September 8, 2023 at 9:00 p.m.
Dave Flessner
For the past 26 years, Talbert C. “Tarby” Bryant Jr. has sought to bring investors looking for high-growth business opportunities together with entrepreneurs seeking capital to grow their businesses at what he calls the “Gathering of Angels.”
Bryant isn’t making any spiritual angelic claims, but he said the pitch contests to angel investors over the years have helped fund more than 450 business ventures with early-stage equity investments ranging from $10,000 up to $12.5 million per project.
Bryant, who has worked as an entrepreneur, a finance professor, a business coach and angel investor, moved to Apison this spring and is bringing his “Gathering of Angels” to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga campus next week for investors to hear pitches from four promising startup businesses from across the nation.
