Diligence memo · auto-generated · as of July 2, 2026
Berkeley Lights, Inc.
Berkeley Lights, Inc. looks fair against its niche peers and is dormant on financing cadence.
Businessfiled
Berkeley Lights, Inc. operates in Biotechnology, based in EMERYVILLE.
No verified homepage on file yet — operating evidence is limited to the public record.
Capital & rounds (filed)filed
Berkeley Lights, Inc. has raised $74M in disclosed capital across 2 recorded rounds, aggregated from public filings. Its latest round is modeled as Series C (a $40M–$100M round).
Largest single filing: $95M on 2018-03-28.
Most recent recorded round closed around 2018-03-28.
Valuation (modeled)modeled
Provath models Berkeley Lights, Inc. at approximately $1.8B (range $136M–$4.8B). This is an algorithmic estimate from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
Read: Fair. Modeled value is 0.88× the median modeled value of Series C Biotechnology companies in 2016–2018 (41 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era. Within the normal band (88% of peer median) for its niche.
Financing rhythm & timingmixed
Historic cadence: a new round about every 8 months.
Last raise 8.3 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 14 months.
Silent for over 3× the sector's normal cadence.
The last round was 2.2× smaller than the prior — a bridge or down round.
Comparablesmixed
Capital scale ranks ahead of 87% of Biotechnology peers (4293 compared).
Modeled value ranks above 94% of those peers.
Closest niche peers: Genesis Biopharma, Inc, Alder Biopharmaceuticals Inc, Ideaya Biosciences, Inc., Stoke Therapeutics, Inc., 4D Molecular Therapeutics Inc.
Peoplefiled
13 named people on file across officers, directors and signatories.
Risks & flagsmixed
Financing has been silent well beyond sector cadence — possibly defunct, acquired, or paused.
No clearly named CEO/founder/principal in the surfaced records — key-person evidence is thin.