Companies · Agtech / Foodtech

MALK Organics LLC

Austin · Agtech / Foodtech · refined from filed group “Other

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on MALK Organics LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$14.9M
Total raised · real
2
Rounds
0.9×
Latest step-up
Top 17%
Sector rank · raised
Series A
Latest stage · inferred · Thu Feb 29 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

MALK Organics LLC looks fair against its niche peers and is at-risk on financing cadence.

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

Analyst read est. — computed against this company's niche peers in the same era. Inputs shown; not a quoted figure.

Fair
  • Modeled value is 1.00× the median modeled value of Series A Agtech / Foodtech companies in 2022–2024 (35 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
  • Within the normal band (100% of peer median) for its niche.
At-risk
  • Last raise 2.3 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 14 months.
  • Past due for a raise versus sector cadence — watch for distress or a bridge.

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

Issuer-vehicle patternmedium confidence

MALK Organics 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
6.0 yr record
Peak capital year was 2020 with $7.9M across 1 filings.
Market position
ahead of 84% of Agtech / Foodtech peers
Capital scale is ahead of 84% of Agtech / Foodtech peers; modeled value is above 74% 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: $7.9M across 1 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $7.9M on 2020-07-06.
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 Agtech / Foodtech

MALK Organics LLC is one of 481 Agtech / Foodtech companies tracked from Austin. By capital raised it ranks in the upper tier (ahead of 84% of sector peers), and in the upper tier 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
18
Investors (latest)
2024-02-29
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$25M$50M$75M$100MSeries A · 2020-07-06 Raised $7.9M (real) Modeled valuation $77M (est)$7.9M$77MSeries A2020Series A · 2024-02-29 Raised $7.0M (real) Modeled valuation $29M (est)$7.0M$29MSeries A2024+$7.0MCumulative $15M

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
Series A$7.9M · 2020
Series A extension$7.0M · 2024

Stages are modeled from round size (public records carry no series label). No record for: Pre-Seed, Seed — the company may have raised it under a different exemption, merged it into an adjacent record, or skipped it. Sequence completeness: 33%.

Modeled valuation trajectory
$28.7M
Base estimate est.
$9.0M
Conservative case
$67.1M
Upside case
$31.8M
Modeled post-money

Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Series Aa $4.0M–$15M round). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks scaled by the agriculture sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Series A · modeled $77.3M · 2020-07-062020Series A · modeled $28.7M · 2024-02-292024
Model inputs · modeled:benchmark-stage-stepup-v1
22%
Dilution assumption
Implied ownership sold in the financing.
52%
Survival probability
28% low · 71% high
1.27×/yr
Annual markup
1.60×/yr upside case
2.3 yr
Elapsed time used
2.3 yr actual, capped for stale marks
agriculture
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
44 mo
Avg between rounds
$4.1M/yr
Capital velocity
6.0 yr
On record since
2020
First round
2
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 481 companies in Agtech / Foodtech. 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) 4.4× above median
This company$14.9M
Sector median$3.4M
Latest round — vs other Series A rounds in sector (real $, this stage) 1.4× above median
This company$7.0M
Sector median$5.0M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 2.3× above median
This company$28.7M
Sector median$12.2M

Raised more than 84% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 74% of peers (estimate).

Niche peers — same stage & era

A tighter cohort than the sector chart above — only companies at the same stage (Series A) 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 #19 of 35.

