SA · Africa
Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Custos — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→Custos has raised $420K over 1 round; too few niche peers to rank its valuation yet.
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SA’s anti-piracy startup Custos raises $420k from TIA 0 By Tom Jackson on August 26, 2016 News , Southern Africa Stellenbosch-based bitcoin bounty startup Custos Media Technologies has raised another round of funding, this time from South Africa’s Technology Innovation Agency (TIA), which will provide an injection of ZAR5.9 million (US$420,000) into the startup over the next two years. Custos – founded by staff at Stellenbosch University and based at the LaunchLab – combats digital piracy by embedding bitcoin bounties as watermarks within videos and movies.
SA’s anti-piracy startup Custos raises $420k from TIA 0 By Tom Jackson on August 26, 2016 News , Southern Africa Stellenbosch-based bitcoin bounty startup Custos Media Technologies has raised another round of funding, this time from South Africa’s Technology Innovation Agency (TIA), which will provide an injection of ZAR5.9 million (US$420,000) into the startup over the next two years. Custos – founded by staff at Stellenbosch University and based at the LaunchLab – combats digital piracy by embedding bitcoin bounties as watermarks within videos and movies.
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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. Directional, not a quoted figure.
Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.
Benchmarked against 8525 companies in this sector. 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 97% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 98% of peers (estimate).
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 | $420K | 2016-08-26 | $2.3M | $9.7M | 45% |
Step-up, pace versus the sector's normal cadence, and revenue/exemption moves — read straight from the reported round facts reported.
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Custos is an official record sourced from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). U.S. data is aggregated from SEC Form D filings.
Public records name issuer insiders, not the funds in a round — these investor links come from corroborating sources.
| Firm | Round | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| Digital Currency Group | Pre-Seed | 55% |
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