Tennessee Community Ventures

Founded in 2009, Tennessee Community Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Nashville, Tennessee. The firm seeks to make seed and early-stage investments across Tennessee.

Eric Satz

Partner & Co-Founder

Past deals in Tennessee

Overdog

Venture Round in 2015
Overdog is a social matchmaking platform connecting like-minded gamers to create better online multiplayer experiences. The company connects athletes and fans through their shared love of gaming through their easy and exciting mobile app.

Nusirt

Series C in 2015
NuSirt Sciences, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Nashville, Tennessee, established in 2007. It focuses on developing innovative products for the prevention and treatment of metabolic diseases related to over-nutrition, such as obesity and type 2 diabetes. The company's technology platform combines natural compounds with pharmaceutical agents to activate sirtuin pathways, aiming to reduce the dosage of metformin, a standard treatment for early-stage type 2 diabetes, which some patients find difficult to tolerate due to side effects. NuSirt's lead product, NS-0100, combines leucine with a low dose of metformin and is currently undergoing Phase 2 clinical trials to determine its efficacy. The company has filed eleven patent applications, with two patents issued, and has conducted multiple pre-clinical and clinical studies to support its patented technologies. NuSirt has also formed strategic partnerships to enhance its research and development efforts in the field.

Nusirt

Series A in 2014
NuSirt Sciences, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Nashville, Tennessee, established in 2007. It focuses on developing innovative products for the prevention and treatment of metabolic diseases related to over-nutrition, such as obesity and type 2 diabetes. The company's technology platform combines natural compounds with pharmaceutical agents to activate sirtuin pathways, aiming to reduce the dosage of metformin, a standard treatment for early-stage type 2 diabetes, which some patients find difficult to tolerate due to side effects. NuSirt's lead product, NS-0100, combines leucine with a low dose of metformin and is currently undergoing Phase 2 clinical trials to determine its efficacy. The company has filed eleven patent applications, with two patents issued, and has conducted multiple pre-clinical and clinical studies to support its patented technologies. NuSirt has also formed strategic partnerships to enhance its research and development efforts in the field.

Streamweaver

Series A in 2013
Streamweaver is a software company located in Nashville, Tenn. The company's first product is a multi-angle mobile video app that automatically connects people to record together and then generates split-screen video.

Overdog

Seed Round in 2013
Overdog is a social matchmaking platform connecting like-minded gamers to create better online multiplayer experiences. The company connects athletes and fans through their shared love of gaming through their easy and exciting mobile app.

American Hometown Media

Seed Round in 2013
American Hometown Media, Inc. owns and operates an Internet platform to engage in analog publishing of American home cooks. The company syndicates the editorial content featuring journalism celebrating hometown cooks to community newspapers, magazines, and other media around the country. It also offers Just A Pinch Recipes, a digital recipe and coupon social network with a focus on home cooks; and Just A Pinch Syndicated Media, a platform to deliver content on home cooks, recipes, and snapshots of the culture and heritage of America's hometowns to media contacts. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Streamweaver

Series A in 2013
Streamweaver is a software company located in Nashville, Tenn. The company's first product is a multi-angle mobile video app that automatically connects people to record together and then generates split-screen video.

Streamweaver

Seed Round in 2012
Streamweaver is a software company located in Nashville, Tenn. The company's first product is a multi-angle mobile video app that automatically connects people to record together and then generates split-screen video.

Pro Player Connect

Seed Round in 2012
Jason Kyle created this unique site for professional athletes to communicate securely with other athletes as well as network with registered businesses and for businesses to be able to connect with professional athletes. Endorsements, appearances, product offers, event invitations and job opportunities are just some of the possible connections for athletes and businesses to make through Pro Player Connect. The site features profile pages, which highlight the athlete’s career, charity involvement, clinics, events, business ventures and biography information. Jason Kyle CEO and Board Member Currently a long snapper for the New Orleans Saints, Jason has spent 16 years in the National Football League with such teams as the Carolina Panthers, Seattle Seahawks, Cleveland Browns, St. Louis Rams and San Francisco 49ers. He is a 1994 graduate of Arizona State University with a BA in Marketing.

Nusirt

Seed Round in 2012
NuSirt Sciences, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Nashville, Tennessee, established in 2007. It focuses on developing innovative products for the prevention and treatment of metabolic diseases related to over-nutrition, such as obesity and type 2 diabetes. The company's technology platform combines natural compounds with pharmaceutical agents to activate sirtuin pathways, aiming to reduce the dosage of metformin, a standard treatment for early-stage type 2 diabetes, which some patients find difficult to tolerate due to side effects. NuSirt's lead product, NS-0100, combines leucine with a low dose of metformin and is currently undergoing Phase 2 clinical trials to determine its efficacy. The company has filed eleven patent applications, with two patents issued, and has conducted multiple pre-clinical and clinical studies to support its patented technologies. NuSirt has also formed strategic partnerships to enhance its research and development efforts in the field.

Overdog

Seed Round in 2012
Overdog is a social matchmaking platform connecting like-minded gamers to create better online multiplayer experiences. The company connects athletes and fans through their shared love of gaming through their easy and exciting mobile app.

Nusirt

Seed Round in 2012
NuSirt Sciences, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Nashville, Tennessee, established in 2007. It focuses on developing innovative products for the prevention and treatment of metabolic diseases related to over-nutrition, such as obesity and type 2 diabetes. The company's technology platform combines natural compounds with pharmaceutical agents to activate sirtuin pathways, aiming to reduce the dosage of metformin, a standard treatment for early-stage type 2 diabetes, which some patients find difficult to tolerate due to side effects. NuSirt's lead product, NS-0100, combines leucine with a low dose of metformin and is currently undergoing Phase 2 clinical trials to determine its efficacy. The company has filed eleven patent applications, with two patents issued, and has conducted multiple pre-clinical and clinical studies to support its patented technologies. NuSirt has also formed strategic partnerships to enhance its research and development efforts in the field.

Overdog

Seed Round in 2012
Overdog is a social matchmaking platform connecting like-minded gamers to create better online multiplayer experiences. The company connects athletes and fans through their shared love of gaming through their easy and exciting mobile app.

American Hometown Media

Seed Round in 2012
American Hometown Media, Inc. owns and operates an Internet platform to engage in analog publishing of American home cooks. The company syndicates the editorial content featuring journalism celebrating hometown cooks to community newspapers, magazines, and other media around the country. It also offers Just A Pinch Recipes, a digital recipe and coupon social network with a focus on home cooks; and Just A Pinch Syndicated Media, a platform to deliver content on home cooks, recipes, and snapshots of the culture and heritage of America's hometowns to media contacts. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.