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Charlotte Chess Center & Scholastic Academy Inc.

CHARLOTTE · Edtech · refined from filed group “Other

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Charlotte Chess Center & Scholastic Academy Inc. — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$450K
Total raised · real
2
Rounds
0.8×
Latest step-up
Top 65%
Sector rank · raised
Pre-Seed
Latest stage · inferred · Wed Aug 20 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Charlotte Chess Center & Scholastic Academy Inc. looks under-valued against its niche peers and is active on financing cadence.

Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page. Valuation uses the edtech 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 0.50× the median modeled value of Pre-Seed Edtech companies in 2025–2027 (7 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
Active
  • Last raise 10 mo ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 15 months.
  • Raising on or ahead of the sector's normal rhythm.
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 Edtech

Charlotte Chess Center & Scholastic Academy Inc. is one of 262 Edtech companies tracked from CHARLOTTE. By capital raised it ranks in the long tail (ahead of 36% 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
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 · 2024-05-15 Raised $250K (real) Modeled valuation $1.0M (est)$250K$1.0MPre-Seed2024Pre-Seed · 2025-08-20 Raised $200K (real) Modeled valuation $456K (est)$200K$456KPre-Seed2025+$200KCumulative $450K

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$250K · 2024
Pre-Seed extension$200K · 2025

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

Modeled valuation trajectory
$456K
Base estimate est.
$123K
Conservative case
$1.1M
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 edtech sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Pre-Seed · modeled $1.0M · 2024-05-152024Pre-Seed · modeled $456K · 2025-08-202025
Model inputs · modeled:benchmark-stage-stepup-v1
18%
Dilution assumption
Implied ownership sold in the financing.
28%
Survival probability
11% low · 51% high
1.58×/yr
Annual markup
2.14×/yr upside case
0.9 yr
Elapsed time used
0.9 yr actual, capped for stale marks
edtech
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
15 mo
Avg between rounds
$356K/yr
Capital velocity
2.1 yr
On record since
2024
First round
2
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 262 companies in Edtech. 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) 0.2× of median
This company$450K
Sector median$2.4M
Latest round — vs other Pre-Seed rounds in sector (real $, this stage) 0.6× of median
This company$200K
Sector median$350K
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 0.0× of median
This company$456K
Sector median$19.9M

Raised more than 36% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 22% 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 #5 of 7.

This companyCohort peer
$100K$1.0M$10.0M$100K$1.0M$10.0MCapital raised (log)Beacon Education Group, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $650K · modeled $1.7M (est)Southeast Swim School-Capital Funding, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $750K · modeled $1.6M (est)Nomizo Learning Labs, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $773K · modeled $947K (est)Williamsburg Learning, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $500K · modeled $905K (est)Soefia Education Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $205K · modeled $444K (est)Protoqual Learning Systems, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $1.6M · modeled $253K (est)Charlotte Chess Center & Scholastic Academy Inc. (this company) Raised $450K · modeled $456K (est)Charlotte Chess Center & Scholastic Academy Inc.
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
Beacon Education Group, LLCPre-Seed$650K$1.7M1.93×
Southeast Swim School-Capital Funding, LLCPre-Seed$750K$1.6M1.76×
Nomizo Learning Labs, LLCPre-Seed$773K$947K1.05×
Williamsburg Learning, Inc.Pre-Seed$500K$905K1.00×
Charlotte Chess Center & Scholastic Academy Inc. this companyPre-Seed$450K$456K0.50×
Soefia Education Inc.Pre-Seed$205K$444K0.49×
Protoqual Learning Systems, LLCPre-Seed$1.6M$253K0.28×
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$250K2024-05-15$1.4M$1.0M90%
Pre-Seed$200K2025-08-20$1.1M$456K90%
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$250K2024-05-15
    • First recorded raise — entered as Pre-Seed.
    • 1 investor on this round.
  2. Pre-Seed$200K2025-08-20
    • Raised 15 mo later, in step with the ~15 mo sector norm.
    • Round roughly the size of the prior one.
Intelligence
2026 ~Q4
Modeled next raise · ~15mo cadence
$200K
Modeled next size est.range $200K$320K
0.8×
Last step-up
$356K/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
Peter Giannatos2024-05
Registry & provenance

Charlotte Chess Center & Scholastic Academy Inc. 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
2020700
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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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
Magic School, Inc.EdtechSeries C$296.0M77%
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Innova Learning, Inc.EdtechPre-Seed$14.4M76%
Galileo Education, Inc.EdtechSeed$22.6M75%
Williamsburg Learning, Inc.EdtechPre-Seed$905K75%
Aea Schools LlcEdtechSeries B$127.2M75%
Legends of Learning, Inc.EdtechSeries A$1.2M75%
Valley Technical Academy, LLCEdtechPre-Seed$23.5M74%
Frequently asked
How much funding has Charlotte Chess Center & Scholastic Academy Inc. raised?
Charlotte Chess Center & Scholastic Academy Inc. has raised approximately $450K in disclosed capital across 2 recorded financing rounds, aggregated from public filings.
What is Charlotte Chess Center & Scholastic Academy Inc.'s estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for Charlotte Chess Center & Scholastic Academy Inc. is approximately $456K (modeled range $123K–$1.1M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is Charlotte Chess Center & Scholastic Academy Inc. at?
Charlotte Chess Center & Scholastic Academy Inc.'s latest modeled financing stage is Pre-Seed. Its most recent recorded round closed around Wed Aug 20.
What does Charlotte Chess Center & Scholastic Academy Inc. do and where is it based?
Charlotte Chess Center & Scholastic Academy Inc. operates in the Edtech sector, based in CHARLOTTE.
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