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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. Cheezburger runs comedy sites I Can Has Cheezburger?

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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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JULY 14, 2017

StackIQ was venture backed by Anthem Venture Partners, Grayhawk Capital, Avalon Ventures, and crowdfunding site OurCrowd. San Diego-based StackIQ , a developer of "bare metal" provisioning software, has been acquired by Teradata , Teradata said on Thursday. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 18, 2011

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. Along with Foundry, both Madrona Ventures and San Diego's Avalon Ventures were investors in the round. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 27, 2009

Intercasting was backed by Venrock, Avalon, and Masthead; its flagship software is ANTHEM, which connected mobile users to social networking sites like MySpace, and was sold by telecom carriers. The firm's customers included AT&T, Boost Mobile, Spring, T-Mobile, Verizon, Virgin MObile, and others.

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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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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

in funding from Venrock, Avalon, and Masthead. The client then presents the consumer with the opportunity to have a dashboard view of social networking sites. Or, they can experience the full site, and we'll optimize the site in the client for a specific handset. The second customer is the social networking sites.

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