Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

San Diego’s Avalon Ventures led the Series A round, and has established Fortis at COI Pharma, the firm’s biotech incubator (which now houses 16 life sciences startups). Lilly Asia Ventures, Osage University Partners, and Vivo Capital joined in the deal, according to a statement from Avalon. 9/27/16, 2:09 p.m. Bregua Corp.,

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

GlaxoSmithKline is acquiring a startup it helped launch in 2013 as part of an alliance with life sciences venture capital firm Avalon Ventures. Avalon said Tuesday that GSK (NYSE: GSK ) has agreed to buy the company, Sitari Pharmaceuticals, which has been developing a treatment for celiac disease.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

ScoreStream, a five-year-old startup that created a social media platform for crowd-sourcing local sports scores, has raised $3.7 million in a Series A round that includes Intel Capital as an investor.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 17, 2016

and San Diego’s Avalon Ventures. Inbio Ventures, a venture capital management company, represented Pharmstandard in the deal. Avalon Ventures founded Avelas, and has housed the startup with other Avalon biotech startups at its COI Pharmaceuticals R&D facility in San Diego.

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Xconomy

JULY 20, 2016

First came Inception Sciences , a holding company for spinning out biotech startups established by Versant Ventures and Peppi Prasit, the veteran San Diego drug developer. It’s a little like what Avalon is doing. We are taking capital as needed, not sooner.”. As for the business model, Martin said, “It’s a little like Inception.

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Xconomy

JULY 10, 2016

Larry’s diagnosis was cancer with a big C: “I have stage 4 pancreatic cancer and have been on chemo since June with some ups and downs,” he wrote in mid-March. He found he didn’t enjoy being a traditional VC gatekeeper who said “yes” or “no” to startup pitches, according to his wife, Diane. “He They had a lot of fun.”.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

Synthorx, the San Diego synthetic biology startup that expanded the number of DNA base pairs with two synthetic nucleotides, said today it has raised $10 million in a Series B financing round led by RA Capital Management, the Boston life sciences hedge fund. They can’t be made efficiently and at low cost.”.

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