Acceleron Pharma is developing biotherapeutics for the treatment of musculoskeletal, metabolic and cancer-related diseases. Acceleron was founded to take advantage of its unique insights on the Growth and Differentiation Factor (“GDF”) protein family. Acceleron utilizes a novel approach to modulate the activity of various GDFs that control the growth of bone, muscle, fat and the vasculature.
ad summos provides an advanced analytic platform designed to help online publishers increase the value of their inventory while offering brand advertisers highly targeted audiences at scale on premium websites. The Company’s patent-pending Real ROITM technology provides a census-based definitive link between ads served online and actions taken offline.
Afraxis is discovering and developing new treatments for Fragile X mental retardation, autism, psychiatric diseases, and other CNS diseases.
Ambit Biosciences is engaged in the discovery and development of small-molecule kinase inhibitors for the treatment of cancer. The company also markets the industry’s most comprehensive kinase profiling service through its KINOMEscan™ Division. KINOMEscan is a proprietary technology designed to screen small molecule libraries against large numbers of human kinases.
Amira Pharmaceutical, Inc. is focused on the discovery and early development of compounds to treat inflammatory disease linked to the eicosanoid pathway.
AnaptysBio is an antibody therapeutics company and emerging leader in antibody discovery and optimization.
Aratana Therapeutics
Aratana is a companion animal health company with several late stage development programs to treat common maladies of domestic dogs and cats.
Avelas Biosciences, Inc. is advancing a new, improved way of cancer surgery called fluorescence-image guided surgery (FIGS). Oncologic surgeons still operate by eyesight and feel (palpation) and often cannot tell where the edge of the cancer begins and ends. The surgeon only has a definitive answer that he has got it all weeks after the operation. Too frequently, the pathology report indicates that tumor has been left behind (positive tumor margin). In cancers that can be cured by surgery, this means automatic reoperation. Even in cancers that require combination surgery and chemotherapy or radiation, better resection can lead to better patient outcome. Avelas aims to provide a luminous map for the surgeon to actually visualize tumor’s edge and small deposits by administering an intravenous targeted fluorescent imaging agent, the Avelas Cancer Illuminator™. Via an accompanying FIGS visualization system, the surgeon will be able to better see “lit up” cancers while they operate, creating the potential for significantly improved outcome and a new standard-of-care in cancer surgery.
AwarePoint Corporation produces and sells a wireless system that enables enterprises to know automatically where their critical assets, both equipment and people, are located within a facility. The company primarily serves acute care hospital facilities.
Backupify provides daily automatic backups, archiving, and export for all your social media and SaaS data.
Bagooba
New York, NY
An emerging company in stealth mode that is addressing friendship relationship management by a very experienced group of entrepreneurs.
BioVex Group, Inc. is a biotechnology company that is developing novel biologics for the treatment of cancer and infectious disease.
Cambrios Technologies Corp. develops electronic materials for the display industry. Its proprietary nanostructured materials can be deposited using existing production equipment to achieve enhanced performance of display devices and components at a lower manufacturing cost. The company’s first product, Cambrios ClearOhm™, – a directly patternable, wet-processable transparent conductive film – is poised to replace the industry standard, indium tin oxide (ITO). Target applications include cell phone touch screens and liquid crystal displays.
Carolus Therapeutics, Inc. is developing new best-in-class peptide and antibody-based treatments for cardiovascular and inflammatory diseases.
Chart.io, is Google Analytics for your Database. Chart.io makes sense of all the data you collect every day. Tired of running complex SQL queries or emailing Excel spreadsheets around? Chart.io quickly hooks up to your database and lets you create real-time charts of the metrics you care about.
Cheezburger Network is a network of over 50 websites to make you happy throughout the day. Hang out on I Can Has Cheezburger to get your fix of lolcats, cutes, and try Failblog for your fails, and so many lulz! Use our Lol Builders to create your own funny pictures and check out our store for shirts and toys inspired by your favorite lolz.
