Los Angeles-based AdventureLink , which operates an online booking system for adventure travel, announced today that it has raised a Series A funding for the firm. The funding came from Anthem Venture Partners and The Mail Room Fund. According to AdventureLink, its online booking system allows travel agents to book adventure travel opportunities in 164 countries. Amount of the investment was not disclosed. The firm is headed by Kelly Tompkins, who was the founder of LeisureLink, which runs an online booking system for vacation rental owners.

Los Angeles-based AdventureLink , a venture funded online adventure travel booking site, said Friday that it has appointed Jeff Dossett as the firm's Chief Executive Officer. AdventureLink is venture funded by Anthem Venture Partners, The Mailroom Fund, and Allegis Capital. Tags: adventurelink travel executive booking yaho Dossett was most recently at Yahoo!, where he was Senior Vice President of Audience Experiences for North America.

Altadena-based AdventureLink , which operates an online marketplace for adventure and eco tour operators and trips, appears to have raised $1.29M in a new funding round, according to a regulatory filing. Source of the new funding was not disclosed, however, it appears that prior investors Anthem Ventures and Allegis Capital participated in the new funding round. No details on the funding have been announced by the company. The regulatory filing indicates that the funding was a combination of debt and warrants, most likely a convertible round.

Altadena-based AdventureLink , which operates an online marketplace for adventure and eco tour operators and trips, appears to have raised $1.29M in a new funding round, according to a regulatory filing. Source of the new funding was not disclosed, however, it appears that prior investors Anthem Ventures and Allegis Capital participated in the new funding round. No details on the funding have been announced by the company. The regulatory filing indicates that the funding was a combination of debt and warrants, most likely a convertible round.

Los Angeles-based AdventureLink , the new adventure travel booking site run by Kelly Tompkins, announced this morning that it has acquired a competitor, Adventure Central . According to AdventureLink, the all-stock deal also included a new investment from Allegis Capital. Amount of that funding was not released. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Denver-based Adventure Central provides a search engine and services for finding adventure travel.

Last week, Altadena-based AdventureLink (www.adventurelink.com) announced that it raised a Series A funding round, for the firm's adventure travel reservation network. The round came from Anthem Venture Partners and the Mail Room Fund. Kelly Tompkins: AdventureLink is a reservation network, which allows consumers and agents to book adventure travel around the world. We caught up with Kelly Tompkins, the firm's founder and CEO, to hear more about the firm. Thanks Thanks for the interview.

There’s Pasadena-based LeisureLink (funded by Clearstone), Pasadena-based AdventureLink (funded by Mail Room Fund, Anthem, and Allegis Capital), Redondo Beach-based TravBuddy (bootstrapped), Los Angeles-based Placely , LuxuryLink , also in Los Angeles, plus Demand Media’s Trails.com . What’s out, and what’s in as a theme for venture investments? From the sounds of things, social networking is out, and travel might be up.

Well, my first interesting vacation notice of the summer season came today from Richard Wolpert , who heads up the Mail Room Fund , the early stage fund investing in Southern California firms. Wolpert is raising funding to a number of organizations addressing Crohn’s Disease.  Interestingly enough, one of the firm’s local portfolio companies– AdventureLink It’s always interesting to me to watch the investment activity as summer swings into gear; it’s usually a telling indicator of how things will pan out for the remainder of the year. In busy