BA Venture Partners has added Chad Kinzelberg as its newest director and hired two new associates.

Kinzelberg, a former executive with Mountain View, Calif.-based VeriSign Inc., will concentrate on software investments. He was hired to the team to keep up with an increasing pace of deal flow coming in, according to managing director Sharon Wienbar. Kinzelberg is the newest addition to the team since Rob Herb, a former AMD executive, joined as a venture partner in 2005.

The two new associates are Ben Fu, a former senior sales engineer with Waltham, Mass.-based IMLogic Inc., and Nancy Lynch, a former orthopedic hand surgeon who recently graduated from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. They are replacing two associates who are returning to business school.

"This has been a good and busy year with a number of new investments," said Kate Mitchell, managing director of BA Venture Partners, in a statement. "As a result we continue to add to the depth of our team."

The Foster City, Calif.-based firm is currently investing out of its $450 million seventh fund and backs mid-stage companies across various information technology and life sciences categories.