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• Going.com gets it going with $5 million

  Published: July 26, 2007, 9:23 am

  Tags: Facebook, General Catalyst, Generalcatalyst, Going Com, Goog, Highland Capital, Msft, Myspace, Yhoo

  $5 million round of venture capital. The investors include General Catalyst and Highland Capital. So far, Going.com covers NY, Boston, San Francisco, and Chicago. It has about 500,000 registered users. Compared to biggies like Facebook and MySpace, Going.com is still small-time stuff. But with the infusion of capital, I suspect that won't be the

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• Covergence Collects $15 Million

  Published: November 26, 2007, 1:41 pm

  Tags: Boston, News Briefs, Funding, Covergence, Highland Capital Partners

  Backers reportedly include Highland Capital Partners, Globespan Capital Partners, and North Bridge Venture Partners. Covergence had no immediate comment on the funding. Permalink Share

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• Flavored Water Tastes Fine To New Highland Consumer Fund

  Published: December 11, 2007, 12:01 am

  Tags: Kendall Square Blog, Vcs, People, Highland Capital Partners, Finance

  that investment overlapped Highland’s more traditional interest in healthcare to such a degree that the consumer fund and Highland Capital Partners VII are both investors equally. “It was a nice way to combine the strengths of Highland Capital with the Highland consumer fund, so we did that together,” says Philip. And that

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• Highland Names Another Partner

  Published: December 17, 2007, 11:35 am

  Tags: News Briefs, People, Highland Capital Partners, John St Amand

  people, Highland Capital Partners Robert Buderi wrote: On the heels of two new partnership additions (and one loss) that we reported last Monday, Lexington, MA-based Highland Capital Partners is adding one more partner to its ranks. John St. Amand, the founder and former CEO of Highland-backed telecom equipment company Telica, which

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• Harvard's Palfrey Joins Highland

  Published: February 22, 2008, 9:25 am

  Tags: Boston, News Briefs, Intellectual Property, Harvard, Highland Capital

  Wade Roush wrote: Highland Capital Partners of Lexington, MA, said today that it has brought on intellectual-property scholar John Palfrey, Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, as a venture executive. We interviewed Palfrey and business partner Rudy

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• Highland Buys City Sports

  Published: March 12, 2008, 8:54 pm

  Tags: News Briefs, Investment, Deals, Highland Capital Partners

  Robert Buderi wrote: Highland Capital Partners’ Consumer Fund, which Xconomy profiled here, has acquired—and made a strategic growth equity investment in—Boston-born athletic retailer City Sports, which currently operates 14 stores along the east coast. No financial terms were disclosed, but City Sports founder and CEO

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• A Very Hostile Bid for Yahoo

  Published: May 16, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Very, Hostile, Bid, For, Yahoo, Carl Icahn, Microsoft Corporation, Yahoo Inc, Google Inc, Chris Young, Steve Ballmer, Bob Davis, Highland Capital Partners Inc, Brian S Posner, Edward H Meyer, Frank J Biondi Jr, Gordon Crawford, Jerry Yang, John H Chapple, Keith A Meister

  When Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer was trying to buy Yahoo, he didn't want to appear disagreeable, let alone hostile.

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• Headhunter's Weapon Snares $26 Million

  Published: June 11, 2008, 2:13 pm

  Tags: Boston, Boston Blog Main, Recruiting, Software, Financing, Deals, Fast Company, Highland Capital Partners, General Catalyst, General Catalyst Partners

  a round led by local venture capital firms Highland Capital Partners and General Catalyst Partners. Bullhorn was founded in 1999 and launched is first product two years later. Since then the privately owned company has grown rapidly and counts around 130 employees today. Until today the company had raised a total of $8.4 million, which means that

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• Turbine Confirms $40M Round, Nuance Prices Secondary Offering, Sirtris Completes GSK Deal, & More Deals News

  Published: June 9, 2008, 12:04 am

  Tags: Boston, Boston Blog Main, National Blog Main, Roundup, Deals, Software, Venture Capital, Biotech, Pharma, Life Sciences, Web, Openair, Netsuite, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Turbine Entertainment, Time Warner, Ggv Capital, Highland Capital Partners, Polaris Venture Partners

  April. Time Warner and GGV Capital co-led the deal, which was joined by existing investors Highland Capital Partners, Polaris Venture Partners, Tudor Ventures, and Columbia Capital. —Burlington, MA-based speech software company Nuance Communications (NASDAQ: NUAN) priced nearly 6 million shares of common stock at $18.15 apiece in a

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• Will Motley Crew Band of Financiers Drive Celts to Banner 17?

  Published: June 5, 2008, 1:50 pm

  Tags: Boston, Boston Blog Main, Private Equity, Sports, People, Wyc Grousbeck, Irving Grousbeck, Stephen Pagliuca, Highland Capital Partners, Bain Capital Private Equity, Joshua Bekenstein, Boston Celtics

  and a venture partner at Highland Capital Partners in Lexington, MA, Stephen Pagliuca, managing director of Bain Capital Private Equity, and others. Both Grousbeck and Pagliuca, by the way, made Xconomy’s VC Varsity roster as top athletes in the local venture and private equity scene: Grousbeck made the second team, Pagliuca was an

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