Toronto · Canada · founded 1983 · https://www.kernelspopcorn.com/
Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Kernels Popcorn — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→Kernels Popcorn: limited disclosed financing to assess.
Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page.
Canadian company, based in Toronto.
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 8525 companies in this sector. 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 96% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 96% 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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poppy Handcrafted Popcorn Inc. | Retailing | Seed | $11.0M | 79% |
| Franklins Popcorn Inc | Retailing | Seed | $3.8M | 78% |
| Kernel Foods, Inc. | Agtech / Foodtech | Series B | $122.0M | 76% |
| Parkway Plaza Supermarket Canadian company. | — | — | — | 76% |
| Ontario Place Canadian company. | — | — | — | 74% |
| Taste of Country Canadian company. | — | — | — | 73% |
| Taali Inc Taali is creating popcorn 2.0 from popped water lily seeds | — | — | — | 73% |
| The Pop Shoppe Canadian company. | Consumer / Retail | — | — | 73% |
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