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Bringing transparency to private markets so investors, founders, and employees can build on conviction. Sacra delivers deeply researched insights on the private companies shaping tomorrow's markets. By surfacing the data, context, and operator perspective that are missing from private markets today, we help secondary buyers and sellers price equity accurately and unlock liquidity for the people building these businesses.

Private Capital Markets

<ul><li>As of June 2026, Lila is in talks to raise approximately $2 billion in a Series B at a pre-money valuation of roughly $8.5 billion, implying a post-money valuation of approximately $10.5 billion.</li><li>By the time of its Series A in October 2025, Lila's first AISF had already closed the loop across hundreds of thousands of AI-driven experiments.</li><li>The planned 200,000-square-foot Cambridge AISF, targeted for Q3 2026 opening, is the clearest near-term capacity lever.</li></ul>

As of June 2026, Lila is in talks to raise approximately $2 billion in a Series B at a pre-money valuation of roughly $8.5 billion, implying a post-money valuation of approximately $10.5 billion.By the time of its Series A in October 2025, Lila's first AISF had already closed the loop across hundreds of thousands of AI-driven experiments.The planned 200,000-square-foot Cambridge AISF, targeted for Q3 2026 opening, is the clearest near-term capacity lever.

<ul><li>Sacra estimates BillionToOne hit $153M in revenue in 2024, more than doubling from $72M in 2023, representing 112% year-over-year growth.</li><li>The company generates revenue primarily through its prenatal testing business, which has captured 15% market share in the US and is profitable.</li><li>BillionToOne reached a valuation of over $1 billion following a $130 million Series D financing round.</li></ul>

Sacra estimates BillionToOne hit $153M in revenue in 2024, more than doubling from $72M in 2023, representing 112% year-over-year growth.The company generates revenue primarily through its prenatal testing business, which has captured 15% market share in the US and is profitable.BillionToOne reached a valuation of over $1 billion following a $130 million Series D financing round.

Strand Therapeutics / Private Capital Markets

<ul><li>Strand Therapeutics raised $153 million in a Series B round led by Kinnevik in August 2025, bringing the company's valuation to approximately $550 million.</li><li>The lead product, STX-001, is administered via direct injection into tumors and encodes mRNA instructions for producing interleukin-12 (IL-12), an immune-stimulating protein.</li><li>Phase 1 data from 22 checkpoint-refractory cancer patients reported one complete response and multiple partial responses, with no dose-limiting toxicities observed.</li></ul>

Strand Therapeutics raised $153 million in a Series B round led by Kinnevik in August 2025, bringing the company's valuation to approximately $550 million.The lead product, STX-001, is administered via direct injection into tumors and encodes mRNA instructions for producing interleukin-12 (IL-12), an immune-stimulating protein.Phase 1 data from 22 checkpoint-refractory cancer patients reported one complete response and multiple partial responses, with no dose-limiting toxicities observed.

Primer: Strand Therapeutics - 07 Dec 2025

<ul><li>Foundation model companies OpenAI & Anthropic commoditized the first wave of vertical AI companies that reasoned over public data—like web PDFs, patents and earnings calls—with agentic products that browse the web, do deep research and build datasets, spurring the next wave of vertical AI companies that focus on integrating frontier models with vertical-specific workflows, embedded with proprietary telemetry that captures document diffs, user corrections & tool calls.</li><li>In highly-regulated, risk-averse industries, less than 1% of manual workflows have been replaced with AI as companies fear IP exposure through third-party models, unauditable changes to high-stakes documents, and AI-generated content they can't verify or trace back to source material, creating the opportunity for companies like Raycaster for biotech (Seed, Y Combinator) alongside bigger players like Harvey for law ($21M Series A, Sequoia) and Hebbia for finance ($30M Series A, Index Ventures).</li><li>Today&#39;s emerging vertical AI playbook: 1) embed engineers a la Palantir&#39;s forward-deployed model to build AI workflows and automate away manual processes, 2) hire domain experts as internal evaluators through a Mercor-like contractor network to tune &amp; improve outputs, and 3) capture customers’ usage data to continually improve the system.</li></ul>

Foundation model companies OpenAI & Anthropic commoditized the first wave of vertical AI companies that reasoned over public data—like web PDFs, patents and earnings calls—with agentic products that browse the web, do deep research and build datasets, spurring the next wave of vertical AI companies that focus on integrating frontier models with vertical-specific workflows, embedded with proprietary telemetry that captures document diffs, user corrections & tool calls.In highly-regulated, risk-averse industries, less than 1% of manual workflows have been replaced with AI as companies fear IP exposure through third-party models, unauditable changes to high-stakes documents, and AI-generated content they can't verify or trace back to source material, creating the opportunity for companies like Raycaster for biotech (Seed, Y Combinator) alongside bigger players like Harvey for law ($21M Series A, Sequoia) and Hebbia for finance ($30M Series A, Index Ventures).Today&#39;s emerging vertical AI playbook: 1) embed engineers a la Palantir&#39;s forward-deployed model to build AI workflows and automate away manual processes, 2) hire domain experts as internal evaluators through a Mercor-like contractor network to tune &amp; improve outputs, and 3) capture customers’ usage data to continually improve the system.

Levi Lian, CEO Of Raycaster, On Why Vertical AI Is Workflows First & Chat Last

<ul><li>Raycaster completed a pre-seed funding round on December 4, 2024, though the amount raised was not publicly disclosed.</li><li>Raycaster operates a B2B SaaS model targeting life sciences service providers and biotech companies.</li><li>Raycaster's success with ambient agent swarms that track patents, publications, trials, and competitive moves creates opportunities for always-on market and medical intelligence subscriptions.</li></ul>

Raycaster completed a pre-seed funding round on December 4, 2024, though the amount raised was not publicly disclosed.Raycaster operates a B2B SaaS model targeting life sciences service providers and biotech companies.Raycaster's success with ambient agent swarms that track patents, publications, trials, and competitive moves creates opportunities for always-on market and medical intelligence subscriptions.

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Primer: Lila Sciences - 04 Jun 2026

Autonomous lab system for AI-driven hypothesis generation, experiment design, and execution

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Primer: BillionToOne - 18 May 2026

Genetic testing tool for prenatal screening and cancer therapy selection via blood samples

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Primer: Strand Therapeutics - 07 Dec 2025

mRNA therapy developer using genetic circuits for targeted cancer and immune system activation

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Levi Lian, CEO Of Raycaster, On Why Vertical AI Is Workflows First & Chat Last

What is Raycaster in short and what inspired you to start the company...

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Primer: Raycaster - 02 Oct 2025

Enterprise AI all-in-one for life sciences providers to speed regulatory and legal research

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