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SevOne, a Wilmington, Delaware-based performance software company, has raised $150 million from Bain Capital.

Tiburon, a San Ramon, Calif.-based maker of automated public safety and security software that is backed by the private equity firm Gores Group, has named the company's board chair (and Gores managing director), Jonathan Huberman, as interim president and CEO. He replaces Michael Bealmear, who has served as Tiburon's CEO since 2011.

Technology Crossover Ventures has made it official. Roughly six months after reports first surfaced that the Palo Alto-based firm had begun marketing its eighth fund, it has registered the vehicle with the SEC.

Approximately two years ago, two startups that had yet to launch products raised more than $40 million, respectively, based almost solely on the track records of their founders. Both companies went on to stumble badly, but only one of them was pilloried for its failings.

Not everyone buys Twitter's foot-dragging act. PrivCo, a New York-based research firm that focuses on private companies, believes Twitter will file to go public in the fourth quarter of this year, largely because of Facebook’s botched public offering last year.

ILC Dover, a Frederica, Delaware-based designer and maker of a wide range of highly engineered fabric and products -- including space suits for NASA -- has acquired Grayling Industries, an Alpharetta, Georgia-based maker of advanced industrial packaging products. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ILC Dover is a portfolio company of Behrman Capital, a private equity firm with offices in New York and San Francisco.

BV Investment Partners, a Boston-based middle market private equity firm, has completed its recapitalization of INetU, a company that sells managed hosting and cloud services to enterprise customers. The investment makes BV the company's majority shareholder.

The San Diego-based power producer EDF Renewable Energy, formerly enXco, has completed financing on a think film photovoltaic project in California’s Mojave Desert. Majority interest in the project was acquired by a group of investors comprising GE Energy Financial Services, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Union Bank, and Citi.

Power Line Holdings, an Irving, Tex.-based portfolio company of the private equity firm Energy Capital Partners, has changed its name to PLH Group. PLH Group, whose subsidiaries include power delivery construction and maintenance companies has also acquired three companies: Southeast Direction Drilling, M&M Pipeline Services, and Energy Services South. Terms of the transactions are not being disclosed.