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Avalon Ventures Gets Exit At Sitari Pharmaceuticals

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San Diego-based biotech investor Avalon Ventures has scored an exit, saying late Tuesday evening that it has entered into a definitive agreement with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), to sell Sitari Pharmaceuticals to GSK. According to Avalon Ventures, Sitari was the very first company to be formed under the GSK-Avalon venture collaboration, in 2013.

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Avalon Ventures Backs Averon

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La Jolla-based Avalon Ventures is the lead investor in the Series A round for Averon , a developer of mobile identity verification software this week. Avalon's Rich Levandov and Brady Borhmann both join Averon's board with the funding round. Averon, which is based in San Francisco, said it has raised $8.3M in a Series A funding.

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Avalon Ventures Backs Teambox

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San Diego-based venture investor Avalon Ventures is the lead investor in a round for a developer of cloud-based, business collaboration software today. Avalon''s Rich Levandov was involved in the funding effort. teambox avalon ventures cloud software collaboration saas venture capital' READ MORE>>.

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Avalon Ventures Backs Averon For Mobile Identity Verification

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La Jolla-based venture investor Avalon Ventures is the lead investor in a round for San Francisco-based Averon , a developer of mobile identity verification software. The funding was led by Avalon Ventures, and also included Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff. Avalon Ventures' investment was managed by Brady Bohrmann.

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Avalon Ventures Backs LoopIt

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San Diego-based venture investment fund Avalon Ventures has made a seed investment in a developer of a social shopping service, LoopIt , according to the companies. Avalon's Rich Levandov was involved in the investment. Size of the funding was not announced. LoopIt is based in Cambridge, Mass.,

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Avalon Ventures Gets Exit At Cloudant

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San Diego-based venture investor Avalon Ventures has scored an exit this morning, after IBM said it has acquired Boston-based Cloudant , a developer of a NoSQL-based, cloud-based database. Cloudant had been backed by Avalon Ventures, Devonshire Investors, In-Q-Tel, Rackspace, Samsung, and Toba Capital, and had only raised around $14.0M

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Avalon Ventures Leads Round In AeroFS

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San Diego-based venture investor Avalon Ventures is the lead investor in a new, $10M funding round for AeroFS , a developer of private cloud collaboration software. Avalon's Rich Levandov represents Avalon Ventures on the AeroFS board. AeroFS said the Series B funding also included NHN Investment. READ MORE>>.

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