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Fond Du Lac Hotel Group, Llc

WATERLOO · Lodging and Conventions

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Fond Du Lac Hotel Group, Llc — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$1.4M
Total raised · real
1
Rounds
Latest step-up
Top 70%
Sector rank · raised
Seed
Latest stage · inferred · Fri Feb 15 2019 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Fond Du Lac Hotel Group, Llc looks fair 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.

Fair
  • Modeled value is 0.86× the median modeled value of Seed Lodging and Conventions companies in 2019–2021 (51 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
  • Within the normal band (86% of peer median) for its niche.
Dormant
  • Last raise 7.4 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

Fond Du Lac Hotel Group, 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
7.4 yr record
Peak capital year was 2019 with $1.4M across 1 filings.
Market position
ahead of 31% of Lodging and Conventions peers
Capital scale is ahead of 31% of Lodging and Conventions peers; modeled value is above 42% 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 2019: $1.4M across 1 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $1.4M on 2019-02-15.
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

Fond Du Lac Hotel Group, Llc is one of 514 Lodging and Conventions companies tracked from WATERLOO. By capital raised it ranks in the long tail (ahead of 31% 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
Rule 506(b)
Reg D exemption
27
Investors (latest)
2018
Year incorporated
2019-02-15
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$10MSeed · 2019-02-15 Raised $1.4M (real) Modeled valuation $8.2M (est)$1.4M$8.2MSeed2019

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$1.4M · 2019

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
$8.2M
Base estimate est.
$1.1M
Conservative case
$64.0M
Upside case
$7.1M
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 lodging sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.

Model inputs · modeled:benchmark-stage-stepup-v1
20%
Dilution assumption
Implied ownership sold in the financing.
35%
Survival probability
16% low · 55% high
1.22×/yr
Annual markup
1.60×/yr upside case
6.0 yr
Elapsed time used
7.4 yr actual, capped for stale marks
lodging
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
Avg between rounds
Capital velocity
7.4 yr
On record since
2019
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) 0.6× of median
This company$1.4M
Sector median$2.5M
Latest round — vs other Seed rounds in sector (real $, this stage) 0.7× of median
This company$1.4M
Sector median$2.0M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 0.8× of median
This company$8.2M
Sector median$10.8M

Raised more than 31% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 42% of peers (estimate).

Niche peers — same stage & era

A tighter cohort than the sector chart above — only companies at the same stage (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 #34 of 51.

This companyCohort peer
$1.0M$10.0M$100.0M$1.0M$10.0MCapital raised (log)Hobby45 LLC · Seed Raised $4.0M · modeled $19.2M (est)Corning Hotel, LLC · Seed Raised $3.1M · modeled $17.8M (est)First Colonie Co Limited Partnership · Seed Raised $3.0M · modeled $17.5M (est)Madison Hotels Ii, Llc · Seed Raised $3.0M · modeled $17.1M (est)Hailey FF, LLC · Seed Raised $2.9M · modeled $16.7M (est)Central Florida Hospitality Services, LLC · Seed Raised $4.8M · modeled $16.5M (est)HI Schertz LLC · Seed Raised $3.3M · modeled $16.3M (est)Imagine Hospitality, Llc · Seed Raised $3.0M · modeled $16.1M (est)Endeavor Hotel Group LLC · Seed Raised $3.2M · modeled $15.8M (est)Matticus Hospitality Group, Inc. · Seed Raised $3.0M · modeled $15.8M (est)Kona Kai, Llc · Seed Raised $3.2M · modeled $15.5M (est)Texoma35 LLC · Seed Raised $3.4M · modeled $15.0M (est)Fond Du Lac Hotel Group, Llc (this company) Raised $1.4M · modeled $8.2M (est)Fond Du Lac Hotel Group, Llc
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
Hobby45 LLCSeed$4.0M$19.2M2.02×
Corning Hotel, LLCSeed$3.1M$17.8M1.88×
First Colonie Co Limited PartnershipSeed$3.0M$17.5M1.84×
Madison Hotels Ii, LlcSeed$3.0M$17.1M1.80×
Hailey FF, LLCSeed$2.9M$16.7M1.76×
Central Florida Hospitality Services, LLCSeed$4.8M$16.5M1.74×
HI Schertz LLCSeed$3.3M$16.3M1.72×
Imagine Hospitality, LlcSeed$3.0M$16.1M1.70×
Endeavor Hotel Group LLCSeed$3.2M$15.8M1.67×
Matticus Hospitality Group, Inc.Seed$3.0M$15.8M1.66×
Kona Kai, LlcSeed$3.2M$15.5M1.63×
Texoma35 LLCSeed$3.4M$15.0M1.58×
Fond Du Lac Hotel Group, Llc this companySeed$1.4M$8.2M0.86×
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$1.4M2019-02-15$7.1M$8.2M90%
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. Seed$1.4M2019-02-15
    • First recorded raise — entered as Seed.
    • 27 investors on this round.
Intelligence
Modeled next raise
$2.3M
Modeled next size est.range $1.5M$3.6M
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
BJORN KAASHAGEN1 other2019-02
DALE JORGENSEN2019-02
ROBERT BUSH2019-02
Registry & provenance

Fond Du Lac Hotel Group, 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
1767588
SEC CIK
2018
Incorporated
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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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Valley West Inn, LLCLodging and ConventionsSeed$1.4M$2.5Msame sector · same stage
Waverly Hotel Group, LLCLodging and ConventionsSeed$1.4M$2.5Msame sector · same stage
Wixom Hotel Partners, LlcLodging and ConventionsSeed$1.4M$8.0Msame sector · same stage
Big Lake Hotel Group, LLCLodging and ConventionsSeed$1.4M$2.6Msame sector · same stage
Lakin Hotel, LLCLodging and ConventionsSeed$1.4M$2.6Msame sector · same stage
Pine Bluffs Hotel, LLCLodging and ConventionsSeed$1.4M$8.3Msame 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
De Pere Hotel Group, LLCLodging and ConventionsSeed$14.3M86%
Carson Hotel Group, LlcLodging and ConventionsSeed$10.6M84%
De Pere Hotel Associates LLCLodging and ConventionsSeries A$14.1M83%
Holdrege Hotel Group, LLCLodging and ConventionsSeed$7.2M83%
Lamar Hospitality, LLCLodging and ConventionsSeed$11.5M82%
Springfield Hotel, LLCLodging and ConventionsSeries A$20.7M82%
Msf Hotels, LlcLodging and ConventionsSeries A$16.1M81%
West Fargo Hospitality, LLCLodging and ConventionsSeries A$46.8M81%
Frequently asked
How much funding has Fond Du Lac Hotel Group, Llc raised?
Fond Du Lac Hotel Group, Llc has raised approximately $1.4M in disclosed capital across 1 recorded financing round, aggregated from public filings.
What is Fond Du Lac Hotel Group, Llc's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for Fond Du Lac Hotel Group, Llc is approximately $8.2M (modeled range $1.1M–$64.0M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is Fond Du Lac Hotel Group, Llc at?
Fond Du Lac Hotel Group, Llc's latest modeled financing stage is Seed. Its most recent recorded round closed around Fri Feb 15.
What does Fond Du Lac Hotel Group, Llc do and where is it based?
Fond Du Lac Hotel Group, Llc operates in the Lodging and Conventions sector, based in WATERLOO.
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