Companies · Tourism and Travel Services

Big Bus Tours Group Holdings Ltd

LONDON · Tourism and Travel Services

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Big Bus Tours Group Holdings Ltd — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$432K
Total raised · real
2
Rounds
1.2×
Latest step-up
Top 78%
Sector rank · raised
Pre-Seed
Latest stage · inferred · Mon Sep 03 2018 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Big Bus Tours Group Holdings Ltd looks under-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 travel 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 0.63× the median modeled value of Pre-Seed Tourism and Travel Services companies in 2016–2018 (17 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
Dormant
  • Last raise 7.8 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 14 months.
  • Silent for over 3× the sector's normal cadence.

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

Issuer-vehicle patternmedium confidence

Big Bus Tours Group Holdings Ltd 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
9.7 yr record
Peak capital year was 2018 with $233K across 1 filings.
Market position
ahead of 23% of Tourism and Travel Services peers
Capital scale is ahead of 23% of Tourism and Travel Services peers; modeled value is above 28% 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 2018: $233K across 1 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $233K on 2018-09-03.
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 Tourism and Travel Services

Big Bus Tours Group Holdings Ltd is one of 172 Tourism and Travel Services companies tracked from LONDON. By capital raised it ranks in the long tail (ahead of 23% 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.

As reported in public records reported — not modeled.

US
Jurisdiction
Rule 506(c)
Reg D exemption
6
Investors (latest)
2015
Year incorporated
2018-09-03
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 · 2016-10-14 Raised $199K (real) Modeled valuation $1.8M (est)$199K$1.8MPre-Seed2016Pre-Seed · 2018-09-03 Raised $233K (real) Modeled valuation $2.1M (est)$233K$2.1MPre-Seed2018+$233KCumulative $432K

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$199K · 2016
Pre-Seed extension$233K · 2018

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

Modeled valuation trajectory
$2.1M
Base estimate est.
$138K
Conservative case
$23.5M
Upside case
$1.3M
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 travel sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Pre-Seed · modeled $1.8M · 2016-10-142016Pre-Seed · modeled $2.1M · 2018-09-032018
Model inputs · modeled:benchmark-stage-stepup-v1
18%
Dilution assumption
Implied ownership sold in the financing.
27%
Survival probability
11% low · 49% high
1.35×/yr
Annual markup
1.83×/yr upside case
6.0 yr
Elapsed time used
7.8 yr actual, capped for stale marks
travel
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
23 mo
Avg between rounds
$229K/yr
Capital velocity
9.7 yr
On record since
2016
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) 0.3× of median
This company$432K
Sector median$1.3M
Latest round — vs other Pre-Seed rounds in sector (real $, this stage) 0.6× of median
This company$233K
Sector median$400K
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 0.4× of median
This company$2.1M
Sector median$5.5M

Raised more than 23% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 28% 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 #11 of 17.

This companyCohort peer
$1.0M$10.0M$100.0M$100K$1.0M$10.0MCapital raised (log)Kxter Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $1.5M · modeled $8.9M (est)Explorify MotorCycle Rentals LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $750K · modeled $6.7M (est)CCP-Front Desk LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $650K · modeled $5.8M (est)Trafla, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $1.4M · modeled $5.7M (est)Crypto Travels Inc · Pre-Seed Raised $600K · modeled $5.4M (est)Blackbird Vii, Llc · Pre-Seed Raised $500K · modeled $4.5M (est)Reserve Direct, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $500K · modeled $4.5M (est)Kra Drinks For Athletes, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $425K · modeled $3.8M (est)Noken, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $370K · modeled $3.3M (est)Global CommUnity LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $250K · modeled $2.2M (est)Local Traffic Corp · Pre-Seed Raised $217K · modeled $1.9M (est)Big Bus Tours Group Holdings Ltd (this company) Raised $432K · modeled $2.1M (est)Big Bus Tours Group Holdings Ltd
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
Kxter Inc.Pre-Seed$1.5M$8.9M2.70×
Explorify MotorCycle Rentals LLCPre-Seed$750K$6.7M2.03×
CCP-Front Desk LLCPre-Seed$650K$5.8M1.76×
Trafla, Inc.Pre-Seed$1.4M$5.7M1.72×
Crypto Travels IncPre-Seed$600K$5.4M1.62×
Blackbird Vii, LlcPre-Seed$500K$4.5M1.35×
Reserve Direct, Inc.Pre-Seed$500K$4.5M1.35×
Kra Drinks For Athletes, Inc.Pre-Seed$425K$3.8M1.15×
Noken, Inc.Pre-Seed$370K$3.3M1.00×
Global CommUnity LLCPre-Seed$250K$2.2M0.68×
Big Bus Tours Group Holdings Ltd this companyPre-Seed$432K$2.1M0.63×
Local Traffic CorpPre-Seed$217K$1.9M0.59×
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$199K2016-10-14$1.1M$1.8M90%
Pre-Seed$233K2018-09-03$1.3M$2.1M90%
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$199K2016-10-14
    • First recorded raise — entered as Pre-Seed.
    • 2 investors on this round.
  2. Pre-Seed$233K2018-09-03
    • Raised again after 23 mo — slower than the ~14 mo sector norm.
    • Round roughly the size of the prior one.
    • Switched to Rule 506(c) (was Rule 506(b)).
    • 6 investors on this round.
Intelligence
2020 ~Q3
Modeled next raise · ~23mo cadence
$271K
Modeled next size est.range $233K$434K
1.2×
Last step-up
$229K/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
John Donaldson1 other2016-10
Alexander De Muschamp Payne2018-09
Alex Payne2016-10
James Richard St. John Lenane2018-09
John Stewart Donaldson2018-09
Patrick Waterman2016-10
Patrick William Mark Waterman2018-09
Sean Ernest Wilkins2018-09
Sean Wilkins2016-10
St. John Cooper2016-10
Timothy Easingwood2016-10
Timothy Edward Easingwood2018-09
Registry & provenance

Big Bus Tours Group Holdings Ltd 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
1688782
SEC CIK
2015
Incorporated
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Frequently asked
How much funding has Big Bus Tours Group Holdings Ltd raised?
Big Bus Tours Group Holdings Ltd has raised approximately $432K in disclosed capital across 2 recorded financing rounds, aggregated from public filings.
What is Big Bus Tours Group Holdings Ltd's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for Big Bus Tours Group Holdings Ltd is approximately $2.1M (modeled range $138K–$23.5M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is Big Bus Tours Group Holdings Ltd at?
Big Bus Tours Group Holdings Ltd's latest modeled financing stage is Pre-Seed. Its most recent recorded round closed around Mon Sep 03.
What does Big Bus Tours Group Holdings Ltd do and where is it based?
Big Bus Tours Group Holdings Ltd operates in the Tourism and Travel Services sector, based in LONDON.
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