Cloudant offers integrated database, analytics, and search, as a service, providing businesses with an easy to use, highly-scalable data platform based on Apache CouchDB.
Cloudkick provides award-winning cloud server monitoring and management tools, built from the ground up to support modern APIs and the elastic nature of the cloud. From performance monitoring and fault detection to trend visualization and graphing, their tools work across your entire cloud computing infrastructure, no matter what cloud provider you choose.
Cloudkick was acquired by Rackspace.
Connected Sports Ventures, Inc. is an essential gaming application platform for internet connected TV focusing on sports.
E-Band Communications manufactures the highest performance multi-gigabit capacity wireless backhaul systems based on 70-80 GHz millimeter-wave technology.
Figure 8 Wireless
Figure 8 Wireless developed “chip-level” software for wireless sensor networks using the ZigBee (802.15.4) wireless standard. Figure 8 was acquired by Chipcon of Norway which was then acquired by Texas Instruments Inc.
Intercasting Corp. was a personal media company designed to enable wireless network operators to provision any Web-based social networking or community service through its carrier-grade social networking platform, ANTHEM. InterCasting was acquired by Visto in May 2009. Visto also acquired Good Technologies, a former Avalon VI portfolio company, from Motorola and does business under the name Good Technologies.
Hexagram 49, Inc. (DBA ReThink DB) is a SQL storage engine for solid-state drives. ReThink DB is a seed stage company developing database software intelligently designed to benefit from solid–state disks and flash storage. The Company was founded in 2009 and recently closed a seed round of financing where Avalon participated in the syndicate. The goal of ReThink DB is to offer commercial SQL compatible software designed to be extremely fast through the implementation of powerful features that are cumbersome and inefficient with rotational storage.
InCode BioPharmaceutics, Inc. is developing a new class of biological therapy to therapeutically depleate complement.
Inogen, Inc. is a medical device company focusing on innovation in oxygen therapy.
Kaltura, Inc. allows publishers and enterprise customers of all sizes to easily, quickly, and cost effectively enhance their Web sites with video and interactive rich-media functionalities, including video management, searching, uploading, importing, editing, annotating, remixing, sharing, and advertising. The company’s online video platform is used across more than 100,000 sites, including those of top media companies, publishers, consumer product companies and universities.
The first Backend as a Service that makes it ridiculously easy for developers to setup, use and operate a cloud backend for their mobile apps.
Memrise is the fastest and most enjoyable way to learn words in any language.
We’ve taken the very best science of learning and combined it with engaging, playful design to make word-learning fun, fast and exceedingly effective.
MOGL is the game that pays you cash for eating at your favorite restaurant. MOGL is a spin-out of Mojo Pages.
Nabbr is The Gen Y Online Video Network with exclusive video distribution on 400+ social networking “resource sites” 12-34 year olds use to customize their social network profile pages with apps, widgets, backgrounds, etc. Nabbr has 40 Million comScore unique visitors and delivers 300+ Million premium video entertainment content views/month to people actively looking to express themselves and enhance their digital personas.Nabbr delivers all the reach and engagement benefits of social networks with none of the concerns surrounding UGC and personal pages.
Nanigans offers the most advanced Facebook Ad optimization solution in the industry on a fully-managed, pay-for-performance basis. Our advertisers are only charged for successful conversions as defined by their particular business goals. Sign up for a risk-free trial to learn more.
Ortiva Wireless, Inc. provides software to wireless carriers that enable them to deliver the smoothest video, clearest audio, and richest multimedia experience to mobile users under highly variable wireless network conditions. Ortiva’s Mobile Content Delivery Network (Mobile-CDN™), extends carriers’ coverage and expands the availability of rich media content.
Otonomy, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and marketing of therapeutic products to treat disorders of the middle and inner ear, including hearing loss.
Relentlessly Innovative. Pictela is revolutionizing how brand content is created, distributed and measured.
Pictela is a dynamic, high definition brand content platform. The platform delivers video, photos and applications in real time across the web.
Pictela was acquired by AOL.
Proximal Data, Inc.
