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Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Oars & Alps LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→Oars & Alps LLC looks under-valued against its niche peers and is quiet 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.
Procedural diagnosis est. — rule-based common-sense checks over the filing pattern, issuer name, activity cadence, and surfaced operating evidence.
Oars & Alps 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.
Explore how these operators interlock with other companies in the operator network.
Oars & Alps LLC is one of 2347 Retailing companies tracked from CHICAGO. By capital raised it ranks in the upper tier (ahead of 84% 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.
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, Seed — the company may have raised it under a different exemption, merged it into an adjacent record, or skipped it. Sequence completeness: 33%.
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 scaled by the retail sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.
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.
Raised more than 84% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 55% of peers (estimate).
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 #87 of 100.
| Company | Stage | Raised · real | Value · est | vs peer med. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olivela Inc. | Series A | $28.8M | $61.0M | 3.35× |
| PSP Investors, LLC | Series A | $15.4M | $53.3M | 2.93× |
| Coreleap, Inc. | Series A | $16.7M | $51.9M | 2.85× |
| Cariloha, Inc. | Series A | $22.5M | $51.2M | 2.81× |
| Elevation Cannabis, LLC | Series A | $15.0M | $47.6M | 2.61× |
| Botany Bay Wax Co LLC | Series A | $13.3M | $45.8M | 2.52× |
| Full Glass Wine Co., LLC | Series A | $14.2M | $44.2M | 2.43× |
| Kafene, Inc. | Series A | $42.1M | $43.2M | 2.37× |
| Skinny Butcher LLC | Series A | $10.0M | $41.6M | 2.29× |
| G2G Ventures, PBC | Series A | $13.4M | $38.5M | 2.12× |
| YCP Car Wash Portfolio LLC | Series A | $12.6M | $37.9M | 2.08× |
| Elevation Bridge, LLC | Series A | $12.0M | $35.9M | 1.97× |
| Oars & Alps LLC this company | Series A | $13.3M | $6.9M | 0.38× |
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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series A | $5.2M | 2019-04-29 | $23.4M | $26.5M | 90% |
| Series A | $1.0M | 2021-08-18 | $4.5M | $4.4M | 90% |
| Series A | $1000K | 2022-01-13 | $4.5M | $4.2M | 90% |
| Series A | $1.2M | 2022-06-14 | $5.5M | $4.7M | 90% |
| Series A | $1.8M | 2023-01-06 | $8.2M | $6.5M | 90% |
| Series A | $900K | 2023-02-24 | $4.1M | $3.2M | 90% |
| Series A | $2.3M | 2024-05-28 | $10.5M | $6.9M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeffrey J. Prochnow | — | 2 other | 2024-05 |
| Erica E. LeBlanc | — | 1 other | 2024-05 |
| Andrew J. Frailing | — | — | 2024-05 |
| Erica LeBlanc | — | — | 2021-08 |
| Gabe Cleek | — | — | 2021-08 |
| Laura Lisowski | — | — | 2019-04 |
| Swati Saini | — | — | 2019-04 |
Oars & Alps 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BT Manufacturing, LLC | Retailing | Series A | $14.3M | $16.0M | network1 shared operator · same sector · same stage |
| Wondercide LLC | Retailing | Seed | $3.5M | $21.9M | network2 shared operators · same sector |
| Bayru, LLC | Retailing | Series A | $13.1M | $6.1M | same sector · same stage |
| Brixco, Inc. | Retailing | Series A | $12.7M | $5.2M | same sector · same stage |
| Algorhythm Holdings, Inc. | Retailing | Series A | $12.0M | $5.7M | same sector · same stage |
| Pop & Bottle, Inc. | Retailing | Series A | $15.3M | $8.6M | same sector · same stage |
| Marbles Holdings, Inc. | Retailing | Series A | $11.0M | $8.1M | same sector · same stage |
| Design Within Reach Inc | Retailing | Series A | $16.8M | $9.2M | same sector · same stage |
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.
| Company | Sector | Stage | Value · est | Match |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oiselle, LLC | Retailing | Pre-Seed | $541K | 81% |
| Mountaineer Ultimate Holdings, LLC | Retailing | Series D+ | $1.2B | 81% |
| Stock & Barrel, LLC | Retailing | Series A | $51.4M | 81% |
| Stock & Barrel Holdings, LLC | Retailing | Series A | $51.4M | 81% |
| Burch Barrel Holdings, LLC | Retailing | Pre-Seed | $1.1M | 80% |
| Mountain Origins Design LLC | Retailing | Series A | $11.4M | 80% |
| LZRD Tech, Inc | Retailing | Pre-Seed | $732K | 80% |
| Osiris Holdings LLC\IL | Retailing | Seed | $8.2M | 79% |
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