Companies · Food & Beverage

Luminist LabsWinter 2016Acquired

Newark · CA, USA · Food & Beverage · founded 2015 · http://luministlabs.com

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Top 67%
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Luminist Labs: limited disclosed financing to assess.

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Where it sits in Food & Beverage

Luminist Labs is one of 567 Food & Beverage companies tracked from Newark, CA, USA, on record since 2015. By capital raised it ranks in the long tail (ahead of 34% of sector peers), and in the long tail by modeled valuation est..

Ranking is computed against this company's own sector cohort — reported capital is fact; valuation tiers are modeled.

AI analyst read est. — model-extracted from this company's public description, not a verified fact. 30%

operates a technology-led product inferred from public copy

Grounded in: “You are a venture analyst

Diagnostic platform for early detection of liver disease

Luminist developed a non-invasive diagnostic test for the early detection and staging of liver fibrosis and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). Luminist was acquired in 2020 by DiscernDx.

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Amount raised vs valuation, by round

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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.

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How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 567 companies in Food & Beverage. 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)
This company
Sector median$1.2M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages)
This company
Sector median$10.6M

Raised more than 34% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 34% 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.

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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.

Registry & provenance

Luminist Labs is an official record sourced from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). U.S. data is aggregated from SEC Form D filings.

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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.

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What does Luminist Labs do and where is it based?
Luminist Labs operates in the Food & Beverage sector, based in Newark, CA, USA. Diagnostic platform for early detection of liver disease
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