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SAN FRANCISCO · Food & Beverage · refined from filed group “Other”
Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Chocolate Holdings, Inc. — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→Chocolate Holdings, Inc. looks fair against its niche peers and is quiet on financing cadence.
Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page.
Analyst read est. — computed against this company's niche peers in the same era. Inputs shown; not a quoted figure.
Procedural diagnosis est. — rule-based common-sense checks over the filing pattern, issuer name, activity cadence, and surfaced operating evidence.
Chocolate Holdings, Inc. behaves more like a recurring private-offering issuer than a conventional venture-backed operating company.
No named principal in this company's public records yet — see all operators below.
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Chocolate Holdings, Inc. is one of 567 Food & Beverage companies tracked from SAN FRANCISCO. By capital raised it ranks in the upper tier (ahead of 89% 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.
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, Seed — the company may have raised it under a different exemption, merged it into an adjacent record, or skipped it. Sequence completeness: 33%.
Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Series A — a $4.0M–$15M round). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks. Directional, not a quoted figure.
Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.
Benchmarked against 567 companies in Food & Beverage. 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 89% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 86% of peers (estimate).
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 company ranks #11 of 19.
| Company | Stage | Raised · real | Value · est | vs peer med. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VNGR Beverage, LLC | Series A | $27.4M | $104.8M | 3.13× |
| Old Bourbon County Distillery LLC | Series A | $10.4M | $54.1M | 1.61× |
| Arrow&Branch Winery, Llc | Series A | $7.8M | $49.6M | 1.48× |
| Roar Beverages, Inc. | Series A | $35.1M | $49.0M | 1.46× |
| Theo Chocolate, Inc. | Series A | $13.0M | $42.7M | 1.27× |
| Nosotros Life & Spirits, Inc. | Series A | $7.0M | $42.1M | 1.26× |
| Vide Beverages Inc. | Series A | $8.1M | $41.0M | 1.22× |
| Ohio River Beverages, LLC | Series A | $6.4M | $39.7M | 1.19× |
| Update Beverages Inc. | Series A | $8.0M | $34.5M | 1.03× |
| Fierce Whiskers Distillery, LLC | Series A | $5.7M | $33.5M | 1.00× |
| Chocolate Holdings, Inc. this company | Series A | $7.7M | $31.6M | 0.94× |
| Hawaiian Ola Brewing Corp | Series A | $9.0M | $31.2M | 0.93× |
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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series A | $7.7M | 2024-10-28 | $34.8M | $31.6M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Goines | — | 10 other | 2024-10 |
| Michael Balkin | — | 2 other | 2024-10 |
| Charles Siegel | — | 1 other | 2024-10 |
Chocolate Holdings, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arrow&Branch Winery, Llc | Food & Beverage | Series A | $7.8M | $49.6M | same sector · same stage |
| Tost Beverages, Inc. | Food & Beverage | Series A | $7.9M | $3.4M | same sector · same stage |
| Update Beverages Inc. | Food & Beverage | Series A | $8.0M | $34.5M | same sector · same stage |
| Revelton Distilling Company, Inc. | Food & Beverage | Series A | $8.0M | $23.9M | same sector · same stage |
| Vide Beverages Inc. | Food & Beverage | Series A | $8.1M | $41.0M | same sector · same stage |
| Hamilton Distillers Group, Inc. | Food & Beverage | Series A | $7.1M | $1.4M | same sector · same stage |
| Pilot Project Brewing Co | Food & Beverage | Series A | $7.0M | $15.8M | same sector · same stage |
| Nosotros Life & Spirits, Inc. | Food & Beverage | Series A | $7.0M | $42.1M | 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.
| Company | Sector | Stage | Value · est | Match |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chocolate Earth Investments, LLC | Food & Beverage | Seed | $22.8M | 89% |
| Cocoa Corp | Other | Pre-Seed | $11.6M | 88% |
| Bakery Holdings LLC | Food & Beverage | Seed | $30.0M | 87% |
| Chocolate Bar Holdings LLC | Retailing | Seed | $9.3M | 86% |
| Noteworthy Chocolates, LLC | Food & Beverage | Pre-Seed | $5.8M | 85% |
| TRU Chocolate Inc. | Food & Beverage | Pre-Seed | $20.8M | 85% |
| Treasure Holdings, Inc. | Other | Seed | $23.9M | 85% |
| Toast Holdings, Inc. | Other | Series A | $64.4M | 84% |
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