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Knives & Skin, LLC

CHICAGO · Other

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Knives & Skin, LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→
$1.2M
Total raised · real
1
Rounds
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Latest step-up
Top 61%
Sector rank · raised
Seed
Latest stage · inferred · Sun Jul 01 2018 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Knives & Skin, LLC looks under-valued against its niche peers and is dormant 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.

Under-valued
  • Modeled value is 0.65× the median modeled value of Seed Other companies in 2016–2018 (1003 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
Dormant
  • Last raise 8.0 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 11 months.
  • Only one round on record and long silent — often defunct, acquired, or gone quiet.

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

Issuer-vehicle patternmedium confidence

Knives & Skin, 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
8.3 yr record
Peak capital year was 2018 with $1.2M across 1 filings.
Market position
ahead of 40% of Other peers
Capital scale is ahead of 40% of Other peers; modeled value is above 56% 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 2018: $1.2M across 1 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $1.2M on 2018-07-01.
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.
  • The more important signal is lifecycle: repeated filings ended years ago, so current activity needs outside confirmation.
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

Knives & Skin, LLC is one of 25015 Other companies tracked from CHICAGO. By capital raised it ranks mid-pack (ahead of 40% 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
No revenue
Issuer revenue
Rule 506(c)
Reg D exemption
2018
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$13M$25M$38M$50MSeed · 2018-07-01 Raised $1.2M (real) Modeled valuation $22M (est)$1.2M$22MSeed2018

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
Seed$1.2M · 2018

Stages are modeled from round size (public records carry no series label). No record for: Pre-Seed — the company may have raised it under a different exemption, merged it into an adjacent record, or skipped it. Sequence completeness: 50%.

Modeled valuation trajectory
$22.3M
Base estimate est.
$1.1M
Conservative case
$175.0M
Upside case
$6.0M
Modeled post-money

Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Seed — a $1.0M–$4.0M 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
20%
Dilution assumption
Implied ownership sold in the financing.
40%
Survival probability
18% low · 62% high
1.45×/yr
Annual markup
1.90×/yr upside case
6.0 yr
Elapsed time used
8.0 yr actual, capped for stale marks
general
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
—
Avg between rounds
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Capital velocity
8.3 yr
On record since
2018
First round
1
Rounds on file
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)▼ 0.6× of median
This company$1.2M
Sector median$2.0M
Latest round — vs other Seed rounds in sector (real $, this stage)▼ 0.7× of median
This company$1.2M
Sector median$1.7M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages)▲ 1.3× above median
This company$22.3M
Sector median$17.7M

Raised more than 40% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 56% of peers (estimate).

Niche peers — same stage & era

A tighter cohort than the sector chart above — only companies at the same stage (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 #760 of 1,003.

This companyCohort peer
$10.0M$100.0M$1.0M$10.0MCapital raised (log)Zooba Eats, Inc. · Seed Raised $4.0M · modeled $74.4M (est)EQX Capital, Inc. · Seed Raised $4.0M · modeled $74.4M (est)Alliance Time Holdings, LLC · Seed Raised $4.0M · modeled $74.4M (est)Springfield Hockey, LLC · Seed Raised $4.0M · modeled $74.4M (est)Spring Hill Development Partners, LLC · Seed Raised $8.0M · modeled $74.4M (est)Ontimeworks, Inc. · Seed Raised $6.0M · modeled $74.4M (est)OHCP Northeastern Fiber Buyer Holdco, L.P. · Seed Raised $4.0M · modeled $74.4M (est)American Son Broadway Ltd Liability Co · Seed Raised $4.0M · modeled $74.4M (est)Capture2, Inc. · Seed Raised $4.0M · modeled $74.4M (est)Chooze, Corp. · Seed Raised $4.0M · modeled $74.4M (est)Polybio Capital, L.P. · Seed Raised $4.0M · modeled $74.4M (est)Equisphere Corp. · Seed Raised $4.0M · modeled $74.4M (est)Knives & Skin, LLC (this company) Raised $1.2M · modeled $22.3M (est)Knives & Skin, LLC
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
Zooba Eats, Inc.Seed$4.0M$74.4M2.16×
EQX Capital, Inc.Seed$4.0M$74.4M2.16×
Alliance Time Holdings, LLCSeed$4.0M$74.4M2.16×
Springfield Hockey, LLCSeed$4.0M$74.4M2.16×
Spring Hill Development Partners, LLCSeed$8.0M$74.4M2.16×
Ontimeworks, Inc.Seed$6.0M$74.4M2.16×
OHCP Northeastern Fiber Buyer Holdco, L.P.Seed$4.0M$74.4M2.16×
American Son Broadway Ltd Liability CoSeed$4.0M$74.4M2.16×
Capture2, Inc.Seed$4.0M$74.4M2.16×
Chooze, Corp.Seed$4.0M$74.4M2.16×
Polybio Capital, L.P.Seed$4.0M$74.4M2.16×
Equisphere Corp.Seed$4.0M$74.4M2.16×
Knives & Skin, LLC this companySeed$1.2M$22.3M0.65×
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.
Seed$1.2M2018-07-01$6.0M$22.3M90%
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. Seed$1.2M2018-07-01
    • First recorded raise — entered as Seed.
Intelligence
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Modeled next raise
$1.9M
Modeled next size est.range $1.2M–$3.1M
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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
Brian Hieggelke—1 other2018-07
Jan Hieggelke—1 other2018-07
Registry & provenance

Knives & Skin, 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
1740691
SEC CIK
2018
Incorporated
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Frequently asked
How much funding has Knives & Skin, LLC raised?
Knives & Skin, LLC has raised approximately $1.2M in disclosed capital across 1 recorded financing round, aggregated from public filings.
What is Knives & Skin, LLC's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for Knives & Skin, LLC is approximately $22.3M (modeled range $1.1M–$175.0M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is Knives & Skin, LLC at?
Knives & Skin, LLC's latest modeled financing stage is Seed. Its most recent recorded round closed around Sun Jul 01.
What does Knives & Skin, LLC do and where is it based?
Knives & Skin, LLC operates in the Other sector, based in CHICAGO.
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