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NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Del Mar-based ScoreStream , the crowdsourced local sports startup led by Derrick Oien, said last week that it has added new funding from Intel Capital. Details on the size of that funding round were not announced. According to ScoreStream, the round also included Avalon Ventures, Sinclair Broadcasting, R/GA and Verizon Ventures.

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MAY 9, 2014

The startup--which is backed by Avalon Ventures--operates a financial service which lets consumers in the U.S. The company says it has raised over $3M in venture funding in total so far. San Diego-based Quippi said this week that it has expanded its list of partners in Mexico. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 30, 2014

La Jolla-based Quippi , which sells a gift card aimed at international money transfers, has raised $2M in a funding, the company disclosed today. The funding came from Avalon Ventures. Quippi''s business looks similar to remittance and gift card startup Ayannah, which offers similar gift card purchases in the Phillipines.

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JANUARY 19, 2012

The amount is up from $528.0M raised in Q4 of 2010, and up from the $652M invested in the region last quarter. in venture funding. Orange County--boosted in a large part by a funding for Fisker Automotive--racked up $242.45M in funding. Los Angeles had $226.75M invested in companies.

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MARCH 29, 2021

San Diego-based Fortis Therapeutics, a biotechnology startup developing treatments for late-stage prostate cancer and multiple myeloma, has raised $40M in a Series A financing, the company said on Monday.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

San Diego-based Fortis Therapeutics , a new biotech company in the immuno-oncology area, announced this morning that it has raised $18M in a Series A funding. The funding was led by Avalon Ventures and also included Bregua Corporation, Lilly Asia Ventures, Osage University Partners, and Vivo Capital.

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JULY 15, 2010

Investments by venture capitalists in Southern California were up, both in terms of deals and dollars in Q2, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). in 91 investments, up significantly from the $451.8M Both LA and OC were both up in terms of deals and dollars.

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JUNE 23, 2015

in a Series A funding, the company said this morning. The funding was led by Avalon Ventures, and also included Hereaus Medical and Correlation Ventures. the company said the funding is the first tranche of a $17M, Series A round of funding. The startup is led by Sanford J. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

[ Note: The headline has been corrected to better describe the company’s type of funding. Fortis Therapeutics, a new San Diego biotech, has raised $18 million in initial funding to develop drugs for hard-to-treat prostate and bone marrow cancers. 9/27/16, 2:09 p.m. Bregua Corp.,

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MAY 27, 2014

Southern California in recent years has become a hotbed of financial startups, and for years has been a destination for companies looking also to address companies across the border in Mexico and Latin America. One of the startups here at the intersection of both, is San Diego''s Quippi (www.quippi.com). How is your company funded?

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AUGUST 19, 2019

According to the venture backed startup, it will soon begin offering up real-time, hyper-local prep football scores from thousands of games across the country through Alexa. ScoreStream is led by CEO and co-founder Derrick Oien, and previously has raised venture funding from Intel Capital and Avalon Ventures.

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APRIL 6, 2015

The startup--led by technology startup vet Derrick Oien--said the funding was led by Sinclair Digital Ventures, a division of Sinclair Broadcast Group. Also participating in the funding was Avalon Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, and angels, including Kevin Plank (Under Armour) and Paul Palmieri (Millennial Media).

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DECEMBER 4, 2015

The funding was led by Avalon Ventures and TPG Biotech, and also included Correlation Ventures and Osage University Partners. The startup said it is developing novel drugs based on the anti-cancer activity of metformin and designed to reduce cancer energy production to treat a range of cancer types.

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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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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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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.

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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.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

in funding from Venrock, Avalon, and Masthead. So do these show up as your brand or as an OEM deal with the carriers? Historically, it was something that started to develop before our launch with operators back in 2005, and it now serves as a laboratory for development of our product. Intercasting is backed by $17.5M

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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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OCTOBER 30, 2016

Plug and Play San Diego, established in 2013 as a satellite of the Sunnyvale, CA-based incubator, has funneled 15 local startups through the Silicon Valley program after providing some coaching and other services in San Diego.

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JUNE 6, 2018

Awarepoint, the San Diego healthtech startup that specialized in real-time location systems for tracking medical equipment and people in hospitals and clinics, has gone 404. That’s the error code message that comes up for a website that no longer exists.

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APRIL 30, 2018

After demonstrating in 2016 how its synthetic biology technology could produce new biologic drugs , San Diego’s Synthorx today revealed that its lead drug candidate is an improved version of interleukin-2, an anti-cancer drug of intense commercial interest in the 1980s.

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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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