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Exelixis
Biotech & Life Sciences · San Francisco, United States · Founded 1994 · IPO 2000 Unicorn
Exelixis mafia
Startups founded by Exelixis alumni
Former Exelixis employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Geoffrey M. Duyk, M.D., Ph.D.United States
Jeffrey GreveUnited States
Artur PlonowskiUnited States
Fran HellerUnited States
George DavisUnited States
Bindu ReddyUnited States
Harrison YoonUnited States
Corey GoodmanUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Exelixis has talent and traffic
(7 of 1,521 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$161M patent portfolio · 108 active families
Where Exelixis concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Exelixis and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
Exelixis's 4 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Exelixis appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2000–2024. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
4 deals across Exelixis's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Exelixis deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
02 · Portfolio market map
Exelixis's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Exelixis
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Exelixis on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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