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ISS Mining 1, LLCNew on the radar

ATHENS · Mining & Resources · refined from filed group “Other Technology

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on ISS Mining 1, LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$898K
Total raised · real
1
Rounds
Latest step-up
Top 68%
Sector rank · raised
Pre-Seed
Latest stage · inferred · Tue Dec 02 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

ISS Mining 1, LLC looks over-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 extractive sector profile.

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

Over-valued
  • Modeled value is 2.65× the median modeled value of Pre-Seed Mining & Resources companies in 2025–2027 (85 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
Active
  • Last raise 7 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

ISS Mining 1, 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
0.6 yr record
Peak capital year was 2025 with $898K across 1 filings.
Market position
ahead of 33% of Mining & Resources peers
Capital scale is ahead of 33% of Mining & Resources peers; modeled value is above 43% 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 2025: $898K across 1 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $898K on 2025-12-02.
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 Mining & Resources

ISS Mining 1, LLC is one of 701 Mining & Resources companies tracked from ATHENS. By capital raised it ranks in the long tail (ahead of 33% 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
9
Investors (latest)
2025
Year incorporated
2025-12-02
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$500K$1.0M$1.5M$2.0MPre-Seed · 2025-12-02 Raised $898K (real) Modeled valuation $1.6M (est)$898K$1.6MPre-Seed2025

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$898K · 2025

Stages are modeled from round size (public records carry no series label). Ladder is contiguous — every modeled rung has a record.

Modeled valuation trajectory
$1.6M
Base estimate est.
$569K
Conservative case
$3.6M
Upside case
$5.0M
Modeled post-money

Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Pre-Seeda round under $1.0M). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks scaled by the extractive sector profile. 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.
28%
Survival probability
11% low · 52% high
1.27×/yr
Annual markup
1.72×/yr upside case
0.6 yr
Elapsed time used
0.6 yr actual, capped for stale marks
extractive
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
Avg between rounds
Capital velocity
0.6 yr
On record since
2025
First round
New
First-time filer
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 701 companies in Mining & Resources. 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) 0.4× of median
This company$898K
Sector median$2.3M
Latest round — vs other Pre-Seed rounds in sector (real $, this stage) 3.3× above median
This company$898K
Sector median$271K
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 0.6× of median
This company$1.6M
Sector median$2.5M

Raised more than 33% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 43% 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 #8 of 85.

This companyCohort peer
$1.0M$10.0M$100K$1.0M$10.0MCapital raised (log)Silver Creek Investors, LLC /WI/ · Pre-Seed Raised $900K · modeled $2.0M (est)Viridian Metals Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $919K · modeled $1.9M (est)Gold Candle Ltd. · Pre-Seed Raised $1.8M · modeled $1.9M (est)Argenta Silver Corp. · Pre-Seed Raised $931K · modeled $1.8M (est)Relevant Gold Corp. · Pre-Seed Raised $2.0M · modeled $1.8M (est)North Shore Uranium Ltd. · Pre-Seed Raised $1.3M · modeled $1.8M (est)Premier American Uranium Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $952K · modeled $1.7M (est)Kingfisher Metals Corp. · Pre-Seed Raised $2.6M · modeled $1.6M (est)Yukon Metals Corp. · Pre-Seed Raised $707K · modeled $1.5M (est)Copper Giant Resources Corp. · Pre-Seed Raised $891K · modeled $1.4M (est)Sanu Gold Corp. · Pre-Seed Raised $694K · modeled $1.3M (est)ISS Mining 1, LLC (this company) Raised $898K · modeled $1.6M (est)ISS Mining 1, LLC
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
Silver Creek Investors, LLC /WI/Pre-Seed$900K$2.0M3.20×
Viridian Metals Inc.Pre-Seed$919K$1.9M3.10×
Gold Candle Ltd.Pre-Seed$1.8M$1.9M3.02×
Argenta Silver Corp.Pre-Seed$931K$1.8M2.95×
Relevant Gold Corp.Pre-Seed$2.0M$1.8M2.86×
North Shore Uranium Ltd.Pre-Seed$1.3M$1.8M2.85×
Premier American Uranium Inc.Pre-Seed$952K$1.7M2.69×
ISS Mining 1, LLC this companyPre-Seed$898K$1.6M2.65×
Kingfisher Metals Corp.Pre-Seed$2.6M$1.6M2.62×
Yukon Metals Corp.Pre-Seed$707K$1.5M2.43×
Copper Giant Resources Corp.Pre-Seed$891K$1.4M2.25×
Sanu Gold Corp.Pre-Seed$694K$1.3M2.04×
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$898K2025-12-02$5.0M$1.6M90%
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$898K2025-12-02
    • First recorded raise — entered as Pre-Seed.
    • 9 investors on this round.
Intelligence
Modeled next raise
$1.4M
Modeled next size est.range $934K$2.3M
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
James A. Smith1 other2025-12
Thomas G. Flake1 other2025-12
Brant F. Jones2025-12
Charles A. Clement2025-12
Milton F. Lunga2025-12
Roberto Esquivel Saad2025-12
Registry & provenance

ISS Mining 1, 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
2109019
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.

CompanySectorStageRaised · realValue · estWhy similar
Double Gold Holdings, Inc.Mining & ResourcesPre-Seed$900K$2.4Msame sector · same stage
Silver Creek Investors, LLC /WI/Mining & ResourcesPre-Seed$900K$2.0Msame sector · same stage
Copper Giant Resources Corp.Mining & ResourcesPre-Seed$891K$1.4Msame sector · same stage
United Lithium Corp.Mining & ResourcesPre-Seed$911K$361Ksame sector · same stage
Alaska Energy Metals CorpMining & ResourcesPre-Seed$913K$910Ksame sector · same stage
Myriad Uranium Corp.Mining & ResourcesPre-Seed$880K$214Ksame sector · same stage
Pasofino Gold LtdMining & ResourcesPre-Seed$880K$1.1Msame sector · same stage
Viridian Metals Inc.Mining & ResourcesPre-Seed$919K$1.9Msame sector · same stage
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
US Digital Mining Corp.Mining & ResourcesPre-Seed$4.7M86%
Resource Exploration, Inc.Mining & ResourcesPre-Seed$1.6M86%
Mines.Io Inc.Mining & ResourcesSeries A$32.2M86%
Exploration Technologies, Inc./DEMining & ResourcesSeed$4.6M86%
Miningio LlcOther TechnologySeries A$154.3M84%
Blueprint Mining I LLCMining & ResourcesPre-Seed$3.6M84%
Modern Mining Technology Corp.Mining & ResourcesSeed$13.2M84%
Elite Mining Inc.Mining & ResourcesSeries A$3.7M84%
Frequently asked
How much funding has ISS Mining 1, LLC raised?
ISS Mining 1, LLC has raised approximately $898K in disclosed capital across 1 recorded financing round, aggregated from public filings.
What is ISS Mining 1, LLC's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for ISS Mining 1, LLC is approximately $1.6M (modeled range $569K–$3.6M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is ISS Mining 1, LLC at?
ISS Mining 1, LLC's latest modeled financing stage is Pre-Seed. Its most recent recorded round closed around Tue Dec 02.
What does ISS Mining 1, LLC do and where is it based?
ISS Mining 1, LLC operates in the Mining & Resources sector, based in ATHENS.
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