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ANN ARBOR · Climate / Cleantech · refined from filed group “Other”
Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Clean Energy Sauce LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→Clean Energy Sauce LLC 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. Valuation uses the climate/enviro sector profile.
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.
Clean Energy Sauce LLC 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.
Explore how these operators interlock with other companies in the operator network.
Clean Energy Sauce LLC is one of 207 Climate / Cleantech companies tracked from ANN ARBOR. By capital raised it ranks mid-pack (ahead of 46% of sector peers), and mid-pack 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). Ladder is contiguous — every modeled rung has a record.
Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Pre-Seed — a round under $1.0M). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks scaled by the climate/enviro sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.
Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.
Benchmarked against 207 companies in Climate / Cleantech. 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 46% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 44% of peers (estimate).
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 #4 of 7.
| Company | Stage | Raised · real | Value · est | vs peer med. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rana Energy | Pre-Seed | $3.0M | $6.6M | 6.59× |
| MazaoHub | Pre-Seed | $2.0M | $4.6M | 4.57× |
| Global Battery Materials Corp. | Pre-Seed | $705K | $1.7M | 1.65× |
| Clean Energy Sauce LLC this company | Pre-Seed | $315K | $999K | 1.00× |
| Surge Battery Metals Inc. | Pre-Seed | $353K | $666K | 0.67× |
| SAVD Solar, Inc. | Pre-Seed | $200K | $478K | 0.48× |
| Battery X Metals Inc. | Pre-Seed | $109K | $210K | 0.21× |
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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-Seed | $315K | 2025-02-01 | $1.8M | $999K | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Theodore Michael Volz II | — | — | 2025-02 |
Clean Energy Sauce 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operant Solar Corp | Climate / Cleantech | Pre-Seed | $300K | $10.1M | same sector · same stage |
| Target Solar, LLC | Climate / Cleantech | Pre-Seed | $300K | $10.1M | same sector · same stage |
| Battery Electron Transport Associates, Inc. | Climate / Cleantech | Pre-Seed | $347K | $2.6M | same sector · same stage |
| Surge Battery Metals Inc. | Climate / Cleantech | Pre-Seed | $353K | $666K | same sector · same stage |
| Climate Every Mountain Ltd Liability Co | Climate / Cleantech | Pre-Seed | $250K | $3.9M | same sector · same stage |
| Final Mile Solar, LLC | Climate / Cleantech | Pre-Seed | $250K | $8.4M | same sector · same stage |
| Solar Transport Systems Inc. | Climate / Cleantech | Pre-Seed | $450K | $1.7M | same sector · same stage |
| Patriot Battery Metals Inc. | Climate / Cleantech | Pre-Seed | $207K | $4.2M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clean Energy Technology Co | Other Energy | Pre-Seed | $2.3M | 87% |
| Complete Solar, Inc. | Climate / Cleantech | Series A | $244.6M | 85% |
| Alternative Sustainability LLC | Other Energy | Pre-Seed | $1.4M | 85% |
| ARC Clean Energy, Inc. | Other Energy | Series A | $7.6M | 85% |
| Clean Energy Technologies, Inc. | Energy Conservation | Pre-Seed | $8.8M | 85% |
| Juhl Clean Energy Assets, Inc. | Other Energy | Series A | $76.2M | 85% |
| ETC Solar, Inc. | Other Energy | Pre-Seed | $8.1M | 85% |
| Meridian Clean Energy, LLC | Other Energy | Series A | $51.1M | 84% |
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