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DTC West Bay, LLC

GRAND RAPIDS · Lodging and Conventions

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on DTC West Bay, LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$1.0M
Total raised · real
1
Rounds
Latest step-up
Top 79%
Sector rank · raised
Pre-Seed
Latest stage · inferred · Thu Dec 27 2018 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

DTC West Bay, LLC looks over-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 lodging sector profile.

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

Over-valued
  • Modeled value is 1.67× the median modeled value of Pre-Seed Lodging and Conventions companies in 2016–2018 (19 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
Dormant
  • Last raise 7.5 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 12 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

DTC West Bay, 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
7.5 yr record
Peak capital year was 2018 with $1.0M across 1 filings.
Market position
ahead of 22% of Lodging and Conventions peers
Capital scale is ahead of 22% of Lodging and Conventions peers; modeled value is above 38% 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 2018: $1.0M across 1 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $1.0M on 2018-12-27.
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 Lodging and Conventions

DTC West Bay, LLC is one of 514 Lodging and Conventions companies tracked from GRAND RAPIDS. By capital raised it ranks in the long tail (ahead of 22% of sector peers), and in the long tail 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
4
Investors (latest)
2018
Year incorporated
2018-12-27
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$2.5M$5.0M$7.5M$10MPre-Seed · 2018-12-27 Raised $1.0M (real) Modeled valuation $7.1M (est)$1.0M$7.1MPre-Seed2018

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
Pre-Seed$1.0M · 2018

Stages are modeled from round size (public records carry no series label). Ladder is contiguous — every modeled rung has a record.

Modeled valuation trajectory
$7.1M
Base estimate est.
$587K
Conservative case
$81.0M
Upside case
$5.6M
Modeled post-money

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

Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.

Model inputs · modeled:benchmark-stage-stepup-v1
18%
Dilution assumption
Implied ownership sold in the financing.
26%
Survival probability
11% low · 48% high
1.30×/yr
Annual markup
1.76×/yr upside case
6.0 yr
Elapsed time used
7.5 yr actual, capped for stale marks
lodging
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
Avg between rounds
Capital velocity
7.5 yr
On record since
2018
First round
1
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 514 companies in Lodging and Conventions. 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) 0.4× of median
This company$1.0M
Sector median$2.5M
Latest round — vs other Pre-Seed rounds in sector (real $, this stage) 2.0× above median
This company$1.0M
Sector median$500K
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 0.7× of median
This company$7.1M
Sector median$10.8M

Raised more than 22% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 38% of peers (estimate).

Niche peers — same stage & era

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 #1 of 19.

This companyCohort peer
$1.0M$10.0M$100K$1.0M$10.0MCapital raised (log)Plainfield Hotel Group, Llc · Pre-Seed Raised $970K · modeled $6.9M (est)Etxea Hospitality Llc · Pre-Seed Raised $950K · modeled $6.8M (est)Apartment Jet, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $915K · modeled $6.5M (est)Lamoni Hotel Group, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $850K · modeled $6.1M (est)Loretto Preferred Investment, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $760K · modeled $5.4M (est)Albuquerque Suite Hospitality, L.L.C. · Pre-Seed Raised $905K · modeled $5.3M (est)Boise Downtown Lodging Associates, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $688K · modeled $4.9M (est)Kinship Landing Ltd. · Pre-Seed Raised $646K · modeled $4.6M (est)Limekiln Mountain Works, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $600K · modeled $4.3M (est)Mh 2A, L.L.C. · Pre-Seed Raised $600K · modeled $4.3M (est)House of Surf - Mizata, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $575K · modeled $4.1M (est)DTC West Bay, LLC (this company) Raised $1.0M · modeled $7.1M (est)DTC West Bay, LLC
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
DTC West Bay, LLC this companyPre-Seed$1.0M$7.1M1.67×
Plainfield Hotel Group, LlcPre-Seed$970K$6.9M1.62×
Etxea Hospitality LlcPre-Seed$950K$6.8M1.58×
Apartment Jet, Inc.Pre-Seed$915K$6.5M1.52×
Lamoni Hotel Group, LLCPre-Seed$850K$6.1M1.42×
Loretto Preferred Investment, LLCPre-Seed$760K$5.4M1.27×
Albuquerque Suite Hospitality, L.L.C.Pre-Seed$905K$5.3M1.23×
Boise Downtown Lodging Associates, LLCPre-Seed$688K$4.9M1.15×
Kinship Landing Ltd.Pre-Seed$646K$4.6M1.08×
Limekiln Mountain Works, Inc.Pre-Seed$600K$4.3M1.00×
Mh 2A, L.L.C.Pre-Seed$600K$4.3M1.00×
House of Surf - Mizata, LLCPre-Seed$575K$4.1M0.96×
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.
Pre-Seed$1.0M2018-12-27$5.6M$7.1M90%
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. Pre-Seed$1.0M2018-12-27
    • First recorded raise — entered as Pre-Seed.
    • 4 investors on this round.
Intelligence
Modeled next raise
$1.6M
Modeled next size est.range $1.0M$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
George N. Cochran2018-12
Registry & provenance

DTC West Bay, 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
1757850
SEC CIK
2018
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
Beneficial Holdings IncLodging and ConventionsPre-Seed$1.0M$1.5Msame sector · same stage
Hanford Hospitality Investors, L.P.Lodging and ConventionsPre-Seed$1.0M$4.9Msame sector · same stage
Indian Lake Hotel Group, LLCLodging and ConventionsPre-Seed$1.0M$4.6Msame sector · same stage
MxLuxe A1 LLCLodging and ConventionsPre-Seed$1.0M$6.6Msame sector · same stage
Redfish Lodge Partners, LLCLodging and ConventionsPre-Seed$1.0M$3.2Msame sector · same stage
Tucson Saint Mary's Suite Hospitality, L.L.C.Lodging and ConventionsPre-Seed$1.0M$7.1Msame sector · same stage
Winterset Hotel Group, LLCLodging and ConventionsPre-Seed$1.0M$1.5Msame sector · same stage
Beyonder Resort at Lazy Acres LLCLodging and ConventionsPre-Seed$994K$4.1Msame 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
West Fargo Hospitality, LLCLodging and ConventionsSeries A$46.8M83%
Seattle Hotel Group LLCLodging and ConventionsSeries A$24.3M82%
PC Lodging, LLCLodging and ConventionsSeed$20.4M82%
Torrington Hotel, LLCLodging and ConventionsSeed$10.3M81%
Tidewater Inn, LLCLodging and ConventionsSeed$14.1M81%
MVCO Hotel, LLCLodging and ConventionsSeed$6.6M81%
Brevard Hotel LLCLodging and ConventionsSeed$13.1M80%
Beechwood Green Bay Hotel, LLCLodging and ConventionsSeries A$56.1M80%
Frequently asked
How much funding has DTC West Bay, LLC raised?
DTC West Bay, LLC has raised approximately $1.0M in disclosed capital across 1 recorded financing round, aggregated from public filings.
What is DTC West Bay, LLC's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for DTC West Bay, LLC is approximately $7.1M (modeled range $587K–$81.0M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is DTC West Bay, LLC at?
DTC West Bay, LLC's latest modeled financing stage is Pre-Seed. Its most recent recorded round closed around Thu Dec 27.
What does DTC West Bay, LLC do and where is it based?
DTC West Bay, LLC operates in the Lodging and Conventions sector, based in GRAND RAPIDS.
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