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HM 5 Barrel, LLCNew on the radar

RENO · Other

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on HM 5 Barrel, LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→
$5.0M
Total raised · real
1
Rounds
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Latest step-up
Top 34%
Sector rank · raised
Series A
Latest stage · inferred · Wed Nov 05 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

HM 5 Barrel, LLC looks fair 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.

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

Fair
  • Modeled value is 0.79× the median modeled value of Series A Other companies in 2025–2027 (487 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
  • Within the normal band (79% of peer median) for its niche.
Active
  • Last raise 8 mo ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 11 months.
  • Raising on or ahead of the sector's normal rhythm.

Procedural diagnosis est. — rule-based common-sense checks over the filing pattern, issuer name, activity cadence, and surfaced operating evidence.

Issuer-vehicle patternmedium confidence

HM 5 Barrel, 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
0.9 yr record
Peak capital year was 2025 with $5.0M across 1 filings.
Market position
ahead of 67% of Other peers
Capital scale is ahead of 67% of Other peers; modeled value is above 47% 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
Lower 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.
  • Sector is still broad/Other, so operating comparables are weak.
  • No clearly named CEO/founder/principal role in the public records surfaced here.
  • No verified homepage on the profile yet.
  • Capital program peaked in 2025: $5.0M across 1 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $5.0M on 2025-11-05.
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.
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

HM 5 Barrel, LLC is one of 25015 Other companies tracked from RENO. By capital raised it ranks mid-pack (ahead of 67% 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
Rule 506(b)
Reg D exemption
2025
Year incorporated
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$5.0M$10M$15M$20MSeries A · 2025-11-05 Raised $5.0M (real) Modeled valuation $15M (est)$5.0M$15MSeries A2025

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
Series A$5.0M · 2025

Stages are modeled from round size (public records carry no series label). No record for: Pre-Seed, Seed — the company may have raised it under a different exemption, merged it into an adjacent record, or skipped it. Sequence completeness: 33%.

Modeled valuation trajectory
$15.2M
Base estimate est.
$6.8M
Conservative case
$24.1M
Upside case
$22.7M
Modeled post-money

Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Series A — a $4.0M–$15M round). 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
22%
Dilution assumption
Implied ownership sold in the financing.
55%
Survival probability
30% low · 75% high
1.35×/yr
Annual markup
1.70×/yr upside case
0.7 yr
Elapsed time used
0.7 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
0.9 yr
On record since
2025
First round
New
First-time filer
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 25015 companies in Other. 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)▲ 2.4× above median
This company$5.0M
Sector median$2.0M
Latest round — vs other Series A rounds in sector (real $, this stage)▼ 0.9× of median
This company$5.0M
Sector median$5.7M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages)▼ 0.9× of median
This company$15.2M
Sector median$17.7M

Raised more than 67% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 47% of peers (estimate).

Niche peers — same stage & era

A tighter cohort than the sector chart above — only companies at the same stage (Series A) 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 #345 of 487.

This companyCohort peer
$10.0M$100.0M$1.0M$10.0M$100.0MCapital raised (log)Sea Court GP, LLC · Series A Raised $15.0M · modeled $57.7M (est)Kastle Biopartners II LP · Series A Raised $14.4M · modeled $53.2M (est)Econic Investment LLC · Series A Raised $14.0M · modeled $53.1M (est)DCFC Holdings, LLC · Series A Raised $16.1M · modeled $51.8M (est)HeadVantage Corp · Series A Raised $15.0M · modeled $50.8M (est)Cobbs Creek Restoration & Community Foundation · Series A Raised $14.1M · modeled $50.5M (est)Mawson Resources Ltd · Series A Raised $26.3M · modeled $50.3M (est)Chess Champion Ltd Liability Co · Series A Raised $15.0M · modeled $50.1M (est)Sepratech TopCo, LLC · Series A Raised $14.6M · modeled $49.7M (est)MATT & LEWIS DEVELOPMENT Ltd LIABILITY Co · Series A Raised $15.0M · modeled $48.7M (est)FlyGuys, Inc · Series A Raised $16.7M · modeled $48.6M (est)Empyrean Club, LLC · Series A Raised $14.0M · modeled $48.1M (est)HM 5 Barrel, LLC (this company) Raised $5.0M · modeled $15.2M (est)HM 5 Barrel, LLC
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
Sea Court GP, LLCSeries A$15.0M$57.7M2.99×
Kastle Biopartners II LPSeries A$14.4M$53.2M2.75×
Econic Investment LLCSeries A$14.0M$53.1M2.75×
DCFC Holdings, LLCSeries A$16.1M$51.8M2.68×
HeadVantage CorpSeries A$15.0M$50.8M2.63×
Cobbs Creek Restoration & Community FoundationSeries A$14.1M$50.5M2.61×
Mawson Resources LtdSeries A$26.3M$50.3M2.60×
Chess Champion Ltd Liability CoSeries A$15.0M$50.1M2.59×
Sepratech TopCo, LLCSeries A$14.6M$49.7M2.57×
MATT & LEWIS DEVELOPMENT Ltd LIABILITY CoSeries A$15.0M$48.7M2.52×
FlyGuys, IncSeries A$16.7M$48.6M2.51×
Empyrean Club, LLCSeries A$14.0M$48.1M2.49×
HM 5 Barrel, LLC this companySeries A$5.0M$15.2M0.79×
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.
Series A$5.0M2025-11-05$22.7M$15.2M90%
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. Series A$5.0M2025-11-05
    • First recorded raise — entered as Series A.
Intelligence
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Modeled next raise
$8.0M
Modeled next size est.range $5.2M–$12.8M
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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
Felicia Keith-Jones—1 other2025-11
Registry & provenance

HM 5 Barrel, 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
2095651
SEC CIK
2025
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.

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Erh Ky LlcOtherSeries A$5.0M$15.7Msame sector · same stage
Global Critical Resources CorpOtherSeries A$5.0M$15.2Msame sector · same stage
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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
HM 53 Barrel, LLCOtherSeries A$30.4M91%
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Hand Barrel Bourbon, LlcOtherPre-Seed$13.4M82%
Cb5, LlcOtherSeries A$79.8M82%
M5 32081, LlcOtherSeed$23.2M81%
Barrelmark, LLCOtherSeed$17.2M81%
5s MLP, LLCOtherPre-Seed$1.9M80%
American Barrel Trust, LLCOtherSeries A$30.7M80%
Frequently asked
How much funding has HM 5 Barrel, LLC raised?
HM 5 Barrel, LLC has raised approximately $5.0M in disclosed capital across 1 recorded financing round, aggregated from public filings.
What is HM 5 Barrel, LLC's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for HM 5 Barrel, LLC is approximately $15.2M (modeled range $6.8M–$24.1M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is HM 5 Barrel, LLC at?
HM 5 Barrel, LLC's latest modeled financing stage is Series A. Its most recent recorded round closed around Wed Nov 05.
What does HM 5 Barrel, LLC do and where is it based?
HM 5 Barrel, LLC operates in the Other sector, based in RENO.
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