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Airship Ventures Inc

MOFFETT FIELD · Tourism and Travel Services

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Airship Ventures Inc — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$1.6M
Total raised · real
2
Rounds
11.1×
Latest step-up
Top 45%
Sector rank · raised
Seed
Latest stage · inferred · Thu Nov 05 2009 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Airship Ventures Inc has raised $1.6M over 2 rounds; too few niche peers to rank its valuation yet.

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

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

Dormant
  • Last raise 16.7 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 14 months.
  • Silent for over 3× the sector's normal cadence.
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 Tourism and Travel Services

Airship Ventures Inc is one of 172 Tourism and Travel Services companies tracked from MOFFETT FIELD. By capital raised it ranks mid-pack (ahead of 56% 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
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$20MPre-Seed · 2009-10-18 Raised $135K (real) Modeled valuation $1.2M (est)$135K$1.2MPre-Seed2009Seed · 2009-11-05 Raised $1.5M (real) Modeled valuation $11M (est)$1.5M$11MSeed2009+$1.5MCumulative $1.6M

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$135K · 2009
Seed$1.5M · 2009

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

Modeled valuation trajectory
$10.8M
Base estimate est.
$1.2M
Conservative case
$84.4M
Upside case
$7.5M
Modeled post-money

Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Seeda $1.0M–$4.0M round). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks scaled by the travel sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Pre-Seed · modeled $1.2M · 2009-10-182009Seed · modeled $10.8M · 2009-11-052009
Model inputs · modeled:benchmark-stage-stepup-v1
20%
Dilution assumption
Implied ownership sold in the financing.
36%
Survival probability
16% low · 55% high
1.26×/yr
Annual markup
1.65×/yr upside case
6.0 yr
Elapsed time used
16.6 yr actual, capped for stale marks
travel
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
1 mo
Avg between rounds
Capital velocity
16.7 yr
On record since
2009
First round
2
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 172 companies in Tourism and Travel Services. 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) 1.2× above median
This company$1.6M
Sector median$1.3M
Latest round — vs other Seed rounds in sector (real $, this stage) 1.0× of median
This company$1.5M
Sector median$1.5M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 2.0× above median
This company$10.8M
Sector median$5.5M

Raised more than 56% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 67% of peers (estimate).

Niche peers — same stage & era

A tighter cohort than the sector chart above — only companies at the same stage (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 companyCohort peer
$1.0M$10.0M$100.0M$1.0M$10.0MCapital raised (log)Travelmuse Inc · Seed Raised $2.0M · modeled $14.5M (est)RAI Acquisition Holdings Inc. · Seed Raised $1.5M · modeled $10.8M (est)Burt Wolf Tours & Cruises, LLC · Seed Raised $1.2M · modeled $8.8M (est)Airship Ventures Inc (this company) Raised $1.6M · modeled $10.8M (est)Airship Ventures Inc
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
Travelmuse IncSeed$2.0M$14.5M1.34×
RAI Acquisition Holdings Inc.Seed$1.5M$10.8M1.00×
Airship Ventures Inc this companySeed$1.6M$10.8M1.00×
Burt Wolf Tours & Cruises, LLCSeed$1.2M$8.8M0.81×
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$135K2009-10-18$750K$1.2M90%
Seed$1.5M2009-11-05$7.5M$10.8M90%
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$135K2009-10-18
    • First recorded raise — entered as Pre-Seed.
  2. Seed$1.5M2009-11-05
    • Came back fast: 1 mo vs the ~14 mo sector norm.
    • Round 11.1× larger than the prior — scaling up.
Intelligence
2009 ~Q4
Modeled next raise · ~1mo cadence
$4.5M
Modeled next size est.range $2.9M$7.2M
11.1×
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
Esther Dyson8 other2009-10
Brian Hall2 other2009-10
Alexandra Hall2009-10
Patrick Finnigan2009-10
Registry & provenance

Airship Ventures Inc 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
1435400
SEC CIK
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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.

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Frequently asked
How much funding has Airship Ventures Inc raised?
Airship Ventures Inc has raised approximately $1.6M in disclosed capital across 2 recorded financing rounds, aggregated from public filings.
What is Airship Ventures Inc's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for Airship Ventures Inc is approximately $10.8M (modeled range $1.2M–$84.4M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is Airship Ventures Inc at?
Airship Ventures Inc's latest modeled financing stage is Seed. Its most recent recorded round closed around Thu Nov 05.
What does Airship Ventures Inc do and where is it based?
Airship Ventures Inc operates in the Tourism and Travel Services sector, based in MOFFETT FIELD.
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