Companies · Restaurants
SAN FRANCISCO · Restaurants
Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on High-Proof LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→High-Proof LLC looks under-valued against its niche peers and is active on financing cadence.
Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page. Valuation uses the restaurants sector profile.
Analyst read est. — computed against this company's niche peers in the same era. Inputs shown; not a quoted figure.
Procedural diagnosis est. — rule-based common-sense checks over the filing pattern, issuer name, activity cadence, and surfaced operating evidence.
High-Proof LLC behaves more like a recurring private-offering issuer than a conventional venture-backed operating company.
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.
High-Proof LLC is one of 2292 Restaurants companies tracked from SAN FRANCISCO. By capital raised it ranks in the long tail (ahead of 30% of sector peers), and in the long tail 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.
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.
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.
Stages are modeled from round size (public records carry no series label). Ladder is contiguous — every modeled rung has a record.
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 scaled by the restaurants sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.
Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.
Benchmarked against 2292 companies in Restaurants. 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.
Raised more than 30% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 12% of peers (estimate).
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.
| Stage | Amount · real | Announced | Post-money · est | Value · est | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-Seed | $425K | — | $2.4M | $595K | 90% |
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.
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.
| Person | Role | Also runs | Tied since |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hanson Li | — | 3 other | — |
| Ian Scalzo | — | 1 other | — |
| Justin Lew | — | 1 other | — |
High-Proof 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.
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.
| Company | Sector | Stage | Raised · real | Value · est | Why similar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HMS beagle LLC | Restaurants | Pre-Seed | $200K | $874K | network3 shared operators · same sector · same stage |
| Gigatt II, LLC | Restaurants | Pre-Seed | $425K | $595K | same sector · same stage |
| Craigs Lucky Troubadour, LLC | Restaurants | Pre-Seed | $425K | $791K | same sector · same stage |
| Seventoros, Corp. | Restaurants | Pre-Seed | $423K | $592K | same sector · same stage |
| Old School I, LLC | Restaurants | Pre-Seed | $413K | $578K | same sector · same stage |
| Bao Investment Group, Llc | Restaurants | Pre-Seed | $440K | $616K | same sector · same stage |
| Triple D Adventures Inc. | Restaurants | Pre-Seed | $447K | $437K | same sector · same stage |
| Nohsc Laplace #2, L.L.C. | Restaurants | Pre-Seed | $450K | $630K | same sector · same stage |
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