Companies · Consumer / Retail

Forte Brands LLC

MILFORD · Consumer / Retail · refined from filed group “Other

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Forte Brands LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$425K
Total raised · real
1
Rounds
Latest step-up
Top 20%
Sector rank · raised
Pre-Seed
Latest stage · inferred · Fri Oct 30 2020 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Forte Brands 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 retail 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 1.42× the median modeled value of Pre-Seed Consumer / Retail companies in 2019–2021 (34 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
  • Within the normal band (142% of peer median) for its niche.
Dormant
  • Last raise 5.7 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 15 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

Forte Brands 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
5.7 yr record
Peak capital year was 2020 with $425K across 1 filings.
Market position
ahead of 81% of Consumer / Retail peers
Capital scale is ahead of 81% of Consumer / Retail peers; modeled value is above 84% 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 2020: $425K across 1 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $425K on 2020-10-30.
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 Consumer / Retail

Forte Brands LLC is one of 1161 Consumer / Retail companies tracked from MILFORD. By capital raised it ranks in the upper tier (ahead of 81% 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
No revenue
Issuer revenue
Rule 506(c)
Reg D exemption
17
Investors (latest)
2020
Year incorporated
2020-10-30
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$1.3M$2.5M$3.8M$5.0MPre-Seed · 2020-10-30 Raised $425K (real) Modeled valuation $3.0M (est)$425K$3.0MPre-Seed2020

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$425K · 2020

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

Modeled valuation trajectory
$3.0M
Base estimate est.
$255K
Conservative case
$31.2M
Upside case
$2.4M
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 retail sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.

Model inputs · modeled:benchmark-stage-stepup-v1
18%
Dilution assumption
Implied ownership sold in the financing.
27%
Survival probability
11% low · 50% high
1.32×/yr
Annual markup
1.78×/yr upside case
5.7 yr
Elapsed time used
5.7 yr actual, capped for stale marks
retail
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
Avg between rounds
Capital velocity
5.7 yr
On record since
2020
First round
1
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 1161 companies in Consumer / Retail. 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) 0.1× of median
This company$425K
Sector median$3.3M
Latest round — vs other Pre-Seed rounds in sector (real $, this stage) 1.1× above median
This company$425K
Sector median$371K
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 0.4× of median
This company$3.0M
Sector median$7.9M

Raised more than 81% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 84% 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 #13 of 34.

This companyCohort peer
$1.0M$10.0M$100K$1.0M$10.0MCapital raised (log)Betterment Retail Solutions, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $7.8M (est)Barber & Brand LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $809K · modeled $6.3M (est)Volition Beauty, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $775K · modeled $6.1M (est)Red White & Bloom Brands Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $1.3M · modeled $6.0M (est)Targeted Shopping Solutions, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $790K · modeled $5.7M (est)CannAmerica Brands Corp. · Pre-Seed Raised $723K · modeled $5.7M (est)Legend Commerce LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $841K · modeled $5.4M (est)Criquet Apparel, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $1.7M · modeled $5.3M (est)Tern Commerce Inc · Pre-Seed Raised $750K · modeled $4.4M (est)Morf Worldwide Brands Inc · Pre-Seed Raised $600K · modeled $4.2M (est)Windward Brands LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $525K · modeled $4.1M (est)Overland Retail Portfolio I, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $400K · modeled $3.0M (est)Forte Brands LLC (this company) Raised $425K · modeled $3.0M (est)Forte Brands LLC
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
Betterment Retail Solutions, Inc.Pre-Seed$1.0M$7.8M3.66×
Barber & Brand LLCPre-Seed$809K$6.3M2.96×
Volition Beauty, Inc.Pre-Seed$775K$6.1M2.84×
Red White & Bloom Brands Inc.Pre-Seed$1.3M$6.0M2.81×
Targeted Shopping Solutions, Inc.Pre-Seed$790K$5.7M2.68×
CannAmerica Brands Corp.Pre-Seed$723K$5.7M2.65×
Legend Commerce LLCPre-Seed$841K$5.4M2.51×
Criquet Apparel, Inc.Pre-Seed$1.7M$5.3M2.49×
Tern Commerce IncPre-Seed$750K$4.4M2.07×
Morf Worldwide Brands IncPre-Seed$600K$4.2M1.95×
Windward Brands LLCPre-Seed$525K$4.1M1.92×
Overland Retail Portfolio I, LLCPre-Seed$400K$3.0M1.42×
Forte Brands LLC this companyPre-Seed$425K$3.0M1.42×
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$425K2020-10-30$2.4M$3.0M90%
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$425K2020-10-30
    • First recorded raise — entered as Pre-Seed.
    • 17 investors on this round.
Intelligence
Modeled next raise
$680K
Modeled next size est.range $442K$1.1M
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
David Kotovsky2020-10
Erin Bittner2020-10
Howard Frankel2020-10
Jimmy Georgitsos2020-10
Registry & provenance

Forte Brands 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
1831314
SEC CIK
2020
Incorporated
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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Overland Retail Portfolio I, LLCConsumer / RetailPre-Seed$400K$3.0Msame sector · same stage
Shopagon, Inc.Consumer / RetailPre-Seed$400K$3.1Msame sector · same stage
Victoria's Retail Portfolio 1, LLCConsumer / RetailPre-Seed$395K$1.1Msame sector · same stage
Vodka Brands CorpConsumer / RetailPre-Seed$463K$3.6Msame sector · same stage
Store Research Inc.Consumer / RetailPre-Seed$465K$1.6Msame sector · same stage
Homegrown Growth LLC - Series Sugarcoat Beauty 1Consumer / RetailPre-Seed$379K$994Ksame 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
PRE Brands LLCConsumer / RetailSeed$1.6M83%
Wilde Brands Inc.Consumer / RetailSeed$18.9M82%
Behold Brands, Inc.Consumer / RetailPre-Seed$1.2M82%
Backforty Brands LLCConsumer / RetailPre-Seed$2.5M82%
Sound Brands LLCConsumer / RetailPre-Seed$3.1M82%
Pattern Brands, Inc.Consumer / RetailSeries A$43.7M81%
Morf Worldwide Brands IncConsumer / RetailPre-Seed$4.2M81%
Engine Brands, LLCConsumer / RetailPre-Seed$2.1M81%
Frequently asked
How much funding has Forte Brands LLC raised?
Forte Brands LLC has raised approximately $425K in disclosed capital across 1 recorded financing round, aggregated from public filings.
What is Forte Brands LLC's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for Forte Brands LLC is approximately $3.0M (modeled range $255K–$31.2M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is Forte Brands LLC at?
Forte Brands LLC's latest modeled financing stage is Pre-Seed. Its most recent recorded round closed around Fri Oct 30.
What does Forte Brands LLC do and where is it based?
Forte Brands LLC operates in the Consumer / Retail sector, based in MILFORD.
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