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NEW YORK · Fintech · refined from filed group “Other Technology” · founded 2014 · http://cheddar.io
Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Cheddar Inc. — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→Cheddar Inc. has raised $45M over 3 rounds; 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 fintech sector profile.
Analyst read est. — computed against this company's niche peers in the same era. Inputs shown; not a quoted figure.
No named principal in this company's public records yet — see all operators below.
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Cheddar Inc. is one of 1063 Fintech companies tracked from NEW YORK, on record since 2014. By capital raised it ranks among the largest (ahead of 96% of sector peers), and among the largest by modeled valuation est..
Ranking is computed against this company's own sector cohort — reported capital is fact; valuation tiers are modeled.
AI analyst read est. — model-extracted from this company's public description, not a verified fact. 30%
operates a technology-led product inferred from public copy
Grounded in: “You are a venture analyst”
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As reported in public records reported — not modeled.
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.
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.
Stages are modeled from round size (public records carry no series label). No record for: Pre-Seed, Series A — the company may have raised it under a different exemption, merged it into an adjacent record, or skipped it. Sequence completeness: 50%.
Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Series B — a $15M–$40M round). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks scaled by the fintech sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.
Benchmarked against 1063 companies in Fintech. 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.
Raised more than 96% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 97% of peers (estimate).
A tighter cohort than the sector chart above — only companies at the same stage (Series B) 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.
| Company | Stage | Raised · real | Value · est | vs peer med. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheddar Inc. this company | Series B | $44.5M | $708.9M | 1.25× |
| Razorpay, Inc. | Series B | $31.6M | $629.7M | 1.11× |
| Yoco | Series B | $16.0M | $503.7M | 0.89× |
| CORD:USE Cord Blood Bank Inc | Series B | $19.4M | $7.9M | 0.01× |
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.
| Stage | Amount · real | Announced | Post-money · est | Value · est | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | $3.0M | 2016-02-04 | $15.0M | $105.7M | 85% |
| Series B | $19.0M | 2017-05-10 | $105.6M | $598.2M | 90% |
| Series B | $22.5M | 2018-03-14 | $125.1M | $708.9M | 90% |
Step-up, pace versus the sector's normal cadence, and revenue/exemption moves — read straight from the reported round facts reported.
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.
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.
| Person | Role | Also runs | Tied since |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeremy Liew | — | 17 other | 2016-02 |
| Gordon Rubenstein | — | 5 other | 2017-05 |
| Anjali Kumar | — | 3 other | 2018-03 |
| Scott Belsky | — | 2 other | 2017-05 |
| Eric Harris | — | 1 other | 2018-03 |
| Jonathan Steinberg | — | — | 2016-02 |
| Peter Gorenstein | — | — | 2017-05 |
Cheddar 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.
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.
| Company | Sector | Stage | Raised · real | Value · est | Why similar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Credit Sesame, Inc. | Fintech | Series B | $44.8M | $415.6M | same sector · same stage |
| PayMongo Inc. | Fintech | Series B | $45.8M | $538.6M | same sector · same stage |
| Djamo Inc. | Fintech | Series B | $46.6M | $96.4M | same sector · same stage |
| FairMoney | Fintech | Series B | $42.0M | $918.5M | same sector · same stage |
| Axiom, Inc. | Fintech | Series B | $41.4M | $89.9M | same sector · same stage |
| Fintual, Inc. | Fintech | Series B | $38.5M | $752.5M | same sector · same stage |
| LEADER SKY TRADING Ltd | Fintech | Series B | $38.5M | $1.2B | same sector · same stage |
| Shift4 Payments, Inc. | Fintech | Series B | $38.5M | $14.9M | same sector · same stage |
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.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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