Marcus in the Media

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MARCUS WHITNEY

Press Appearances

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18/12/2022

Brock Turner of Modern Healthcare interviews Marcus, to learn about how he’s navigating the current downturn, why investors are no longer overlooking the middle of the country, and where digital health fails to deliver on its promise of equity.

07/11/2022

1. Create and Orchestrate: The Path to Claiming Your Creative Power from an Unlikely Entrepreneur by Marcus Whitney If Marcus Whitney can go from college dropout without a place to call home to one of Nashville's most exciting entrepreneurs in just two decades, there's nothing stopping you from...

22/08/2022

In the business world, it’s repeatedly been said: Do not fear failure.

03/08/2022

Nashville is a party city, full of honky-tonks, cherished bars and good old Tennessee whiskey. Pedal taverns and party buses fill the streets, while music venues are stocked with drinks. It’s hard to imagine what it’s like to go out in this city when you can’t, or choose not to, drink. But that’s...

24/06/2022

After the murder of George Floyd on Memorial Day 2020, many people and companies expressed their solidarity with racial justice through strong statements and social media posts.

10/03/2022

Here are Nashville entrepreneur/millionaire Marcus Whitney's five top tips for success.

24/02/2022

With 100 partners and a $55 million fund, Marcus Whitney's Jumpstart Nova is the country's first Black health care venture fund.

24/02/2022

Marcus Whitney stands out in Nashville’s $95 billion health care sector as an investor in startups. In addition to co-founding a venture capital firm, he’s organized an annual health tech conference and co-founded the city’s professional soccer club.

22/02/2022

When I first met Marcus Whitney, he was sitting in a dunk tank on a hot summer day at a fundraising event for the Nashville Humane Association in Tennessee. I had a new puppy in one hand and three balls in the other. It was the first time we met in person, but long before I had a chance to send him...

31/01/2022

Marcus Whitney stands out in Nashville’s huge health care sector as an investor in startups. In addition to his venture capital firm, he’s organized an annual health tech conference and co-founded the city’s pro soccer club.

27/01/2022

Marcus Whitney stands out in Nashville’s huge health care sector as an investor in startups. In addition to his venture capital firm, he’s organized an annual health tech conference and co-founded the city’s pro soccer club.

21/01/2022

ImpactAlpha, January 21 — For years, Marcus Whitney has been the only Black healthcare venture capital partner in Nashville, a city awash in healthcare VC funds. Since 2015, Jumpstart Health Investors, where Whitney is head of strategy, has invested in more than 150 early-stage healthcare companies.

02/04/2021

Last summer, entrepreneur Marcus Whitney wrote an open letter to Nashville’s health care industry, noting that despite producing more wealth than any other sector in Nashville, Black people have largely been excluded from health care’s wealth generation — Whitney's new fund aims to change that.

03/02/2021

From startups to soccer clubs, Marcus Whitney has built a lot of impressive ventures in Nashville over the last twenty years.

09/06/2020

"It’s a story that I’m uniquely qualified to tell … and that’s the very sad punch line,” Nashville entrepreneur Marcus Whitney said.

20/06/2019

As a child growing up in Brooklyn in the 1980s, Marcus Whitney got hooked on coding when he received a clunky IBM PCjr for Christmas one year. “It basically couldn’t do anything that you didn’t program it to do, so I was programming before I was 10 years old,” Whitney says.

29/10/2018

Marcus Whitney, CEO of the Nashville innovation event Health:Further, knows something about innovation because he's a man who designed his own destiny. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and says he could have headed down a much different path in life. Instead, he's become a force on the scene of...

01/06/2018

Nashville may be known as the country music capital, but a slew of ethical fashion brands, Pinewood Social, and an $84 billion health care economy are transforming its reputation as an emerging tech hub.

04/05/2017

In an effort to strengthen its bid to acquire an MLS expansion franchise, Nashville Soccer Holdings LLC has acquired a majority interest in DMD Soccer, the owner of USL expansion side Nashville SC.

28/11/2016

In early 2013 Chris Jones was in a Nashville bar with a group of soccer-minded acquaintances wondering out loud how to start a club. "How do we do this? What do we charge per year?" Jones asked over a couple of drinks.

27/07/2016

When Marcus Whitney took the plunge into entrepreneurship, he realized he needed to start managing his time differently. The year was 2008, and Whitney, then 32, already had a fairly complicated life. He had two young sons, 9 and 7, whose mother he had recently divorced. Amidst all this, he had...

27/10/2014

Marcus Whitney, the Moontoast co-founder who exited his company last week, will become president of Jumpstart Foundry, the startup accelerator he helped create.

21/02/2013

In some ways, Marcus Whitney has the perfect Nashville tech founder story. It starts in a Mexican restaurant.

22/04/2012

Andrew Keen interviews Marcus Whitney, Co-Founder and CTO of Moontoast at SF MusicTech Summit 2012, who explains how Moontoast can help the music industry evolve.

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