Companies · Retailing

Launch After School, LLC

AUSTIN · Retailing

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Launch After School, LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$367K
Total raised · real
3
Rounds
1.4×
Latest step-up
Top 80%
Sector rank · raised
Pre-Seed
Latest stage · inferred · Wed Apr 22 2020 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Launch After School, 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. Valuation uses the retail sector profile.

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 0.55× the median modeled value of Pre-Seed Retailing companies in 2019–2021 (211 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
Dormant
  • Last raise 6.2 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 13 months.
  • Silent for over 3× the sector's normal cadence.

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

Issuer-vehicle patternmedium confidence

Launch After School, 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
8.2 yr record
Peak capital year was 2020 with $155K across 1 filings.
Market position
ahead of 21% of Retailing peers
Capital scale is ahead of 21% of Retailing peers; modeled value is above 15% 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 2020: $155K across 1 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $155K on 2020-04-22.
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 Retailing

Launch After School, LLC is one of 2347 Retailing companies tracked from AUSTIN. By capital raised it ranks in the long tail (ahead of 21% of sector peers), and in the long tail 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
14
Investors (latest)
2018
Year incorporated
2020-04-22
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 · 2018-04-12 Raised $100K (real) Modeled valuation $785K (est)$100K$785KPre-Seed2018Pre-Seed · 2019-09-30 Raised $112K (real) Modeled valuation $879K (est)$112K$879KPre-Seed2019Pre-Seed · 2020-04-22 Raised $155K (real) Modeled valuation $1.2M (est)$155K$1.2MPre-Seed2020+$112K+$155KCumulative $367K

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$100K · 2018
Pre-Seed extension$112K · 2019
Pre-Seed extension$155K · 2020

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

Modeled valuation trajectory
$1.2M
Base estimate est.
$93K
Conservative case
$13.7M
Upside case
$858K
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 retail sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Pre-Seed · modeled $785K · 2018-04-122018Pre-Seed · modeled $879K · 2019-09-30Pre-Seed · modeled $1.2M · 2020-04-222020
Model inputs · modeled:benchmark-stage-stepup-v1
18%
Dilution assumption
Implied ownership sold in the financing.
27%
Survival probability
11% low · 50% high
1.32×/yr
Annual markup
1.78×/yr upside case
6.0 yr
Elapsed time used
6.2 yr actual, capped for stale marks
retail
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
12 mo
Avg between rounds
$181K/yr
Capital velocity
8.2 yr
On record since
2018
First round
3
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 2347 companies in Retailing. 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) 0.2× of median
This company$367K
Sector median$1.6M
Latest round — vs other Pre-Seed rounds in sector (real $, this stage) 0.5× of median
This company$155K
Sector median$323K
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 0.2× of median
This company$1.2M
Sector median$5.8M

Raised more than 21% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 15% 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 #165 of 211.

This companyCohort peer
$1.0M$10.0M$100K$1.0M$10.0MCapital raised (log)Liberated Specialty Foods, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $1.5M · modeled $7.8M (est)Raybae Holdings, Llc. · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $7.8M (est)American Flower, Llc · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $7.8M (est)1620 Workwear, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $1.5M · modeled $7.2M (est)Haute Hijab, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $989K · modeled $7.2M (est)Launch Cart, Inc, · Pre-Seed Raised $1.1M · modeled $7.0M (est)Bookshop, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $875K · modeled $6.9M (est)Team Connection, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $850K · modeled $6.7M (est)Sitka Salmon LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $943K · modeled $6.6M (est)Conscious Step, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $800K · modeled $6.3M (est)Spirit Tree Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $800K · modeled $6.3M (est)Ticket Alternative, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $776K · modeled $6.1M (est)Launch After School, LLC (this company) Raised $367K · modeled $1.2M (est)Launch After School, LLC
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
Liberated Specialty Foods, Inc.Pre-Seed$1.5M$7.8M3.54×
Raybae Holdings, Llc.Pre-Seed$1.0M$7.8M3.54×
American Flower, LlcPre-Seed$1.0M$7.8M3.54×
1620 Workwear, Inc.Pre-Seed$1.5M$7.2M3.27×
Haute Hijab, Inc.Pre-Seed$989K$7.2M3.23×
Launch Cart, Inc,Pre-Seed$1.1M$7.0M3.15×
Bookshop, Inc.Pre-Seed$875K$6.9M3.10×
Team Connection, Inc.Pre-Seed$850K$6.7M3.01×
Sitka Salmon LLCPre-Seed$943K$6.6M2.98×
Conscious Step, Inc.Pre-Seed$800K$6.3M2.83×
Spirit Tree Inc.Pre-Seed$800K$6.3M2.83×
Ticket Alternative, LLCPre-Seed$776K$6.1M2.75×
Launch After School, LLC this companyPre-Seed$367K$1.2M0.55×
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$100K2018-04-12$556K$785K90%
Pre-Seed$112K2019-09-30$622K$879K90%
Pre-Seed$155K2020-04-22$858K$1.2M90%
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. Pre-Seed$100K2018-04-12
    • First recorded raise — entered as Pre-Seed.
    • 3 investors on this round.
  2. Pre-Seed$112K2019-09-30
    • Raised 18 mo later, in step with the ~13 mo sector norm.
    • Round roughly the size of the prior one.
    • 4 investors on this round.
  3. Pre-Seed$155K2020-04-22
    • Came back fast: 7 mo vs the ~13 mo sector norm.
    • Round 1.4× larger than the prior — scaling up.
    • 14 investors on this round.
Intelligence
2021 ~Q2
Modeled next raise · ~12mo cadence
$213K
Modeled next size est.range $155K$341K
1.4×
Last step-up
$181K/yr
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
Ravi Parikh5 other2018-04
Vijay Kalvakuntla1 other2018-04
James Mitchell Morales2020-04
Jobin George2019-09
Jobin Mitchell George2020-04
Mitchell Morales2019-09
Registry & provenance

Launch After School, 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
1737533
SEC CIK
2018
Incorporated
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Semantically similar

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Frequently asked
How much funding has Launch After School, LLC raised?
Launch After School, LLC has raised approximately $367K in disclosed capital across 3 recorded financing rounds, aggregated from public filings.
What is Launch After School, LLC's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for Launch After School, LLC is approximately $1.2M (modeled range $93K–$13.7M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is Launch After School, LLC at?
Launch After School, LLC's latest modeled financing stage is Pre-Seed. Its most recent recorded round closed around Wed Apr 22.
What does Launch After School, LLC do and where is it based?
Launch After School, LLC operates in the Retailing sector, based in AUSTIN.
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