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Franklin Hotel Investors LLC

CHAPEL HILL · Lodging and Conventions

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Franklin Hotel Investors LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$3.7M
Total raised · real
1
Rounds
Latest step-up
Top 38%
Sector rank · raised
Seed
Latest stage · inferred · Tue Jul 07 2009 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Franklin Hotel Investors LLC has raised $3.7M over 1 round; 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 lodging sector profile.

Analyst read est. — computed against this company's niche peers in the same era. Inputs shown; not a quoted figure.

Dormant
  • Last raise 17.0 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

Franklin Hotel Investors 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
17.0 yr record
Peak capital year was 2009 with $3.7M across 1 filings.
Market position
ahead of 63% of Lodging and Conventions peers
Capital scale is ahead of 63% of Lodging and Conventions 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 2009: $3.7M across 1 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $3.7M on 2009-07-07.
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

Franklin Hotel Investors LLC is one of 514 Lodging and Conventions companies tracked from CHAPEL HILL. By capital raised it ranks mid-pack (ahead of 63% 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$13M$25M$38M$50MSeed · 2009-07-07 Raised $3.7M (real) Modeled valuation $21M (est)$3.7M$21MSeed2009

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$3.7M · 2009

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
$21.0M
Base estimate est.
$2.9M
Conservative case
$164.9M
Upside case
$18.3M
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
17.0 yr actual, capped for stale marks
lodging
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
Avg between rounds
Capital velocity
17.0 yr
On record since
2009
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) 1.5× above median
This company$3.7M
Sector median$2.5M
Latest round — vs other Seed rounds in sector (real $, this stage) 1.8× above median
This company$3.7M
Sector median$2.0M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 1.9× above median
This company$21.0M
Sector median$10.8M

Raised more than 63% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 75% 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 companyCohort peer
$1.0M$10.0M$100.0M$1.0M$10.0MCapital raised (log)Birmingham Hotels I, LLC · Seed Raised $2.5M · modeled $14.2M (est)Tidewater Inn, LLC · Seed Raised $2.5M · modeled $14.1M (est)Woodlands Lodging LS, LLC · Seed Raised $1.6M · modeled $9.1M (est)Franklin Hotel Investors LLC (this company) Raised $3.7M · modeled $21.0M (est)Franklin Hotel Investors LLC
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
Franklin Hotel Investors LLC this companySeed$3.7M$21.0M1.49×
Birmingham Hotels I, LLCSeed$2.5M$14.2M1.00×
Tidewater Inn, LLCSeed$2.5M$14.1M1.00×
Woodlands Lodging LS, LLCSeed$1.6M$9.1M0.64×
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$3.7M2009-07-07$18.3M$21.0M90%
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. Seed$3.7M2009-07-07
    • First recorded raise — entered as Seed.
Intelligence
Modeled next raise
$5.9M
Modeled next size est.range $3.8M$9.4M
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
Jay Patel5 other2009-07
Registry & provenance

Franklin Hotel Investors 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
1468514
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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Frequently asked
How much funding has Franklin Hotel Investors LLC raised?
Franklin Hotel Investors LLC has raised approximately $3.7M in disclosed capital across 1 recorded financing round, aggregated from public filings.
What is Franklin Hotel Investors LLC's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for Franklin Hotel Investors LLC is approximately $21.0M (modeled range $2.9M–$164.9M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is Franklin Hotel Investors LLC at?
Franklin Hotel Investors LLC's latest modeled financing stage is Seed. Its most recent recorded round closed around Tue Jul 07.
What does Franklin Hotel Investors LLC do and where is it based?
Franklin Hotel Investors LLC operates in the Lodging and Conventions sector, based in CHAPEL HILL.
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