Diligence memo · auto-generated · as of July 2, 2026
Custos
Custos has raised $420K over 1 round; too few niche peers to rank its valuation yet.
Businessfiled
Custos is a private company, based in SA, Africa. 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.
No verified homepage on file yet — operating evidence is limited to the public record.
Capital & rounds (filed)filed
Custos has raised $420K in disclosed capital across 1 recorded round, aggregated from public filings. Its latest round is modeled as Pre-Seed (a round under $1.0M).
Largest single filing: $420K on 2016-08-26.
Most recent recorded round closed around 2016-08-26.
Valuation (modeled)modeled
Provath models Custos at approximately $9.7M (range $280K–$110M). This is an algorithmic estimate from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
Too few comparable companies in this niche to rank the valuation fairly yet.
Financing rhythm & timingmixed
Not enough dated financing history to read a financing rhythm.
Comparablesmixed
Capital scale ranks ahead of 97% of sector peers (8525 compared).
Modeled value ranks above 98% of those peers.
Risks & flagsmixed
No clearly named CEO/founder/principal in the surfaced records — key-person evidence is thin.