Diligence memo · auto-generated · as of July 2, 2026

Plate, Inc.

Plate, Inc. looks fair against its niche peers and is dormant on financing cadence.

DeprioritizeFinancing has gone silent well past the sector's normal cadence — treat as inactive until outside confirmation of a live operation.

Businessfiled

Plate, Inc. operates in Restaurants, based in Daly City.

No verified homepage on file yet — operating evidence is limited to the public record.

Capital & rounds (filed)filed

Plate, Inc. has raised $1.1M in disclosed capital across 2 recorded rounds, aggregated from public filings. Its latest round is modeled as Pre-Seed (a round under $1.0M).

Largest single filing: $700K on —.

Most recent recorded round closed around 2014-07-09.

Valuation (modeled)modeled

Provath models Plate, Inc. at approximately $1.6M (range $207K–$18M). This is an algorithmic estimate from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.

Read: Fair. Modeled value is 1.10× the median modeled value of Pre-Seed Restaurants companies in 2013–2015 (239 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era. Within the normal band (110% of peer median) for its niche.

Financing rhythm & timingmixed

Historic cadence: a new round about every 534 months.

Last raise 12.0 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 13 months.

Silent for over 3× the sector's normal cadence.

The last round was 1.9× smaller than the prior — a bridge or down round.

Comparablesmixed

Capital scale ranks ahead of 56% of Restaurants peers (2292 compared).

Modeled value ranks above 37% of those peers.

Closest niche peers: East Side R&B Investment LP, Kikura & Co, KitBar Enterprises, LLC, Shag Minneapolis, Llc, t-lish IV, LLC.

Peoplefiled

1 named person 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.