Companies · Hardware / Semiconductors

LooptSummer 2005Acquired

Mountain View · CA, USA · Hardware / Semiconductors · founded 2012 · http://loopt.com

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Loopt — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
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Top 53%
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Latest stage · inferred

Loopt: limited disclosed financing to assess.

Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page.

Where it sits in Hardware / Semiconductors

Loopt is one of 130 Hardware / Semiconductors companies tracked from Mountain View, CA, USA, on record since 2012. By capital raised it ranks mid-pack (ahead of 48% 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.

AI analyst read est. — model-extracted from this company's public description, not a verified fact. 30%

operates a technology-led product inferred from public copy

Grounded in: “You are a venture analyst

Loopt, based in Silicon-Valley and backed by leading venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and New Enterprise Associates, has created an interoperable social-mapping service that allows individuals to use their location to discover the real world around them – enabling them to find and enjoy the people, places, and events that mean the most right here and now using their mobile phones. With Loopt, individuals will always know who’s around, what to do, or where to go

ConsumerSocialhardware/semi
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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.

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No staged rounds to sequence.

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Base estimate est.
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Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size. Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.

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How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 130 companies in Hardware / Semiconductors. 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$8.3M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages)
This company
Sector median$26.4M

Raised more than 48% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 48% 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.

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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

Loopt is an official record sourced from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). U.S. data is aggregated from SEC Form D filings.

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Similar companies

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.

CompanySectorStageRaised · realValue · estWhy similar
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Advanced Silicon Group, Inc.Hardware / SemiconductorsSeed$1.0M$14.6Msame sector
AeroFSHardware / Semiconductorssame sector
AfrostreamHardware / Semiconductorssame sector
Aisle50Hardware / Semiconductorssame sector
AKHAN Semiconductor, Inc.Hardware / SemiconductorsSeries B$26.0M$207.5Msame sector
Semantically similar

Matched by meaning, not labels — a local language model reads each company's name, sector and description and ranks the closest in that learned space. This catches look-alikes that cross sector boundaries; the structured list above explains its matches, this one trusts the text. Directional, like every modeled signal here.

CompanySectorStageValue · estMatch
Loopit, LLCOther TechnologySeed$37.4M78%
Loop Labs, Inc.Software / TechSeries A$83.2M73%
Loop Now Technologies, Inc.Software / TechSeries B$378.3M73%
Socotra, Inc.Other TechnologySeries B$313.8M72%
Markett, Inc.Other TechnologySeed$66.6M72%
LeanTech Ventures, LLCOther TechnologyPre-Seed$4.2M72%
IOT World Labs IncHardware / SemiconductorsPre-Seed$5.2M72%
Sociability Ventures LtdOther TechnologySeed$6.5M72%
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What does Loopt do and where is it based?
Loopt operates in the Hardware / Semiconductors sector, based in Mountain View, CA, USA.
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