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54 & Railroad LLC

ASHLAND · Restaurants

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on 54 & Railroad LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→
$600K
Total raised · real
1
Rounds
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Latest step-up
Top 61%
Sector rank · raised
Pre-Seed
Latest stage · inferred · Mon Sep 09 2019 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

54 & Railroad LLC looks over-valued against its niche peers and is dormant on financing cadence.

Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page. Valuation uses the restaurants sector profile.

Analyst read est. — computed against this company's niche peers in the same era. Inputs shown; not a quoted figure.

Over-valued
  • Modeled value is 2.00× the median modeled value of Pre-Seed Restaurants companies in 2019–2021 (166 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
Dormant
  • Last raise 6.8 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 13 months.
  • Only one round on record and long silent — often defunct, acquired, or gone quiet.

Procedural diagnosis est. — rule-based common-sense checks over the filing pattern, issuer name, activity cadence, and surfaced operating evidence.

Issuer-vehicle patternmedium confidence

54 & Railroad LLC behaves more like a recurring private-offering issuer than a conventional venture-backed operating company.

Issuer structure
Company-like
No recurring-offering pattern strong enough to override normal financing interpretation.
Lifecycle
7.1 yr record
Peak capital year was 2019 with $600K across 1 filings.
Market position
ahead of 40% of Restaurants peers
Capital scale is ahead of 40% of Restaurants peers; modeled value is above 51% of peers by modeled value. Large capital with mid-pack modeled value can signal an issuer/program profile rather than operating-company growth.
Valuation reliability
Normal applicability
Stage/dilution valuation models are weakest when the issuer is broad-sector, recurring, or vehicle-like.
Operating evidence
Sparse
No clear CEO/founder/principal role is surfaced, so operating-company confidence is lower.
Data quality
Consistent
Canonical totals and visible filing detail are broadly aligned.
What triggered this
  • Legal name looks like an issuer vehicle rather than a product company.
  • No clearly named CEO/founder/principal role in the public records surfaced here.
  • No verified homepage on the profile yet.
  • Capital program peaked in 2019: $600K across 1 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $600K on 2019-09-09.
How to read the page
  • Read this less like a startup funding journey and more like a capital-raising program.
  • Stage-based valuation and peer labels have lower applicability for this pattern.
  • The more important signal is lifecycle: repeated filings ended years ago, so current activity needs outside confirmation.
Leadership

No named principal in this company's public records yet — see all operators below.

Explore how these operators interlock with other companies in the operator network.

Where it sits in Restaurants

54 & Railroad LLC is one of 2292 Restaurants companies tracked from ASHLAND. By capital raised it ranks mid-pack (ahead of 40% of sector peers), and mid-pack by modeled valuation est..

Ranking is computed against this company's own sector cohort — reported capital is fact; valuation tiers are modeled.

As reported in public records reported — not modeled.

US
Jurisdiction
Rule 506(b)
Reg D exemption
13
Investors (latest)
2019
Year incorporated
2019-09-09
First sale
Amount raised vs valuation, by round

Solid bars are reported offering amounts reported; hatched bars are the modeled post-money valuation est. — both on one shared scale so you can read raise-vs-worth at each round directly. Use the toggles to overlay data labels and the niche-peer / market average value lines.

Amount raised · realModeled valuation · estCumulative funded · real
$0$1.3M$2.5M$3.8M$5.0MPre-Seed · 2019-09-09 Raised $600K (real) Modeled valuation $2.6M (est)$600K$2.6MPre-Seed2019

The line shows cumulative reported funding over the period; + labels show new capital added between points when there is room. Toggle on-bar figures, plus the niche-peer and market averages, to read this company against its cohort. Benchmarks are modeled medians.

Financing ladder & sequence gaps
Pre-Seed$600K · 2019

Stages are modeled from round size (public records carry no series label). Ladder is contiguous — every modeled rung has a record.

Modeled valuation trajectory
$2.6M
Base estimate est.
$336K
Conservative case
$29.7M
Upside case
$3.3M
Modeled post-money

Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Pre-Seed — a round under $1.0M). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks scaled by the restaurants sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.

Model inputs · modeled:benchmark-stage-stepup-v1
18%
Dilution assumption
Implied ownership sold in the financing.
25%
Survival probability
10% low · 46% high
1.21×/yr
Annual markup
1.64×/yr upside case
6.0 yr
Elapsed time used
6.8 yr actual, capped for stale marks
restaurants
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
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Avg between rounds
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Capital velocity
7.1 yr
On record since
2019
First round
1
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 2292 companies in Restaurants. Each bar is a median (the middle company, not an average — outliers don't skew it). Two yardsticks: real money raised (reported on Form D) and modeled value (our estimate est.). These are whole-sector medians across all stages, except the per-stage row.

Total raised — vs sector median (real $, all stages)▼ 0.7× of median
This company$600K
Sector median$900K
Latest round — vs other Pre-Seed rounds in sector (real $, this stage)▲ 1.7× above median
This company$600K
Sector median$360K
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages)▲ 1.0× above median
This company$2.6M
Sector median$2.6M

Raised more than 40% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 51% of peers (estimate).

Niche peers — same stage & era

A tighter cohort than the sector chart above — only companies at the same stage (Pre-Seed) that last raised in the same ~3-year era, ranked by modeled value est. (not money raised). This is the exact set the analyst read compares against, so a like-for-like cohort is what makes "over/under-valued" meaningful. This company ranks #40 of 166.

