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Great Northern & Southern Navigation Co., LLC

AVONDALE · Other Travel

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Great Northern & Southern Navigation Co., LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→
$3.8M
Total raised · real
1
Rounds
—
Latest step-up
Top 40%
Sector rank · raised
Seed
Latest stage · inferred · Fri Sep 23 2016 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Great Northern & Southern Navigation Co., LLC looks over-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 travel sector profile.

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

Over-valued
  • Modeled value is 1.73× the median modeled value of Seed Other Travel companies in 2016–2018 (11 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
Dormant
  • Last raise 9.8 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 9 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

Great Northern & Southern Navigation Co., 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
10.0 yr record
Peak capital year was 2016 with $3.8M across 1 filings.
Market position
ahead of 61% of Other Travel peers
Capital scale is ahead of 61% of Other Travel peers; modeled value is above 73% 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 2016: $3.8M across 1 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $3.8M on 2016-09-23.
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 Other Travel

Great Northern & Southern Navigation Co., LLC is one of 176 Other Travel companies tracked from AVONDALE. By capital raised it ranks mid-pack (ahead of 61% 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
Rule 506(b)
Reg D exemption
14
Investors (latest)
2014
Year incorporated
2016-09-23
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$13M$25M$38M$50MSeed · 2016-09-23 Raised $3.8M (real) Modeled valuation $27M (est)$3.8M$27MSeed2016

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$3.8M · 2016

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
$27.3M
Base estimate est.
$3.0M
Conservative case
$213.9M
Upside case
$19.0M
Modeled post-money

Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Seed — a $1.0M–$4.0M round). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks scaled by the travel 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.
36%
Survival probability
16% low · 55% high
1.26×/yr
Annual markup
1.65×/yr upside case
6.0 yr
Elapsed time used
9.8 yr actual, capped for stale marks
travel
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
—
Avg between rounds
—
Capital velocity
10.0 yr
On record since
2016
First round
1
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 176 companies in Other Travel. 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$3.8M
Sector median$2.5M
Latest round — vs other Seed rounds in sector (real $, this stage)▲ 2.0× above median
This company$3.8M
Sector median$1.9M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages)▲ 3.1× above median
This company$27.3M
Sector median$8.9M

Raised more than 61% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 73% 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 #1 of 11.

This companyCohort peer
$1.0M$10.0M$100.0M$1.0M$10.0M$100.0MCapital raised (log)Paravel Inc. · Seed Raised $3.4M · modeled $22.8M (est)InnerSea Discoveries Alaska, Inc. · Seed Raised $3.1M · modeled $22.3M (est)Skedaddle, Inc. · Seed Raised $3.1M · modeled $19.1M (est)Oasis Luxury Rentals Inc · Seed Raised $11.0M · modeled $17.9M (est)kimkim, inc. · Seed Raised $2.6M · modeled $15.8M (est)DesLauriers Ralph R · Seed Raised $2.0M · modeled $14.3M (est)Safari Explorer, LLC · Seed Raised $2.0M · modeled $14.3M (est)Triumph FBO Holdings, LLC · Seed Raised $1.9M · modeled $13.4M (est)Clever Travel Inc. · Seed Raised $1.2M · modeled $8.6M (est)Closer Mobile, Inc. · Seed Raised $1.4M · modeled $7.4M (est)Great Northern & Southern Navigation Co., LLC (this company) Raised $3.8M · modeled $27.3M (est)Great Northern & Southern Navigation Co., LLC
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
Great Northern & Southern Navigation Co., LLC this companySeed$3.8M$27.3M1.73×
Paravel Inc.Seed$3.4M$22.8M1.44×
InnerSea Discoveries Alaska, Inc.Seed$3.1M$22.3M1.41×
Skedaddle, Inc.Seed$3.1M$19.1M1.21×
Oasis Luxury Rentals IncSeed$11.0M$17.9M1.13×
kimkim, inc.Seed$2.6M$15.8M1.00×
DesLauriers Ralph RSeed$2.0M$14.3M0.91×
Safari Explorer, LLCSeed$2.0M$14.3M0.91×
Triumph FBO Holdings, LLCSeed$1.9M$13.4M0.85×
Clever Travel Inc.Seed$1.2M$8.6M0.55×
Closer Mobile, Inc.Seed$1.4M$7.4M0.47×
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$3.8M2016-09-23$19.0M$27.3M90%
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$3.8M2016-09-23
    • First recorded raise — entered as Seed.
    • 14 investors on this round.
Intelligence
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Modeled next raise
$6.1M
Modeled next size est.range $4.0M–$9.7M
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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
Christopher Kyte——2016-09
David Christopher Tidmore——2016-09
D. Kendall Grigsby——2016-09
Douglas Kendall Charboneau——2016-09
Regina Christopher Charboneau——2016-09
Registry & provenance

Great Northern & Southern Navigation Co., 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
1685343
SEC CIK
2014
Incorporated
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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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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.

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Frequently asked
How much funding has Great Northern & Southern Navigation Co., LLC raised?
Great Northern & Southern Navigation Co., LLC has raised approximately $3.8M in disclosed capital across 1 recorded financing round, aggregated from public filings.
What is Great Northern & Southern Navigation Co., LLC's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for Great Northern & Southern Navigation Co., LLC is approximately $27.3M (modeled range $3.0M–$213.9M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is Great Northern & Southern Navigation Co., LLC at?
Great Northern & Southern Navigation Co., LLC's latest modeled financing stage is Seed. Its most recent recorded round closed around Fri Sep 23.
What does Great Northern & Southern Navigation Co., LLC do and where is it based?
Great Northern & Southern Navigation Co., LLC operates in the Other Travel sector, based in AVONDALE.
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