This companyCohort peer
$10.0M$100.0M$1.0B$1.0M$10.0M$100.0MCapital raised (log)Change Foods, Inc. · Series A Raised $14.0M · modeled $93.6M (est)En-R-G Foods, Llc · Series A Raised $21.0M · modeled $93.2M (est)Farm Nashville, LLC · Series A Raised $15.0M · modeled $84.0M (est)RR Dairy LLC · Series A Raised $14.2M · modeled $78.6M (est)Gooder Foods, Inc. · Series A Raised $22.9M · modeled $64.9M (est)Hyfe Foods, Inc. · Series A Raised $13.0M · modeled $53.7M (est)Hedgehog Foods, Inc. · Series A Raised $12.8M · modeled $48.5M (est)Cella Farms Inc. · Series A Raised $8.0M · modeled $46.5M (est)AquaCultured Foods, Inc. · Series A Raised $7.7M · modeled $42.3M (est)Very Good Food Co Inc. · Series A Raised $6.5M · modeled $40.4M (est)Agronomed Capital LLC · Series A Raised $7.1M · modeled $39.4M (est)Verde Farms Holding, LLC · Series A Raised $10.0M · modeled $38.1M (est)MALK Organics LLC (this company) Raised $14.9M · modeled $28.7M (est)MALK Organics LLC
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
Change Foods, Inc.Series A$14.0M$93.6M3.26×
En-R-G Foods, LlcSeries A$21.0M$93.2M3.25×
Farm Nashville, LLCSeries A$15.0M$84.0M2.93×
RR Dairy LLCSeries A$14.2M$78.6M2.74×
Gooder Foods, Inc.Series A$22.9M$64.9M2.26×
Hyfe Foods, Inc.Series A$13.0M$53.7M1.87×
Hedgehog Foods, Inc.Series A$12.8M$48.5M1.69×
Cella Farms Inc.Series A$8.0M$46.5M1.62×
AquaCultured Foods, Inc.Series A$7.7M$42.3M1.47×
Very Good Food Co Inc.Series A$6.5M$40.4M1.41×
Agronomed Capital LLCSeries A$7.1M$39.4M1.37×
Verde Farms Holding, LLCSeries A$10.0M$38.1M1.33×
MALK Organics LLC this companySeries A$14.9M$28.7M1.00×
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.
Series A$7.9M2020-07-06$35.9M$77.3M90%
Series A$7.0M2024-02-29$31.8M$28.7M90%
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. Series A$7.9M2020-07-06
    • First recorded raise — entered as Series A.
    • 7 investors on this round.
  2. Series A$7.0M2024-02-29
    • Raised again after 44 mo — slower than the ~14 mo sector norm.
    • Round roughly the size of the prior one.
    • 18 investors on this round.
Intelligence
2027 ~Q4
Modeled next raise · ~44mo cadence
$7.0M
Modeled next size est.range $7.0M$11.2M
0.9×
Last step-up
$4.1M/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
John Howard7 other2024-02
Sam Frankfort4 other2020-07
Ben Fenton2 other2020-07
August Vega1 other2020-07
Jason Bronstad1 other2024-02
Thomas Oh1 other2024-02
Adria Campbell2024-02
Bob Ackerly2020-07
Chris Psyhos2024-02
Morris Siegal2020-07
Numi Hirsch2024-02
Ryon Paton2020-07
Stuart Daley2020-07
Surachita Mishra2020-07
Registry & provenance

MALK Organics 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
1818372
SEC CIK
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
Quinn Foods LLCAgtech / FoodtechSeries A$13.7M$77.4Mnetwork1 shared operator · same sector · same stage
Be Well Nutrition, Inc.Agtech / FoodtechSeries A$15.2M$38.5Msame sector · same stage
Mozza Foods, Inc.Agtech / FoodtechSeries A$14.6M$21.1Msame sector · same stage
Tava Organics, Ltd.Agtech / FoodtechSeries A$15.3M$4.2Msame sector · same stage
Love Grown Foods, LLCAgtech / FoodtechSeries A$15.8M$44.7Msame sector · same stage
Agritech Worldwide, Inc.Agtech / FoodtechSeries A$15.9M$9.8Msame sector · same stage
Panaceutics Nutrition, Inc.Agtech / FoodtechSeries A$13.6M$5.9Msame sector · same stage
Sensible Organics, Inc.Agtech / FoodtechSeries A$16.5M$21.3Msame sector · same stage
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
Lux Organics Holdings, LLCAgtech / FoodtechSeed$45.0M86%
Culture Organics, LLCAgtech / FoodtechPre-Seed$989K85%
Fairfield Organics LlcAgtech / FoodtechSeries A$17.2M85%
Grower's Organic Holdings, LLCAgtech / FoodtechSeed$5.4M84%
KA Foods, LLCAgtech / FoodtechPre-Seed$6.2M84%
Thompson Organics, LLCAgtech / FoodtechSeries A$37.1M83%
Atlas Organics IncAgtech / FoodtechPre-Seed$6.0M83%
Tiny Organics, Inc.Agtech / FoodtechSeries A$84.1M83%
Frequently asked
How much funding has MALK Organics LLC raised?
MALK Organics LLC has raised approximately $14.9M in disclosed capital across 2 recorded financing rounds, aggregated from public filings.
What is MALK Organics LLC's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for MALK Organics LLC is approximately $28.7M (modeled range $9.0M–$67.1M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is MALK Organics LLC at?
MALK Organics LLC's latest modeled financing stage is Series A. Its most recent recorded round closed around Thu Feb 29.
What does MALK Organics LLC do and where is it based?
MALK Organics LLC operates in the Agtech / Foodtech sector, based in Austin.
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