This companyCohort peer
$1.0M$10.0M$100K$1.0M$10.0MCapital raised (log)Art Haus LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $4.4M (est)Ranch Hand LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $4.4M (est)Goseek Llc · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $4.4M (est)LPVan, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $4.4M (est)Biscayne Bay Brewing Company, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $4.4M (est)Bowlounge Fw, Llc · Pre-Seed Raised $950K · modeled $4.2M (est)Fourfront, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $945K · modeled $4.1M (est)Telluride Brewing Works, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $4.0M (est)Summit Coffee Holdings, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $900K · modeled $3.9M (est)Thin to Win Entertainment, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $900K · modeled $3.9M (est)Whgr2 Llc · Pre-Seed Raised $900K · modeled $3.9M (est)First Deli, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $850K · modeled $3.7M (est)54 & Railroad LLC (this company) Raised $600K · modeled $2.6M (est)54 & Railroad LLC
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
Art Haus LLCPre-Seed$1.0M$4.4M3.33×
Ranch Hand LLCPre-Seed$1.0M$4.4M3.33×
Goseek LlcPre-Seed$1.0M$4.4M3.33×
LPVan, LLCPre-Seed$1.0M$4.4M3.33×
Biscayne Bay Brewing Company, LLCPre-Seed$1.0M$4.4M3.33×
Bowlounge Fw, LlcPre-Seed$950K$4.2M3.17×
Fourfront, LLCPre-Seed$945K$4.1M3.15×
Telluride Brewing Works, LLCPre-Seed$1.0M$4.0M3.05×
Summit Coffee Holdings, LLCPre-Seed$900K$3.9M3.00×
Thin to Win Entertainment, LLCPre-Seed$900K$3.9M3.00×
Whgr2 LlcPre-Seed$900K$3.9M3.00×
First Deli, LLCPre-Seed$850K$3.7M2.83×
54 & Railroad LLC this companyPre-Seed$600K$2.6M2.00×
Full financing history

Stage is inferred from round size est., not reported on the filing — a round's dollar size maps to a bucket: Pre-Seed <$1.0M · Seed $1.0M–$4.0M · Series A $4.0M–$15M · Series B $15M–$40M · Series C $40M–$100M · Series D+ $100M–$400M · Growth/Late >$400M.

StageAmount · realAnnouncedPost-money · estValue · estConf.
Pre-Seed$600K2019-09-09$3.3M$2.6M90%
What happened at each round

Step-up, pace versus the sector's normal cadence, and revenue/exemption moves — read straight from the reported round facts reported.

  1. Pre-Seed$600K2019-09-09
    • First recorded raise — entered as Pre-Seed.
    • 13 investors on this round.
Intelligence
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Modeled next raise
$960K
Modeled next size est.range $624K–$1.5M
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Last step-up
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Capital velocity

Predictive signals are modeled est. from this company's own cadence and step-up, plus sector benchmarks — directional, not advice. Peer set and a CSV export live in your analyst workspace.

Key people & operators

Officers, directors and promoters named in this company's public recordsreported — the people who run it (not its investors). "Also runs" counts come from name-matching across all records, so verify before acting.

PersonRoleAlso runsTied since
Russell D Stone——2019-09
Registry & provenance

54 & Railroad LLC is an official record sourced from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). U.S. data is aggregated from SEC Form D filings.

United States
Country of record
US
Jurisdiction
1788955
SEC CIK
2019
Incorporated
Similar companies

Nearest neighbours across the whole database — matched on sector, stage and capital scale, and on shared operators (officers or directors named at both companies in public filings). A discovery shortlist, not a valuation cohort — verify before acting, the same way modeled figures are directional.

CompanySectorStageRaised · realValue · estWhy similar
9021Pho Restaurants, LlcRestaurantsPre-Seed$600K$2.6Msame sector · same stage
Alidoro Restaurant Group, LLCRestaurantsPre-Seed$600K$2.6Msame sector · same stage
Cabo Restaurant Group, LLCRestaurantsPre-Seed$600K$2.6Msame sector · same stage
Cane Rosso Kanjiklub, LlcRestaurantsPre-Seed$600K$2.6Msame sector · same stage
Dolce Group DC LLCRestaurantsPre-Seed$600K$2.6Msame sector · same stage
Frasca Food & Wine, Inc.RestaurantsPre-Seed$600K$2.6Msame sector · same stage
Gusto Three, LLCRestaurantsPre-Seed$600K$2.6Msame sector · same stage
Ketchup LLCRestaurantsPre-Seed$600K$2.6Msame sector · same stage
Semantically similar

Matched by meaning, not labels — a local language model reads each company's name, sector and description and ranks the closest in that learned space. This catches look-alikes that cross sector boundaries; the structured list above explains its matches, this one trusts the text. Directional, like every modeled signal here.

CompanySectorStageValue · estMatch
Station On Main, LLCRestaurantsPre-Seed$4.4M85%
Tg562, LlcRestaurantsPre-Seed$1.6M84%
Boris & Horton, Inc.RestaurantsPre-Seed$267K83%
Prentice Hospitality Group LLCRestaurantsPre-Seed$962K83%
Loco Wpb LlcRestaurantsSeed$7.1M83%
RL Callahan, LLCRestaurantsPre-Seed$482K83%
Route 202 Group, LLCRestaurantsPre-Seed$2.6M83%
Forward Food Group, LLCRestaurantsSeed$6.2M83%
Frequently asked
How much funding has 54 & Railroad LLC raised?
54 & Railroad LLC has raised approximately $600K in disclosed capital across 1 recorded financing round, aggregated from public filings.
What is 54 & Railroad LLC's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for 54 & Railroad LLC is approximately $2.6M (modeled range $336K–$29.7M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is 54 & Railroad LLC at?
54 & Railroad LLC's latest modeled financing stage is Pre-Seed. Its most recent recorded round closed around Mon Sep 09.
What does 54 & Railroad LLC do and where is it based?
54 & Railroad LLC operates in the Restaurants sector, based in ASHLAND.
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