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Bear Hug Brewing Co, LLC

ORLANDO · Restaurants

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Bear Hug Brewing Co, LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$600K
Total raised · real
2
Rounds
0.5×
Latest step-up
Top 61%
Sector rank · raised
Pre-Seed
Latest stage · inferred · Tue Aug 01 2023 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Bear Hug Brewing Co, LLC looks under-valued against its niche peers and is at-risk 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.

Under-valued
  • Modeled value is 0.55× the median modeled value of Pre-Seed Restaurants companies in 2022–2024 (144 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
At-risk
  • Last raise 2.9 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 13 months.
  • Past due for a raise versus sector cadence — watch for distress or a bridge.

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

Issuer-vehicle patternmedium confidence

Bear Hug Brewing Co, 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
3.8 yr record
Peak capital year was 2022 with $400K across 1 filings.
Market position
ahead of 40% of Restaurants peers
Capital scale is ahead of 40% of Restaurants peers; modeled value is above 8% 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 2022: $400K across 1 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $400K on 2022-09-07.
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

Bear Hug Brewing Co, LLC is one of 2292 Restaurants companies tracked from ORLANDO. By capital raised it ranks mid-pack (ahead of 40% of sector peers), and in the long tail by modeled valuation est..

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

food-beverage

As reported in public records reported — not modeled.

US
Jurisdiction
Rule 506(b)
Reg D exemption
2
Investors (latest)
2022
Year incorporated
2023-08-01
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$500K$1.0M$1.5M$2.0MPre-Seed · 2022-09-07 Raised $400K (real) Modeled valuation $1.2M (est)$400K$1.2MPre-Seed2022Pre-Seed · 2023-08-01 Raised $200K (real) Modeled valuation $487K (est)$200K$487KPre-Seed2023+$200KCumulative $600K

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$400K · 2022
Pre-Seed extension$200K · 2023

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

Modeled valuation trajectory
$487K
Base estimate est.
$112K
Conservative case
$2.2M
Upside case
$1.1M
Modeled post-money

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

Pre-Seed · modeled $1.2M · 2022-09-072022Pre-Seed · modeled $487K · 2023-08-012023
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
2.9 yr
Elapsed time used
2.9 yr actual, capped for stale marks
restaurants
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
11 mo
Avg between rounds
$668K/yr
Capital velocity
3.8 yr
On record since
2022
First round
2
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) 0.6× of median
This company$200K
Sector median$360K
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 0.2× of median
This company$487K
Sector median$2.6M

Raised more than 40% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 8% 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 #102 of 144.

This companyCohort peer
$100K$1.0M$10.0M$100K$1.0M$10.0MCapital raised (log)Bottle Theory, Llc · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $3.1M (est)Grog Shop Enterprises Llc · Pre-Seed Raised $950K · modeled $3.1M (est)FC Development, Corp. · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $3.1M (est)T&S Coffee III, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $993K · modeled $3.1M (est)Heavenly Hops, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $882K · modeled $2.8M (est)OHMI Coffee, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $2.8M (est)POLLYANNA BREWING Co · Pre-Seed Raised $1.1M · modeled $2.7M (est)Commercial Street Restaurant Group LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $880K · modeled $2.7M (est)Music Lane Vinyl, Llc · Pre-Seed Raised $865K · modeled $2.6M (est)Utah Botellas Group, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $825K · modeled $2.6M (est)Jojo'S Shakebar Llc · Pre-Seed Raised $800K · modeled $2.6M (est)Snider Hilltop Opco Llc · Pre-Seed Raised $800K · modeled $2.5M (est)Bear Hug Brewing Co, LLC (this company) Raised $600K · modeled $487K (est)Bear Hug Brewing Co, LLC
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
Bottle Theory, LlcPre-Seed$1.0M$3.1M3.54×
Grog Shop Enterprises LlcPre-Seed$950K$3.1M3.54×
FC Development, Corp.Pre-Seed$1.0M$3.1M3.50×
T&S Coffee III, LLCPre-Seed$993K$3.1M3.49×
Heavenly Hops, LLCPre-Seed$882K$2.8M3.21×
OHMI Coffee, LLCPre-Seed$1.0M$2.8M3.14×
POLLYANNA BREWING CoPre-Seed$1.1M$2.7M3.10×
Commercial Street Restaurant Group LLCPre-Seed$880K$2.7M3.02×
Music Lane Vinyl, LlcPre-Seed$865K$2.6M3.00×
Utah Botellas Group, LLCPre-Seed$825K$2.6M2.97×
Jojo'S Shakebar LlcPre-Seed$800K$2.6M2.90×
Snider Hilltop Opco LlcPre-Seed$800K$2.5M2.82×
Bear Hug Brewing Co, LLC this companyPre-Seed$600K$487K0.55×
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$400K2022-09-07$2.2M$1.2M90%
Pre-Seed$200K2023-08-01$1.1M$487K90%
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$400K2022-09-07
    • First recorded raise — entered as Pre-Seed.
    • 7 investors on this round.
  2. Pre-Seed$200K2023-08-01
    • Raised 11 mo later, in step with the ~13 mo sector norm.
    • Round 2.0× smaller than the prior — bridge or down round.
    • 2 investors on this round.
Intelligence
2024 ~Q2
Modeled next raise · ~11mo cadence
$200K
Modeled next size est.range $200K$320K
0.5×
Last step-up
$668K/yr
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
Sean Flynn Servino2022-09
Seth A. Hunter2022-09
Registry & provenance

Bear Hug Brewing Co, 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
1932073
SEC CIK
2022
Incorporated
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Frequently asked
How much funding has Bear Hug Brewing Co, LLC raised?
Bear Hug Brewing Co, LLC has raised approximately $600K in disclosed capital across 2 recorded financing rounds, aggregated from public filings.
What is Bear Hug Brewing Co, LLC's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for Bear Hug Brewing Co, LLC is approximately $487K (modeled range $112K–$2.2M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is Bear Hug Brewing Co, LLC at?
Bear Hug Brewing Co, LLC's latest modeled financing stage is Pre-Seed. Its most recent recorded round closed around Tue Aug 01.
What does Bear Hug Brewing Co, LLC do and where is it based?
Bear Hug Brewing Co, LLC operates in the Restaurants sector, based in ORLANDO.
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