Diligence memo · auto-generated · as of July 2, 2026
Cooks Venture, Inc.
Cooks Venture, Inc. looks under-valued against its niche peers and is at-risk on financing cadence.
Businessfiled
Cooks Venture, Inc. operates in Agriculture, based in Decatur.
No verified homepage on file yet — operating evidence is limited to the public record.
Capital & rounds (filed)filed
Cooks Venture, Inc. has raised $123M in disclosed capital across 8 recorded rounds, aggregated from public filings. Its latest round is modeled as Series B (a $15M–$40M round).
Largest single filing: $38M on 2023-01-13.
Most recent recorded round closed around 2023-08-29.
Valuation (modeled)modeled
Provath models Cooks Venture, Inc. at approximately $20M (range $8.3M–$42M). This is an algorithmic estimate from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
Read: Under-valued. Modeled value is 0.45× the median modeled value of Series B Agriculture companies in 2022–2024 (11 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
Financing rhythm & timingmixed
Historic cadence: a new round about every 5 months.
Last raise 2.8 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 11 months.
Past due for a raise versus sector cadence — watch for distress or a bridge.
The last round was 11.0× smaller than the prior — a bridge or down round.
Comparablesmixed
Capital scale ranks ahead of 97% of Agriculture peers (1056 compared).
Modeled value ranks above 63% of those peers.
Closest niche peers: Applied LifeSciences & Systems Poultry, Inc., CoverCress Inc., Alta Arbor Holdings, LLC, Jushi Holdings Inc., AmplifiedAg, Inc..
Peoplefiled
14 named people on file across officers, directors and signatories.
Risks & flagsmixed
Overdue for a raise versus sector norm — distress or bridge risk.
No clearly named CEO/founder/principal in the surfaced records — key-person evidence is thin.