Today: Olomon | Teamworthy | Courage | SleepRes | Brickyard |
Dot Game | Full Clarity | Totem Labs | Spac update

FINTECH veteran JEREMY BOLLS, founder and CEO of Brentwood-based Olomon Inc., announced June 28 his completion of a $2.6MM pre-Seed financing of his 3-year-old startup that offers a "financial System of Record" for complex households that own their records, and for permissioned advisors, attorneys, and CPAs who serve such households. Bolls, previously best-known in Mid-TN as the founder of Kindful, which focused on supporting payments within the nonprofit sector, sold that business to Indianapolis-based Bloomerang. In announcing the pre-Seed, Bolls said that an unfilled seat among investors has been reserved for a strategic partner that is now within "the household finance and-or advisory ecosystem" and which could thereby bring added value to the pre-Seed round. That seat may still be open. VNC notes that Nashville's FINTOP Capital was an early investor in Kindful. Via his Bolls Capital Inc., Bolls is an investor FINTOP-backed Thread Bank. VNC's previous Bolls coverage: 1 | 2 | 3 |

Thomas Lehrman

TEAMWORTHY Ventures ID LP of Nashville filed Aug. 5 regarding a planned $19MM VC raise, with $17.8MM-in to that point, from 25 investors. Teamworthy Managing Partner: Thomas Lehrman of Nashville. Teamworthy is scheduled to convene its Fall 2026 Founder Forum on Nov. 18. The event is the culmination of its current Founder Fellowship cohort. Teamworthy is also a member of the Greater Nashville Private Capital Association. VNC research shows Teamworthy's portfolio includes Nashville-based Lasso.io, an "ecosystem" play described at one point as an "all-in-one platform where event companies work—unifying event scheduling, communication, onboarding, time tracking, payroll, travel, talent sourcing, projects, and inventory." Lasso is led by Founder-CEO Clay Sifford. Lasso has completed at least two M&A deals in its sector since 2021. 

NASHVILLE-based Courage Healthcare SBIC Fund I LP's updated SEC filing for the nearly $43.2MM investment fund, with 18 investors thus far. Associated with the filing: Eric Larsen, Mayur Tipnis. Ref: Courage Capital Management LLC.  

William Noah MD

NASHVILLE-area-based SleepRes Inc. offers its Kricket™ Kairos Positive Airway Pressure (KPAP), to deliver positive air pressure for sleep-apnea patients who have found continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) devices inadequate or impractical. In December 2025, the company announced receipt of FDA 510(k) clearance for its KPAP device. The group has thus far made four distinct filings between August 2024 and two weeks ago, altogether involving a range of security types. The initial filing represented at least $2MM. The company's chairman and chief science officer is William Noah MD, who is also associated with the Sleep Research Consortium at Middle Tennessee State University. Also on last month's SEC filing were CFO Craig Salazar in Nashville and CEO John Lipman of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Brickyard bonding reminders take various forms

BRICKYARD, the Chattanooga-based VC-PE investor and portfolio hangout proprietor, is raising for open-ended Brickyard Fund II LP, per its July 23 SEC posting. Brickyard's vintage-2022 Fund I had a target of $20MM. Brickyard has posted at least six new portfolio investments thus far in 2026. The firm's Pilot-Fund hero was may well have been Brev, acquired two years ago by NVIDIA (Market cap today: $5.38Trillion). A salient Fund I resident: Askari Defense ('intelligent kinetic defenses for robotic warfare'). The Brickyard site says the firm models writing ten $500k-$800K checks per year. Its average check is for $700K, but its checks can range $250K-$1MM. Brickyard says it doesn't "lead priced rounds, but we’re comfortable being the first check in, setting a cap, and leveraging our network to help close your round." The Brickyard institution and its team self-describe as "junkyard dogs" but founders face "no binding terms--the spirit of Brickyard is a forcing function." Brickyard has invested in some firms pre- and-or post-entry to Y Combinator.

George Heckman

DOT GAME HOLDINGS INC. is a stealthy Brentwood-based consumer fintech startup which apparently has digital games, lottery and charitable-giving facets. It has thus far raised $250K from seven investors using a SAFE instrument and profit participation agreements, according to its July 30 506(b) filing. Today, Crunchbase says Dot Game, which registered earlier this year in Delaware, "is a gaming production company that develops video and online games." The LinkedIn profile of Dot Game Founder George Heckman, a 25-year-old Seattle native, previously spent several years in venues including San Juan, P.R. Heckman's profile notes he also operates via his HSP.XYZ an investment office on one side of the house, and HSP full-stack marketing services (Polymarket among clients listed) on the other side of the house. His also profile indicates his association with Tampa-based digital marketer InClips Media.

FULL HEALTH CLARITY INC. (FHC) in Knoxville offers fhcVERA™, a vendor-neutral solution that links data regarding implanted medical devices, clinical encounters, and insights across hospitals, manufacturers, the care continuum and researchers. Last week, FHC reported on its SAFE raise, with $150K raise from one investor. VNC research indicates FHC was accepted into Caduceus Capital Partners' 2025 Caduceus LAUNCH pre-Seed program for digital health startups. (The appplications window for Caduceus's Fall 2026 program closes Sept. 4.) Associated with the FHC raise are executives CoFounder and CEO Joseph Ortiz MBA MSCE and Keith Williams MD, chief clinical innovation officer and board chair.

CHATTANOOGA's TOTEM LABS (TOTEM Inc.), the vintage-2024 Chattanooga startup that offers Totem Compass, this week updated status of the Totem I crowdfunding $1.2MM capital raise. In 1Q CY25, Totem announced raising $1.3MM Seed via an Angel round. The co-founders are Carter Fowler and Chase Lemonds. Its WeFunder page here. The WeFunder page currently shows Christopher Perry as "syndicate lead." Perry's LinkedIn profile shows him having recently moved from a post with Google to SpaceX. Perry, a U.S. Army veteran and a grad of the U.S. Military Academy grad at West Point, has substantial boots-on-the-ground experience. In 2025, WIRED magazine gave Totem a look. VNC's April 25, 2025 note on Totem is here.

SPAC UPDATE: VNC reported in December 2025 on Memphis-based Live Oak Merchant Partners' sponsorship of Live Oak Acquisition Corp. V and the execution of a definitive agreement related to combination of LOACV with New York City-based Teamshares Inc., heretofore backed by Khosla Ventures, et al. Update: On July 29, a provisional S-1 prospectus tentatively covering primary and secondary stock offerings of the parties. An overview of the prospective resulting business focuses on opportunities for acquisitions of small and medium enterprises that have demonstrated "durability across economic cycles" while in the hands of owners now aged 55 or older, operating "within a limited universe of credible buyers." VNC

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