Companies · Restaurants

Dollop Investors I, Llc

CHICAGO · Restaurants

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Dollop Investors I, Llc — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$1.0M
Total raised · real
1
Rounds
Latest step-up
Top 46%
Sector rank · raised
Seed
Latest stage · inferred · Tue Aug 16 2016 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Dollop Investors I, Llc looks under-valued against its niche peers and is dormant on financing cadence.

Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page. Valuation uses the restaurants sector profile.

Analyst read est. — computed against this company's niche peers in the same era. Inputs shown; not a quoted figure.

Under-valued
  • Modeled value is 0.61× the median modeled value of Seed Restaurants companies in 2016–2018 (124 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
Dormant
  • Last raise 9.9 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 13 months.
  • Only one round on record and long silent — often defunct, acquired, or gone quiet.

Procedural diagnosis est. — rule-based common-sense checks over the filing pattern, issuer name, activity cadence, and surfaced operating evidence.

Issuer-vehicle patternmedium confidence

Dollop Investors I, Llc behaves more like a recurring private-offering issuer than a conventional venture-backed operating company.

Issuer structure
Company-like
No recurring-offering pattern strong enough to override normal financing interpretation.
Lifecycle
9.9 yr record
Peak capital year was 2016 with $1.0M across 1 filings.
Market position
ahead of 55% of Restaurants peers
Capital scale is ahead of 55% of Restaurants peers; modeled value is above 60% of peers by modeled value. Large capital with mid-pack modeled value can signal an issuer/program profile rather than operating-company growth.
Valuation reliability
Normal applicability
Stage/dilution valuation models are weakest when the issuer is broad-sector, recurring, or vehicle-like.
Operating evidence
Sparse
No clear CEO/founder/principal role is surfaced, so operating-company confidence is lower.
Data quality
Consistent
Canonical totals and visible filing detail are broadly aligned.
What triggered this
  • Legal name looks like an issuer vehicle rather than a product company.
  • No clearly named CEO/founder/principal role in the public records surfaced here.
  • No verified homepage on the profile yet.
  • Capital program peaked in 2016: $1.0M across 1 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $1.0M on 2016-08-16.
How to read the page
  • Read this less like a startup funding journey and more like a capital-raising program.
  • Stage-based valuation and peer labels have lower applicability for this pattern.
  • The more important signal is lifecycle: repeated filings ended years ago, so current activity needs outside confirmation.
Leadership

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.

Where it sits in Restaurants

Dollop Investors I, Llc is one of 2292 Restaurants companies tracked from CHICAGO. By capital raised it ranks mid-pack (ahead of 55% 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.

US
Jurisdiction
Rule 506(b)
Reg D exemption
13
Investors (latest)
2016
Year incorporated
2016-08-16
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$1.3M$2.5M$3.8M$5.0MSeed · 2016-08-16 Raised $1.0M (real) Modeled valuation $3.6M (est)$1.0M$3.6MSeed2016

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$1.0M · 2016

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: 50%.

Modeled valuation trajectory
$3.6M
Base estimate est.
$775K
Conservative case
$28.3M
Upside case
$5.1M
Modeled post-money

Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Seeda $1.0M–$4.0M round). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks scaled by the restaurants sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.

Model inputs · modeled:benchmark-stage-stepup-v1
20%
Dilution assumption
Implied ownership sold in the financing.
34%
Survival probability
15% low · 52% high
1.13×/yr
Annual markup
1.48×/yr upside case
6.0 yr
Elapsed time used
9.9 yr actual, capped for stale marks
restaurants
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
Avg between rounds
Capital velocity
9.9 yr
On record since
2016
First round
1
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 2292 companies in Restaurants. 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) 1.1× above median
This company$1.0M
Sector median$900K
Latest round — vs other Seed rounds in sector (real $, this stage) 0.6× of median
This company$1.0M
Sector median$1.8M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 1.4× above median
This company$3.6M
Sector median$2.6M

Raised more than 55% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 60% of peers (estimate).

Niche peers — same stage & era

A tighter cohort than the sector chart above — only companies at the same stage (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 #109 of 124.

