Companies · Manufacturing

GLW Foot & Ankle LLC

WAXHAW · Manufacturing

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on GLW Foot & Ankle LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$110K
Total raised · real
1
Rounds
Latest step-up
Top 98%
Sector rank · raised
Pre-Seed
Latest stage · inferred · Wed Apr 25 2018 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

GLW Foot & Ankle LLC looks under-valued 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.

Under-valued
  • Modeled value is 0.31× the median modeled value of Pre-Seed Manufacturing companies in 2016–2018 (231 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
Dormant
  • Last raise 8.2 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

GLW Foot & Ankle 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
8.2 yr record
Peak capital year was 2018 with $110K across 1 filings.
Market position
ahead of 3% of Manufacturing peers
Capital scale is ahead of 3% of Manufacturing peers; modeled value is above 11% 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 2018: $110K across 1 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $110K on 2018-04-25.
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 Manufacturing

GLW Foot & Ankle LLC is one of 3257 Manufacturing companies tracked from WAXHAW. By capital raised it ranks in the long tail (ahead of 3% of sector peers), and in the long tail 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(b)
Reg D exemption
3
Investors (latest)
2017
Year incorporated
2018-04-25
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$500K$1.0M$1.5M$2.0MPre-Seed · 2018-04-25 Raised $110K (real) Modeled valuation $1.7M (est)$110K$1.7MPre-Seed2018

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$110K · 2018

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

Modeled valuation trajectory
$1.7M
Base estimate est.
$75K
Conservative case
$19.0M
Upside case
$611K
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 manufacturing 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.
31%
Survival probability
12% low · 56% high
1.44×/yr
Annual markup
1.95×/yr upside case
6.0 yr
Elapsed time used
8.2 yr actual, capped for stale marks
manufacturing
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
Avg between rounds
Capital velocity
8.2 yr
On record since
2018
First round
1
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market

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.

Total raised — vs sector median (real $, all stages) 0.1× of median
This company$110K
Sector median$2.0M
Latest round — vs other Pre-Seed rounds in sector (real $, this stage) 0.3× of median
This company$110K
Sector median$350K
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 0.1× of median
This company$1.7M
Sector median$12.0M

Raised more than 3% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 11% 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 #215 of 231.

This companyCohort peer
$1.0M$10.0M$100.0M$10K$100K$1.0M$10.0MCapital raised (log)Thorp Lane, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $15.3M (est)NANOPHASE TECHNOLOGIES Corp · Pre-Seed Raised $2.0M · modeled $15.3M (est)WholeMe, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $15.3M (est)Shock Mitigation Technologies, Inc · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $15.3M (est)Southwood Holding Company, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $15.3M (est)Peachicana Products Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $15.3M (est)Dannijo, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $15.3M (est)Construction Robotics, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $2.2M · modeled $15.3M (est)SAC Inc · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $15.3M (est)Blue Blaze Brewing, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $1.5M · modeled $15.3M (est)eatingEVOLVED, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $15.3M (est)Safeguard Equipment Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $1.3M · modeled $15.3M (est)GLW Foot & Ankle LLC (this company) Raised $110K · modeled $1.7M (est)GLW Foot & Ankle LLC
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
Thorp Lane, Inc.Pre-Seed$1.0M$15.3M2.86×
NANOPHASE TECHNOLOGIES CorpPre-Seed$2.0M$15.3M2.86×
WholeMe, LLCPre-Seed$1.0M$15.3M2.86×
Shock Mitigation Technologies, IncPre-Seed$1.0M$15.3M2.86×
Southwood Holding Company, Inc.Pre-Seed$1.0M$15.3M2.86×
Peachicana Products Inc.Pre-Seed$1.0M$15.3M2.86×
Dannijo, Inc.Pre-Seed$1.0M$15.3M2.86×
Construction Robotics, LLCPre-Seed$2.2M$15.3M2.86×
SAC IncPre-Seed$1.0M$15.3M2.86×
Blue Blaze Brewing, Inc.Pre-Seed$1.5M$15.3M2.86×
eatingEVOLVED, LLCPre-Seed$1.0M$15.3M2.86×
Safeguard Equipment Inc.Pre-Seed$1.3M$15.3M2.86×
GLW Foot & Ankle LLC this companyPre-Seed$110K$1.7M0.31×
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$110K2018-04-25$611K$1.7M90%
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$110K2018-04-25
    • First recorded raise — entered as Pre-Seed.
    • 3 investors on this round.
Intelligence
Modeled next raise
$176K
Modeled next size est.range $114K$282K
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
Thomas H. Lee6 other2018-04
Peter William Wapner2 other2018-04
Vadim Gurevich2 other2018-04
Registry & provenance

GLW Foot & Ankle 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
1762265
SEC CIK
2017
Incorporated
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Frequently asked
How much funding has GLW Foot & Ankle LLC raised?
GLW Foot & Ankle LLC has raised approximately $110K in disclosed capital across 1 recorded financing round, aggregated from public filings.
What is GLW Foot & Ankle LLC's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for GLW Foot & Ankle LLC is approximately $1.7M (modeled range $75K–$19.0M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is GLW Foot & Ankle LLC at?
GLW Foot & Ankle LLC's latest modeled financing stage is Pre-Seed. Its most recent recorded round closed around Wed Apr 25.
What does GLW Foot & Ankle LLC do and where is it based?
GLW Foot & Ankle LLC operates in the Manufacturing sector, based in WAXHAW.
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