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.

Populr unveiled

Nick Holland will incubate and accelerate Populr within the Entrepreneur Center, with support from Bullpen Ventures. Story here.

Bullpen Ventures Update

Bullpen Ventures announced via Getahn Ward's piece in The Tennessean that it has added investors Steve Turner (Market Street, Dollar General), Joe Galante (Sony Music), Mark Montgomery (FLO Thinkery).

New TN VC Council?

Stuart McWhorter's exploring creating a new VC statewide group.. There's apt to be less TNInvestco info published... Dan Marcum's creating The Launch Pad in Tullahoma.. and much more in the latest NewsBits roundup right 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.

McWhorter in 24/7

Stuart McWhorter has personally invested in 24/7 Sports, a Brentwood pro-college sports site that will certainly rival Rivals.com, the competitor created and later sold to Yahoo! by Shannon Terry. Our bit is here.

Venture menagerie

We've got the jackrabbit at JumpStart Foundry, the Bull at Bizen and now the Bullpen Ventures mentoring and incubator program resident at NEC. Check out their release.