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Guanacaste Brewing LLC

LORTON · Food & Beverage · refined from filed group “Other”

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Guanacaste Brewing LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→
$410K
Total raised · real
1
Rounds
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Latest step-up
Top 52%
Sector rank · raised
Pre-Seed
Latest stage · inferred · Mon Jan 15 2018 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Guanacaste Brewing 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.

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

Fair
  • Modeled value is 1.16× the median modeled value of Pre-Seed Food & Beverage companies in 2016–2018 (72 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
  • Within the normal band (116% of peer median) for its niche.
Dormant
  • Last raise 8.5 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 15 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

Guanacaste Brewing 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
8.7 yr record
Peak capital year was 2018 with $410K across 1 filings.
Market position
ahead of 49% of Food & Beverage peers
Capital scale is ahead of 49% of Food & Beverage peers; modeled value is above 65% 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: $410K across 1 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $410K on 2018-01-15.
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 Food & Beverage

Guanacaste Brewing LLC is one of 567 Food & Beverage companies tracked from LORTON. By capital raised it ranks mid-pack (ahead of 49% 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.

food-beverage

As reported in public records reported — not modeled.

US
Jurisdiction
No revenue
Issuer revenue
Rule 504
Reg D exemption
14
Investors (latest)
2017
Year incorporated
2018-01-15
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$2.5M$5.0M$7.5M$10MPre-Seed · 2018-01-15 Raised $410K (real) Modeled valuation $9.5M (est)$410K$9.5MPre-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$410K · 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
$9.5M
Base estimate est.
$273K
Conservative case
$107.4M
Upside case
$2.3M
Modeled post-money

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. 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.
30%
Survival probability
12% low · 55% high
1.55×/yr
Annual markup
2.10×/yr upside case
6.0 yr
Elapsed time used
8.5 yr actual, capped for stale marks
general
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
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Avg between rounds
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Capital velocity
8.7 yr
On record since
2018
First round
1
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 567 companies in Food & Beverage. 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)▼ 0.3× of median
This company$410K
Sector median$1.2M
Latest round — vs other Pre-Seed rounds in sector (real $, this stage)▼ 1.0× of median
This company$410K
Sector median$411K
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages)▼ 0.9× of median
This company$9.5M
Sector median$10.6M

Raised more than 49% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 65% 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 #32 of 72.

This companyCohort peer
$1.0M$10.0M$100.0M$100K$1.0M$10.0MCapital raised (log)Spring Creek Brewing Co LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $23.1M (est)Single Hill Brewing Co · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $23.1M (est)Full Circle Brewing, Co. Ltd. LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $23.1M (est)Joyland Brewing Company, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $23.1M (est)Door County Brewing Co., LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $23.1M (est)Smith Story Wine Cellars, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $23.1M (est)TRU Chocolate Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $900K · modeled $20.8M (est)Dr. In The Kitchen, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $800K · modeled $18.5M (est)PAB Neighborhood Kitchen #1, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $1.4M · modeled $16.7M (est)3 Sons Brewing Co., LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $710K · modeled $16.4M (est)JOE CHOCOLATES Co · Pre-Seed Raised $705K · modeled $16.3M (est)Brown Water Spirits LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $700K · modeled $16.2M (est)Guanacaste Brewing LLC (this company) Raised $410K · modeled $9.5M (est)Guanacaste Brewing LLC
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
Spring Creek Brewing Co LLCPre-Seed$1.0M$23.1M2.83×
Single Hill Brewing CoPre-Seed$1.0M$23.1M2.83×
Full Circle Brewing, Co. Ltd. LLCPre-Seed$1.0M$23.1M2.83×
Joyland Brewing Company, LLCPre-Seed$1.0M$23.1M2.83×
Door County Brewing Co., LLCPre-Seed$1.0M$23.1M2.83×
Smith Story Wine Cellars, LLCPre-Seed$1.0M$23.1M2.83×
TRU Chocolate Inc.Pre-Seed$900K$20.8M2.54×
Dr. In The Kitchen, LLCPre-Seed$800K$18.5M2.26×
PAB Neighborhood Kitchen #1, LLCPre-Seed$1.4M$16.7M2.04×
3 Sons Brewing Co., LLCPre-Seed$710K$16.4M2.01×
JOE CHOCOLATES CoPre-Seed$705K$16.3M1.99×
Brown Water Spirits LLCPre-Seed$700K$16.2M1.98×
Guanacaste Brewing LLC this companyPre-Seed$410K$9.5M1.16×
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$410K2018-01-15$2.3M$9.5M90%
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$410K2018-01-15
    • First recorded raise — entered as Pre-Seed.
    • 14 investors on this round.
Intelligence
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Modeled next raise
$656K
Modeled next size est.range $426K–$1.0M
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Last step-up
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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
Robert Douglas Buethe——2018-01
Registry & provenance

Guanacaste Brewing 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
1729605
SEC CIK
2017
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.

CompanySectorStageValue · estMatch
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Frequently asked
How much funding has Guanacaste Brewing LLC raised?
Guanacaste Brewing LLC has raised approximately $410K in disclosed capital across 1 recorded financing round, aggregated from public filings.
What is Guanacaste Brewing LLC's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for Guanacaste Brewing LLC is approximately $9.5M (modeled range $273K–$107.4M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is Guanacaste Brewing LLC at?
Guanacaste Brewing LLC's latest modeled financing stage is Pre-Seed. Its most recent recorded round closed around Mon Jan 15.
What does Guanacaste Brewing LLC do and where is it based?
Guanacaste Brewing LLC operates in the Food & Beverage sector, based in LORTON.
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