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Kite Pharma

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Immune-based therapies to treat cancer indications

Santa Monica, United StatesFounded 2009Biotech & Life Sciences
Valuation $12B Market cap · 2026
Revenue $20M Latest reported FY

At a glance

Status
Listed
Founded
2009
Headquarters
Santa Monica, United States
Listing
IPO 2014
Sector
Biotech & Life Sciences
Power Law
Decacorn$10B+ valuation tier

Investors

9 investors on the cap table

From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.

Series A4 investors entered at this stage

  • Two River
  • Riverbank Capital Securities
  • Lee Linden
  • Alta Partners

Series B and later5 investors entered at this stage

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)
  • Arie Belldegrun
  • Weizmann Institute of Science
  • University of California
  • Los Angeles
Employees mapped 4,029 incl. 16 AI specialists
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Key operators 10 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
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Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
Workforce by country
33 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States66.6%
🇳🇱 Netherlands24.4%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom2.4%
🇪🇸 Spain0.9%
🇮🇪 Ireland0.9%
Top 5 of 33 shown
Web traffic by country
20K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States60.5%
🇳🇱 Netherlands12.5%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom9.5%
🇮🇳 India6.5%
🇵🇭 Philippines4%
Top 5 markets shown

Patents

Estimated portfolio value
$199M

176 active patent families included in this estimate.

A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.

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Investments and acquisitions

Disclosed deals where Kite Pharma was the backer or acquirer, 2016–2025. 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.

Portfolio analysis

14 deals across Kite Pharma's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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        Kite Pharma's portfolio, mapped.

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        14 of 14 deals

        Market sentiment

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        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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