Nashville juice flowing in Health IT

Eighteen Nashville healthcare and technology executives share their ideas for seizing Nashville's momentum in the Health IT and informatics arena. Our first story deals with Nashville's rising level of pro-Health IT activity, including tantalizing comments about a start-up that one VC (who is associated with one of the new TNInvestco funds) says is definitely bound for Nashville. Our second story provides C-suite executives' views on what Nashville should do, to seize the moment.

Peat, Gatto, Chadwick on watching NVille Techies

Here's our story, also published by Digital Nashville, on how local VCs follow the efforts of local Tech innovators and entrepreneurs. Cited are Council's Gary Peat, Claritas' John Chadwick and Solidus' Vic Gatto.

Capital forum set, Dec. 3

Nashville Technology Council will host a "Capital Formation" roundtable, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009, beginning 5 p.m., in the offices of Bradley, Arant, Boult, Cummings, LLC, 1600 Division Street, Suite 700. Panelists will be: Vic Gatto, Solidus; Jim Phillips, XMi Capital; Gary Peat, Council Ventures; John Chadwick, Claritas Capital; Chris Sloan, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings. Details here.

TNInvestco: Bottorff says partners well-aligned

Speaking briefly with VNC this afternoon, Nashville-based Council & Enhanced Tennessee Fund Co-Founder Denny Bottorff, at left (co-founder also of Council Ventures) expressed confidence the TNInvestco program will, indeed, become a "model" for the nation, because it has extracted strengths from previous models (i.e., especially CAPCOs) and integrated them with novel features. Bottorff commended State officials for their innovativeness and management of the TNInvestco program and the associated competitive process, and said he and his partners with Enhanced felt their firms were from the outset well aligned with the TNInvestco goal of nourishing "transformational companies" that will contribute to the state's economy and to the well-being of Tennesseans. He added that while Council and Enhanced routinely work with companies and partners nationwide, the TNInvestco program will mean greater focus on Tennessee-headquartered companies. He said he and Katie Gambill will lead the new entity.

Council Ventures adds VC from Research Triangle

One of Nashville's worst-kept secrets has been Council Ventures' addition of healthcare IT and services specialist Grant Jackson as general partner. Jackson joins from a Research Triangle Park-area VC. The story's here.