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Locstat

Cape Town · Africa · AI / ML · founded 2016

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Locstat — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
Total raised · real
1
Rounds
Latest step-up
Top 39%
Sector rank · raised
Growth/Late
Latest stage · inferred · Thu Apr 07 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Locstat: limited disclosed financing to assess.

Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page. Valuation uses the ai/ml sector profile.

Leadership

No named principal in this company's public records yet — see all operators below.

1 Investor
Where it sits in AI / ML

Locstat is one of 2067 AI / ML companies tracked from Cape Town, Africa, on record since 2016. By capital raised it ranks mid-pack (ahead of 62% 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.

Cape Town-based AI startup Locstat secures funding for further growth 0 By Tom Jackson on April 7, 2022 News , Southern Africa Cape Town-based advanced analytics startup Locstat has raised funding as it readies for further growth. Founded in 2016, Locstat is a graph powered AI and event processing solution for continuous analysis and visualisation of real-time and static data from multiple sources.

Cape Town-based AI startup Locstat secures funding for further growth 0 By Tom Jackson on April 7, 2022 News , Southern Africa Cape Town-based advanced analytics startup Locstat has raised funding as it readies for further growth. Founded in 2016, Locstat is a graph powered AI and event processing solution for continuous analysis and visualisation of real-time and static data from multiple sources.

ai/ml

As reported in public records reported — not modeled.

ZA
Jurisdiction
1
Investors (latest)
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.

No round amounts on record to chart.

Financing ladder & sequence gaps
Growth/Late · 2022

Stages are modeled from round size (public records carry no series label). No record for: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Series D+ — the company may have raised it under a different exemption, merged it into an adjacent record, or skipped it. Sequence completeness: 14%.

Modeled valuation trajectory
Base estimate est.
Conservative case
Upside case
Modeled post-money

Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Growth/Latea round over $400M). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks scaled by the ai/ml sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.

Financing rhythm
Avg between rounds
Capital velocity
On record since
First round
0
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 2067 companies in AI / ML. 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)
This company
Sector median$4.7M
Latest round — vs other Growth/Late rounds in sector (real $, this stage)
This company
Sector median$575.3M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages)
This company
Sector median$27.9M

Raised more than 62% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 62% of peers (estimate).

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.
Growth/Late2022-04-0745%
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. Growth/Late2022-04-07
    • First recorded raise — entered as Growth/Late.
    • 1 investor on this round.
Intelligence
Modeled next raise
Modeled next size est.
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.

Registry & provenance

Locstat 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
ZA
Jurisdiction
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Nearest neighbours across the whole database — matched on sector, stage and capital scale, and on shared operators (officers or directors named at both companies in public filings). A discovery shortlist, not a valuation cohort — verify before acting, the same way modeled figures are directional.

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Investors

Public records name issuer insiders, not the funds in a round — these investor links come from corroborating sources.

FirmRoundConfidence
Grindstone VenturesGrowth/Late55%
Frequently asked
What funding stage is Locstat at?
Locstat's latest modeled financing stage is Growth/Late. Its most recent recorded round closed around Thu Apr 07.
What does Locstat do and where is it based?
Locstat operates in the AI / ML sector, based in Cape Town, Africa. Cape Town-based AI startup Locstat secures funding for further growth 0 By Tom Jackson on April 7, 2022 News , Southern Africa Cape Town-based advanced analytics startup Locstat has raised funding as it readies for further growth. Founded in 2016, Locstat is a graph powered AI and event processing solution for continuous analysis and visualisation of real-time and static data from multiple sources.
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