You asked us to split our asks into what's useful now and what's a longer build. This is that, kept current. Everything here has a time cost attached, because your people's hours are the scarce thing — not our enthusiasm.
Who you'd be helping
Same numbers as the briefing we sent ahead of your visit. Nothing restated, nothing inflated.
Alumni figures across 244 accelerator companies, self-reported. A 501(c)(3) founded in 2010, in the Trolley Barns downtown. By 2027, EC will help 1,000 entrepreneurs a year start and grow their companies.
Phase one
Three things that could be on a calendar inside 30 days. If you only do the first one, this partnership is already real. Dated view of everything is below.
Founders bring real architecture problems. Your engineers tell them which of the two databases is right for the use case, and what not to build at all. This is the conversation our founders can't buy.
Hosted by your engineers, on a date that lands when founders are actually in the building. We'll send our founder calendar so you can pick the week rather than guess it.
One conversation with someone moving Nashville forward, plus a founder showcase. Our board and closest supporters are there. Last one of the calendar year — and you're already on the list.
The calendar
Everything already on our calendar, and where Oracle fits into each one. Most of these happen whether or not you join — that's the point. Pick what's useful and ignore the rest.
TakeOff and InFlight founders begin a 12-week program and are in the building from this date forward. This is the clock behind everything in phase one.
Nashville's entrepreneurship festival, run by Launch Tennessee. The week the whole state's startup community is downtown. First speakers were announced August 13. Details at attend3686.com.
Our own pop-up inside 3686 week, at Monday Night Brewing in Neuhoff — a short walk from where you're officing. Seven sessions, free, register per session: AI data centers, customer-behavior signals, venture financing, building in public, free headshots, and a Founders of Color happy hour. Full schedule at brewingconnections.com.
One conversation with someone moving Nashville forward, plus a founder showcase. Board members and closest supporters. The last one of the calendar year.
Four founders, 25 minutes each, back to back, on our campus. They bring a real architecture problem. Your people tell them what to build and what to stop worrying about.
You offered to align this with our founder scheduling. We'll send the calendar so you can pick a week when founders are actually here rather than guessing at one.
Our annual celebration of what Nashville founders actually built this year — revenue, customers, jobs. At the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Every founder, funder, and health system leader in the city, in one room, on one night. Details and tickets at ec.co/next-awards-2026.
Our biggest open-door day of the year: a few hundred founders, non-dilutive grants awarded on the spot, and the whole ecosystem in one concourse. If you want to see what Nashville's founder economy looks like at full scale, this is the day.
By November we'll know whether office hours produced anything a founder acted on. If it did, we schedule the winter session and it becomes standing. If it didn't, we say so and try something else.
A closed room. Your AI or executive leadership on one side, a dozen founders and operators we choose on the other. No stage, no audience, no press. You made the point that access only works when someone scopes it — so let us scope it.
When we start programming LIGHT we bring the Nashville Area Chamber and Eric Thrailkill of Global Health Connector into the room. A company serving six million people abroad has to re-architect to serve sixty million here — that's a cloud and data problem before it's a market problem.
We bring a cohort of healthcare founders onto your campus. We ran this format for 13 MIT Foundry Fellows in April 2026, and our cohorts already walk into Lifepoint Health, Ascension Saint Thomas, Ardent Health, HealthStream, and Amsurg. Bios go out ahead of every visit.
We're working with the Canadian government to bring six to eight Canadian health startups here for a week — Project Healthcare, twelve weeks compressed into five days, so they can decide whether the U.S. market is worth it before spending a year finding out. It lands in the same window as your immersion visit, which is not an accident we planned but is one worth using.
Dates verified as of August 19, 2026. 3686 is Launch Tennessee's event and its full schedule isn't public yet. Everything else here is ours, and if a date moves, this page moves with it. The full calendar of EC and community events — beyond what's relevant to Oracle — lives at ec.co/events.
The mechanic
You said your largest Nashville hire so far is senior engineers and above, and that your leadership expects them in the community. Here is what that looks like in practice, so nobody has to guess what they're signing up for.
Four founders, 25 minutes each, back to back. They come with a problem. Your engineer tells them what they're doing wrong and what they don't need to worry about. No prep required.
Matched to one company for a cohort. Our advisor network is 200+ people and it's the reason founders come back. This is the deepest version and the one founders value most.
A working session on a real topic, not a keynote. Right-sized for someone who doesn't yet know what they don't know.
Founder happy hours, demo days, the Toast. The lowest-effort version and not the least valuable one. Founders remember who was in the room.
Ways to invest
You were clear that this shouldn't be a check-writing exercise, and we agree — which is why everything above this section is people and hours. But EC is a 501(c)(3), and the programs your team would plug into are paid for by companies that decided Nashville's founders were worth funding.
We're not asking today. This is here so it's findable when you want it, and so it never has to arrive as a surprise.
No numbers on this page on purpose. When it's the right time, the useful first step is probably the same one you described for Oracle Health — tell us who owns that decision, so we're not putting it in front of the wrong person. Donna Mattick, our Chief Strategic Alliances Officer, would be the counterpart.
Working list
Kept honest in both directions. Tell us what's wrong here and we'll fix it the same day.
One thing we don't have yet and should: a next conversation on the calendar. An hour of agreement on August 18 produced a lot of yeses and no date. Name a week that works and we'll build around it.