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How to Spot the Difference Between a Good Idea and a Scalable Venture
Oct 07, 2025, Posted By : Kernel Equity Team
How to Spot the Difference Between a Good Idea and a Scalable Venture
Every successful company starts with an idea, but not every idea becomes a business. The difference lies in scalability, the ability to grow without costs rising at the same pace a ...
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Why We Pair Technical Resources With Strategic Guidance
Sep 29, 2025, Posted By : Kernel Equity Team
Why We Pair Technical Resources With Strategic Guidance
Building a company takes more than code. Technical execution can deliver a product, but without direction it risks missing the market. Pairing technical resources with strategic guidance keeps ...
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Why Clear Value Propositions Drive Sustainable Ventures
Sep 25, 2025, Posted By : Kernel Equity Team
Why Clear Value Propositions Drive Sustainable Ventures
A venture lives or dies on whether customers understand why it exists. A clear value proposition makes that understanding immediate. It communicates what problem is being solved, who it is for, ...
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How Kernel Equity Aligns Technology With Market Needs
Sep 24, 2025, Posted By : Kernel Equity Team
How Kernel Equity Aligns Technology With Market Needs
Technology on its own rarely creates lasting value. It becomes meaningful when it solves a problem that customers are already facing. Kernel Equity builds ventures with this principle in mind, s ...
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Building Ventures That Reach Break-Even Faster
Sep 22, 2025, Posted By : Kernel Equity Team
Building ventures that reach break-even faster
Reaching break-even is often treated as a distant milestone, but the way a venture is built can move that line closer. It’s less about cutting corners and more about structuring the company to generate ...
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The Importance of Exit Planning From Day One
Sep 18, 2025, Posted By : Kernel Equity Team
The Importance of Exit Planning From Day One
Most founders launch a business with their eyes fixed on growth. Building teams, developing products, and winning customers naturally dominate the agenda. What often gets overlooked is how the story will e ...
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Why Portfolio Diversity Strengthens the Whole Ecosystem
Sep 17, 2025, Posted By : Kernel Equity Team
Why Portfolio Diversity Strengthens the Whole Ecosystem
A business ecosystem works best when no single part carries all the weight. Diversity within a portfolio gives balance, spreads out risk, and allows each company to benefit from the streng ...
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The Role of Financial Discipline in Early-Stage Ventures
Sep 15, 2025, Posted By : Kernel Equity Team
The Role of Financial Discipline in Early-Stage Ventures
Launching a new venture often begins with an idea and the energy to pursue it. What determines survival, however, is rarely the idea alone. Financial discipline how founders handle spending, ...
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Equity Partnerships vs. Outsourced Development: The Kernel Difference
Sep 11, 2025, Posted By : Kernel Equity Team
Equity Partnerships vs. Outsourced Development: The Kernel Difference
Startups often face a choice when building technology. They can hire an outsourced development team for a fixed fee, or they can bring on a partner who invests in the company throu ...
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Time Miner: How LegalTech Is Saving Attorneys Billable Hours Every Day
Sep 10, 2025, Posted By : Kernel Equity Team
Time Miner: How LegalTech Is Saving Attorneys Billable Hours Every Day
Law firms often lose revenue in the smallest moments. A five-minute client call, a quick follow-up email, or time spent scheduling gets missed when attorneys rely on manual logs ...
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Meet the Team: Kernel Equity Leadership
Sep 09, 2025, Posted By : Kernel Equity Team
Peter Marcum – Founding Partner
Peter’s career runs through several decades of technology and infrastructure building. He started with JML Computers and Nashville Computer Liquidators, creating businesses that solved practical needs in hardware and s ...
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Equity vs. Debt: Why Kernel Prefers to Partner Through Shared Ownership
Sep 08, 2025, Posted By : Kernel Equity Team
Equity vs. Debt: Why Kernel Prefers to Partner Through Shared Ownership
Early-stage companies often weigh two main paths for funding: taking on debt or giving up equity. Both approaches bring capital, but the structure of each changes how a company g ...
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The Nashville Advantage: Building Tech Ventures in a Growing Innovation Hub
Sep 05, 2025, Posted By : Kernel Equity Team
The Nashville Advantage: Building Tech Ventures in a Growing Innovation Hub
When most people think of technology startups, their minds go straight to Silicon Valley, Austin, or New York. But over the past decade, Nashville has quietly transformed i ...
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Why We Call Ourselves “More Than a Fund”
Sep 04, 2025, Posted By : Kernel Equity Team
At Kernel Equity, we often describe ourselves as more than a fund—and it’s not just a tagline. Traditional funds focus on capital alone, leaving founders to figure out strategy, technology, and sales execution on their own. We think that’s only part ...
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In venture capital, writing the check is just the beginning. At Kernel Equity, we believe great investing starts with deep curiosity, structured evaluation, and an unwavering belief in the potential of people. Every founder who pitches to us has a d ...
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Venture capital (VC) is the financial backbone behind some of the most transformative startups in the world. It represents not just capital investment but also strategic mentorship, operational guidance, and long-term partnership. At Kernel Equity, v ...
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Lipscomb University launches LUInnovate, appoints first chief innovation officer
Feb 07, 2025, Posted By : Kim Chaudoin
Lipscomb University today announced the launch of LUInnovate, the university’s new Office of Innovation, dedicated to advancing Lipscomb’s mission through high-quality programming, strategic partnerships and innovative learning models. Leading this n ...
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Kernel Equity Launches CLEarly Legal: A Revolutionary CLE-by-Podcast App
Nov 08, 2024, Posted By : Kernel Equity
Kernel Equity Launches CLEarly Legal: A Revolutionary CLE-by-Podcast App
Nashville, TN – November 8, 2024 – Kernel Equity, a Nashville-based investment firm, in collaboration with local attorneys Sean Martin and Joel Surber, is excited to announce th ...
