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Websiteavalon-ventures.com
Twitter@AvalonVentures
Phone858.348.2180
Employees
Founded1983

Funds

Total$400M
Fund IX, 1/11 $200M
Avalon Ventures X, 8/12 $200M

Offices

Headquarters
1134 Kline Street
La Jolla, CA, 92037
USA
Cambridge, USA
55 Cambridge Parkway
Suite # 103
Cambridge, MA, 02142
USA

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Avalon Ventures

Avalon Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund focused on information technology and life sciences. We are passionate about backing talented entrepreneurs seeking to build market-leading companies.

Recent Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
The Happy Cloud 5/13Series A$4.25M3
Cloudant 5/13Series B$12M6
Nanigans 4/13Series A$5.85M1
Indix 4/13Series A$4.5M2
Proximal Data 4/13Series B$2M2
Tapad 3/13Series B$6.5M3
Simulmedia 2/13Series D$5M3
LoopIt 1/13Seed1
Cheezburger 12/12Venture Round$5M4
Avelas Biosciences 12/12Series A$7.65M1
Kaltura 11/12Series D$25M6
Pingup 11/12Series A$4M1
Selectable Media 10/12Series A$2M1
Shelby.tv 7/12Angel$2.2M1
Kinvey 7/12Series A$5M2
Backupify 7/12Series C$9M4
Awarepoint 6/12Venture Round$14M7
Simulmedia 4/12Series C$6M3
Memrise 2/12Seed$1.1M4
MOGL 1/12Series B$10M3
Cloudant 12/11Venture Round$2.1M1
Aratana Therapeutics 12/11Series B$15M3
Standing Cloud 11/11Venture Round$3M2
Chartio 10/11Series A$3.15M2
TwinStrata 10/11Series B$8M1
TechStars 9/11Venture Round$24M7
Backupify 9/11Series B$5M3
RethinkDB 9/11Series A$3M9
Nanigans 8/11Series A$3M1
Shelby.tv 7/11Angel$1.5M10
Tapad 3/11Angel$1.8M22
Kaltura 2/11Venture Round$20M5
Cheezburger 1/11Venture Round$30M4
Aratana Therapeutics 1/11Series A$20M3
Cheezburger Network 1/11Series A$30M4
Cloudant 12/10Series A$1M1
Standing Cloud 11/10Series B$3M2
Backupify 9/10Series A$4.5M2
Otonomy 6/10Series A$10M1
Chartio 6/10Seed$1.29M13
Cloudkick 4/10Series A$2M3
Simulmedia 4/10Series B$8M3
RethinkDB 4/10Seed$1.2M11
Syndax Pharmaceuticals 3/10Series A$9M5
Pictela 1/10Venture Round$1.5M1
Cambrios Technologies 11/09Series D$14.5M14
JustSpotted 10/09Seed$750k5
Cloudkick 9/09Venture Round$750k2
E-Band Communications 5/09Series C2
Simulmedia 3/09Series A$4M2
Pictela 1/09Series A$1.25M2
Cloudant 12/08Series A$1M1
Nabbr 11/08Series B$2.57M2
Zynga 7/08Series B$25M5
Chumby 3/08Series B$12.5M4
Zynga 2/08Series A$5.03M3
Zynga 1/08Series A$10M11
AnaptysBio 11/07Series B$33M6
Ortiva Wireless 6/07Series B$15M4
Intercasting 5/07Series B$12M3
Kaltura 5/07Series A$2.1M1
Chumby 12/06Series A$5M3
Vocera Communications 11/06Venture Round$7M6
AnaptysBio 7/06Series A$2M1
Kalon Semiconductor 6/06Series A$10.9M4
Intercasting 8/05Series A$5.5M2
Cambrios Technologies 2/05Series B$12M8

