Diligence memo · auto-generated · as of July 1, 2026

Knack Inc.

Knack Inc. looks fair against its niche peers and is dormant on financing cadence.

DeprioritizeFinancing has gone silent well past the sector's normal cadence — treat as inactive until outside confirmation of a live operation.

Businessfiled

Knack Inc. operates in Retailing, based in BARRINGTON.

No verified homepage on file yet — operating evidence is limited to the public record.

Capital & rounds (filed)filed

Knack Inc. has raised $1.5M in disclosed capital across 4 recorded rounds, aggregated from public filings. Its latest round is modeled as Pre-Seed (a round under $1.0M).

Largest single filing: $653K on 2019-08-21.

Most recent recorded round closed around 2021-03-12.

Valuation (modeled)modeled

Provath models Knack Inc. at approximately $1.7M (range $155K–$15M). This is an algorithmic estimate from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.

Read: Fair. Modeled value is 0.75× the median modeled value of Pre-Seed Retailing companies in 2019–2021 (211 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era. Within the normal band (75% of peer median) for its niche.

Financing rhythm & timingmixed

Historic cadence: a new round about every 10 months.

Last raise 5.3 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 13 months.

Silent for over 3× the sector's normal cadence.

The last round was 2.5× smaller than the prior — a bridge or down round.

Comparablesmixed

Capital scale ranks ahead of 48% of Retailing peers (2347 compared).

Modeled value ranks above 23% of those peers.

Closest niche peers: Liberated Specialty Foods, Inc., American Flower, Llc, Raybae Holdings, Llc., 1620 Workwear, Inc., Haute Hijab, Inc..

Peoplefiled

13 named people on file across officers, directors and signatories.

Risks & flagsmixed

Financing has been silent well beyond sector cadence — possibly defunct, acquired, or paused.

No clearly named CEO/founder/principal in the surfaced records — key-person evidence is thin.