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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. The company was founded by Dr.

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JUNE 23, 2015

La Jolla-based Ankasa Regenerative Therapeutics , a company developing stem-cell based products aimed at organ and tissue regrowth, repair, and healing, has raised $8.5M The funding was led by Avalon Ventures, and also included Hereaus Medical and Correlation Ventures. in a Series A funding, the company said this morning.

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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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JUNE 11, 2010

The round came from Avalon Ventures. Otonomy is headed by Jay Lichter, who is also a managing director at Avalon Ventures. Otonomy's first product is a sustained release formulation of steroid dexamethasone.

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APRIL 1, 2013

The funding came from Divergent Ventures, along with existing investors Avalon Ventures. Proximal Data develops a storage, I/O caching product i calls AutoCache, which it says is designed to remove I/O bottlenecks in virtualized environments. The firm said the new funding brings its total raised to $5M.

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DECEMBER 16, 2010

San Diego-based Chumby Industries , the maker of Internet-enabled, application-capable devices, said this week that it has launched a new version of its product for Android. The company is headed by Derrick Oien, and has venture backing from Avalon Ventures, JK&B Capital, Masthead Venture Partners, and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.

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OCTOBER 24, 2011

The firm said it has named Merrie Wallace as Executive Vice President of Product Solutions, Chris Cosgrove as Senior Vice President of Sales, Eastern United States, Greg Arthur as Vice President of Client Management, and Carla Gallecos as vice President of National Accounts, Western United States. READ MORE>>.

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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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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

QNX said the move will allow automakers and tier one auto suppliers to build multimedia head units and other in-car, infotainment products based on Chumby's existing list of 1,500 applications. 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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JANUARY 20, 2009

La Jolla-based Ortiva Wireless, a provider of products for managing and optimizing mobile video streams, has snagged Vodafone Portugal as a customer, the firm said today. Ortiva said that Vodafone Portugal will deploy its mobile Video Optimization Gateway product. READ MORE>>.

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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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NOVEMBER 25, 2008

The firm said the round was led by Cardinal partners, and also included Venrock and prior investor Avalon Ventures. Awarepoint said the funding will go towards expansion of its product in both domestic and international markets. in a Series D funding.

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JANUARY 8, 2009

Chumby's software allows digital photo frame manufacturers to tie their products into social networking sites, photo and video sharing sites, and other Internet widgets such as Internet radio, news, weather, and RSS feeds. The design is based on the Linux operating system.

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JULY 19, 2016

Existing investors Avalon Ventures and Correlation Ventures joined in the round. In its quest to develop new biologics, Synthorx has focused on potential products for treating pain, metabolic disease, and infectious diseases, Turner said. But a lot of them don’t advance because [production] can’t be scaled up commercially.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

TOP STORIES : —Kite Pharma (NASDAQ: KITE ) released data from an ongoing non-hodgkin lymphoma trial that, while early, bolster the view that the Santa Monica, CA, company could be the first to market with a cell-based immunotherapy product known as CAR-T.

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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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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

in funding from Venrock, Avalon, and Masthead. It looks like you've got a number of carriers distributing your product, how are your applications distributed? 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.

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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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