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BERKELEY · Agtech / Foodtech · refined from filed group “Other”
Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Once Upon a Farm, LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→Once Upon a Farm, LLC looks over-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. 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.
Procedural diagnosis est. — rule-based common-sense checks over the filing pattern, issuer name, activity cadence, and surfaced operating evidence.
Once Upon a Farm, 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.
Once Upon a Farm, LLC is one of 481 Agtech / Foodtech companies tracked from BERKELEY. By capital raised it ranks among the largest (ahead of 99% of sector peers), and among the largest 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, Series A — the company may have raised it under a different exemption, merged it into an adjacent record, or skipped it. Sequence completeness: 60%.
Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Series C — a $40M–$100M round). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks scaled by the agriculture sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.
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.
Raised more than 99% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 98% of peers (estimate).
A tighter cohort than the sector chart above — only companies at the same stage (Series C) 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 #1 of 5.
| Company | Stage | Raised · real | Value · est | vs peer med. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Once Upon a Farm, LLC this company | Series C | $99.7M | $389.7M | 5.41× |
| BPC Metro Coffee LLC | Series C | $50.5M | $316.0M | 4.39× |
| Ripple Foods, Pbc | Series C | $278.9M | $72.0M | 1.00× |
| Atomo Coffee, Inc. | Series C | $61.0M | $47.2M | 0.66× |
| MyForest Foods Co. | Series C | $65.8M | $23.7M | 0.33× |
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 | $4.0M | 2017-01-23 | $19.8M | $47.7M | 90% |
| Seed | $3.1M | 2017-01-23 | $15.5M | $37.4M | 90% |
| Series B | $20.1M | 2018-09-28 | $111.7M | $216.6M | 90% |
| Series B | $18.0M | 2018-09-28 | $100.3M | $194.4M | 90% |
| Series B | $20.1M | 2018-09-28 | $111.7M | $216.6M | 90% |
| Series B | $8.9M | 2020-02-14 | $49.3M | $95.6M | 90% |
| Series B | $22.8M | 2021-06-14 | $126.6M | $205.9M | 90% |
| Series C | $44.0M | 2022-02-28 | $293.4M | $389.7M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chuck Templeton | — | 8 other | 2018-09 |
| Brett Thomas | — | 7 other | 2018-09 |
| Megan Bent | — | 5 other | 2017-01 |
| Jared Jacobs | — | 2 other | 2018-09 |
| John Foraker | — | 2 other | 2018-09 |
| Filipp Chebotarev | — | 1 other | 2017-01 |
| Larry Waldman | — | 1 other | 2020-02 |
| Lawrence Waldman | — | 1 other | 2018-09 |
| Ari Raz | — | — | 2017-01 |
| Cassandra Curtis | — | — | 2017-01 |
| Debra Eschmeyer | — | — | 2022-02 |
| Jennifer Garner | — | — | 2022-02 |
| Larry Peiros | — | — | 2020-02 |
Once Upon a Farm, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Project Healthy Living, Inc. | Business Services | Series C | $88.9M | $90.2M | network2 shared operators · same stage |
| Atomo Coffee, Inc. | Agtech / Foodtech | Series C | $61.0M | $47.2M | network1 shared operator · same sector · same stage |
| Ripple Foods, Pbc | Agtech / Foodtech | Series C | $278.9M | $72.0M | network1 shared operator · same sector · same stage |
| Daring Foods Inc. | Agtech / Foodtech | Series C | $99.4M | $465.7M | same sector · same stage |
| Kate Farms, Inc. | Agtech / Foodtech | Series C | $91.9M | $467.9M | same sector · same stage |
| Ava Food Labs, Inc. | Agtech / Foodtech | Series C | $84.7M | $614.0M | same sector · same stage |
| ILY Holdings, LLC | Other | Series C | $105.6M | $48.7M | network1 shared operator · same stage |
| Good Day Farm Arkansas, LLC | Agtech / Foodtech | Series C | $66.2M | $97.9M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farm One, Inc. | Agtech / Foodtech | Seed | $24.1M | 86% |
| Farm Jenny LLC | Agtech / Foodtech | Pre-Seed | $6.0M | 84% |
| Simple Farms LLC | Agtech / Foodtech | Pre-Seed | $2.5M | 82% |
| Farm at Paradise LLC | Agtech / Foodtech | Pre-Seed | $3.8M | 82% |
| Farm Nashville, LLC | Agtech / Foodtech | Series A | $84.0M | 82% |
| Merch Farm, Llc | Agtech / Foodtech | Seed | $11.3M | 81% |
| Atlantic Farms Management Llc | Agtech / Foodtech | Pre-Seed | $3.8M | 81% |
| Trinity Foods, Inc. | Agtech / Foodtech | Seed | $12.3M | 80% |
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