Companies · Retailing

Gold Capital, LLC

PADUCAH · Retailing

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Gold Capital, LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$3.0M
Total raised · real
2
Rounds
1.7×
Latest step-up
Top 38%
Sector rank · raised
Seed
Latest stage · inferred · Thu Aug 28 2014 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Gold Capital, 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 1.29× the median modeled value of Seed Retailing companies in 2013–2015 (103 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
  • Within the normal band (129% of peer median) for its niche.
Dormant
  • Last raise 11.8 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 13 months.
  • Silent for over 3× the sector's normal cadence.

Procedural diagnosis est. — rule-based common-sense checks over the filing pattern, issuer name, activity cadence, and surfaced operating evidence.

Issuer-vehicle patternmedium confidence

Gold Capital, 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
14.4 yr record
Peak capital year was 2014 with $1.9M across 1 filings.
Market position
ahead of 63% of Retailing peers
Capital scale is ahead of 63% of Retailing peers; modeled value is above 67% 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 2014: $1.9M across 1 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $1.9M on 2014-08-28.
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 Retailing

Gold Capital, LLC is one of 2347 Retailing companies tracked from PADUCAH. By capital raised it ranks mid-pack (ahead of 63% 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
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$5.0M$10M$15M$20MSeed · 2012-01-30 Raised $1.1M (real) Modeled valuation $7.2M (est)$1.1M$7.2MSeed2012Seed · 2014-08-28 Raised $1.9M (real) Modeled valuation $12M (est)$1.9M$12MSeed2014+$1.9MCumulative $3.0M

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$1.1M · 2012
Seed extension$1.9M · 2014

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
$12.0M
Base estimate est.
$1.5M
Conservative case
$94.1M
Upside case
$9.5M
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 retail sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Seed · modeled $7.2M · 2012-01-302012Seed · modeled $12.0M · 2014-08-282014
Model inputs · modeled:benchmark-stage-stepup-v1
20%
Dilution assumption
Implied ownership sold in the financing.
36%
Survival probability
16% low · 56% high
1.23×/yr
Annual markup
1.61×/yr upside case
6.0 yr
Elapsed time used
11.8 yr actual, capped for stale marks
retail
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
31 mo
Avg between rounds
$1.2M/yr
Capital velocity
14.4 yr
On record since
2012
First round
2
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 2347 companies in Retailing. 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) 1.9× above median
This company$3.0M
Sector median$1.6M
Latest round — vs other Seed rounds in sector (real $, this stage) 1.1× above median
This company$1.9M
Sector median$1.7M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 2.1× above median
This company$12.0M
Sector median$5.8M

Raised more than 63% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 67% 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 #35 of 103.

This companyCohort peer
$10.0M$100.0M$1.0M$10.0MCapital raised (log)DK Equity, LLC · Seed Raised $3.7M · modeled $23.4M (est)Pam & Gela, Inc. · Seed Raised $3.5M · modeled $22.1M (est)Kaufmann Mercantile, Inc. · Seed Raised $3.6M · modeled $22.1M (est)Only Natural Pet Store, LLC · Seed Raised $7.8M · modeled $21.7M (est)ROOY, Inc. · Seed Raised $3.5M · modeled $21.5M (est)Migdal 1 LLC · Seed Raised $3.3M · modeled $21.1M (est)Marine Layer, Inc. · Seed Raised $7.0M · modeled $20.5M (est)Fastener Investors, LLC · Seed Raised $6.4M · modeled $20.5M (est)Kidtellect, Inc. · Seed Raised $3.6M · modeled $20.3M (est)American Eagle Outfitters Inc · Seed Raised $3.1M · modeled $19.5M (est)Tuckernuck, Inc. · Seed Raised $3.1M · modeled $19.4M (est)A-1 Screenprinting, LLC · Seed Raised $3.0M · modeled $18.9M (est)Gold Capital, LLC (this company) Raised $3.0M · modeled $12.0M (est)Gold Capital, LLC
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
DK Equity, LLCSeed$3.7M$23.4M2.53×
Pam & Gela, Inc.Seed$3.5M$22.1M2.38×
Kaufmann Mercantile, Inc.Seed$3.6M$22.1M2.38×
Only Natural Pet Store, LLCSeed$7.8M$21.7M2.34×
ROOY, Inc.Seed$3.5M$21.5M2.32×
Migdal 1 LLCSeed$3.3M$21.1M2.28×
Marine Layer, Inc.Seed$7.0M$20.5M2.21×
Fastener Investors, LLCSeed$6.4M$20.5M2.21×
Kidtellect, Inc.Seed$3.6M$20.3M2.19×
American Eagle Outfitters IncSeed$3.1M$19.5M2.10×
Tuckernuck, Inc.Seed$3.1M$19.4M2.09×
A-1 Screenprinting, LLCSeed$3.0M$18.9M2.04×
Gold Capital, LLC this companySeed$3.0M$12.0M1.29×
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$1.1M2012-01-30$5.7M$7.2M90%
Seed$1.9M2014-08-28$9.5M$12.0M90%
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$1.1M2012-01-30
    • First recorded raise — entered as Seed.
  2. Seed$1.9M2014-08-28
    • Raised again after 31 mo — slower than the ~13 mo sector norm.
    • Round 1.7× larger than the prior — scaling up.
Intelligence
2017 ~Q1
Modeled next raise · ~31mo cadence
$3.2M
Modeled next size est.range $2.1M$5.1M
1.7×
Last step-up
$1.2M/yr
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
Daniel Burnett10 other2012-01
Jeff Golightly2012-01
Wayne Golightly2012-01
Registry & provenance

Gold Capital, 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
1540607
SEC CIK
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Frequently asked
How much funding has Gold Capital, LLC raised?
Gold Capital, LLC has raised approximately $3.0M in disclosed capital across 2 recorded financing rounds, aggregated from public filings.
What is Gold Capital, LLC's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for Gold Capital, LLC is approximately $12.0M (modeled range $1.5M–$94.1M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is Gold Capital, LLC at?
Gold Capital, LLC's latest modeled financing stage is Seed. Its most recent recorded round closed around Thu Aug 28.
What does Gold Capital, LLC do and where is it based?
Gold Capital, LLC operates in the Retailing sector, based in PADUCAH.
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