Videos

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  1. Sitting In Good Spot, Avalon Closes Oversubscribed Fund IX At $200M (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
  2. Avalon Ventures Surpasses $200M Target for Latest Fund (pevc.dowjones.com) [edit]
  3. Cloud Gaming Startup Happy Cloud Raises $4.25 Million Series A Round (allthingsd.com) [edit]
  4. Cloudant snares $12M from Rackspace and others to build awareness for its cloudy database (gigaom.com) [edit]
  5. Nanigans Closes $5.8M in Series A.1 Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  6. Indix Raises $4.5M in Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  7. Proximal Data Adds $2M Series B (pehub.com) [edit]
  8. Mobile Ad Targeter Tapad Raises $6.5 Million, Valued at $140 Million (allthingsd.com) [edit]
  9. Main Event Page news Comment 0 inShare7 Simulmedia Raises Another $5 Million From Existing Investors To Help Make TV Ads More Like Web Ads (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  10. LoopIt Raises Seed Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  11. I Can Has Funding: Cheezburger Raises $5M From Foundry, Madrona , Softbank For LOLcats, FAIL Blog And Other Memes (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  12. Avelas Biosciences Closes $7.65 Million Series A, Advances Real-Time Tumor Visualization Technology Toward Development (prnewswire.com) [edit]
  13. Video Management Startup Kaltura Raises Another $25 Million To Expand Into Asia (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  14. Pingup raises $4M in Series A Financing (thenextweb.com) [edit]
  15. Selectable Media Raises $2 Million From Avalon Ventures For Choosable Video Ads (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  16. Shelby.tv Raises $2.2 Million More To Rebuild Its Video Discovery Platform From The Ground Up (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  17. Kinvey Raises $5 Million for Mobile and Web App Backend As A Service (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  18. Backupify Secures $9 Million in Series C Funding (prnewswire.com) [edit]
  19. Awarepoint Tracks $14M for Hospital Workflow-Management Technology (pevc.dowjones.com) [edit]
  20. Simulmedia's Investors Fund New $6 Million Round (simulmedia.com) [edit]
  21. Crowd-Sourced Learning Platform Memrise Nabs $1.05M From Matt Mullenweg, Lerer Ventures And More! (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  22. Game-like restaurant app MOGL raises $10M for a mixed bag of loyalty & charity (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  23. Cloudant claims $2M funding (masshightech.com) [edit]
  24. Aratana Therapeutics Closes $15M Series B Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
  25. Standing Cloud Raises $3M (finsmes.com) [edit]
  26. Dashboard Creation's Chart.io Raises $3.15M (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
  27. TwinStrata Raises $8 Million For Cloud Storage, Backup Solutions (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  28. Startup Incubator TechStars Raises $24M, Increases Funding For Each Company By $100K (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  29. Backupify Secures $5M in Series B Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
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  31. Nanigans Closes $3M Series A Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
  32. Shelby.tv Raises $1.5 Million To Give You Personalized Channels Of Online Video (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  33. Tapad Announces Investors in First Real-time Advertising Platform for Smart Devices (adexchanger.com) [edit]
  34. Kaltura, Open Source Video Platform Provider, Secures $20 Million in Funding, and Lands Major Customer Wins (corp.kaltura.com) [edit]
  35. I Can Has Funding: Cheezburger Raises $30M For LOLcats, FAIL Blog And Other Memes (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  36. Aratana Therapeutics Closes $20 Series A Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
  37. mashable.com [edit]
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  39. Standing Cloud Raises $3 Million, Fends Off Font Snobs With New Logo (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  40. Backupify raises $4.5M to save your social media shenanigans (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
  41. Otonomy Closes $10 Million Series A Financing (otonomy.com) [edit]
  42. Citation Needed [add]
  43. Cloud management startup Cloudkick raises another $2M (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
  44. TV Promotions Platform Simulmedia Raises $8 Million Second Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  45. RethinkDB Raises $1.2 Million For Its Database For Solid-State Drives (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  46. Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc.: Series A $9M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
  47. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
  48. Cambrios lands $14.5M for electronic display components (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
  49. techcrunch.com [edit]
  50. Cloudkick’s simple cloud management gets $750K (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
  51. E-Band Communications Corp. Raise "Series C" (finance.yahoo.com) [edit]
  52. Ad Giant Dave Morgan Raises $4M For Simulmedia (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
  53. Rich Media Syndication's Pictela Raises $1.25M (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
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  55. Nabbr nabs $2.6M for social network marketing (venturebeat.com) [edit]
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  60. AnaptysBio raises over $33 million in Series B financing (anaptysbio.com) [edit]
  61. Ortiva Wireless Raises $15 Million (allbusiness.com) [edit]
  62. Intercasting Corp. Secures $12 Million in Series B Venture Funding (freshnews.com) [edit]
  63. Kaltura Wins Spot as 40th Company at TechCrunch40 (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  64. techcrunch.com [edit]
  65. Vocera raises $7M more for wireless communication badges (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
  66. EDGAR [edit]
  67. Kalon Semi receives $10.9 million in funding (eetimes.com) [edit]
  68. Intercasting Raises $5.5M (socaltech.com) [edit]
  69. Cambrios Technology Announces $12 Million Series B Round (cambrios.com) [edit]
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