Avalon Blogging Funding Venture Capital 
socalTECH
JANUARY 17, 2011
San Diego-based venture capital firm Avalon Ventures has boosted an Internet web site publisher known for its humorous, captioned pictures of cats and use of Internet memes, Cheezburger. which features "LOLcats", funny pictures of cats with humorous captions, and FAIL Blog , a site which highlights "fails".
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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socalTECH
JANUARY 18, 2011
The $30M funding deal for Seattle's Cheezburger , the web publisher best known for its LOLcats-themed I Can Has Cheezburger? and FAIL Blog web sites, apparently was spawned out of an introduction at last year's Twiistup technology conference, according to investor the Foundry Group. READ MORE>>.
Xconomy
AUGUST 17, 2016
San Diego’s Avelas Biosciences , founded in 2009 to advance a fluorescing biologic agent intended to help surgeons differentiate cancerous tissue from healthy tissue, has completed a $20 million Series C round of venture funding. and San Diego’s Avalon Ventures. and San Diego’s Avalon Ventures.
Xconomy
NOVEMBER 19, 2017
million in a Series A round that includes Intel Capital as an investor. According to a recent ScoreStream statement , San Diego’s Avalon Ventures, a longtime ScoreStream investor, led the round, and was joined by Sinclair Broadcasting, Verizon Ventures, and R/GA Ventures, the investment arm of the advertising agency R/GA.
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 definitely interested in oncology, but there is no value in disclosing details.”. But it’s structured differently.
Xconomy
JULY 10, 2016
After completing his MBA in 1985, Bock joined a now-defunct venture firm in Costa Mesa, CA. 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 It was during this time, she recalled, when Bock met Kevin Kinsella of San Diego’s Avalon Ventures.
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