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AFB Investors I LLC

BLOOMFIELD HILLS · Restaurants

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on AFB Investors I LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→
$5.0M
Total raised · real
1
Rounds
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Latest step-up
Top 16%
Sector rank · raised
Series A
Latest stage · inferred · Wed May 31 2023 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

AFB Investors I LLC looks fair 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.

Fair
  • Modeled value is 0.94× the median modeled value of Series A Restaurants companies in 2022–2024 (51 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
  • Within the normal band (94% of peer median) for its niche.
Dormant
  • Last raise 3.1 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

AFB Investors I 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
3.3 yr record
Peak capital year was 2023 with $5.0M across 1 filings.
Market position
ahead of 85% of Restaurants peers
Capital scale is ahead of 85% of Restaurants peers; modeled value is above 87% 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 2023: $5.0M across 1 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $5.0M on 2023-05-31.
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.
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

AFB Investors I LLC is one of 2292 Restaurants companies tracked from BLOOMFIELD HILLS. By capital raised it ranks in the upper tier (ahead of 85% of sector peers), and in the upper tier 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
$5M–$25M
Issuer revenue
Rule 506(b)
Reg D exemption
2023
Year incorporated
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$5.0M$10M$15M$20MSeries A · 2023-05-31 Raised $5.0M (real) Modeled valuation $12M (est)$5.0M$12MSeries A2023

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
Series A$5.0M · 2023

Stages are modeled from round size (public records carry no series label). No record for: Pre-Seed, Seed — the company may have raised it under a different exemption, merged it into an adjacent record, or skipped it. Sequence completeness: 33%.

Modeled valuation trajectory
$12.3M
Base estimate est.
$5.7M
Conservative case
$34.2M
Upside case
$22.7M
Modeled post-money

Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Series A — a $4.0M–$15M round). 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
22%
Dilution assumption
Implied ownership sold in the financing.
46%
Survival probability
25% low · 63% high
1.05×/yr
Annual markup
1.33×/yr upside case
3.1 yr
Elapsed time used
3.1 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
3.3 yr
On record since
2023
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)▲ 5.6× above median
This company$5.0M
Sector median$900K
Latest round — vs other Series A rounds in sector (real $, this stage)▼ 0.9× of median
This company$5.0M
Sector median$5.7M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages)▲ 4.7× above median
This company$12.3M
Sector median$2.6M

Raised more than 85% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 87% of peers (estimate).

Niche peers — same stage & era

A tighter cohort than the sector chart above — only companies at the same stage (Series A) 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 #29 of 51.

This companyCohort peer
$10.0M$100.0M$1.0M$10.0M$100.0MCapital raised (log)Hawk Parent LLC · Series A Raised $12.5M · modeled $30.9M (est)HHC Worldwide, Inc. · Series A Raised $12.0M · modeled $28.9M (est)7Crew Enterprises, LLC · Series A Raised $12.4M · modeled $28.7M (est)Drake's Holdings #5, LLC · Series A Raised $11.4M · modeled $28.1M (est)Nice Day Group, Inc. · Series A Raised $11.2M · modeled $27.8M (est)Cheval Brand Investors LLC · Series A Raised $10.9M · modeled $26.0M (est)10 Point Capital Mini, LLC · Series A Raised $10.3M · modeled $25.7M (est)CNP Holdings, LLC · Series A Raised $10.0M · modeled $24.5M (est)Texas Coffee Partners Ltd. · Series A Raised $10.0M · modeled $24.2M (est)Bcip Llc · Series A Raised $10.0M · modeled $24.2M (est)Odin Acquisitions LLC · Series A Raised $9.3M · modeled $23.4M (est)Mbn Brands A, Llc · Series A Raised $13.8M · modeled $23.2M (est)AFB Investors I LLC (this company) Raised $5.0M · modeled $12.3M (est)AFB Investors I LLC
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
Hawk Parent LLCSeries A$12.5M$30.9M2.35×
HHC Worldwide, Inc.Series A$12.0M$28.9M2.21×
7Crew Enterprises, LLCSeries A$12.4M$28.7M2.19×
Drake's Holdings #5, LLCSeries A$11.4M$28.1M2.14×
Nice Day Group, Inc.Series A$11.2M$27.8M2.12×
Cheval Brand Investors LLCSeries A$10.9M$26.0M1.98×
10 Point Capital Mini, LLCSeries A$10.3M$25.7M1.96×
CNP Holdings, LLCSeries A$10.0M$24.5M1.87×
Texas Coffee Partners Ltd.Series A$10.0M$24.2M1.85×
Bcip LlcSeries A$10.0M$24.2M1.84×
Odin Acquisitions LLCSeries A$9.3M$23.4M1.78×
Mbn Brands A, LlcSeries A$13.8M$23.2M1.77×
AFB Investors I LLC this companySeries A$5.0M$12.3M0.94×
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.
Series A$5.0M2023-05-31$22.7M$12.3M90%
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. Series A$5.0M2023-05-31
    • First recorded raise — entered as Series A.
Intelligence
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Modeled next raise
$8.0M
Modeled next size est.range $5.2M–$12.8M
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Last step-up
—
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
Michael Roth—3 other2023-05
Jeffrey Vlasic——2023-05
Thomas Shayoka——2023-05
Registry & provenance

AFB Investors I 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
1978964
SEC CIK
2023
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
BCHS Craig Ranch LLCRestaurantsSeries A$5.0M$13.0Msame sector · same stage
BGI 14th Street LLCRestaurantsSeries A$5.0M$11.6Msame sector · same stage
Carnivore Associates LLCRestaurantsSeries A$5.0M$10.5Msame sector · same stage
Coffee Fellows Operating, LLCRestaurantsSeries A$5.0M$11.0Msame sector · same stage
International Coffee & Tea LlcRestaurantsSeries A$5.0M$14.3Msame sector · same stage
Limani 51, LlcRestaurantsSeries A$5.0M$14.3Msame sector · same stage
Mokja Ventures, LLCRestaurantsSeries A$5.0M$10.5Msame sector · same stage
Naples Del Mar, LLCRestaurantsSeries A$5.0M$13.8Msame 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
Osi Investment Group LlcRestaurantsPre-Seed$1.3M87%
NEH Investors LLCRestaurantsSeed$2.6M85%
PS 35 Investment Group, LLCRestaurantsPre-Seed$3.9M85%
HJW Investors LLCRestaurantsSeries A$17.3M85%
SWC Investment Group, LLCRestaurantsPre-Seed$1.5M85%
7 Star Investments, LLCRestaurantsSeries B$126.8M85%
DC Oakes Investors, LLCRestaurantsSeed$1.5M84%
Lands Hospitality, LLCRestaurantsSeed$3.7M84%
Frequently asked
How much funding has AFB Investors I LLC raised?
AFB Investors I LLC has raised approximately $5.0M in disclosed capital across 1 recorded financing round, aggregated from public filings.
What is AFB Investors I LLC's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for AFB Investors I LLC is approximately $12.3M (modeled range $5.7M–$34.2M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is AFB Investors I LLC at?
AFB Investors I LLC's latest modeled financing stage is Series A. Its most recent recorded round closed around Wed May 31.
What does AFB Investors I LLC do and where is it based?
AFB Investors I LLC operates in the Restaurants sector, based in BLOOMFIELD HILLS.
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