Companies · Telecommunications

Bluestem Fiber, LLC

LINCOLN · Telecommunications

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Bluestem Fiber, LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$175K
Total raised · real
1
Rounds
Latest step-up
Top 95%
Sector rank · raised
Pre-Seed
Latest stage · inferred · Wed Oct 26 2016 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Bluestem Fiber, LLC 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 telecom 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 0.49× the median modeled value of Pre-Seed Telecommunications companies in 2016–2018 (40 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
Dormant
  • Last raise 9.7 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 10 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

Bluestem Fiber, 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
9.7 yr record
Peak capital year was 2016 with $175K across 1 filings.
Market position
ahead of 6% of Telecommunications peers
Capital scale is ahead of 6% of Telecommunications peers; modeled value is above 15% 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 2016: $175K across 1 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $175K on 2016-10-26.
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 Telecommunications

Bluestem Fiber, LLC is one of 929 Telecommunications companies tracked from LINCOLN. By capital raised it ranks in the long tail (ahead of 6% 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(b)
Reg D exemption
3
Investors (latest)
2015
Year incorporated
2016-10-26
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 · 2016-10-26 Raised $175K (real) Modeled valuation $4.7M (est)$175K$4.7MPre-Seed2016

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$175K · 2016

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

Modeled valuation trajectory
$4.7M
Base estimate est.
$113K
Conservative case
$53.1M
Upside case
$972K
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 telecom sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.

Model inputs · modeled:benchmark-stage-stepup-v1
18%
Dilution assumption
Implied ownership sold in the financing.
29%
Survival probability
12% low · 53% high
1.60×/yr
Annual markup
2.16×/yr upside case
6.0 yr
Elapsed time used
9.7 yr actual, capped for stale marks
telecom
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
Avg between rounds
Capital velocity
9.7 yr
On record since
2016
First round
1
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 929 companies in Telecommunications. 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) 0.0× of median
This company$175K
Sector median$4.0M
Latest round — vs other Pre-Seed rounds in sector (real $, this stage) 0.5× of median
This company$175K
Sector median$365K
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 0.2× of median
This company$4.7M
Sector median$28.3M

Raised more than 6% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 15% 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 #36 of 40.

This companyCohort peer
$1.0M$10.0M$100.0M$100K$1.0M$10.0MCapital raised (log)OneLink, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $26.8M (est)Imagination Unwired LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $2.0M · modeled $26.8M (est)Tap Resources, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $26.8M (est)Virtual Network Communications Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $26.8M (est)CTH Partners, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $900K · modeled $24.1M (est)Digerati Technologies, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $840K · modeled $22.5M (est)ConnectQuest, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $3.0M · modeled $21.4M (est)STS Global, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $745K · modeled $19.9M (est)World Communications Group Services, Ltd. · Pre-Seed Raised $709K · modeled $19.0M (est)Freemo Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $690K · modeled $18.5M (est)Gen Mobile, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $685K · modeled $18.3M (est)Telepath Networks, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $650K · modeled $17.4M (est)Bluestem Fiber, LLC (this company) Raised $175K · modeled $4.7M (est)Bluestem Fiber, LLC
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
OneLink, LLCPre-Seed$1.0M$26.8M2.81×
Imagination Unwired LLCPre-Seed$2.0M$26.8M2.81×
Tap Resources, Inc.Pre-Seed$1.0M$26.8M2.81×
Virtual Network Communications Inc.Pre-Seed$1.0M$26.8M2.81×
CTH Partners, LLCPre-Seed$900K$24.1M2.53×
Digerati Technologies, Inc.Pre-Seed$840K$22.5M2.36×
ConnectQuest, LLCPre-Seed$3.0M$21.4M2.25×
STS Global, Inc.Pre-Seed$745K$19.9M2.10×
World Communications Group Services, Ltd.Pre-Seed$709K$19.0M2.00×
Freemo Inc.Pre-Seed$690K$18.5M1.94×
Gen Mobile, Inc.Pre-Seed$685K$18.3M1.93×
Telepath Networks, Inc.Pre-Seed$650K$17.4M1.83×
Bluestem Fiber, LLC this companyPre-Seed$175K$4.7M0.49×
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$175K2016-10-26$972K$4.7M90%
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$175K2016-10-26
    • First recorded raise — entered as Pre-Seed.
    • 3 investors on this round.
Intelligence
Modeled next raise
$280K
Modeled next size est.range $182K$448K
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
Aaron Fiber Whyrick2016-10
Doug Fiber Carper2016-10
Greg Fiber Dynek2016-10
Registry & provenance

Bluestem Fiber, 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
1691920
SEC CIK
2015
Incorporated
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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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Cyren Call Communications CorpTelecommunicationsPre-Seed$165K$4.4Msame sector · same stage
SiteMaster Tower Partners, LLCTelecommunicationsPre-Seed$165K$4.4Msame sector · same stage
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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
Blues Wireless Inc.TelecommunicationsSeries B$38.8M88%
Blue Danube Systems, Inc.TelecommunicationsSeries B$38.5M85%
BlueNet Technologies Inc.TelecommunicationsSeries B$216.7M85%
Deep Fiber Solutions, Inc.TelecommunicationsSeries A$121.0M81%
Fiber Platform, LLCTelecommunicationsSeries B$356.0M80%
WireSurfer, Inc.TelecommunicationsPre-Seed$674K80%
Mainstream Fiber Networks, LLCTelecommunicationsSeries A$59.3M80%
Fiber Minnesota, LLCTelecommunicationsSeries B$251.1M80%
Frequently asked
How much funding has Bluestem Fiber, LLC raised?
Bluestem Fiber, LLC has raised approximately $175K in disclosed capital across 1 recorded financing round, aggregated from public filings.
What is Bluestem Fiber, LLC's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for Bluestem Fiber, LLC is approximately $4.7M (modeled range $113K–$53.1M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is Bluestem Fiber, LLC at?
Bluestem Fiber, LLC's latest modeled financing stage is Pre-Seed. Its most recent recorded round closed around Wed Oct 26.
What does Bluestem Fiber, LLC do and where is it based?
Bluestem Fiber, LLC operates in the Telecommunications sector, based in LINCOLN.
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