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La Jolla-based venture capital investor Avalon Ventures is the lead in a round for cloud data storage firm TwinStrata , TwinStrata said today. TwinStrata, which is based in Masachusetts, said that Avalon lead its Series B funding round, which was worth $8M. Avalon also has offices in Massachusetts.

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JULY 31, 2012

Avalon Ventures , the La Jolla- and Cambridge-based venture capital firm, has backed a new startup, Pingup , which lets consumers text nightclubs for reservations and information. According to Pingup Tuesday, it raised $1M in a seed funding round from Avalon Ventures, led by Brady Bohrmann.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

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. Size of the funding was not announced. and is a spinout of Redstar Ventures, a venture incubator firm in Cambridge.

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JULY 18, 2013

in venture capital investments in Q2 2013 across Southern California, spread across 80 deals. However, venture dollars invested were above Q1, when Southern California saw $569.1M However, venture dollars invested were above Q1, when Southern California saw $569.1M in investments across 90 deals.

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OCTOBER 18, 2012

San Diego-based venture investor Avalon Ventures has backed a developer of video advertising products, Selectable Media , to the tune of $2M. Selectable Media, which is based in New York, lets users opt into branded video advertising in exchange for free access to content on web and mobile apps. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 24, 2011

CalPERS (the California Public Employees' Retirement System), one of the biggest limited partners in venture capital funds, has released its best and worst performing venture capital and private equity funds as of December 31st, showing that two Southern California venture funds were tops in terms of internal rates of return (IRR).

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

La Jolla-based venture capital investor Avalon Ventures has just received a $103M commitment to a new, $300M fund, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. The filing indicates that, so far, the fund has 26 investors in the first sale. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

San Diego-based venture capital investor Avalon Ventures and biopharmaceuticals firm GlaxoSmithKline said Monday that the two have teamed up to fund and launch up to 10, early stage life science companies. According to Avalon Ventures and GSK, they will provide up to $495M to fund those ten new companies.

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JULY 17, 2014

The latest venture capital totals from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association''s MoneyTree Report was released this evening, tallying up $761.12M in investments in Q2 of 2014 in Southern California, up from Q2 of 2013, when $616.83M was invested in the region. Nationally, there was $13.0

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JULY 14, 2015

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. AeroFS said the Series B funding also included NHN Investment. Avalon's Rich Levandov represents Avalon Ventures on the AeroFS board.

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MARCH 5, 2013

San Diego-based Carolus Therapeutics , a developer of biopharmaceuticals aimed at treating acute and chronic inflammation, has scored $2.25M in a debt funding round, according to financing provider Square 1 Bank. According to Square 1, the new funding will go support future growth at Carolus. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 22, 2014

San Diego-based StackIQ , which develops IT automation tools for the enterprise, has raised $6M in a Series B funding round, according to the company. The new funding came from Grayhawk Capital, Keshif Ventures, DLA Piper, and OurCrowd, as well as Anthem Venture Partners and Avalon Ventures.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

It looks like the peer-to-peer marketplace for rides in Los Angeles is about to get a lot hotter, as one of the companies competing in the market-- Sidecar said this morning that it has raised $15M more in funding. Avalon Ventures is also based in San Diego. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 15, 2015

San Diego-based Avalon Ventures said this morning that it has launched and funded three, new companies as part of its deal with GSK. Avalon Venturs said that Adrenergics , CadheRx Therapeutics , and Calporta Therapeutics have all received $10M in Series A funding, and will receive R&D support from Avalon Ventures and GSK.

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JUNE 24, 2015

San Diego-based venture investor Avalon Ventures has re-upped its investment in product database provider Indix , as part of a $15M Series B funding. The funding round came from Nokia Growth Partners, Nexus Venture Partners and Avalon Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 30, 2010

The round was led by Novo Ventures and RiverVest Venture Partners, and also includes Domain Associates, TPG Biotech, and Avalon Ventures. The firm said the new fundings will go to support its programs through clinical studies.

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JUNE 9, 2010

Source of the new funding was not disclosed, however, one of its founders, Jay Lichter, is at San Diego venture firm Avalon Ventures, which has previously backed the company. Tags: otonomy venture capital biopharmaceuticals biopharma middle disorder biotech lifescience pharma.

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JULY 16, 2013

In the latest positive move for the Los Angeles venture capital market, a new investor has moved into town, to take advantage of the area''s growing startup market. The fund has not yet announced local investments, but has been actively talking to companies fitting its investment profile. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 9, 2010

in funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today. The filing indicates the funding is part of an ongoing, $5.0m funding round the company kicked off in May of last year. No details on the new funding have been released by the company. READ MORE>>.

