socalTECH

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. which features "LOLcats", funny pictures of cats with humorous captions, and FAIL Blog , a site which highlights "fails".

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socalTECH

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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Xconomy

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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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

million in a Series A round that includes Intel Capital as an investor. According to a recent ScoreStream statement , San Diego’s Avalon Ventures, a longtime ScoreStream investor, led the round, and was joined by Sinclair Broadcasting, Verizon Ventures, and R/GA Ventures, the investment arm of the advertising agency R/GA.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 17, 2016

It was joined by two other new backers, Ervington Investments and Alexandria Venture Investments, and previous investors WuXi Healthcare Ventures, Bregua Corp., and San Diego’s Avalon Ventures. Inbio Ventures, a venture capital management company, represented Pharmstandard in the deal.

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Xconomy

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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Xconomy

JULY 10, 2016

After completing his MBA in 1985, Bock joined a now-defunct venture firm in Costa Mesa, CA. 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 It was during this time, she recalled, when Bock met Kevin Kinsella of San Diego’s Avalon Ventures.

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