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CEDAR PARK · Space / Aerospace · refined from filed group “Other Technology”
Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Firefly Aerospace Inc. — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→Firefly Aerospace Inc. has raised $492M over 5 rounds; too few niche peers to rank its valuation yet.
Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page. Valuation uses the space/aerospace sector profile.
Analyst read est. — computed against this company's niche peers in the same era. Inputs shown; not a quoted figure.
No named principal in this company's public records yet — see all operators below.
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Firefly Aerospace Inc. is one of 133 Space / Aerospace companies tracked from CEDAR PARK. By capital raised it ranks among the largest (ahead of 98% of sector peers), and among the largest 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: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A — the company may have raised it under a different exemption, merged it into an adjacent record, or skipped it. Sequence completeness: 50%.
Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Series D+ — a $100M–$400M round). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks scaled by the space/aerospace sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.
Benchmarked against 133 companies in Space / Aerospace. 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 98% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 96% of peers (estimate).
A tighter cohort than the sector chart above — only companies at the same stage (Series D+) 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.
Not enough valued peers in this cohort to chart positioning.
| Company | Stage | Raised · real | Value · est | vs peer med. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Star Aviation Investments, LLC | Series D+ | $224.1M | $3.9B | 1.42× |
| Firefly Aerospace Inc. this company | Series D+ | $492.0M | $1.6B | 0.58× |
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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series C | $75.0M | 2021-04-16 | $500.0M | $1.5B | 90% |
| Series C | $50.0M | 2022-03-22 | $333.3M | $777.6M | 90% |
| Series B | $30.2M | 2023-02-02 | $168.0M | $311.7M | 90% |
| Series D+ | $179.3M | 2023-02-02 | $1.5B | $2.5B | 90% |
| Series D+ | $12.3M | 2023-07-17 | $102.1M | $151.7M | 90% |
| Series D+ | $175.5M | 2024-10-31 | $1.5B | $1.6B | 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.
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.
| Person | Role | Also runs | Tied since |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kirk Konert | — | 6 other | 2022-03 |
| David Wheeler | — | 5 other | 2024-10 |
| Jed McCaleb | — | 3 other | 2022-03 |
| Jason Kim | — | 2 other | 2024-10 |
| Darren Ma | — | 1 other | 2022-03 |
| Pamela Braden | — | 1 other | 2022-03 |
| Pete Cannito | — | 1 other | 2023-02 |
| Thomas E. Markusic | — | 1 other | 2021-04 |
| Brad E. Schneider | — | — | 2021-04 |
| Chris Emerson | — | — | 2023-02 |
| Chris Shea Emerson | — | — | 2024-10 |
| Dan Fermon | — | — | 2023-02 |
| Daniel Fermon | — | — | 2024-10 |
| Darren E. Ma | — | — | 2021-04 |
| Deborah E. James | — | — | 2021-04 |
| Eric Salwan | — | — | 2022-03 |
| Jed E. McCaleb | — | — | 2021-04 |
| Jed Shea McCaleb | — | — | 2024-10 |
| Kirk Shea Konert | — | — | 2024-10 |
| Marc Shea Weiser | — | — | 2024-10 |
| Paul E. Starnes | — | — | 2021-04 |
| Peter Schumacher | — | — | 2022-03 |
| Pete Starnes | — | — | 2022-03 |
| Robb E. Kulin | — | — | 2021-04 |
Firefly Aerospace Inc. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Science Corp | Other Technology | Series D+ | $407.0M | $1.7B | network1 shared operator · same stage |
| West Star Aviation Investments, LLC | Space / Aerospace | Series D+ | $224.1M | $3.9B | same sector · same stage |
| Spaceflight Industries, Inc. | Space / Aerospace | Series D+ | $183.2M | $1.0B | same sector · same stage |
| IA Aviation Pipelines Holding (UA-AIE) LP | Space / Aerospace | Series D+ | $145.6M | $3.8B | same sector · same stage |
| Loft Orbital Solutions Inc. | Space / Aerospace | Series D+ | $114.8M | $2.1B | same sector · same stage |
| CH Ultimate Holdings, LLC | Other | Series C | $45.2M | $775.8M | network2 shared operators |
| Gryphon Parent, LLC | Other | Series B | $28.0M | $465.2M | network2 shared operators |
| Yellowstone Ultimate Holdings, LP | Other Technology | Growth/Late | $555.1M | $10.8B | network1 shared operator |
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.
| Company | Sector | Stage | Value · est | Match |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firehawk Aerospace Inc. | Space / Aerospace | Series A | $2.2M | 89% |
| SpaceCraft, Inc. | Space / Aerospace | Seed | $32.7M | 84% |
| Spaceflight Industries, Inc. | Space / Aerospace | Series D+ | $1.0B | 83% |
| Frontier Aerospace Corp | Space / Aerospace | Series A | $59.6M | 82% |
| Venus Aerospace Corp. | Space / Aerospace | Series B | $148.3M | 81% |
| FreeFall Aerospace, Inc. | Space / Aerospace | Seed | $2.2M | 81% |
| Pierce Aerospace Inc | Space / Aerospace | Seed | $19.6M | 81% |
| FireFly Energy Solutions, LLC | Energy / Climate | Pre-Seed | $2.8M | 81% |
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