Diligence memo · auto-generated · as of July 2, 2026
Black Bear Energy, Inc.
Black Bear Energy, Inc. looks fair against its niche peers and is dormant on financing cadence.
Businessfiled
Black Bear Energy, Inc. operates in Energy / Climate, based in BOULDER.
No verified homepage on file yet — operating evidence is limited to the public record.
Capital & rounds (filed)filed
Black Bear Energy, Inc. has raised $4.3M in disclosed capital across 2 recorded rounds, aggregated from public filings. Its latest round is modeled as Seed (a $1.0M–$4.0M round).
Largest single filing: $2.5M on 2016-07-21.
Most recent recorded round closed around 2018-01-31.
Valuation (modeled)modeled
Provath models Black Bear Energy, Inc. at approximately $28M (range $1.5M–$216M). This is an algorithmic estimate from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
Read: Fair. Modeled value is 1.00× the median modeled value of Seed Energy / Climate companies in 2016–2018 (9 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era. Within the normal band (100% of peer median) for its niche.
Financing rhythm & timingmixed
Historic cadence: a new round about every 18 months.
Last raise 8.4 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 11 months.
Silent for over 3× the sector's normal cadence.
The last round was 1.4× smaller than the prior — a bridge or down round.
Comparablesmixed
Capital scale ranks ahead of 49% of Energy / Climate peers (235 compared).
Modeled value ranks above 61% of those peers.
Closest niche peers: PayGo Energy, Inc., Blueprint Power Technologies Inc., Power Fingerprinting, Inc., Freedom Wind Tunnel, LLC, Small Box Energy, Inc..
Peoplefiled
6 named people on file across officers, directors and signatories.
Risks & flagsmixed
Financing has been silent well beyond sector cadence — possibly defunct, acquired, or paused.
No clearly named CEO/founder/principal in the surfaced records — key-person evidence is thin.