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Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on French Broad Chocolates Llc — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→French Broad Chocolates 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 manufacturing sector profile.
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.
French Broad Chocolates Llc behaves more like a recurring private-offering issuer than a conventional venture-backed operating company.
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.
French Broad Chocolates Llc is one of 3257 Manufacturing companies tracked from ASHEVILLE. By capital raised it ranks in the long tail (ahead of 23% 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.
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). Ladder is contiguous — every modeled rung has a record.
Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Pre-Seed — a round under $1.0M). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks scaled by the manufacturing sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.
Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.
Benchmarked against 3257 companies in Manufacturing. 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 23% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 41% of peers (estimate).
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 #77 of 231.
| Company | Stage | Raised · real | Value · est | vs peer med. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thorp Lane, Inc. | Pre-Seed | $1.0M | $15.3M | 2.86× |
| NANOPHASE TECHNOLOGIES Corp | Pre-Seed | $2.0M | $15.3M | 2.86× |
| WholeMe, LLC | Pre-Seed | $1.0M | $15.3M | 2.86× |
| Shock Mitigation Technologies, Inc | Pre-Seed | $1.0M | $15.3M | 2.86× |
| Southwood Holding Company, Inc. | Pre-Seed | $1.0M | $15.3M | 2.86× |
| Peachicana Products Inc. | Pre-Seed | $1.0M | $15.3M | 2.86× |
| Dannijo, Inc. | Pre-Seed | $1.0M | $15.3M | 2.86× |
| Construction Robotics, LLC | Pre-Seed | $2.2M | $15.3M | 2.86× |
| SAC Inc | Pre-Seed | $1.0M | $15.3M | 2.86× |
| Blue Blaze Brewing, Inc. | Pre-Seed | $1.5M | $15.3M | 2.86× |
| eatingEVOLVED, LLC | Pre-Seed | $1.0M | $15.3M | 2.86× |
| Safeguard Equipment Inc. | Pre-Seed | $1.3M | $15.3M | 2.86× |
| French Broad Chocolates Llc this company | Pre-Seed | $500K | $7.6M | 1.43× |
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 | $500K | 2017-09-02 | $2.8M | $7.6M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel Rattigan | — | — | 2017-09 |
| Jael Rattigan | — | — | 2017-09 |
French Broad Chocolates 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3D Build Systems LLC | Manufacturing | Pre-Seed | $500K | $7.6M | same sector · same stage |
| Adaptivenergy Llc | Manufacturing | Pre-Seed | $500K | $7.6M | same sector · same stage |
| Aldila Inc | Manufacturing | Pre-Seed | $500K | $7.6M | same sector · same stage |
| American Pipe & Plastics Merger Corp. | Manufacturing | Pre-Seed | $500K | $7.6M | same sector · same stage |
| Custom Green Coke, Inc. | Manufacturing | Pre-Seed | $500K | $7.6M | same sector · same stage |
| Da Vinci Manufacturing & Distribution, Inc. | Manufacturing | Pre-Seed | $500K | $7.6M | same sector · same stage |
| Dayton Solid State Lighting Technology LP | Manufacturing | Pre-Seed | $500K | $7.6M | same sector · same stage |
| Fish People Corp | Manufacturing | Pre-Seed | $500K | $7.6M | same sector · same stage |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| World's Finest Chocolate, Inc. | Manufacturing | Series A | $76.1M | 87% |
| Trade Secret Chocolates, LLC | Manufacturing | Series B | $177.2M | 86% |
| Fran Co LLC | Manufacturing | Pre-Seed | $4.6M | 81% |
| Sweet Tooth Holdings, LLC | Manufacturing | Series A | $41.5M | 81% |
| Maple Hill Creamery LLC | Manufacturing | Series B | $170.0M | 81% |
| Twenty-Two Desserts, Inc. | Manufacturing | Pre-Seed | $2.1M | 80% |
| BC's Brewing Company, LLC | Manufacturing | Pre-Seed | $1.1M | 80% |
| Whole Coffee Co LLC | Manufacturing | Series B | $174.2M | 80% |
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