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BOSTON – Exchange Applications Inc., a provider of open enterprise customer optimization software and solutions, held an initial public offering December 8. The company offered 3 million shares at $11 each, above its $8 to $10 filing range. The offering, underwritten by BT Alex. Brown, Hambrecht & Quist and Adam Harkness & Hill Inc., left […]

NEW YORK – iVillage Inc., an online women’s network, filed to go public December 11. The initial public offering’s size and the stock’s proposed filing range had not been determined at press time. Venture backers include America Online Inc., CIBC Wood Gundy Ventures, Cox Interactive Media Inc., Rho Management Trust I and Tenet Healthcare Corp. […]

WELLESLEY, Mass. – Battery Ventures, founded in 1983, targets high technology companies, primarily in the communications and software industries. While the firm mainly focuses on the United States, it has made investments in Israel and currently is reviewing other opportunities abroad, General Partner Thomas Crotty said. Most investments are made in early-emerging companies, but start-ups […]

REDMOND, Wash. – InfoSpace.com Inc., an aggregator and integrator of Internet content services, went public December 15, offering 5 million shares at its proposed filing range of $15 each. The initial public offering, which left 20.1 million shares outstanding, was underwritten by Hambrecht & Quist, NationsBanc Montgomery Securities L.L.C. and Dain Rauscher Wessels. There were […]

MINNEAPOLIS – Select Comfort Corp., a nationwide retailer of air mattresses and sleep products, went public December 4, offering 4 million shares at $17 apiece. The stock priced at the high end of the company’s $15 to $17 filing range. The initial public offering, underwritten by Hambrecht & Quist, BancBoston Robertson Stephens, Piper Jaffray Inc. […]

HARRISBURG, Pa. – Dale Everhart was expected to join the Public School Employes’ Retirement System of Pennsylvania (PSERS) as executive director in January, replacing James A. Perry who has headed the $42 billion pension for the past 14 years. Mr. Everhart has spent his career in private equity at the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania State Employes’ […]

PARIS – Sofinnova, S.A. was slated to reach a first and final close on Sofinnova Capital III in mid-December, with expectations of exceeding its FFr 600 ($106.6 million) target. The fund (VCJ, November 1998, page 26) will back early-stage information technology and life-sciences companies, predominantly in France. Limited partners include J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc., […]

HARRISBURG, Pa. – Dale Everhart was expected to join the Public School Employes’ Retirement System of Pennsylvania (PSERS) as executive director in January, replacing James A. Perry who has headed the $42 billion pension for the past 14 years. Mr. Everhart has spent his career in private equity at the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania State Employes’ […]

NEW YORK – Behrman Capital rounded out its management ranks in November by adding Neil Sandler as a partner. The former investment banker came from BancBoston Robertson Stephens, where he spent two years working on health care. Mr. Sandler also will focus on health-care investments at Behrman, a later-stage venture and buyouts group, that has […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. – Bruce Golden initially joined Accel Partners as an entrepreneur-in-residence, and planned to focus only on his next business project. But he soon developed a passion for investing, and the firm took advantage of his operating and Internet experience by officially naming him a venture partner in mid-November. “It was more of […]