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AI veteran named chief product officer of Lirio authors Geert De Lombaerde A Knoxville company using artificial intelligence to spur behavior changes has lured back to Nashville the former chief product officer of Digital Reasoning Systems.Marten den Haring has joined Lirio as chief product officer and will help the company — which is focused on companies in the health care and energy sectors — refine its offerings, which seek to drive “positive behavior change at scale” by using tech to deliver the right messages at the right time to patients and customers. He has returned to Nashville from Montreal, where he had been senior vice president of platform at Element AI since leaving Digital Reasoning late last year.“Marten has excelled in AI, product development, behavioral analysis, and big data activation successfully across two decades,” said Lirio CEO Mike West. “We are narrowing our focus on bringing our product to market. With the … [Read more...] about Former Digital Reasoning exec returns to town

Two-year-old FlexWise plans to use money to expand market reach authors Kara Hartnett A Brentwood online staffing agency for registered nurses has secured Series A funding from a New Jersey health care investment firm, money it will use to expand its market reach. Details to FlexWise's funding round from Concord Health Partners are expected to be disclosed when the deal closes in a few months, pending discussions with other potential investors.Founded in 2017, FlexWise offers an on-demand staffing platform for nurses, with plans to open the service to all clinical health professionals in the future. Founder and CEO Kevin Godsey told the Post the proceeds of the investment will be used to build out the company’s team — which currently consists of 15 full-time staffers — and support expansion into new geographic markets over the next 12 to 18 months.The company currently operates in Baltimore and plans to launch in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., this … [Read more...] about Local health tech company lands funding

Facility located off Charlotte Avenue near Midtown authors William Williams A large self-storage facility located about one block north of Charlotte Avenue near Midtown has sold for $16.1 million, with the buyer a North Carolina real estate company that has made its second foray into Nashville.The new owner of the property, with an address of 512 26th Ave. N. in McKissack Park, is Charlotte Ave Storage LLC, according to Metro records. That entity is affiliated with Charlotte-based Proffitt Dixon Partners, which developed the Germantown site now home to apartment building Peyton Stakes.The seller was Charlotte Pike Storage LLC, which acquired the 1.49-acre property in 2016 for $3.9 million and would soon thereafter have a three-story building now home to CubeSmart Self Storage constructed on the site. The LLC is affiliated with Dallas-based Provident Realty Advisors.CubeSmart Self Storage is based in Malvern, Pennsylvania. In October 2018, the company reported it owned 490 … [Read more...] about Self-storage property sells for $16.1M