FiledBy sold

FiledBy, the authors' portal based in Nashville, is now owned by Atiba affiliate SLK. Story here.

Nashville SEC filings

[Updated] Claritas Capital and BreatheAmerica both made SEC filings in the past 36 hours or so.. Joe Hutts at Breathe reported raising $12MM and says there's another $10MM ontap for when it's time.. Claritas Cap has raised about $10MM toward its $75MM total goal for two pooled investment interest funds.. read about it here.

Claritas Capital raise

Claritas Capital, the Burton Hills VC, says its Claritas Capital Real Estate Fund I has raised $6MM or more toward a $7MM goal, in a filing today with the SEC.

edo Interactive Google, Groupon talent

Edo Interactive in Nashville's Green Hills area has hired former Google and Groupon execs, per the company's news releases here and here. Earlier edo coverage on VNC here.

NewsBits 7 Feb

Where do we starrrt?! Our most recent collection includes the TTDC Chairman Bill Evans' comments to Gov. Bill Haslam about Tennessee's need for a pro-entrepreneurial and discovery culture.. a note on low-profile Ed Powell's (at left) CEO role with IP-oriented IPX.. Another new incubator.. new Life Sciences initiative.. the human tidal wave from Tennessee that's about to hit HiMSS.. Angel Capital Group news.. and news on Claritas Capital, PureSafety, Heritage Health Innovation Fund.. and more. Take a look at the 7 February edition and other reports here.

Claritas Capital in CanopyHR's 2nd round

Burton Hills-based Claritas Capital has gone back for seconds in CanopyHR, which announced its B-round results. Claritas exited twice earlier this year: Bigtime with StudioNow's sale to AOL and who knows with ExpensAble.

Venture Notes, March 26

Claritas Capital's John Chadwick, Innova's Ken Woody and a MoonPie entrepreneur sound off, in this gathering of Venture items.

Payment venture relo's to N'ville

Nashville-based Pace Investment Partners has joined with other investors to buy Century Bankcard Services, based in California. The CEO and CFO of that company will be based here in Nashville, and other employees may relocated to Nashville, as well. The VNC story is here.

NV techies in VC crosshairs

nTelagent and other healthcare companies are attracting more interest from VCs, reports NBJ. Data security concerns are driving growth at Franklin-based Cybera Inc., which creates dedicated private transactions networks, according to NBJ's Linda Bryant. Cybera is backed in part by Claritas Capital, based in Nashville, as well as by Louisville-base Chrysalis Ventures and Chicago-based Adam Street Partners.

Claritas Capital $100MM Mezz

The WSJ venture blog reports today on Claritas Capital's Specialty Debt Fund LP's targeted $100MM mezzanine fund raise, now underway, under Claritas Fund Managing Partner Burton Harvey (left). WSJ says Claritas aims to help companies in $2-10MM EBITDA range, a field largely abandoned by bank lenders, with debt deals ranging $3MM-$15MM. Claritas will charge 12-14% interest, plus 2 percent, and will often get warrants. Burton pointed out mezz debt is counter-cyclical. DJ VentureWire carried the story yesterday. Prior to joining Claritas earlier this year, Harvey was at Morgan Keegan, Finova Mezzanine Capital (formerly Sirrom), Bank of America and Wachovia.

StudioNow

Better read this fast, because StudioNow, backed by Claritas Capital, et al, is morphing faster than the video sector, itself. Read our story here.

Braswell goes for more dough for edo

No details yet, but this week's edo Interactive filing with the SEC left little doubt the that edo CEO Ed Braswell believes he needs more money for something... $8MM worth. Here's what we think we know.

FiledBy urges authors unite on its site

Here's an update on former Ingram exec Peter Clifton's launch of FileBy for authors, an online venture based here in Nashville. Nearly 2 million authors are asked to claim their sites, now.