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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). The increasing venture activity seems to indicate a recovery in the outlook for startups here.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

in a Series B funding. The second tranche of the company''s Series B came from investors Avalon Ventures, Torrey Pines Investment and WuXi PharmaTech Investments. avelas biosciences venture capital cancer diagnostics molecular peptide flouresce flourescence surgery lifescience' READ MORE>>.

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JULY 21, 2011

Amira Pharmaceuticals was venture backed by Avalon Ventures, Novo A/S,Prospect Venture Partners, and Versant Ventures. The firm had raised somewhere around $40M in venture capital funding. Bristol-Myers Squibb said it would pay $325M upfront, and up to $150M in milestone payments, for Amira.

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JUNE 1, 2010

San Diego-based Chumby , the maker of the Internet-connected, Linux-based clock radio, has upped its Series B funding to $8.78M, according to a regulatory filing from the firm this week. Tags: chumby venture capital linux internet electronic device consumer. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Selectable Media is venture backed by Microsoft's Bing Fund, and also scored a round last October from Avalon Ventures, the San Diego venture capital firm. The company also said it has added Dan Feldstein as its Director of Marketing. The company did not say how many people it plans to hire in LA.

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JUNE 3, 2011

In the filing, the firm said the new funding came on May 18th. in a round led by Novo Ventures and RiverVest Venture Partners, and which also included Domain Associates, TPG Biotech, and Avalon Ventures. The firm had announced in August that it had raised $38.8M

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

in funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Monday. According to the filing, the funding came in the form of debt and warrants, most likely a convertible debt round. Source of the new funding was not disclosed. Tags: chumby venture capital software internet electronics device linux. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 9, 2009

San Diego-based aFraxis , a stealth-mode firm developing treatments for Fragile X Syndome and autism, has raised $750,000 in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Tuesday. Details on the funding have not been announced, however, the company is venture backed by Avalon Ventures.

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MARCH 13, 2014

According to AnaptysBio, it will receive an upfront license fee of $17M from TESARO, plus receive funding of costs incurred in related development programs, as part of an antibody program. AnapytsBio is venture backed by Alloy Ventures, Avalon Ventures, Frazier Healthcare Ventures and Novo A/S. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 21, 2014

The latest numbers are out on venture capital investments in Southern California from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, finding that the region had nearly $762.88M invested in companies in the region during Q1 of 2014. in funding. in funding.

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DECEMBER 6, 2012

San Diego-based Avelas Biosciences has raised $7.65M in a Series A funding round, which it says will go towards clinical studies for its technology for real-time tumor visualization. The funding came from Avalon Ventures. The firm's CEO is currently Jay Lichter, who is also a Managing Director at Avalon Ventures.

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JANUARY 19, 2012

The latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture capital Association MoneyTree survey, which is based on data from Thomson Reuters, tallies $738.34M invested in Southern California in Q4 of 2011. in venture funding. The biggest Los Angeles deal was a funding for SolarReserve , for $27.0M.

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JULY 28, 2020

The funding came from Ascension Ventures and.406 406 Ventures, and comes on top of an earlier tranche of Series B funding from Cigna, MemorialCare Health System, Avalon Ventures, the University of Colorado's Healthcare Innovation Fund, and Stanford Health Care.

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APRIL 19, 2013

Venture capital investments saw a sharp drop in Q1 in Southern California, according to the latest venture numbers from the MoneyTree report. The report, released by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association over the weekend, tallied up $534.3M billion in 863 deals. San Diego had $178.3M

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MAY 28, 2009

San Diego-based Chumby , a maker of a Internet-enabled information device, has raise $3M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Thursday. According to the filing, the funding came in the form of debt plus warrants; source of the funding was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 29, 2009

Ambit has raised over $105M in venture funding, from firms such as Apposite Capital, MedImmune, OrbiMed, Radius Ventures, NovaQuest, Horizon Technology Finance, Avalon Ventures, Perseus-Soros Biopharmaceutical Fund, Forward Ventures, Roche Venture Fund, Lumira Capital, GIMV, Genechem Management, and Bristol-Myers Squibb.

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JANUARY 18, 2011

The $30M funding deal for Seattle's Cheezburger , the web publisher best known for its LOLcats-themed I Can Has Cheezburger? According to the Foundry Group, which led the funding round for Cheezburger, the investment came as a result of an introduction between Foundry and Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh about 18 months ago at the LA TwiistUp event.

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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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