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Celtic Molecular Diagnostics

Cape Town · South Africa · biotechnology · founded 2003 · https://celticdiagnostics.com/

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Top 1%
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Latest stage · inferred

Celtic Molecular Diagnostics: limited disclosed financing to assess.

Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page.

Where it sits in biotechnology

Celtic Molecular Diagnostics is one of 14 biotechnology companies tracked from Cape Town, South Africa, on record since 2003. By capital raised it ranks among the largest (ahead of 100% 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.

South African company, based in Cape Town. Sector: biotechnology.

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Amount raised vs valuation, by round

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.

No round amounts on record to chart.

Financing ladder & sequence gaps

No staged rounds to sequence.

Modeled valuation trajectory
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Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size. Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.

Financing rhythm
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On record since
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How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 14 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.

Total raised — vs sector median (real $, all stages)
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Sector median
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages)
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Sector median

Raised more than 100% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 100% of peers (estimate).

Full financing history

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.

StageAmount · realAnnouncedPost-money · estValue · estConf.
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Intelligence
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Last step-up
Capital velocity

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.

Similar companies

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.

CompanySectorStageRaised · realValue · estWhy similar
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Anatechbiotechnologysame sector
BioCom Africabiotechnologysame sector
CapeBiobiotechnologysame sector
Davies Diagnosticsbiotechnologysame sector
Inqaba Biotechnical Industriesbiotechnologysame sector
Labotecbiotechnologysame sector
Lasecbiotechnologysame sector
Semantically similar

Matched by meaning, not labels — a local language model reads each company's name, sector and description and ranks the closest in that learned space. This catches look-alikes that cross sector boundaries; the structured list above explains its matches, this one trusts the text. Directional, like every modeled signal here.

CompanySectorStageValue · estMatch
Davies Diagnostics
South African company, based in Johannesburg. Sector: biotechnology.
biotechnology87%
CapeBio
South African company, based in Pretoria. Sector: biotechnology.
biotechnology80%
Wirsam Scientific
South African company, based in Johannesburg. Sector: biotechnology.
biotechnology78%
Cleveland Diagnostics, Inc.BiotechnologySeries C$79.3M78%
Whitehead Scientific
South African company, based in Cape Town. Sector: biotechnology.
biotechnology78%
Gregor Diagnostics, Inc.BiotechnologySeries A$677K78%
Labotec
South African company, based in Johannesburg. Sector: biotechnology.
biotechnology77%
Magnus Medical, Inc.BiotechnologySeries C$153.7M77%
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What does Celtic Molecular Diagnostics do and where is it based?
Celtic Molecular Diagnostics operates in the biotechnology sector, based in Cape Town, South Africa. South African company, based in Cape Town. Sector: biotechnology.
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