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F&O Chicago LLC

NEW YORK · Restaurants

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on F&O Chicago LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$5.3M
Total raised · real
2
Rounds
2.4×
Latest step-up
Top 15%
Sector rank · raised
Seed
Latest stage · inferred

F&O Chicago LLC looks fair against its niche peers and is active 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.

Fair
  • Modeled value is 1.20× the median modeled value of Seed Restaurants companies (645 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
  • Within the normal band (120% of peer median) for its niche.
Active
  • No dated round to assess.

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

Issuer-vehicle patternmedium confidence

F&O Chicago 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
56.5 yr record
Peak capital year was Undated with $5.3M across 2 filings.
Market position
ahead of 86% of Restaurants peers
Capital scale is ahead of 86% of Restaurants peers; modeled value is above 75% 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 Undated: $5.3M across 2 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $3.7M on .
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

F&O Chicago LLC is one of 2292 Restaurants companies tracked from NEW YORK. By capital raised it ranks in the upper tier (ahead of 86% of sector peers), and in the upper tier 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
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$10MSeed · Raised $1.6M (real) Modeled valuation $2.6M (est)$1.6M$2.6MSeedSeed · Raised $3.7M (real) Modeled valuation $6.2M (est)$3.7M$6.2MSeed+$3.7MCumulative $5.3M

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$1.6M
Seed extension$3.7M

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
$6.2M
Base estimate est.
$2.8M
Conservative case
$9.6M
Upside case
$18.5M
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.

Seed · modeled $2.6M · Seed · modeled $6.2M ·
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
0.0 yr
Elapsed time used
0.0 yr actual, capped for stale marks
restaurants
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
0 mo
Avg between rounds
Capital velocity
56.5 yr
On record since
1970
First round
2
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) 5.9× above median
This company$5.3M
Sector median$900K
Latest round — vs other Seed rounds in sector (real $, this stage) 2.1× above median
This company$3.7M
Sector median$1.8M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 2.4× above median
This company$6.2M
Sector median$2.6M

Raised more than 86% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 75% of peers (estimate).

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$1.6M$7.8M$2.6M90%
Seed$3.7M$18.5M$6.2M90%
Intelligence
Modeled next raise
$8.7M
Modeled next size est.range $5.7M$14.0M
2.4×
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
Laurent Halasz4 other
Registry & provenance

F&O Chicago 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
1588322
SEC CIK
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.

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Slim Chicken's Development Company, LLCRestaurantsSeed$4.8M$7.9Msame sector · same stage
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Frequently asked
How much funding has F&O Chicago LLC raised?
F&O Chicago LLC has raised approximately $5.3M in disclosed capital across 2 recorded financing rounds, aggregated from public filings.
What is F&O Chicago LLC's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for F&O Chicago LLC is approximately $6.2M (modeled range $2.8M–$9.6M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is F&O Chicago LLC at?
F&O Chicago LLC's latest modeled financing stage is Seed.
What does F&O Chicago LLC do and where is it based?
F&O Chicago LLC operates in the Restaurants sector, based in NEW YORK.
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