Diligence memo · auto-generated · as of July 2, 2026
PBE Holdings, LLC
PBE Holdings, LLC looks fair against its niche peers and is dormant on financing cadence.
Businessfiled
PBE Holdings, LLC operates in Manufacturing, based in CHICAGO.
No verified homepage on file yet — operating evidence is limited to the public record.
Capital & rounds (filed)filed
PBE Holdings, LLC has raised $50M in disclosed capital across 2 recorded rounds, aggregated from public filings. Its latest round is modeled as Series B (a $15M–$40M round).
Largest single filing: $37M on 2011-04-01.
Most recent recorded round closed around 2013-01-25.
Valuation (modeled)modeled
Provath models PBE Holdings, LLC at approximately $143M (range $33M–$549M). This is an algorithmic estimate from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
Read: Fair. Modeled value is 0.74× the median modeled value of Series B Manufacturing companies in 2013–2015 (29 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era. Within the normal band (74% of peer median) for its niche.
Financing rhythm & timingmixed
Historic cadence: a new round about every 22 months.
Last raise 13.4 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 12 months.
Silent for over 3× the sector's normal cadence.
The last round was 2.9× smaller than the prior — a bridge or down round.
Comparablesmixed
Capital scale ranks ahead of 93% of Manufacturing peers (3257 compared).
Modeled value ranks above 89% of those peers.
Closest niche peers: Horsehead Holding Corp, Specialized Tech Inc, Cobham plc, ACON Funko Investors Holdings, L.L.C., Workhorse Rail, LLC.
Peoplefiled
3 named people on file across officers, directors and signatories.
Risks & flagsmixed
Financing has been silent well beyond sector cadence — possibly defunct, acquired, or paused.
No clearly named CEO/founder/principal in the surfaced records — key-person evidence is thin.