Companies · Food & Beverage
Toronto · ON, Canada; Remote · Food & Beverage · founded 2014 · http://higherme.com
Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on HigherMe — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→HigherMe: limited disclosed financing to assess.
Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page.
HigherMe is one of 567 Food & Beverage companies tracked from Toronto, ON, Canada; Remote, on record since 2014. By capital raised it ranks in the long tail (ahead of 34% 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.
AI analyst read est. — model-extracted from this company's public description, not a verified fact. 30%
operates a technology-led product inferred from public copy
Grounded in: “You are a venture analyst”
Helping restaurant employers find & hire better employees faster
HigherMe is all-in-one hiring software for restaurant and retail businesses to easily recruit, screen, interview, and onboard employees. Quickly review applications, schedule interviews, manage job board postings, and fill out employee paperwork from anywhere on any device. Created by a former multi-unit franchisee, HigherMe reduces the time and cost of hiring using a mobile-first applicant tracking system, Text-To-Apply technology, one-click interview scheduling, video cover letters, and more. With over three million applications submitted using our cloud-based software, say goodbye to the stack of paper résumés and easily fill open jobs anywhere, anytime.
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.
No round amounts on record to chart.
No staged rounds to sequence.
Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size. Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks. Directional, not a quoted figure.
Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.
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.
Raised more than 34% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 34% 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. |
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| No rounds recorded. | |||||
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.
HigherMe 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44 on Ennis Guest Lodge and Restaurant | Food & Beverage | — | — | — | same sector |
| 4 Guys Beverage Co. | Food & Beverage | Pre-Seed | $500K | $11.6M | same sector |
| All or Nothing Brewhouse | Food & Beverage | — | — | — | same sector |
| Anna Mae's Bakery and Restaurant | Food & Beverage | — | — | — | same sector |
| Arcadia Guesthouse & Restaurant | Food & Beverage | — | — | — | same sector |
| Artisan Pizza Pies of Stillwater, LLC | Food & Beverage | Pre-Seed | $413K | $9.5M | same sector |
| Artisan's Cellar, LLC | Food & Beverage | Pre-Seed | $800K | $6.9M | same sector |
| Ashton Brewing Company | Food & Beverage | — | — | — | same sector |
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.
| Company | Sector | Stage | Value · est | Match |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hiration We help job seekers quickly create resumes that get 2X more interviews | SaaS / Software | — | — | 75% |
| Fountain High volume hiring made simple | SaaS / Software | — | — | 74% |
| ZeroStorefront #1 Data platform for restaurants. Acquired by Thanx | Food & Beverage | — | — | 74% |
| Forage Online job simulations for companies to train, and then hire, students | SaaS / Software | — | — | 73% |
| Explorex Ecosystem Platform for Restaurants in India | Food & Beverage | — | — | 72% |
| Talentdrop Your personal hiring page. | SaaS / Software | — | — | 72% |
| Gather Project management software for People Operations | SaaS / Software | — | — | 72% |
| Fond Rewards and recognition SaaS for HR leaders | Fintech | — | — | 72% |
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