Diligence memo · auto-generated · as of July 2, 2026
Pliant Therapeutics, Inc.
Pliant Therapeutics, Inc. looks fair against its niche peers and is dormant on financing cadence.
Businessfiled
Pliant Therapeutics, Inc. operates in Biotechnology, based in SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO.
Sub-sector tags: pharma.
No verified homepage on file yet — operating evidence is limited to the public record.
Capital & rounds (filed)filed
Pliant Therapeutics, Inc. has raised $163M in disclosed capital across 2 recorded rounds, aggregated from public filings. Its latest round is modeled as Series D+ (a $100M–$400M round).
Largest single filing: $100M on 2019-12-19.
Most recent recorded round closed around 2019-12-19.
Valuation (modeled)modeled
Provath models Pliant Therapeutics, Inc. at approximately $4.1B (range $455M–$9.1B). This is an algorithmic estimate from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
Read: Fair. Modeled value is 0.98× the median modeled value of Series D+ Biotechnology companies in 2019–2021 (58 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era. Within the normal band (98% of peer median) for its niche.
Financing rhythm & timingmixed
Historic cadence: a new round about every 6 months.
Last raise 6.5 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 14 months.
Silent for over 3× the sector's normal cadence.
The last round was 2.1× smaller than the prior — a bridge or down round.
Comparablesmixed
Capital scale ranks ahead of 95% of Biotechnology peers (4293 compared).
Modeled value ranks above 99% of those peers.
Closest niche peers: Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc., Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, Inc., Affinivax, Inc., Sonoma Biotherapeutics, Inc., Instil Bio, 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.