Interestingly enough, one of the firm’s local portfolio companies– AdventureLink , in Pasadena–just hired a new CEO from Yahoo, who has summitted Everest twice. ...Tags: 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 years (the past two years, for example) — deal flow hardly paused at all, VCs were so busy they seemed to be around even during their traditional summer vacations, and deals kept

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. Dossett was most recently at Yahoo!, AdventureLink is venture funded by Anthem Venture Partners, The Mailroom Fund, and Allegis Capital. where he was Senior Vice President of Audience Experiences for North America. Dossett also was Executive Producer and General Manager of MSN, and was CEO of Carpoint, and GM of MSN HomeAdvisor.