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Branson Funding, LLC

ROWAYTON · Airlines and Airports

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Branson Funding, LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$5.0M
Total raised · real
1
Rounds
Latest step-up
Top 42%
Sector rank · raised
Series A
Latest stage · inferred · Mon Jun 13 2011 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Branson Funding, LLC has raised $5.0M over 1 round; 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 airlines 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 15.1 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 9 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

Branson Funding, 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
15.1 yr record
Peak capital year was 2011 with $5.0M across 1 filings.
Market position
ahead of 59% of Airlines and Airports peers
Capital scale is ahead of 59% of Airlines and Airports peers; modeled value is above 70% 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 2011: $5.0M across 1 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $5.0M on 2011-06-13.
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 Airlines and Airports

Branson Funding, LLC is one of 76 Airlines and Airports companies tracked from ROWAYTON. By capital raised it ranks mid-pack (ahead of 59% of sector peers), and in the upper tier 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$13M$25M$38M$50MSeries A · 2011-06-13 Raised $5.0M (real) Modeled valuation $26M (est)$5.0M$26MSeries A2011

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
Series A$5.0M · 2011

Stages are modeled from round size (public records carry no series label). No record for: Pre-Seed, Seed — the company may have raised it under a different exemption, merged it into an adjacent record, or skipped it. Sequence completeness: 33%.

Modeled valuation trajectory
$25.7M
Base estimate est.
$6.1M
Conservative case
$139.7M
Upside case
$22.7M
Modeled post-money

Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Series Aa $4.0M–$15M round). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks scaled by the airlines sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.

Model inputs · modeled:benchmark-stage-stepup-v1
22%
Dilution assumption
Implied ownership sold in the financing.
50%
Survival probability
27% low · 68% high
1.15×/yr
Annual markup
1.45×/yr upside case
6.0 yr
Elapsed time used
15.1 yr actual, capped for stale marks
airlines
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
Avg between rounds
Capital velocity
15.1 yr
On record since
2011
First round
1
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 76 companies in Airlines and Airports. 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) 1.1× above median
This company$5.0M
Sector median$4.4M
Latest round — vs other Series A rounds in sector (real $, this stage) 0.9× of median
This company$5.0M
Sector median$5.8M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 2.0× above median
This company$25.7M
Sector median$12.6M

Raised more than 59% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 70% of peers (estimate).

Niche peers — same stage & era

A tighter cohort than the sector chart above — only companies at the same stage (Series A) 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$10.0M$100.0MCapital raised (log)JetSuite, Inc. · Series A Raised $7.0M · modeled $36.0M (est)Avantair, Inc · Series A Raised $16.7M · modeled $14.4M (est)People Express Airlines Inc. · Series A Raised $5.3M · modeled $2.0M (est)Branson Funding, LLC (this company) Raised $5.0M · modeled $25.7M (est)Branson Funding, LLC
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
JetSuite, Inc.Series A$7.0M$36.0M1.79×
Branson Funding, LLC this companySeries A$5.0M$25.7M1.28×
Avantair, IncSeries A$16.7M$14.4M0.72×
People Express Airlines Inc.Series A$5.3M$2.0M0.10×
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.
Series A$5.0M2011-06-13$22.7M$25.7M90%
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. Series A$5.0M2011-06-13
    • First recorded raise — entered as Series A.
Intelligence
Modeled next raise
$8.0M
Modeled next size est.range $5.2M$12.8M
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
STEPHEN M PEET2 other2011-06
CHARLES M STIPANCIC2011-06
CHRISTOPHER M GRUSEKE2011-06
GERALD M HALPIN2011-06
JONATHAN, III M OLD2011-06
Registry & provenance

Branson Funding, 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
1524363
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 Branson Funding, LLC raised?
Branson Funding, LLC has raised approximately $5.0M in disclosed capital across 1 recorded financing round, aggregated from public filings.
What is Branson Funding, LLC's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for Branson Funding, LLC is approximately $25.7M (modeled range $6.1M–$139.7M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is Branson Funding, LLC at?
Branson Funding, LLC's latest modeled financing stage is Series A. Its most recent recorded round closed around Mon Jun 13.
What does Branson Funding, LLC do and where is it based?
Branson Funding, LLC operates in the Airlines and Airports sector, based in ROWAYTON.
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