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Avalon Ventures Gets Exit At Cloudant

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San Diego-based venture investor Avalon Ventures has scored an exit this morning, after IBM said it has acquired Boston-based Cloudant , a developer of a NoSQL-based, cloud-based database. Cloudant had been backed by Avalon Ventures, Devonshire Investors, In-Q-Tel, Rackspace, Samsung, and Toba Capital, and had only raised around $14.0M

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Avalon Ventures Might Reap Cash In Zynga Offering

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San Diego-based Avalon Ventures , one of the venture capital investors in social gaming phenomenon Zynga , may be set to cash in on its shares of the newly public gaming firm, after Zynga said this week that it is planning a $400M, secondary offering of its stock.

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Avalon Ventures, Jeffrey Katzenberg To Benefit From Zynga IPO

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Among the investors who may benefit from a successful IPO are La Jolla-based Avalon Ventures , run by Kevin Kinsella, Stephen Tomlin, Richard Levandov, Brady Bohrmann, Doug Downs and Jay Lichter, which before the IPO owned 6.1 According to Zynga, it is looking to raise up to $1 billion on the public markets. percent of Zynga.

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Inogen Sets IPO Range

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Inogen is venture backed by Novo AS, Versant Ventures, Arborteum Ventures, Avalon Ventures, and Accuitive Medical Ventures. inogen merger acquisition exist medical equipment lifescience ingn' Inogen''s portable oxygen concentrators are used as an alternative to bulky and inconvenient oxygen canisters. READ MORE>>.

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Avalon Ventures Gets Exit At Sitari Pharmaceuticals

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San Diego-based biotech investor Avalon Ventures has scored an exit, saying late Tuesday evening that it has entered into a definitive agreement with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), to sell Sitari Pharmaceuticals to GSK. According to Avalon Ventures, Sitari was the very first company to be formed under the GSK-Avalon venture collaboration, in 2013.

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Inogen Files For IPO

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Inogen is venture backed by Novo A/S, Versant Ventures, Arboretum Ventures, Avalon Ventures, AMV Partners, and others. inogen merger acquisition copd ingn portable oxygen concentrator lifescience medical device' The company''s IPO is being underwritten by J.P. Morgan, Leerink Swann, William Blair, and Stifel. READ MORE>>.

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Otonomy Files For IPO

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Otonomy is venture backed by Avalon Ventures, OrbiMed, Novo A/S, TPG Biotechnology Partners, Domain Associates, Rivervest Venture Partners, and others. otonomy biopharmaceuticals biotech lifescience merger acquisition inner disease exit' Morgan, BofA Merrill Lynch, Piper Jaffray, and Sanford C. READ MORE>>.

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