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Hard 8 Games, LLC

FRAMINGHAM · Other Technology

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Hard 8 Games, LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→
$1.5M
Total raised · real
1
Rounds
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Latest step-up
Top 65%
Sector rank · raised
Seed
Latest stage · inferred · Tue Sep 13 2011 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Hard 8 Games, 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 technology 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 0.93× the median modeled value of Seed Other Technology companies in 2010–2012 (822 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
  • Within the normal band (93% of peer median) for its niche.
Dormant
  • Last raise 14.8 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 13 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

Hard 8 Games, 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
15.0 yr record
Peak capital year was 2011 with $1.5M across 1 filings.
Market position
ahead of 36% of Other Technology peers
Capital scale is ahead of 36% of Other Technology peers; modeled value is above 58% 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 2011: $1.5M across 1 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $1.5M on 2011-09-13.
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 Technology

Hard 8 Games, LLC is one of 21302 Other Technology companies tracked from FRAMINGHAM. By capital raised it ranks in the long tail (ahead of 36% 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$25M$50M$75M$100MSeed · 2011-09-13 Raised $1.5M (real) Modeled valuation $51M (est)$1.5M$51MSeed2011

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$1.5M · 2011

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
$51.1M
Base estimate est.
$1.3M
Conservative case
$401.0M
Upside case
$7.5M
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 technology 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.
39%
Survival probability
18% low · 61% high
1.61×/yr
Annual markup
2.11×/yr upside case
6.0 yr
Elapsed time used
14.8 yr actual, capped for stale marks
technology
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
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Avg between rounds
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Capital velocity
15.0 yr
On record since
2011
First round
1
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 21302 companies in Other Technology. 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)▼ 0.5× of median
This company$1.5M
Sector median$3.2M
Latest round — vs other Seed rounds in sector (real $, this stage)▼ 0.9× of median
This company$1.5M
Sector median$1.8M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages)▲ 1.4× above median
This company$51.1M
Sector median$37.3M

Raised more than 36% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 58% 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 #453 of 822.

This companyCohort peer
$10.0M$100.0M$1.0B$1.0M$10.0MCapital raised (log)HFN, Inc. · Seed Raised $4.0M · modeled $136.3M (est)Rave Wireless Inc · Seed Raised $4.0M · modeled $136.3M (est)Friend Media Technology Systems Ltd · Seed Raised $4.0M · modeled $136.3M (est)Paice Llc · Seed Raised $4.0M · modeled $136.3M (est)Talko Inc. · Seed Raised $4.0M · modeled $136.3M (est)Daegis Inc. · Seed Raised $4.0M · modeled $136.3M (est)Bug Labs, Inc. · Seed Raised $7.0M · modeled $136.3M (est)Luxera, Inc. · Seed Raised $4.0M · modeled $136.3M (est)Nimble TV, Inc. · Seed Raised $5.7M · modeled $136.3M (est)Liverail, Inc · Seed Raised $4.0M · modeled $136.3M (est)Model Metrics, Inc. · Seed Raised $6.5M · modeled $135.7M (est)Picturelife, Inc. · Seed Raised $4.5M · modeled $133.7M (est)Hard 8 Games, LLC (this company) Raised $1.5M · modeled $51.1M (est)Hard 8 Games, LLC
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
HFN, Inc.Seed$4.0M$136.3M2.49×
Rave Wireless IncSeed$4.0M$136.3M2.49×
Friend Media Technology Systems LtdSeed$4.0M$136.3M2.49×
Paice LlcSeed$4.0M$136.3M2.49×
Talko Inc.Seed$4.0M$136.3M2.49×
Daegis Inc.Seed$4.0M$136.3M2.49×
Bug Labs, Inc.Seed$7.0M$136.3M2.49×
Luxera, Inc.Seed$4.0M$136.3M2.49×
Nimble TV, Inc.Seed$5.7M$136.3M2.49×
Liverail, IncSeed$4.0M$136.3M2.49×
Model Metrics, Inc.Seed$6.5M$135.7M2.48×
Picturelife, Inc.Seed$4.5M$133.7M2.44×
Hard 8 Games, LLC this companySeed$1.5M$51.1M0.93×
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$1.5M2011-09-13$7.5M$51.1M90%
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$1.5M2011-09-13
    • First recorded raise — entered as Seed.
Intelligence
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Modeled next raise
$2.4M
Modeled next size est.range $1.6M–$3.8M
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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
Miles Arnone—11 other2011-09
Jeffrey Bazar—1 other2011-09
Eric Meyerhofer——2011-09
William Rudat——2011-09
Registry & provenance

Hard 8 Games, 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
1531261
SEC CIK
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Frequently asked
How much funding has Hard 8 Games, LLC raised?
Hard 8 Games, LLC has raised approximately $1.5M in disclosed capital across 1 recorded financing round, aggregated from public filings.
What is Hard 8 Games, LLC's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for Hard 8 Games, LLC is approximately $51.1M (modeled range $1.3M–$401.0M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is Hard 8 Games, LLC at?
Hard 8 Games, LLC's latest modeled financing stage is Seed. Its most recent recorded round closed around Tue Sep 13.
What does Hard 8 Games, LLC do and where is it based?
Hard 8 Games, LLC operates in the Other Technology sector, based in FRAMINGHAM.
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