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Gridiron Energy, LLC

New York · Electric Utilities

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Gridiron Energy, LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$900.0M
Total raised · real
1
Rounds
Latest step-up
Top 3%
Sector rank · raised
Growth/Late
Latest stage · inferred · Wed Apr 19 2017 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Gridiron Energy, LLC has raised $900M 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 utilities 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 9.2 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 10 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

Gridiron Energy, 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
9.2 yr record
Peak capital year was 2017 with $900.0M across 1 filings.
Market position
ahead of 98% of Electric Utilities peers
Capital scale is ahead of 98% of Electric Utilities peers; modeled value is above 98% 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 2017: $900.0M across 1 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $900.0M on 2017-04-19.
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 Electric Utilities

Gridiron Energy, LLC is one of 133 Electric Utilities companies tracked from New York. By capital raised it ranks among the largest (ahead of 98% of sector peers), and among the largest 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
63
Investors (latest)
2017
Year incorporated
2017-04-19
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$2.5B$5.0B$7.5B$10.0BGrowth/Late · 2017-04-19 Raised $900M (real) Modeled valuation $8.9B (est)$900M$8.9BGrowth/Late2017

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
Growth/Late$900.0M · 2017

Stages are modeled from round size (public records carry no series label). No record for: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Series D+ — the company may have raised it under a different exemption, merged it into an adjacent record, or skipped it. Sequence completeness: 14%.

Modeled valuation trajectory
$8.9B
Base estimate est.
$7.4B
Conservative case
$15.5B
Upside case
$9.0B
Modeled post-money

Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Growth/Latea round over $400M). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks scaled by the utilities sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.

Model inputs · modeled:benchmark-stage-stepup-v1
10%
Dilution assumption
Implied ownership sold in the financing.
95%
Survival probability
82% low · 98% high
1.01×/yr
Annual markup
1.10×/yr upside case
6.0 yr
Elapsed time used
9.2 yr actual, capped for stale marks
utilities
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
Avg between rounds
Capital velocity
9.2 yr
On record since
2017
First round
1
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 133 companies in Electric Utilities. 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) 112× above median
This company$900.0M
Sector median$8.0M
Latest round — vs other Growth/Late rounds in sector (real $, this stage) 2.0× above median
This company$900.0M
Sector median$458.5M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 227× above median
This company$8.9B
Sector median$39.4M

Raised more than 98% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 98% of peers (estimate).

Niche peers — same stage & era

A tighter cohort than the sector chart above — only companies at the same stage (Growth/Late) 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
$1.0B$10.0B$100.0M$1.0BCapital raised (log)Gridiron Energy Feeder I, L.P. · Growth/Late Raised $900.0M · modeled $8.9B (est)Firstenergy Corp · Growth/Late Raised $500.0M · modeled $5.0B (est)Gridiron Energy, LLC (this company) Raised $900.0M · modeled $8.9B (est)Gridiron Energy, LLC
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
Gridiron Energy Feeder I, L.P.Growth/Late$900.0M$8.9B1.00×
Gridiron Energy, LLC this companyGrowth/Late$900.0M$8.9B1.00×
Firstenergy CorpGrowth/Late$500.0M$5.0B0.56×
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.
Growth/Late$900.0M2017-04-19$9.0B$8.9B90%
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. Growth/Late$900.0M2017-04-19
    • First recorded raise — entered as Growth/Late.
    • 63 investors on this round.
Intelligence
Modeled next raise
$1.4B
Modeled next size est.range $936.0M$2.3B
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
John Burke13 other2017-04
Mark Brennan11 other2017-04
Scott Carver7 other2017-04
Jobey Eddleman6 other2017-04
Darpan Kapadia5 other2017-04
David Marshall5 other2017-04
David Sass5 other2017-04
James Bartlett2 other2017-04
David Nanus1 other2017-04
John Staikos1 other2017-04
Joseph Esteves1 other2017-04
Joseph Myers1 other2017-04
Richard Roloff1 other2017-04
Shimon Edelstein1 other2017-04
Registry & provenance

Gridiron Energy, 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
1703939
SEC CIK
2017
Incorporated
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.

CompanySectorStageRaised · realValue · estWhy similar
Gridiron Energy Feeder I, L.P.Electric UtilitiesGrowth/Late$900.0M$8.9Bnetwork14 shared operators · same sector · same stage
Wde Partners, L.P.Electric UtilitiesSeries D+$325.3M$3.1Bnetwork5 shared operators · same sector
Wde Partners Spv B, L.P.Electric UtilitiesSeries C$66.5M$636.3Mnetwork5 shared operators · same sector
Wde Partners Spv A, L.P.Electric UtilitiesSeries C$44.2M$423.1Mnetwork5 shared operators · same sector
East Rock Wde Partners, L.P.Electric UtilitiesSeries C$40.5M$387.0Mnetwork5 shared operators · same sector
Base Electric & Water Corp.Electric UtilitiesGrowth/Late$1.1B$9.6Bsame sector · same stage
Entegra TC LLCElectric UtilitiesGrowth/Late$521.1M$4.9Bsame sector · same stage
Firstenergy CorpElectric UtilitiesGrowth/Late$500.0M$5.0Bsame sector · same stage
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.

CompanySectorStageValue · estMatch
Gridiron Energy Feeder I, L.P.Electric UtilitiesGrowth/Late$8.9B91%
Agilon Energy, LLCElectric UtilitiesSeries B$247.3M84%
Gridless Power CorpOther EnergyPre-Seed$11.3M82%
ED Energy Delivered CorpElectric UtilitiesSeries A$52.4M82%
Sandow Lakes Energy Company, LLCElectric UtilitiesSeries B$140.6M82%
Good Power Holdings, LLCElectric UtilitiesSeed$2.9M82%
Firstenergy CorpElectric UtilitiesGrowth/Late$5.0B82%
Gridspan Energy LLCOther EnergyPre-Seed$2.5M82%
Frequently asked
How much funding has Gridiron Energy, LLC raised?
Gridiron Energy, LLC has raised approximately $900.0M in disclosed capital across 1 recorded financing round, aggregated from public filings.
What is Gridiron Energy, LLC's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for Gridiron Energy, LLC is approximately $8.9B (modeled range $7.4B–$15.5B). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is Gridiron Energy, LLC at?
Gridiron Energy, LLC's latest modeled financing stage is Growth/Late. Its most recent recorded round closed around Wed Apr 19.
What does Gridiron Energy, LLC do and where is it based?
Gridiron Energy, LLC operates in the Electric Utilities sector, based in New York.
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