socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2010

San Diego-based Otonomy , a biopharmaceuticals firm developing products to treat disorders of the inner and middle ear, announced today that it has raised $38.5M The round was led by Novo Ventures and RiverVest Venture Partners, and also includes Domain Associates, TPG Biotech, and Avalon Ventures. in a Series B financing.

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socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2013

San Diego-based Proximal Data , which develops serve-side caching software for accelerating I/O access to virtualized machines, said this morning that it has raised $2M in a Series B round of funding. The funding came from Divergent Ventures, along with existing investors Avalon Ventures. The firm is led by Rory Bolt.

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socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2010

San Diego-based Otonomy , which is developing treatments for Meniere's disease, said today that it has raised $10M in a Series A financing round. The round came from Avalon Ventures. Otonomy is headed by Jay Lichter, who is also a managing director at Avalon Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2011

San Diego-based Awarepoint , which develops systems for tracking equipment and patients in hospitals, reported today that it has hired four new executives onto its management team. Wallace was most recently at McKesson Corporation, as was Cosgrove; Arthur joins from Microsoft, and Gallecos from Cisco. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2011

San Diego-based Otonomy , a firm developing products to treat disorders of the inner and middle ear, looks to have pulled in $14.2M in a round led by Novo Ventures and RiverVest Venture Partners, and which also included Domain Associates, TPG Biotech, and Avalon Ventures. According to the filing, the firm has now raised $24.2M

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

San Diego-based Chumby , the developer of a Linux-based, programmable device which connects to Internet information, has linked with QNX Software Sytsems Co. , Chumby is headed by Derrick Oien, and backed by Avalon Ventures, JK&B Capital, Masthead Venture Partners, and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2009

La Jolla-based Ortiva Wireless , a developer of products for managing mobile video streaming, said this morning that it has signed on Mobix Interactive as a customer. Ortiva's products adapt video streams depending on wireless reception quality. Financial impact of the customer win was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

San Diego-based Awarepoint, a developer of systems for tracking assets and patients in hospitals, has raised $13.3M The firm said the round was led by Cardinal partners, and also included Venrock and prior investor Avalon Ventures. in a Series D funding. The firm offers its services as software-as-a-service to the healthcare industry.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2009

The firm said that the new reference design--which uses an application processor from Samsung--is available for developers. Chumby is venture backed by Avalon Ventures, JK&B Capital, Masthead Venture Partners, and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. The design is based on the Linux operating system.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

Existing investors Avalon Ventures and Correlation Ventures joined in the round. An unnamed pharmaceutical company also is providing additional undisclosed funding under a drug development deal signed in February, Turner said. But a lot of them don’t advance because [production] can’t be scaled up commercially.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The San Diego-based company says it wants to use the proceeds to put its lead product candidate, an investigational cancer therapy that’s based on the drug interleukin-2 (IL-2), through dose escalation and expansion trials, and to develop products based on the same compound to treat autoimmune disorders.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Who will break free of the pack of companies developing drugs meant to prevent migraines? —Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN ), of Thousand Oaks, CA, and partner Novartis released positive results from the first Phase 3 trial of erenumab , one of a group of drugs being developed to prevent migraines , not just lessen their impact when they happen.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

in funding from Venrock, Avalon, and Masthead. Derrick Oien: We have a platform we develop, called ANTHEM. It looks like you've got a number of carriers distributing your product, how are your applications distributed? We're really focused on enterprise sales and carrier grade products. Intercasting is backed by $17.5M

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DECEMBER 6, 2013

Auto-interfaces are clunky, and when a lot of these big tech companies IPO’d, a lot of them developed products that were endemic to the car industry – navigation, social graphs, etc. Jim talks about working with Toyota’s product engineers – based out of Japan. But he had to start at the right place.

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