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ESL TEKnologies LLC

Dallas · Business Services

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on ESL TEKnologies LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$785K
Total raised · real
2
Rounds
6.8×
Latest step-up
Top 51%
Sector rank · raised
Pre-Seed
Latest stage · inferred · Fri Sep 01 2017 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

ESL TEKnologies 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 business services 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 2.49× the median modeled value of Pre-Seed Business Services companies in 2016–2018 (140 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
  • Issuer reports no revenue, yet is modeled well above niche peers.
Dormant
  • Last raise 8.8 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 12 months.
  • Silent for over 3× the sector's normal cadence.

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

Issuer-vehicle patternmedium confidence

ESL TEKnologies 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
14.5 yr record
Peak capital year was 2017 with $685K across 1 filings.
Market position
ahead of 50% of Business Services peers
Capital scale is ahead of 50% of Business Services peers; modeled value is above 66% 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 2017: $685K across 1 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $685K on 2017-09-01.
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 Business Services

ESL TEKnologies LLC is one of 2438 Business Services companies tracked from Dallas. By capital raised it ranks mid-pack (ahead of 50% 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
No revenue
Issuer revenue
Rule 506(b)
Reg D exemption
9
Investors (latest)
2017-09-01
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$13M$25M$38M$50MPre-Seed · 2011-12-14 Raised $100K (real) Modeled valuation $3.2M (est)$100K$3.2MPre-Seed2011Pre-Seed · 2017-09-01 Raised $685K (real) Modeled valuation $22M (est)$685K$22MPre-Seed2017+$685KCumulative $785K

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$100K · 2011
Pre-Seed extension$685K · 2017

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

Modeled valuation trajectory
$21.6M
Base estimate est.
$466K
Conservative case
$245.4M
Upside case
$3.8M
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 business services sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Pre-Seed · modeled $3.2M · 2011-12-142011Pre-Seed · modeled $21.6M · 2017-09-012017
Model inputs · modeled:benchmark-stage-stepup-v1
18%
Dilution assumption
Implied ownership sold in the financing.
31%
Survival probability
12% low · 56% high
1.63×/yr
Annual markup
2.21×/yr upside case
6.0 yr
Elapsed time used
8.8 yr actual, capped for stale marks
business services
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
69 mo
Avg between rounds
$137K/yr
Capital velocity
14.5 yr
On record since
2011
First round
2
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 2438 companies in Business Services. 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) 0.5× of median
This company$785K
Sector median$1.5M
Latest round — vs other Pre-Seed rounds in sector (real $, this stage) 2.1× above median
This company$685K
Sector median$322K
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 1.4× above median
This company$21.6M
Sector median$15.1M

Raised more than 50% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 66% 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 #24 of 140.

This companyCohort peer
$10.0M$100.0M$100K$1.0M$10.0MCapital raised (log)preCharge USA, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $31.6M (est)Women In Their Prime, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $31.6M (est)SBS Weanling Pinhook II LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $31.6M (est)SkuSuite, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $31.6M (est)Dip Cosmetica Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $31.6M (est)Kountable, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $31.6M (est)RonakBM, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $1.2M · modeled $30.3M (est)All South Flooring, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $900K · modeled $28.4M (est)1052 Partners, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $1.5M · modeled $28.4M (est)Virtuous Vices, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $875K · modeled $27.6M (est)Port Logistics, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $860K · modeled $27.2M (est)Pathao · Pre-Seed Raised $825K · modeled $26.1M (est)ESL TEKnologies LLC (this company) Raised $785K · modeled $21.6M (est)ESL TEKnologies LLC
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
preCharge USA, Inc.Pre-Seed$1.0M$31.6M3.64×
Women In Their Prime, LLCPre-Seed$1.0M$31.6M3.64×
SBS Weanling Pinhook II LLCPre-Seed$1.0M$31.6M3.64×
SkuSuite, Inc.Pre-Seed$1.0M$31.6M3.64×
Dip Cosmetica Inc.Pre-Seed$1.0M$31.6M3.64×
Kountable, Inc.Pre-Seed$1.0M$31.6M3.64×
RonakBM, Inc.Pre-Seed$1.2M$30.3M3.49×
All South Flooring, LLCPre-Seed$900K$28.4M3.27×
1052 Partners, LLCPre-Seed$1.5M$28.4M3.27×
Virtuous Vices, LLCPre-Seed$875K$27.6M3.18×
Port Logistics, LLCPre-Seed$860K$27.2M3.13×
PathaoPre-Seed$825K$26.1M3.00×
ESL TEKnologies LLC this companyPre-Seed$785K$21.6M2.49×
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$100K2011-12-14$556K$3.2M85%
Pre-Seed$685K2017-09-01$3.8M$21.6M90%
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. Pre-Seed$100K2011-12-14
    • First recorded raise — entered as Pre-Seed.
    • 1 investor on this round.
  2. Pre-Seed$685K2017-09-01
    • Raised again after 69 mo — slower than the ~12 mo sector norm.
    • Round 6.8× larger than the prior — scaling up.
    • Switched to Rule 506(b) (was Rule 06).
    • 9 investors on this round.
Intelligence
2023 ~Q2
Modeled next raise · ~69mo cadence
$2.1M
Modeled next size est.range $1.3M$3.3M
6.8×
Last step-up
$137K/yr
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
Bob T Grammen2017-09
John T. Jaeger2011-12
John T Jaeger, Jr.2017-09
Julie Krupala2011-12
Registry & provenance

ESL TEKnologies 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
1536091
SEC CIK
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Frequently asked
How much funding has ESL TEKnologies LLC raised?
ESL TEKnologies LLC has raised approximately $785K in disclosed capital across 2 recorded financing rounds, aggregated from public filings.
What is ESL TEKnologies LLC's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for ESL TEKnologies LLC is approximately $21.6M (modeled range $466K–$245.4M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is ESL TEKnologies LLC at?
ESL TEKnologies LLC's latest modeled financing stage is Pre-Seed. Its most recent recorded round closed around Fri Sep 01.
What does ESL TEKnologies LLC do and where is it based?
ESL TEKnologies LLC operates in the Business Services sector, based in Dallas.
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