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Motista, LLC

San Francisco · Other

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Motista, LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$12.1M
Total raised · real
3
Rounds
0.9×
Latest step-up
Top 21%
Sector rank · raised
Series A
Latest stage · inferred · Tue Dec 11 2018 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Motista, LLC 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.

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 0.52× the median modeled value of Series A Other companies in 2016–2018 (707 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
Dormant
  • Last raise 7.6 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 11 months.
  • Silent for over 3× the sector's normal cadence.

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

Issuer-vehicle patternmedium confidence

Motista, 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
11.6 yr record
Peak capital year was 2018 with $6.3M across 2 filings.
Market position
ahead of 80% of Other peers
Capital scale is ahead of 80% of Other peers; modeled value is above 70% 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
Lower 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.
  • Sector is still broad/Other, so operating comparables are weak.
  • No clearly named CEO/founder/principal role in the public records surfaced here.
  • No verified homepage on the profile yet.
  • Capital program peaked in 2018: $6.3M across 2 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $5.8M on 2014-11-24.
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 Other

Motista, LLC is one of 25008 Other companies tracked from San Francisco. By capital raised it ranks in the upper tier (ahead of 80% 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
2
Investors (latest)
2014
Year incorporated
2018-12-11
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 · 2014-11-24 Raised $5.8M (real) Modeled valuation $88M (est)$5.8M$88MSeries A2014Series A · 2018-03-05 Raised $3.3M (real) Modeled valuation $49M (est)$3.3M$49MSeries A2018Series A · 2018-12-11 Raised $3.0M (real) Modeled valuation $45M (est)$3.0M$45MSeries A2018+$3.3M+$3.0MCumulative $12M

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$5.8M · 2014
Series A extension$3.3M · 2018
Series A extension$3.0M · 2018

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
$45.4M
Base estimate est.
$4.1M
Conservative case
$246.9M
Upside case
$13.6M
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. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Series A · modeled $87.8M · 2014-11-242014Series A · modeled $49.2M · 2018-03-05Series A · modeled $45.4M · 2018-12-112018
Model inputs · modeled:benchmark-stage-stepup-v1
22%
Dilution assumption
Implied ownership sold in the financing.
55%
Survival probability
30% low · 75% high
1.35×/yr
Annual markup
1.70×/yr upside case
6.0 yr
Elapsed time used
7.5 yr actual, capped for stale marks
general
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
24 mo
Avg between rounds
$3.0M/yr
Capital velocity
11.6 yr
On record since
2014
First round
3
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 25008 companies in Other. 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) 5.9× above median
This company$12.1M
Sector median$2.0M
Latest round — vs other Series A rounds in sector (real $, this stage) 0.5× of median
This company$3.0M
Sector median$5.7M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 2.6× above median
This company$45.4M
Sector median$17.7M

Raised more than 80% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 70% 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 #600 of 707.

This companyCohort peer
$10.0M$100.0M$1.0B$10.0M$100.0MCapital raised (log)Cardinal Memorial Ultimate Holdings, Llc · Series A Raised $15.0M · modeled $227.0M (est)PASSADO Co Ltd · Series A Raised $15.0M · modeled $227.0M (est)Baba Joe Diamond Ventures Us Inc. · Series A Raised $15.0M · modeled $227.0M (est)Black Television News Channel, LLC · Series A Raised $15.0M · modeled $227.0M (est)CannCare, Inc · Series A Raised $15.0M · modeled $227.0M (est)Instapage, Inc. · Series A Raised $18.0M · modeled $227.0M (est)Hogsalt Investors Llc · Series A Raised $15.0M · modeled $227.0M (est)Mina Mar Corp · Series A Raised $15.0M · modeled $227.0M (est)ACM Research, Inc. · Series A Raised $15.0M · modeled $227.0M (est)Genie Enterprises, Ltd · Series A Raised $15.0M · modeled $227.0M (est)Qq Utah 3, Llc · Series A Raised $15.0M · modeled $227.0M (est)Tatcha LLC · Series A Raised $21.3M · modeled $227.0M (est)Motista, LLC (this company) Raised $12.1M · modeled $45.4M (est)Motista, LLC
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
Cardinal Memorial Ultimate Holdings, LlcSeries A$15.0M$227.0M2.59×
PASSADO Co LtdSeries A$15.0M$227.0M2.59×
Baba Joe Diamond Ventures Us Inc.Series A$15.0M$227.0M2.59×
Black Television News Channel, LLCSeries A$15.0M$227.0M2.59×
CannCare, IncSeries A$15.0M$227.0M2.59×
Instapage, Inc.Series A$18.0M$227.0M2.59×
Hogsalt Investors LlcSeries A$15.0M$227.0M2.59×
Mina Mar CorpSeries A$15.0M$227.0M2.59×
ACM Research, Inc.Series A$15.0M$227.0M2.59×
Genie Enterprises, LtdSeries A$15.0M$227.0M2.59×
Qq Utah 3, LlcSeries A$15.0M$227.0M2.59×
Tatcha LLCSeries A$21.3M$227.0M2.59×
Motista, LLC this companySeries A$12.1M$45.4M0.52×
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$5.8M2014-11-24$26.4M$87.8M85%
Series A$3.3M2018-03-05$14.8M$49.2M90%
Series A$3.0M2018-12-11$13.6M$45.4M90%
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$5.8M2014-11-24
    • First recorded raise — entered as Series A.
    • 2 investors on this round.
  2. Series A$3.3M2018-03-05
    • Raised again after 39 mo — slower than the ~11 mo sector norm.
    • Round 1.8× smaller than the prior — bridge or down round.
    • 2 investors on this round.
  3. Series A$3.0M2018-12-11
    • Raised 9 mo later, in step with the ~11 mo sector norm.
    • Round roughly the size of the prior one.
    • 2 investors on this round.
Intelligence
2020 ~Q4
Modeled next raise · ~24mo cadence
$3.0M
Modeled next size est.range $3.0M$4.8M
0.9×
Last step-up
$3.0M/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
Andrew Seamons6 other2018-03
Patrick Gross2 other2014-11
Alan Zorfas1 other2014-11
Scott Magids1 other2014-11
Andrew Seasoms2014-11
Bram Bluestein2014-11
Chris Crosby2018-12
Michael Mathias2018-03
Steve Baroni2014-11
Registry & provenance

Motista, 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
1630237
SEC CIK
2014
Incorporated
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Frequently asked
How much funding has Motista, LLC raised?
Motista, LLC has raised approximately $12.1M in disclosed capital across 3 recorded financing rounds, aggregated from public filings.
What is Motista, LLC's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for Motista, LLC is approximately $45.4M (modeled range $4.1M–$246.9M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is Motista, LLC at?
Motista, LLC's latest modeled financing stage is Series A. Its most recent recorded round closed around Tue Dec 11.
What does Motista, LLC do and where is it based?
Motista, LLC operates in the Other sector, based in San Francisco.
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