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Illumina
Integrated systems for genetic and biological analysis.
At a glance
- Founded
- 1998
- Headquarters
- San Diego, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2000
- Sector
- Biotech & Life Sciences
- Power Law
- Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A8 investors entered at this stage
- DODow
- TITredegar Investments
- CHCW Group Holdings
- CVChevron Technology Ventures
- SFState Farm
- CPChase Capital Partners
- TFThe Tisch Family
- LOLombard Odier
Series B and later4 investors entered at this stage
Venrock
ARCH Venture Partners- UUUniversity of Utah
- TUTufts University
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Illumina employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
GHGuardant HealthEst. 2012
PRProlificEst. 2014
Phelim BradleyUnited Kingdom
CECellanomeEst. 2020
Ali AgahUnited States
RBRetro BiosciencesEst. 2020
Matthew BuckleyUnited States
Julien HedouFranceGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
1,980 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Illumina was the backer or acquirer, 2006–2026. 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.
145 deals across Illumina's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where Illumina 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.
Illumina's portfolio, mapped.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Illumina on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
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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