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Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Fairway America Fund VII, LP — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→Fairway America Fund VII, LP 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.
Analyst read est. — computed against this company's niche peers in the same era. Inputs shown; not a quoted figure.
Procedural diagnosis est. — rule-based common-sense checks over the filing pattern, issuer name, activity cadence, and surfaced operating evidence.
Fairway America Fund VII, LP behaves more like a recurring private-offering issuer than a conventional venture-backed operating company.
Fairway America Fund VII, LP is one of 25015 Other companies tracked from PORTLAND. By capital raised it ranks among the largest (ahead of 99% 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.
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.
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.
Stages are modeled from round size (public records carry no series label). No record for: Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Series D+ — the company may have raised it under a different exemption, merged it into an adjacent record, or skipped it. Sequence completeness: 29%.
Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Growth/Late — a round over $400M). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks. Directional, not a quoted figure.
Benchmarked against 25015 companies in Other. 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.
Raised more than 99% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 32% of peers (estimate).
A tighter cohort than the sector chart above — only companies at the same stage (Growth/Late) 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 #26 of 26.
| Company | Stage | Raised · real | Value · est | vs peer med. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| J M SMUCKER Co | Growth/Late | $2.0B | $36.1B | 4.35× |
| Dealer Tire Holdings, LLC | Growth/Late | $1.7B | $29.9B | 3.60× |
| Overseas Shipholding Group Inc | Growth/Late | $1.6B | $28.2B | 3.39× |
| Balboa Holdings LP | Growth/Late | $1.6B | $27.8B | 3.35× |
| Boxer Parent Co Inc | Growth/Late | $3.7B | $22.1B | 2.66× |
| Sedgwick, Inc. | Growth/Late | $967.1M | $17.0B | 2.05× |
| Cornell Capital Special Situations Partners I LP | Growth/Late | $921.0M | $16.4B | 1.97× |
| Perseus Books, L.L.C. | Growth/Late | $891.7M | $15.8B | 1.91× |
| Arrow Holding Corp. | Growth/Late | $1.5B | $13.0B | 1.57× |
| LBM Acquisition, LLC | Growth/Late | $577.9M | $10.3B | 1.24× |
| Omega Holdco II Ltd | Growth/Late | $551.3M | $9.8B | 1.18× |
| Aruba Topco, L.P. | Growth/Late | $530.0M | $9.4B | 1.13× |
| Fairway America Fund VII, LP this company | Growth/Late | $500.3M | $6.9M | 0.00× |
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.
| Stage | Amount · real | Announced | Post-money · est | Value · est | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-Seed | $300K | 2014-08-20 | $1.7M | $6.9M | 90% |
| Growth/Late | $500.0M | — | $5.0B | $4.5B | 90% |
Step-up, pace versus the sector's normal cadence, and revenue/exemption moves — read straight from the reported round facts reported.
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.
Fairway America Fund VII, LP is an official record sourced from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). U.S. data is aggregated from SEC Form D filings.
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.
| Company | Sector | Stage | Raised · real | Value · est | Why similar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flow Holdings, Inc. | Other | Growth/Late | $82.7M | $7.0M | same sector · same stage |
| Mesirow Financial Holdings Inc | Other | Series B | $113.1M | $7.0M | same sector |
| MetOx International, Inc. | Other | Series C | $84.0M | $7.1M | same sector |
| Liquidity Services Inc | Other | Series C | $74.8M | $6.9M | same sector |
| ZICO Rising, Inc. | Other | Series A | $29.4M | $6.8M | same sector |
| Trew Holdings, Llc | Other | Series B | $25.5M | $7.0M | same sector |
| Smp Equity Fund, Llc | Other | Series B | $20.3M | $6.9M | same sector |
| CISO Global, Inc. | Other | Series A | $17.2M | $6.9M | same sector |
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