FCA Venture Partners

FCA Venture Partners Managing Partner Matt King provides an update on the venture-capital firm's investment plans. Right here.

Cumberland Consulting

Cumberland Consulting got a Tailwind Capital investment, with a kicker of some sort from father-son Clayton and Stuart McWhorter. Read about the investment in the Nashville-area healthcare IT firm, right here.

MidTN venture overload?

'Guess this means school's back in... so many things cookin' in the venture sphere... Clayton McWhorter's folks are taking a close look at go-forward staffing at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center.. JumpStart is about to make some of its acclerator grads happy.. TNInvestco's are putting money where their mouths are, investing in seed- and early-stage deals... eMIDs is part of a Chicago mentoring group.. Steve Collins caught the IPO brass ring... and much more right here.

Parental Health on a roll

Parental Health, the Franklin provider of telemedicine services for seniors, has a strong new board and a new partner in Hewlett Packard. Our update is here.

Being Michael Burcham: Leadership via Entrepreneur Center

Michael Burcham (at left), the often celebrated director of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, discusses not how he ticks, but why he ticks, right here on VentureNashville.

McWhorter to lead Nashville Entrepreneur Center

Clayton McWhorter, entrepreneur and healthcare-services pioneer, has been named the first chairman of the board of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center. See today's VNC story.

PharmMD $8MM equity raise

Brentwood-based PharmMD, the medication-management services company formed by Clayton McWhorter and run by President-CEO Bo Bartholomew, has secured an $8 million equity investment from an undisclosed source, according to NashvillePost.com.

NEWSBITS, April 6

Nashville-based Petra Capital Partners invested $5MM in a Massachusetts software firm... Entrepreneur and retired HCA senior exec Clayton McWhorter is sponsoring the launch of another healthcare reform group... Jim Lackey (at left) calls it a day in the CEO office of Passport Health, handing the reins to former McKesson, Cerner, AT&T executive Scott MacKenzie.