This companyCohort peer
$1.0M$10.0M$100.0M$100K$1.0M$10.0MCapital raised (log)Bottlefish I, LLC · Seed Raised $4.0M · modeled $14.1M (est)Bolay 10 Investors, LLC · Seed Raised $4.0M · modeled $14.1M (est)Urban Putt Denver LLC · Seed Raised $3.8M · modeled $13.4M (est)Pupatella RD I LLC · Seed Raised $3.8M · modeled $13.2M (est)PI Parkway Commons, LLC · Seed Raised $3.7M · modeled $12.9M (est)Trg Ii, Llc · Seed Raised $3.4M · modeled $12.0M (est)PJ Clarkes at The Curtis, LLC · Seed Raised $3.3M · modeled $11.6M (est)Urban 8 LLC · Seed Raised $3.3M · modeled $11.4M (est)Vesta Restaurant Group Llc · Seed Raised $3.2M · modeled $11.3M (est)O'Daddy Wrigley LLC · Seed Raised $3.0M · modeled $10.6M (est)SPIN Austin LLC · Seed Raised $3.0M · modeled $10.5M (est)Cedarview Group Llc · Seed Raised $3.0M · modeled $10.5M (est)Dollop Investors I, Llc (this company) Raised $1.0M · modeled $3.6M (est)Dollop Investors I, Llc
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
Bottlefish I, LLCSeed$4.0M$14.1M2.36×
Bolay 10 Investors, LLCSeed$4.0M$14.1M2.36×
Urban Putt Denver LLCSeed$3.8M$13.4M2.25×
Pupatella RD I LLCSeed$3.8M$13.2M2.22×
PI Parkway Commons, LLCSeed$3.7M$12.9M2.18×
Trg Ii, LlcSeed$3.4M$12.0M2.01×
PJ Clarkes at The Curtis, LLCSeed$3.3M$11.6M1.94×
Urban 8 LLCSeed$3.3M$11.4M1.92×
Vesta Restaurant Group LlcSeed$3.2M$11.3M1.89×
O'Daddy Wrigley LLCSeed$3.0M$10.6M1.79×
SPIN Austin LLCSeed$3.0M$10.5M1.77×
Cedarview Group LlcSeed$3.0M$10.5M1.77×
Dollop Investors I, Llc this companySeed$1.0M$3.6M0.61×
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$1.0M2016-08-16$5.1M$3.6M90%
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$1.0M2016-08-16
    • First recorded raise — entered as Seed.
    • 13 investors on this round.
Intelligence
Modeled next raise
$1.6M
Modeled next size est.range $1.1M$2.6M
Last step-up
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
Patrick Buck2016-08
Registry & provenance

Dollop Investors I, 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.

United States
Country of record
US
Jurisdiction
1689670
SEC CIK
2016
Incorporated
Similar companies

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.

CompanySectorStageRaised · realValue · estWhy similar
West Hollywood Surprise, LLCRestaurantsSeed$1.0M$3.6Msame sector · same stage
Jack's BBQ 2020, LLCRestaurantsSeed$1.0M$3.6Msame sector · same stage
Dti 108, LlcRestaurantsSeed$1.0M$3.6Msame sector · same stage
Gage & Tollner Hospitality LLCRestaurantsSeed$1.0M$3.7Msame sector · same stage
Fox Valley Burgers LLCRestaurantsSeed$1.0M$3.5Msame sector · same stage
Tacolicious, Inc.RestaurantsSeed$1.0M$3.7Msame sector · same stage
B Ventures USA LLCRestaurantsSeed$1.0M$3.5Msame sector · same stage
2110 East 22nd Street LLCRestaurantsSeed$1.1M$3.4Msame sector · same stage
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
PS 35 Investment Group, LLCRestaurantsPre-Seed$3.9M85%
Farmbird Restaurant Group, LLCRestaurantsSeed$3.2M85%
Farm Burger Holdings, LLCRestaurantsSeries A$22.7M85%
Osi Investment Group LlcRestaurantsPre-Seed$1.3M85%
7 Star Investments, LLCRestaurantsSeries B$126.8M85%
Vintage Properties Investments, LLCRestaurantsPre-Seed$444K85%
SWC Investment Group, LLCRestaurantsPre-Seed$1.5M85%
CK's Investment Group, LLCRestaurantsPre-Seed$1.8M85%
Frequently asked
How much funding has Dollop Investors I, Llc raised?
Dollop Investors I, Llc has raised approximately $1.0M in disclosed capital across 1 recorded financing round, aggregated from public filings.
What is Dollop Investors I, Llc's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for Dollop Investors I, Llc is approximately $3.6M (modeled range $775K–$28.3M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is Dollop Investors I, Llc at?
Dollop Investors I, Llc's latest modeled financing stage is Seed. Its most recent recorded round closed around Tue Aug 16.
What does Dollop Investors I, Llc do and where is it based?
Dollop Investors I, Llc operates in the Restaurants sector, based in CHICAGO.
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