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Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Affymax Inc — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→Affymax Inc has raised $42M over 1 round; too few niche peers to rank its valuation yet.
Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page. Valuation uses the biotech sector profile.
Analyst read est. — computed against this company's niche peers in the same era. Inputs shown; not a quoted figure.
No named principal in this company's public records yet — see all operators below.
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Affymax Inc is one of 4291 Biotechnology companies tracked from PALO ALTO. By capital raised it ranks in the upper tier (ahead of 79% of sector peers), and among the largest by modeled valuation est..
Ranking is computed against this company's own sector cohort — reported capital is fact; valuation tiers are modeled.
As reported in public records reported — not modeled.
Solid bars are reported offering amounts reported; hatched bars are the modeled post-money valuation est. — both on one shared scale so you can read raise-vs-worth at each round directly. Use the toggles to overlay data labels and the niche-peer / market average value lines.
The line shows cumulative reported funding over the period; + labels show new capital added between points when there is room. Toggle on-bar figures, plus the niche-peer and market averages, to read this company against its cohort. Benchmarks are modeled medians.
Stages are modeled from round size (public records carry no series label). No record for: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B — the company may have raised it under a different exemption, merged it into an adjacent record, or skipped it. Sequence completeness: 20%.
Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Series C — a $40M–$100M round). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks scaled by the biotech sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.
Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.
Benchmarked against 4291 companies in Biotechnology. Each bar is a median (the middle company, not an average — outliers don't skew it). Two yardsticks: real money raised (reported on Form D) and modeled value (our estimate est.). These are whole-sector medians across all stages, except the per-stage row.
Raised more than 79% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 93% of peers (estimate).
A tighter cohort than the sector chart above — only companies at the same stage (Series C) that last raised in the same ~3-year era, ranked by modeled value est. (not money raised). This is the exact set the analyst read compares against, so a like-for-like cohort is what makes "over/under-valued" meaningful.
| Company | Stage | Raised · real | Value · est | vs peer med. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Align Technology Inc | Series C | $72.3M | $3.0B | 1.45× |
| Helicon Therapeutics Inc | Series C | $50.0M | $2.0B | 1.00× |
| Affymax Inc this company | Series C | $42.0M | $1.7B | 0.84× |
Stage is inferred from round size est., not reported on the filing — a round's dollar size maps to a bucket: Pre-Seed <$1.0M · Seed $1.0M–$4.0M · Series A $4.0M–$15M · Series B $15M–$40M · Series C $40M–$100M · Series D+ $100M–$400M · Growth/Late >$400M.
| Stage | Amount · real | Announced | Post-money · est | Value · est | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series C | $42.0M | 2009-03-02 | $280.0M | $1.7B | 90% |
Step-up, pace versus the sector's normal cadence, and revenue/exemption moves — read straight from the reported round facts reported.
Predictive signals are modeled est. from this company's own cadence and step-up, plus sector benchmarks — directional, not advice. Peer set and a CSV export live in your analyst workspace.
Officers, directors and promoters named in this company's public recordsreported — the people who run it (not its investors). "Also runs" counts come from name-matching across all records, so verify before acting.
| Person | Role | Also runs | Tied since |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Walker | — | 16 other | 2009-03 |
| Nicholas Galakatos | — | 5 other | 2009-03 |
| Arlene Morris | — | 4 other | 2009-03 |
| Ted W. Love | — | 4 other | 2009-03 |
| Keith Leonard | — | 2 other | 2009-03 |
| Daniel Spiegelman | — | 1 other | 2009-03 |
| Kathleen LaPorte | — | 1 other | 2009-03 |
| R. Lee Douglas | — | 1 other | 2009-03 |
| Steven Love | — | 1 other | 2009-03 |
| Anne-Marie Duliege | — | — | 2009-03 |
| Christi Va Heek | — | — | 2009-03 |
| Paul Cleveland | — | — | 2009-03 |
| Robert Venteicher | — | — | 2009-03 |
Affymax Inc is an official record sourced from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). U.S. data is aggregated from SEC Form D filings.
Nearest neighbours across the whole database — matched on sector, stage and capital scale, and on shared operators (officers or directors named at both companies in public filings). A discovery shortlist, not a valuation cohort — verify before acting, the same way modeled figures are directional.
| Company | Sector | Stage | Raised · real | Value · est | Why similar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Viveve Medical, Inc. | Biotechnology | Series A | $41.5M | $12.3M | network1 shared operator · same sector |
| Five Prime Therapeutics Inc | Biotechnology | Series B | $38.5M | $835.1M | network1 shared operator · same sector |
| Oncothyreon Inc. | Biotechnology | Series B | $38.1M | $907.4M | network1 shared operator · same sector |
| Bolt Biotherapeutics, Inc. | Biotechnology | Series C | $178.6M | $432.9M | network1 shared operator · same sector · same stage |
| Spruce Biosciences, Inc. | Biotechnology | Series C | $191.6M | $274.3M | network1 shared operator · same sector · same stage |
| NuProbe Global | Biotechnology | Series C | $42.2M | $846.1M | same sector · same stage |
| AavantiBio, Inc. | Biotechnology | Series C | $41.8M | $1.5B | same sector · same stage |
| Vernal Biosciences, Inc. | Biotechnology | Series C | $42.5M | $827.2M | same sector · same stage |
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