Congratulations to Our 2016 Next Award Winners
Since the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce and the Nashville Entrepreneur Center launched the Next Awards in 2010, Middle Tennessee has emerged as one of the strongest, most vibrant and most creative economies in the nation.
At the sixth annual Next Awards on Nov. 17, we honored outstanding teams in our region’s most influential business sectors: digital media & entertainment, health care, technology, social enterprise & sustainability, and products & services. New for this year, we introduced the Intrapreneurial Company of the Year, Business Culture and Game-Changer Awards. Along with these category awards, individual awards were given for Funder of the Year, Mentor of the Year, Young Entrepreneur of 2016 and Entrepreneur of 2016.
Also, for the first time, we invited people to vote online for their favorite Next finalist to determine the winner of the Nashville's Choice Award. The winner, with more than 84,000 votes, was Groups360, a company which provides data and analytics to meeting planners and hoteliers to optimize choices for conventions, meetings and group travel. We received more than 323,500 total votes for Nashville's Choice.
Meet our winners:
STARTUP WINNERS
Digital Media & Entertainment
Made In Network
Made In Network is a video-first media company, operating on the belief that
creating original content on YouTube is the future of entertainment.
Health Care
Stratasan
Stratasan provides data-based intelligence to hospitals and health care systems to help guide strategic growth and planning.
Products & Services
Inflammo LLC
Inflammo serves as a “finance team for hire,” providing finance and accounting services to growing and venture-backed companies.
Social Enterprise & Sustainability
REBOOT Combat Recovery offers faith-based support, peer-to-peer mentoring and leadership training to help military families heal from the moral and spiritual wounds of war.
Technology
icitizen
icitizen’s mobile and web platforms connect citizens to the most relevant news, information, organizations and elected officials, making it easier for people to be civically engaged.
MARKET MOVER WINNERS
Digital Media & Entertainment
SnapShot Interactive
SnapShot Interactive is a digital marketing agency that specializes in web design and development, video production and online marketing strategies to maximize their clients’ reach.
Health Care
Bernard Health
Bernard Health is the nation’s first retail health care advisory firm, assisting individuals, employers and brokers in making better health care choices with its HR software platform.
Products & Services
A Head For Profits
A Head For Profits is dedicated to making beer taste clean and refreshing by providing those in the bar business with its services such as walk-in coolers, draft beer installations and regulators, and draft beer towers.
Social Enterprise & Sustainability
Knowledge Academies, Inc.
Knowledge Academies is a public charter school in Southeast Nashville committed to providing excellent educational, social, emotional, health and wellness programs that impact the entire family.
Technology
Edgenet
Edgenet, a true cloud technology company, is a software-as-a-service provider that offers content management and sales solutions to suppliers, distributors and retailers.
INDIVIDUAL AWARD WINNERS
Funder of the Year
InCrowd Capital
InCrowd Capital helps funders invest in diverse startup companies, taking care of negotiation and legal and tax preparation.
Entrepreneur of 2016
Dan Hogan, Medalogix
Dan Hogan founded Medalogix — a Nashville-based predictive modeling company — in 2009 to help home health providers deliver more efficient and effective patient care.
Mentor of the Year
Julia Polk, New Ventures Consulting, LLC
Julia Polk, founder of New Ventures Consulting, developed a “roadmap” for scaling a business, including the necessary checklist to take a company from launching a business to running one.
Intrapreneurial Company of the Year
Edgenet
Edgenet, a true cloud technology company, is a software-as-a-service provider that offers content management and sales solutions to suppliers, distributors and retailers.
Young Entrepreneur of 2016
Matt Cheuvront, Proof Branding
Having worked with over 200 brands worldwide, Matt Cheuvront manages overall operations, leads client workshops, secures new business, and works closely with the team and every client.
Business Culture Award
DSi
DSi provides litigation technology, electronic discovery and digital forensics services, all while supporting their No. 1 goal: Putting people first.
Entrepreneurial Partner of the Year
UBS
UBS offers expanded business services in various shared services areas in support of the firm’s wealth management and investment banking divisions.
Game-Changer Award
Jammber, Inc.
Jammber enriches the lives of those in the entertainment industry with tools to help musicians get credit and get paid much faster for their creative work.