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Clarity Behavioral Health Software Unveils Engage™ - a Revolutionary SaaS Solution for the Behaviora
Jun 07, 2024, Posted By : Beacon Media and Marketing
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, UNITED STATES, August 22, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- Clarity Behavioral Health Software (Clarity BHS) is proud to announce the partnership with and substantial funding investment from Kernel Equity for Clarity BHS’s innovative Sa ...
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Blattner Tech Acquires DevDigital to Deepen Their Technical Expertise Supporting Their Game-Changing
Jul 27, 2023, Posted By : PR Newswire
NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Blattner Tech, a renowned leader in Predictive Transformation services, products and solutions in the Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning industry, is pleased to announce the a ...
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Nashville startup Time Miner pursues B2B platform ties, maps capital raises
Jun 20, 2023, Posted By : Milt Capps
EARLY-STAGE Time Miner LLC -- mostly bootstrapped since its 2016 founding in Nashville -- is raising outside capital for its cloud-based platform, which enables professionals who bill by-the-hour to schedule and launch automatic retrospective collect ...
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Nashville entrepreneurs launch health care venture studio OtherLeft Ventures
May 05, 2023, Posted By : Joel Stinnett
Nashville has another new venue to grow health care startups.
Entrepreneurs Peter Marcum, Dr. Rodney Hamilton and Blaine Anderson have launched OtherLeft Ventures, a health care focused venture studio providing seed capital and product development f ...
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OtherLeft Ventures Launches Healthcare-Focused Venture Studio in Nashville
May 02, 2023, Posted By : Investment Newswire
New venture studio reduces risk of building new ventures by combining financial capital, human capital, and analytical rigor.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — OtherLeft Ventures, a healthcare-focused venture studio, launched in Nashville ...
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Kernel Equity Partner Time Miner’s billing app for attorneys is now a cloud-based app with a new website. Moving to a software-as-a-service model offers efficiency and cost savings, with more functionality and software integration options. The new Ti ...
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Studio Bank member Debby Sapp has built her career on helping others build their businesses. Debby started in finance and has worked with some of Music City's legends, including Alan Jackson, George Jones, and Lee Greenwood. Today, she's a partner an ...
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Global Music Publishing Administration Software Industry Latest Innovations and Future Analysis
Mar 26, 2023, Posted By : Sam
Global Music Publishing Administration Software Industry Latest Innovations and Future Analysis
New Jersey, United States –The global Music Publishing Administration Software market analysis includes helpful information on both the global and local m ...
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TheraVista awarded APTA’s Academy of Leadership and Innovation Technology SIG Top Posters at CSM 202
Mar 02, 2023, Posted By : TheraVista
TheraVista Health, a leading provider of digital health solutions for physical therapy, is thrilled to announce that researchers and collaborators of its Vestibular Rehabilitation platform have been awarded the prestigious APTA’s Academy of Leaders ...
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CFD Research Partners with OtherLeft Ventures to Launch TheraVista Health
Feb 10, 2023, Posted By : Staff reporter
On Monday, February 06, Huntsville’s CFD Research Corporation announced the launch of a new digital health company, TheraVista Health Inc., focused on the physical therapy market.
The new corporation is a joint venture between CFD Research and Other ...
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Blattner Technologies Acquires OtherLeft to Bring New Visions to the ML Industry
Nov 07, 2022, Posted By : PRNewswire
Blattner Technologies, a leading provider of Predictive Transformation services and tools in the Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning industry, has announced the acquisition of OtherLeft.
OtherLeft is a strategic design and i ...
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KeyBank Merchant Services and CoreCommerce Launch E-commerce Platform
Aug 09, 2022, Posted By : Admin
August 9, 2022: CoreCommerce, LLC, (“CoreCommerce”), an industry leading payments acceptance platform and KeyBank, one the nation’s largest bank-based financial services companies announced the launch of an eCommerce platform enabling clients to sta ...
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Donna Wright Launches Innovative Competency Prioritization and Management Platform
Aug 31, 2020, Posted By : OnSomble, Inc.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 31, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- World-renowned competency expert Donna Wright and Creative Health Care Management (CHCM) have partnered with OnSomble to develop the only platform that truly empowers organizations to operationaliz ...
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VendEngine Launches E-Learning Digital Education Platform for Inmates
Jul 16, 2020, Posted By : Business Wire
NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VendEngine, Inc., a leading software provider in the corrections industry, announced today that the company has partnered with MaxxContent to provide educational solutions across VendEngine’s software and hardware ...
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We are very grateful to NBC’s Channel 4 reporter Alan Frio for taking the time to inform Middle Tennessee viewers of HopDoc and our easy-to-use, free telemed platform for physicians. We were thrilled to be the leading story for Monday’s 4:30p.m. news ...
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To fight pandemic, Hopdoc giving away its telehealth system to physicians
Apr 07, 2020, Posted By : Bill Siwicki
As some Americans turn to large telemedicine services to avoid in-person visits, this system facilitates visits with individuals’ regular doctors.
Hopdoc, a telemedicine technology and services startup backed by software developer DevDigital, is givi ...
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Local technology development company DevDigital recently announced the launch of Kernel Equity, a spinoff focused on the integration of technology with startups, small businesses and companies in turnarounds. Headed by DevDigital Co-Founder Peter Mar ...
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DevDigital has announced the launch of Kernel Equity - a spinoff that will play a unique role in Nashville’s venture ecosystem. Leveraging DevDigital’s legacy capabilities, Kernel’s core competence will be the seamless integration of technology with ...
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