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MAY 20, 2016

San Diego-based Avalon Ventures , and COI Pharmaceuticals , the company established by Avalon to help form new biotech companies, said today that the first two companies that it has formed with GlaxoSmithKline have met their first milestones, and that it has spun up a new company with GSK as part of their collaboration.

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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.

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

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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. 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 9, 2010

San Diego-based Otonomy , a biopharmaceuticals firm developing drug therapies to treat inner and middle ear disorders, has raised $10.56M as part of an ongoing, $26.0M 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.

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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.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

San Diego-based Avelas Biosciences , which is developing cell penetrating peptides to light up cancerous tissue in patients during surgery, has raised $7.4M The second tranche of the company''s Series B came from investors Avalon Ventures, Torrey Pines Investment and WuXi PharmaTech Investments. in a Series B funding.

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JULY 21, 2011

San Diego-based Amira Pharmaceuticals , a developer of small molecule pharmaceuticals for treating inflammatory and fibrotic diseases, has agreed to be acquired by Bristol-Myers Squibb , the firms said late Thursday. Amira Pharmaceuticals was venture backed by Avalon Ventures, Novo A/S,Prospect Venture Partners, and Versant Ventures.

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JUNE 1, 2010

Chumby develops a Wi-Fi enabled, Internet device which acts both as a clock as well as a connection into internet services like Weather, news, and more. Tags: chumby venture capital linux internet electronic device consumer. According to the filing, the firm is in the midst of raising up to $9.786M in the round. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 13, 2014

San Diego-based AnaptysBio , a biopharmaceuticals firm focused on the development of therapeutic antibodies, announced a deal today with TESARO. 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.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

Chumby has previously raised funding from Avalon Ventures, JK&B Capital, Masthead Venture Partners, and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. Tags: chumby venture capital software internet electronics device linux. Source of the new funding was not disclosed. The company is headed by Derrick Oien.

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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 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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DECEMBER 6, 2012

The funding came from Avalon Ventures. Avelas is developing technology for visualizing cancerous lymph nodes in breast cancer patients. The firm's technology is based on technology developed by Nobel Prize winner Roger Tsien, Ph.D. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 29, 2009

San Diego-based Ambit Biosciences , a developer of small molecule profiling tools being used for biopharmaceuticals development, has raised $6.5M Tags: ambit biosciences venture capital debt funding biopharmaceuticals lifescience. in an ongoing, debt round, according to a filing from the firm today.

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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. out of a $38.8M

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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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APRIL 1, 2013

San Diego-based Proximal Data , which develops serve-side caching software for accelerating I/O access to virtualized machines, said this morning that it has raised $2M in a Series B round of funding. The funding came from Divergent Ventures, along with existing investors Avalon Ventures.

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MARCH 29, 2021

San Diego-based Fortis Therapeutics, a biotechnology startup developing treatments for late-stage prostate cancer and multiple myeloma, has raised $40M in a Series A financing, the company said on Monday.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2008

According to the firm, the financing came from Avalon Ventures LLC. Zacharon Pharmaceutical is developing glycan inhibitors which have appications in treating genetic disorders and oncology. San Diego-based Zacharon Pharmaceutical said today that it has raised $3.5M The firm also said it has received more than $2.2M

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JULY 28, 2020

San Diego-based telemedicine and telehealth software developer AristaMD has added another $6M to the company's Series B, bringing the total to $24M, the company said on Monday. The funding came from Ascension Ventures and.406 The funding came from Ascension Ventures and.406 The company is led by CEO Brooke LeVasseur.

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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.

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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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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 really have a development focus,” Martin told me. “We But it’s structured differently.

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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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DECEMBER 7, 2018

Synthorx, which is working to develop cancer and autoimmune therapies using technology that allows it to expand the genetic alphabet, raised $131 million in an upsized IPO on Thursday. The company sold more than 11.9 million shares at $11 apiece. million additional shares are available for its underwriters to purchase.

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JULY 19, 2016

Synthorx, the San Diego synthetic biology startup that expanded the number of DNA base pairs with two synthetic nucleotides, said today it has raised $10 million in a Series B financing round led by RA Capital Management, the Boston life sciences hedge fund. Existing investors Avalon Ventures and Correlation Ventures joined in the round.

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