Diligence memo · auto-generated · as of July 2, 2026
Lightning Funding, LLC
Lightning Funding, LLC looks under-valued against its niche peers and is dormant on financing cadence.
Businessfiled
Lightning Funding, LLC operates in Other Energy, based in CHICAGO.
No verified homepage on file yet — operating evidence is limited to the public record.
Capital & rounds (filed)filed
Lightning Funding, LLC has raised $7.3M in disclosed capital across 2 recorded rounds, aggregated from public filings. Its latest round is modeled as Series A (a $4.0M–$15M round).
Largest single filing: $5.8M on 2012-03-16.
Most recent recorded round closed around 2013-07-29.
Valuation (modeled)modeled
Provath models Lightning Funding, LLC at approximately $16M (range $1.9M–$85M). This is an algorithmic estimate from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
Read: Under-valued. Modeled value is 0.26× the median modeled value of Series A Other Energy companies in 2013–2015 (81 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
Financing rhythm & timingmixed
Historic cadence: a new round about every 16 months.
Last raise 12.9 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 12 months.
Silent for over 3× the sector's normal cadence.
The last round was 3.9× smaller than the prior — a bridge or down round.
Comparablesmixed
Capital scale ranks ahead of 64% of Other Energy peers (2049 compared).
Modeled value ranks above 48% of those peers.
Closest niche peers: AgriGroupe Energy Holdings, Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners L.P., Ofs Pro Ci, Lp, Apex Wind Energy Holdings, LLC, Ardica Technologies, Inc..
Peoplefiled
3 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.