Companies · Retailing

Making It Big, Inc.

COTATI · Retailing

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Making It Big, Inc. — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$1.0M
Total raised · real
1
Rounds
Latest step-up
Top 59%
Sector rank · raised
Seed
Latest stage · inferred · Wed Aug 24 2016 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Making It Big, Inc. 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 0.56× the median modeled value of Seed Retailing companies in 2016–2018 (115 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
Dormant
  • Last raise 9.8 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 13 months.
  • Only one round on record and long silent — often defunct, acquired, or gone quiet.
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

Making It Big, Inc. is one of 2347 Retailing companies tracked from COTATI. By capital raised it ranks mid-pack (ahead of 42% 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
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$2.5M$5.0M$7.5M$10MSeed · 2016-08-24 Raised $1.0M (real) Modeled valuation $6.3M (est)$1.0M$6.3MSeed2016

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$1.0M · 2016

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
$6.3M
Base estimate est.
$810K
Conservative case
$49.5M
Upside case
$5.0M
Modeled post-money

Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Seeda $1.0M–$4.0M round). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks scaled by the retail sector profile. 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.
36%
Survival probability
16% low · 56% high
1.23×/yr
Annual markup
1.61×/yr upside case
6.0 yr
Elapsed time used
9.8 yr actual, capped for stale marks
retail
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
Avg between rounds
Capital velocity
9.9 yr
On record since
2016
First round
1
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) 0.6× of median
This company$1.0M
Sector median$1.6M
Latest round — vs other Seed rounds in sector (real $, this stage) 0.6× of median
This company$1.0M
Sector median$1.7M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 1.1× above median
This company$6.3M
Sector median$5.8M

Raised more than 42% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 52% 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 #106 of 115.

This companyCohort peer
$1.0M$10.0M$100.0M$100K$1.0M$10.0MCapital raised (log)BeautyCon Media, Inc. · Seed Raised $4.0M · modeled $25.2M (est)Beaufort Buligo LP · Seed Raised $3.9M · modeled $24.5M (est)Emagine Frankfort Llc · Seed Raised $3.9M · modeled $24.4M (est)VJCS Holdings, Inc. · Seed Raised $3.8M · modeled $23.7M (est)Indie Lee & Co., Inc. · Seed Raised $3.7M · modeled $23.3M (est)Performance Systems Integration, LLC · Seed Raised $3.7M · modeled $23.3M (est)CBF Holdings Inc. · Seed Raised $3.5M · modeled $22.1M (est)DERMAdoctor, LLC · Seed Raised $3.5M · modeled $22.1M (est)Route Four LLC · Seed Raised $3.5M · modeled $22.1M (est)Center For Goods LLC · Seed Raised $3.5M · modeled $22.1M (est)Tot Baby Corp · Seed Raised $6.2M · modeled $21.2M (est)JuiceDelivery, LLC · Seed Raised $5.3M · modeled $20.4M (est)Making It Big, Inc. (this company) Raised $1.0M · modeled $6.3M (est)Making It Big, Inc.
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
BeautyCon Media, Inc.Seed$4.0M$25.2M2.22×
Beaufort Buligo LPSeed$3.9M$24.5M2.16×
Emagine Frankfort LlcSeed$3.9M$24.4M2.15×
VJCS Holdings, Inc.Seed$3.8M$23.7M2.08×
Indie Lee & Co., Inc.Seed$3.7M$23.3M2.05×
Performance Systems Integration, LLCSeed$3.7M$23.3M2.05×
CBF Holdings Inc.Seed$3.5M$22.1M1.94×
DERMAdoctor, LLCSeed$3.5M$22.1M1.94×
Route Four LLCSeed$3.5M$22.1M1.94×
Center For Goods LLCSeed$3.5M$22.1M1.94×
Tot Baby CorpSeed$6.2M$21.2M1.87×
JuiceDelivery, LLCSeed$5.3M$20.4M1.80×
Making It Big, Inc. this companySeed$1.0M$6.3M0.56×
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$1.0M2016-08-24$5.0M$6.3M90%
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$1.0M2016-08-24
    • First recorded raise — entered as Seed.
Intelligence
Modeled next raise
$1.6M
Modeled next size est.range $1.0M$2.6M
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
Blake Stamper2016-08
Carson Amiral2016-08
Donald Stamper2016-08
Dustin Stamper2016-08
Robert Amiral2016-08
Tracy Amiral2016-08
Registry & provenance

Making It Big, Inc. 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
1684186
SEC CIK
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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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Frequently asked
How much funding has Making It Big, Inc. raised?
Making It Big, Inc. has raised approximately $1.0M in disclosed capital across 1 recorded financing round, aggregated from public filings.
What is Making It Big, Inc.'s estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for Making It Big, Inc. is approximately $6.3M (modeled range $810K–$49.5M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is Making It Big, Inc. at?
Making It Big, Inc.'s latest modeled financing stage is Seed. Its most recent recorded round closed around Wed Aug 24.
What does Making It Big, Inc. do and where is it based?
Making It Big, Inc. operates in the Retailing sector, based in COTATI.
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