Diligence memo · auto-generated · as of July 2, 2026
Playphone Inc
Playphone Inc looks fair against its niche peers and is dormant on financing cadence.
Businessfiled
Playphone Inc operates in Other, based in SAN JOSE.
Sector still resolves to a broad 'Other' bucket, so operating comparables below are weaker than for a tightly-classified peer.
No verified homepage on file yet — operating evidence is limited to the public record.
Capital & rounds (filed)filed
Playphone Inc has raised $82M in disclosed capital across 2 recorded rounds, aggregated from public filings. Its latest round is modeled as Series C (a $40M–$100M round).
Largest single filing: $51M on 2012-03-01.
Most recent recorded round closed around 2012-03-01.
Valuation (modeled)modeled
Provath models Playphone Inc at approximately $883M (range $199M–$2.3B). This is an algorithmic estimate from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
Read: Fair. Modeled value is 0.97× the median modeled value of Series C Other companies in 2010–2012 (152 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era. Within the normal band (97% of peer median) for its niche.
Financing rhythm & timingmixed
Historic cadence: a new round about every 42 months.
Last raise 14.3 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 11 months.
Silent for over 3× the sector's normal cadence.
The last round stepped up 1.7× from the prior — scaling.
Comparablesmixed
Capital scale ranks ahead of 95% of Other peers (25015 compared).
Modeled value ranks above 96% of those peers.
Closest niche peers: China XD Plastics Co Ltd, TPG-Axon Cube Trust, TPG-Axon Cube Sa rl, Ralco Holdings, Inc., 1-800-Pack-Rat, LLC.
Peoplefiled
9 named people on file across officers, directors and signatories.
Risks & flagsmixed
Financing has been silent well beyond sector cadence — possibly defunct, acquired, or paused.
Broad sector classification weakens peer comparison.
No clearly named CEO/founder/principal in the surfaced records — key-person evidence is thin.