MDSave launches

Nashville-based MDSave aims to do well by doing good, helping high-deductible covered insureds negotiate upfront cash discounts with docs they want to see. Right here.

Sagents for sales

LeShane Greenhill's Sagent launch puts corporate buyers and sellers together online 24x7. Angels are showing interest in the Nashville area, he says. Read it here.

N'ville SaaS startup

ERM Legal Solutions, which seems likely to soon be also known as something-like ERM Healthcare Solutions, is inching-up on a capital raise in Nashville. Right here.

Jumpstart your idea

Jumpstart Foundry is getting another running start at its 3rd batch of startups. Get aboard! by reading this.

StartupTN+Angels

StartupTN's contract with state economic development officials calls for increasing Angel investor ranks in Tennessee. Story here.

LeanKit A-round

Chris Hefley, 36, is about to undertake a potentially life- and venture-changing event: The A-round that could propell globally his Nashville-centered Cloud-based startup, LeanKit... read about it here.

SpoutingRock eyes TN

Spouting Rock Capital, based in the Philadelphia area, is apparently getting help from Nashville Angel investor Crom Carmichael, as it prepares a fund that may invest in Nashville-Tennessee ventures. Here's our update on Carmichael's activities and interests.

Galante eyes Angel role

Joe Galante, who led RCA/Sony on the Row for decades, is looking at some Angel investing opps, read it here.

Social Chutes buys local ventures

Social Chutes, a new holding company, has bought Bandbox and RedRovor from two young Nashville entrepreneurs who may look beyond Music for their next gigs, reported right here.

TN Angel Tax Credit?

The idea for a Tennessee Angel Investor Tax Credit has wings, but may or may not have legs. Read about it here.

Bullpen steps up to plate

Bullpen Ventures, launched mainly by VC Stuart McWhorter and Ingram Distribution chief John Ingram, plans to give more than one $15K microgrant, when warranted, to ensure success for worthwhile startups. More details here.

Angel Cap Group + Screampoint

Nashville-based Angel Capital Group has invested an unspecified amount in a recently reopened C-round raise for Screampoint, a data-visualization software and services provider with offices in Menlo Park and abroad, according to a release. ACG CEO Rachael Qualls told VNC that ACG learned of the opportunity through an ACG angel. Screampoint's C-round remains open and will eventually close with about $3.5MM total, she said. Previous ACG coverage on VNC is here.

TNInvestco fund's Silvercare lashup

TNInvestco fund Tennessee Angel Fund, an affiliate of Nashville Capital Network and the NCN sidecar fund, joined with FCA Venture Partners, an arm of Clayton Associates, to fund the B-round of incontinence-care specialist Silvercare Solutions. A quick take here.

edo Interactive names Jim Kever chairman

edo Interactive, long led by CEO Ed Braswell (left) and backed by VC Claritas and others, has named Envoy founder, entrepreneur and superangel (with Fred Goad in Voyent Partners) Jim Kever chairman of its board. The release is here. The company recently named Clay Whitson, former as iPayment, as its CFO.

SuperAngels in new seed/VC fund

Mark Andreesen (left, Netscape) and Ben Horowitz (Opsware) have founded a 'new breed' SuperAngels seed/vc fund in which they actually try grow entrepreneurs into CEOs worthy of the name in a scaling enterprise. The NYT reports.

Innova venture pitch session Nov. 17

INNOVA, led by Ken Woody (left), will hold an entrepreneurs pitch session Nov. 17, in which veteran entrepreneurs will give advice and feedback to entrepreneurs with startups. They're calling it the "Catfish Tank," instead of "Shark Tank." The CA has it.

Farr comments on investor criteria

Tennessee Revenue Commissioner Reagan Farr says he agrees with Nashville Capital Network and others that the threshold for investor accreditation should not be raised, because such a move would take capital off the table and would be "paternalistic." Read the VNC story here.

Angel Capital Group spreads net

The Nashville-based Angel Capital Group has worked its way into a role providing a tributary into the dealflow pipeline that's being established by RightSide Capital Management in San Fran. ACG has also continued to build its own network of offices. Read more here. RightSide promises speedy answers for entrepreneurs seeking seed capital -- as well as "massive" due diligence that sounds like the financial equivalent of a body-cavity search.

Solidus leads JumpStart Foundry launch

Nashville-based venture capital and private-equity manager Solidus Co. has created a new portfolio company, JumpStart Foundry LP, with about 20 co-founders. The mission: seed-stage investment. The story's here.

Nashville Capital Network adds sponsors

Nashville Capital Network (NCN) announced new and up-classed sponsors: Decosimo Certified Public Accountants and Decosimo Corporate Finance have joined NCN as Underwriters. Also, according to a release, NCN supporters Nashville Health Care Council, Lattimore Black Morgan & Cain, and W Squared have upgraded to the highest level, according to a release issued for Sid Chambless, NCN executive director, by Hall Strategies, the PR firm. The release is here.