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Pacific Biosciences

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Biotechnology company manufacturing systems for gene sequencing and real-time biological observations

Menlo Park, United StatesFounded 2004Biotech & Life Sciences

Valuation $861M Market cap · Aug/2026

Revenue $167M Latest reported FY

At a glance

Status: Listed
Founded: 2004
Headquarters: Menlo Park, United States
Listing: IPO 2010
Sector: Biotech & Life Sciences
Power Law: Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue

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News, research, reports and resources connected to this company by Dealroom

Investors

14 investors on the cap table

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

Series B and later14 investors entered at this stage

KPKleiner Perkins
GEGen-Probe
DVDAG Ventures
SVSutter Hill Ventures
MVMohr Davidow Ventures
BVBig Red Ventures
MCMaverick Capital
AVAlloy Ventures
DEDeerfield
CUCornell University
ALAllianceBernstein
MSMorgan Stanley
ICIntel Capital
TPT. Rowe Price

Talent

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Employees mapped 587 incl. 6 AI specialists

Founders /100 quality score

Key operators 10 quality /100

Potential founders likely future founders

Startup mafia 8 alumni-founded startups

Talent movements in · out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Alumni founders

5 of 8 startups shown

Former Pacific Biosciences employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.

Art PolkUnited States

RSRisa StackUnited States

Signal score65

SISightenEst. 2012

David VillagraUnited States

Signal score65

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Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country

Workforce by country

21 countries with
team presence

🇺🇸 United States82.5%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom3%

🇩🇪 Germany2.4%

🇨🇳 China2.3%

🇸🇬 Singapore1.8%

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Web traffic by country

18K monthly visits
across markets

🇺🇸 United States101.1%

🇪🇸 Spain1.1%

Top 2 markets shown

Patents

Estimated portfolio value

$314M

245 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 Pacific Biosciences was the backer or acquirer, 2021–2023. 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

3 deals across Pacific Biosciences's capital deployment.

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

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Where Pacific Biosciences 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.

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