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CITADEL DEFENSE Co

SAN DIEGO · Defense · refined from filed group “Other Technology

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on CITADEL DEFENSE Co — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$13.8M
Total raised · real
2
Rounds
6.8×
Latest step-up
Top 21%
Sector rank · raised
Series A
Latest stage · inferred · Wed Aug 02 2017 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

CITADEL DEFENSE Co has raised $14M over 2 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 defense 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 8.9 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 11 months.
  • Silent for over 3× the sector's normal cadence.
Leadership

No named principal in this company's public records yet — see all operators below.

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Where it sits in Defense

CITADEL DEFENSE Co is one of 61 Defense companies tracked from SAN DIEGO. By capital raised it ranks in the upper tier (ahead of 80% 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.

As reported in public records reported — not modeled.

US
Jurisdiction
Rule 506(b)
Reg D exemption
1
Investors (latest)
2016
Year incorporated
2017-08-02
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$125M$250M$375M$500MSeed · 2016-11-10 Raised $1.8M (real) Modeled valuation $60M (est)$1.8M$60MSeed2016Series A · 2017-08-02 Raised $12M (real) Modeled valuation $335M (est)$12M$335MSeries A2017+$12MCumulative $14M

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
Seed$1.8M · 2016
Series A$12.0M · 2017

Stages are modeled from round size (public records carry no series label). No record for: Pre-Seed — the company may have raised it under a different exemption, merged it into an adjacent record, or skipped it. Sequence completeness: 67%.

Modeled valuation trajectory
$334.6M
Base estimate est.
$17.0M
Conservative case
$1.8B
Upside case
$54.5M
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 defense sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Seed · modeled $60.1M · 2016-11-102016Series A · modeled $334.6M · 2017-08-022017
Model inputs · modeled:benchmark-stage-stepup-v1
22%
Dilution assumption
Implied ownership sold in the financing.
57%
Survival probability
31% low · 78% high
1.49×/yr
Annual markup
1.87×/yr upside case
6.0 yr
Elapsed time used
8.9 yr actual, capped for stale marks
defense
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
9 mo
Avg between rounds
$19.0M/yr
Capital velocity
9.6 yr
On record since
2016
First round
2
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 61 companies in Defense. 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) 2.1× above median
This company$13.8M
Sector median$6.5M
Latest round — vs other Series A rounds in sector (real $, this stage) 1.7× above median
This company$12.0M
Sector median$7.0M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 6.7× above median
This company$334.6M
Sector median$49.7M

Raised more than 80% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 90% of peers (estimate).

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.
Seed$1.8M2016-11-10$8.8M$60.1M90%
Series A$12.0M2017-08-02$54.5M$334.6M90%
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. Seed$1.8M2016-11-10
    • First recorded raise — entered as Seed.
    • 22 investors on this round.
  2. Series A$12.0M2017-08-02
    • Raised 9 mo later, in step with the ~11 mo sector norm.
    • Round 6.8× larger than the prior — scaling up.
    • 1 investor on this round.
Intelligence
2018 ~Q2
Modeled next raise · ~9mo cadence
$36.0M
Modeled next size est.range $23.4M$57.6M
6.8×
Last step-up
$19.0M/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
John Vrionis4 other2017-08
Daniel Magy3 other2016-11
Gordon Feller1 other2016-11
James Waring1 other2016-11
Joseph Makol2016-11
Registry & provenance

CITADEL DEFENSE Co 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
1690693
SEC CIK
2016
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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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
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Kirkwall Defense Inc.DefensePre-Seed$1.0M86%
Cyber Defense Labs, LLCDefenseSeries A$96.8M85%
Cloud Defense, Inc.DefenseSeed$49.7M85%
Arkenstone Defense, Inc.DefenseSeries A$2.3M85%
Deterrence Defense, Inc.DefenseSeed$11.7M85%
Frequently asked
How much funding has CITADEL DEFENSE Co raised?
CITADEL DEFENSE Co has raised approximately $13.8M in disclosed capital across 2 recorded financing rounds, aggregated from public filings.
What is CITADEL DEFENSE Co's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for CITADEL DEFENSE Co is approximately $334.6M (modeled range $17.0M–$1.8B). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is CITADEL DEFENSE Co at?
CITADEL DEFENSE Co's latest modeled financing stage is Series A. Its most recent recorded round closed around Wed Aug 02.
What does CITADEL DEFENSE Co do and where is it based?
CITADEL DEFENSE Co operates in the Defense sector, based in SAN DIEGO.
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