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Oak & Grist Distilling Co LLC

Black Mountain · Food & Beverage · refined from filed group “Other

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Oak & Grist Distilling Co LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$884K
Total raised · real
2
Rounds
0.3×
Latest step-up
Top 39%
Sector rank · raised
Pre-Seed
Latest stage · inferred · Fri Jul 01 2016 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Oak & Grist Distilling Co 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 Pre-Seed Food & Beverage companies in 2016–2018 (72 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
Dormant
  • Last raise 10.0 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 15 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

Oak & Grist Distilling Co 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
11.0 yr record
Peak capital year was 2015 with $700K across 1 filings.
Market position
ahead of 62% of Food & Beverage peers
Capital scale is ahead of 62% of Food & Beverage peers; modeled value is above 51% 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 2015: $700K across 1 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $700K on 2015-07-01.
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 Food & Beverage

Oak & Grist Distilling Co LLC is one of 567 Food & Beverage companies tracked from Black Mountain. By capital raised it ranks mid-pack (ahead of 62% 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
No revenue
Issuer revenue
Rule 506(b)
Reg D exemption
2014
Year incorporated
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$5.0M$10M$15M$20MPre-Seed · 2015-07-01 Raised $700K (real) Modeled valuation $16M (est)$700K$16MPre-Seed2015Pre-Seed · 2016-07-01 Raised $184K (real) Modeled valuation $4.2M (est)$184K$4.2MPre-Seed2016+$184KCumulative $884K

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
Pre-Seed$700K · 2015
Pre-Seed extension$184K · 2016

Stages are modeled from round size (public records carry no series label). Ladder is contiguous — every modeled rung has a record.

Modeled valuation trajectory
$4.2M
Base estimate est.
$123K
Conservative case
$48.2M
Upside case
$1.0M
Modeled post-money

Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Pre-Seeda round under $1.0M). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Pre-Seed · modeled $16.2M · 2015-07-012015Pre-Seed · modeled $4.2M · 2016-07-012016
Model inputs · modeled:benchmark-stage-stepup-v1
18%
Dilution assumption
Implied ownership sold in the financing.
30%
Survival probability
12% low · 55% high
1.55×/yr
Annual markup
2.10×/yr upside case
6.0 yr
Elapsed time used
10.0 yr actual, capped for stale marks
general
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
12 mo
Avg between rounds
$882K/yr
Capital velocity
11.0 yr
On record since
2015
First round
2
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 567 companies in Food & Beverage. 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) 0.7× of median
This company$884K
Sector median$1.2M
Latest round — vs other Pre-Seed rounds in sector (real $, this stage) 0.4× of median
This company$184K
Sector median$411K
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 0.4× of median
This company$4.2M
Sector median$10.6M

Raised more than 62% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 51% of peers (estimate).

Niche peers — same stage & era

A tighter cohort than the sector chart above — only companies at the same stage (Pre-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 #59 of 72.

This companyCohort peer
$1.0M$10.0M$100.0M$100K$1.0M$10.0MCapital raised (log)Single Hill Brewing Co · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $23.1M (est)Full Circle Brewing, Co. Ltd. LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $23.1M (est)Door County Brewing Co., LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $23.1M (est)Joyland Brewing Company, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $23.1M (est)Smith Story Wine Cellars, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $23.1M (est)Spring Creek Brewing Co LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $23.1M (est)TRU Chocolate Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $900K · modeled $20.8M (est)Dr. In The Kitchen, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $800K · modeled $18.5M (est)PAB Neighborhood Kitchen #1, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $1.4M · modeled $16.7M (est)3 Sons Brewing Co., LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $710K · modeled $16.4M (est)JOE CHOCOLATES Co · Pre-Seed Raised $705K · modeled $16.3M (est)Brown Water Spirits LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $700K · modeled $16.2M (est)Oak & Grist Distilling Co LLC (this company) Raised $884K · modeled $4.2M (est)Oak & Grist Distilling Co LLC
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
Single Hill Brewing CoPre-Seed$1.0M$23.1M2.83×
Full Circle Brewing, Co. Ltd. LLCPre-Seed$1.0M$23.1M2.83×
Door County Brewing Co., LLCPre-Seed$1.0M$23.1M2.83×
Joyland Brewing Company, LLCPre-Seed$1.0M$23.1M2.83×
Smith Story Wine Cellars, LLCPre-Seed$1.0M$23.1M2.83×
Spring Creek Brewing Co LLCPre-Seed$1.0M$23.1M2.83×
TRU Chocolate Inc.Pre-Seed$900K$20.8M2.54×
Dr. In The Kitchen, LLCPre-Seed$800K$18.5M2.26×
PAB Neighborhood Kitchen #1, LLCPre-Seed$1.4M$16.7M2.04×
3 Sons Brewing Co., LLCPre-Seed$710K$16.4M2.01×
JOE CHOCOLATES CoPre-Seed$705K$16.3M1.99×
Brown Water Spirits LLCPre-Seed$700K$16.2M1.98×
Oak & Grist Distilling Co LLC this companyPre-Seed$884K$4.2M0.52×
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.
Pre-Seed$700K2015-07-01$3.9M$16.2M85%
Pre-Seed$184K2016-07-01$1.0M$4.2M90%
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. Pre-Seed$700K2015-07-01
    • First recorded raise — entered as Pre-Seed.
  2. Pre-Seed$184K2016-07-01
    • Raised 12 mo later, in step with the ~15 mo sector norm.
    • Round 3.8× smaller than the prior — bridge or down round.
Intelligence
2017 ~Q3
Modeled next raise · ~12mo cadence
$184K
Modeled next size est.range $184K$294K
0.3×
Last step-up
$882K/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
William Louis Goldberg2015-07
Registry & provenance

Oak & Grist Distilling Co 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
1635996
SEC CIK
2014
Incorporated
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Frequently asked
How much funding has Oak & Grist Distilling Co LLC raised?
Oak & Grist Distilling Co LLC has raised approximately $884K in disclosed capital across 2 recorded financing rounds, aggregated from public filings.
What is Oak & Grist Distilling Co LLC's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for Oak & Grist Distilling Co LLC is approximately $4.2M (modeled range $123K–$48.2M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is Oak & Grist Distilling Co LLC at?
Oak & Grist Distilling Co LLC's latest modeled financing stage is Pre-Seed. Its most recent recorded round closed around Fri Jul 01.
What does Oak & Grist Distilling Co LLC do and where is it based?
Oak & Grist Distilling Co LLC operates in the Food & Beverage sector, based in Black Mountain.
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