Diligence memo · auto-generated · as of July 2, 2026
Crescendo Bioscience, Inc.
Crescendo Bioscience, Inc. looks over-valued against its niche peers and is dormant on financing cadence.
Businessfiled
Crescendo Bioscience, Inc. operates in Biotechnology, based in SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO.
No verified homepage on file yet — operating evidence is limited to the public record.
Capital & rounds (filed)filed
Crescendo Bioscience, Inc. has raised $170M in disclosed capital across 6 recorded rounds, aggregated from public filings. Its latest round is modeled as Series B (a $15M–$40M round).
Largest single filing: $38M on 2008-06-10.
Most recent recorded round closed around 2012-12-19.
Valuation (modeled)modeled
Provath models Crescendo Bioscience, Inc. at approximately $1.1B (range $57M–$4.3B). This is an algorithmic estimate from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
Read: Over-valued. Modeled value is 1.73× the median modeled value of Series B Biotechnology companies in 2010–2012 (48 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
Financing rhythm & timingmixed
Historic cadence: a new round about every 11 months.
Last raise 13.5 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 14 months.
Silent for over 3× the sector's normal cadence.
The last round stepped up 1.1× from the prior — scaling.
Comparablesmixed
Capital scale ranks ahead of 96% of Biotechnology peers (4293 compared).
Modeled value ranks above 90% of those peers.
Closest niche peers: Redpoint Bio CORP, Cardiaq Valve Technologies Inc, Visterra, Inc., Celltex Therapeutics Corp, Crown Bioscience, Inc.
Peoplefiled
19 named people on file across officers, directors and signatories.
Risks & flagsmixed
Financing has been silent well beyond sector cadence — possibly defunct, acquired, or paused.
Modeled above niche peers — valuation risk on entry.
No clearly named CEO/founder/principal in the surfaced records — key-person evidence is thin.