonymously here.
See you on the brite side 🌞,
😎 Kelley