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Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Montecito Venture Partners LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→Montecito Venture Partners LLC has raised $7.5M over 4 rounds; too few niche peers to rank its valuation yet.
Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page.
Procedural diagnosis est. — rule-based common-sense checks over the filing pattern, issuer name, activity cadence, and surfaced operating evidence.
Montecito Venture Partners LLC behaves more like a recurring private-offering issuer than a conventional venture-backed operating company.
No named principal in this company's public records yet — see all operators below.
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Montecito Venture Partners LLC is one of 1793 Investment Vehicle companies tracked from Santa Barbara. By capital raised it ranks mid-pack (ahead of 67% of sector peers), and in the long tail 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.
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.
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.
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: 67%.
Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Series A — a $4.0M–$15M round). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks. Directional, not a quoted figure.
Benchmarked against 1793 companies in Investment Vehicle. 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.
Raised more than 67% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 24% of peers (estimate).
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.
| Stage | Amount · real | Announced | Post-money · est | Value · est | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | $3.8M | 2010-02-05 | $18.9M | $70.3M | 85% |
| Series A | $4.5M | 2010-02-05 | $20.5M | $68.2M | 85% |
| Series A | $4.9M | 2010-02-05 | $22.2M | $73.8M | 85% |
| Series A | $700K | 2017-11-15 | $3.2M | $10.6M | 90% |
| Series A | $984K | 2021-02-15 | $4.5M | $12.3M | 90% |
| Series A | $933K | 2022-11-10 | $4.2M | $7.0M | 90% |
Step-up, pace versus the sector's normal cadence, and revenue/exemption moves — read straight from the reported round facts reported.
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.
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.
| Person | Role | Also runs | Tied since |
|---|---|---|---|
| R. Atticus Lowe | — | 4 other | 2017-11 |
| Atticus Lowe | — | 2 other | 2010-02 |
| Diana Pereira | — | 2 other | 2010-02 |
| Joseph Lucia | — | — | 2017-11 |
| Lance Helfert | — | — | 2017-11 |
Montecito Venture Partners 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.
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.
| Company | Sector | Stage | Raised · real | Value · est | Why similar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marina Resort Investors, L.P. | Hospitality / Travel | Series A | $6.5M | $2.1M | network1 shared operator · same stage |
| Casa Cody Investors, L.P. | Other | Series A | $5.6M | $6.1M | network1 shared operator · same stage |
| Pearl Hotel Investors, L.P. | Hospitality / Travel | Series A | $5.3M | $19.6M | network1 shared operator · same stage |
| Cognixion Inc. | Other | Series A | $31.5M | $11.5M | network1 shared operator · same stage |
| Griffith Sunset Partners, L.P. | Other | Seed | $3.4M | $27.5M | network1 shared operator |
| Impact Hub of Santa Barbara, LLC | Other | Seed | $3.0M | $22.8M | network1 shared operator |
| Taos Land Conservation, L.P. | Other | Pre-Seed | $825K | $2.1M | network1 shared operator |
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