La Jolla, CA
Proximal Data, Inc. is developing software and storage devices to accelerate access to data in virtualized computer environments by moving storage closer to the compute processors themselves. Virtualized computer servers are the fastest growing configuration in enterprise deployments and are also the basis for cloud computing environments. By accelerating data access in virtualized environments, Proximal Data will achieve higher performance as well as lowering costs by reducing server memory requirements and increasing server utilization.
Sytera/Sirion Holdings, Inc./ReVision Therapeutics are a series of ophthalmic pharmaceutical companies that are part of the legacy of an oral once daily treatment for macular degeneration originally developed by Sytera.
RQx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
San Diego, CA
RQx is discovering and developing novel broad-spectrum antibiotics.
Shelby TV, Inc. is a Web service targeted at the discovery and use of social video assets. Shelby creates personal online video channels for its users comprised of videos emanating from the social networks of their subscribers. With the exploding amount of video content online, Shelby seeks to be the leading service and guide to social video and discovery.
Simulmedia is a New York City-based media marketing company dedicated to improving the effectiveness of program promotion on television. The company is pioneering the development of predictive technology to help television companies deliver the right on-air promotions to the right viewers at the right time.
Sova Pharaceuticals, Inc. is discovering and developing novel therapeutics for the treatment of sleep apnea.
StackIQ, Inc. develops and sells Rocks+, a multi-server management system for clusters and clouds. Rocks+ provides a single step install and single point of management for Linux environments – and is capable of dynamically provisioning heterogeneous server types by leveraging pre-packaged “Rolls” and user-defined appliance types.
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Standing Cloud is the easiest way to deploy and manage web applications using public cloud infrastructure. With just a few clicks and in less than five minutes, you can be up and running with any of more than 60 open source applications.
Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a clinical development company focused on novel oral therapies for cancer.
Sytera/Sirion Holdings, Inc./ReVision Therapeutics are a series of ophthalmic pharmaceutical companies that are part of the legacy of an oral once daily treatment for macular degeneration originally developed by Sytera.
Tapad’s technology combines data-driven audience buying and cross-platform targeting in a transparent, real-time bidding environment.
TwinStrata is a pioneer in the Cloud Storage Enablement (CSE) market with the industry’s first purpose-built architecture and software solution to enable Intelligent Storage Clouds (ISC). ISC deliver simple, affordable and secure storage solutions to enterprise environments. TwinStrata solution address the business need for on-demand IT services, providing new levels of business agility, efficiency, IT alignment and cost management for protecting and managing the growth of business application data.
Uwanna, Inc. is an advertising platform integrated with social media networks such as Google+ and Facebook that delivers real-time, hyper-local offers to consumers as they’re planning activities. Friends invite each other to join in genuinely social activities and the proprietary Uwanna algorithm matches local offers to their events. Uwanna is creating the first free and open-sourced offer and deal service that enables businesses to promote sustainable offers affordably and easily. Consumers interact with Uwanna via the mobile application, the Uwanna.com website, and the Uwanna Facebook application. Businesses and brands, from local coffee shops to multi-national advertisers, deliver their offers via these services as well as through their own websites and banner advertising. The platform is also available for media companies to promote social activities around their content and enhance the value of their advertising inventory. In addition to the Company’s consumer facing applications, Uwanna is developing a set of APIs so that the new third-party group messaging services – that are rapidly displacing carrier-based SMS clients – can integrate the offer platform and accelerate distribution of the Uwanna platform.
Vocera Communications, Inc. provides wireless communication systems enabling instant voice communication among mobile workers for leading institutions and companies requiring enhanced customer service, productivity, and teamwork.
Zacharon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is leveraging innovative drug discovery technology to enable a new class of therapeutics for the treatment of orphan diseases.
Zynga is the # 1 social gaming company on the web. Zynga was founded on the notion that casual games are far more fun, interesting and compelling when you can play with your friends. Zynga’s games run inside social networks and mobile platforms and take advantage of the pre-existing social graphs. Zynga was founded by Mark Pincus and is based in San Francisco.
