Diligence memo · auto-generated · as of July 2, 2026
Lux Biosciences Inc
Lux Biosciences Inc looks fair against its niche peers and is dormant on financing cadence.
Businessfiled
Lux Biosciences Inc operates in Biotechnology, based in JERSEY CITY.
No verified homepage on file yet — operating evidence is limited to the public record.
Capital & rounds (filed)filed
Lux Biosciences Inc has raised $81M in disclosed capital across 7 recorded rounds, aggregated from public filings. Its latest round is modeled as Series B (a $15M–$40M round).
Largest single filing: $38M on 2009-10-15.
Most recent recorded round closed around 2012-02-23.
Valuation (modeled)modeled
Provath models Lux Biosciences Inc at approximately $635M (range $32M–$2.4B). This is an algorithmic estimate from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
Read: Fair. Modeled value is 0.97× the median modeled value of Series B Biotechnology companies in 2010–2012 (48 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era. Within the normal band (97% of peer median) for its niche.
Financing rhythm & timingmixed
Historic cadence: a new round about every 5 months.
Last raise 14.4 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 4.0× from the prior — scaling.
Comparablesmixed
Capital scale ranks ahead of 88% of Biotechnology peers (4293 compared).
Modeled value ranks above 85% of those peers.
Closest niche peers: Redpoint Bio CORP, Cardiaq Valve Technologies Inc, Visterra, Inc., Celltex Therapeutics Corp, Crown Bioscience, Inc.
Peoplefiled
22 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.