100+ companies pitched at Nashville Entrepreneur Day at GEODIS Stadium
The founders split into four pitch tracks: lifestyle, professional development, fintech, and healthcare.
The Nashville Entrepreneur Center (EC) couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful afternoon at the ballpark. Entrepreneurs, investors, ecosystem partners, friends, and job seekers all filed into the soccer stadium for a glimpse at the 90 companies, and 100+ founders who participated in the EC Accelerator programs.
For the 2025 Nashville Entrepreneur Day, there were four main tracks, each hosting a handful of founders for rapid-fire pitches to a room full of investors and connectors. The tracks were lifestyle, fintech/ consumer tech, healthcare, and professional services.
Mayor Freddie O’Connell and Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development (TNECD) Commissioner Stuart C. McWhorter kicked off the afternoon with a warm welcome to Nashville’s innovators.
Aries Fraud Solutions was the first start-up to pitch in the fintech track. The founders Collin Corrington and Lon Varns are bringing to market a credit/debit card fraud prevention technology.
According to Corrington, who pitched at the event, financial institutions lose about $1 billion per month to fraud. This is because most credit cards have four entry points to pull data from. They have tap, chip, magnetic strip, and the physical number that anyone can read.
To strengthen those weak links, Aries Fraud Solutions has created a card where the printed number is restricted to online and digital transactions, and the machine readable portion can only be read in-person. They believe this solution could alleviate the majority of fraud cases in the US, and restore sanity to the financial institutions.
On the same stage, Ray’Chel Wilson pitched her start-up, ForOurLastNames. It is a financial literacy platform that supports first generation wealth builders through goal targeting.
“We want to turn financial trauma into financial traction in over 80 million first generation wealth builders,” Wilson said. She is currently in the midst of a $750K fundraise, which will close in the fall.
Shannon Elsea also pitched a big idea in the tech track. His company called SettlementDoneEasy exchanges personal injury settlement documents with ACH settlement payments sent directly to the lawyers’ trust account.
“We are the PayPal of settlement repayment,” Elsea said. “This is an antiquated system with too much margin for error.”
Elsea explained how more than a million dollars in insurance settlement checks are stolen from the mail each year. The problem is exacerbated for insurance companies, whose checks make up more than half the checks sent through the postal service.
“We are faster than mail, cheaper than mail, and easier than mail,” he said in closing.
In addition to those three, a couple other companies included:
- MUSEY – A digital creator network for arts and culture institutions.
- TOBY – A urine test to detect early signs of cancer.
- Hera – AI-powered, at-home semen analysis for infertility
- TuneHatch – An end-to-end performance management platform.
- Lab Logs – Healthcare compliance reporting and tracking for clinics.
- VITL – Simplifying e-prescribing and virtual pharmacy management.
Attendees of the 2025 Nashville Entrepreneur Day could flow swiftly from one track to the next.
See a slideshow of all the founders here.
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