Companies · Consumer / Retail
CHICAGO · Consumer / Retail · refined from filed group “Other”
Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on PRE Brands LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→PRE Brands LLC looks under-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 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.
PRE Brands 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.
PRE Brands LLC is one of 1161 Consumer / Retail companies tracked from CHICAGO. By capital raised it ranks in the upper tier (ahead of 89% of sector peers), and in the upper tier 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). Ladder is contiguous — every modeled rung has a record.
Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Seed — a $1.0M–$4.0M round). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks scaled by the retail sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.
Benchmarked against 1161 companies in Consumer / Retail. 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 89% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 81% of peers (estimate).
A tighter cohort than the sector chart above — only companies at the same stage (Seed) 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 #27 of 29.
| Company | Stage | Raised · real | Value · est | vs peer med. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Local Store Identity, Inc. | Seed | $5.3M | $23.5M | 1.96× |
| Shop Club, Inc. | Seed | $3.8M | $22.9M | 1.91× |
| Brand Defender, Inc. | Seed | $3.5M | $22.1M | 1.84× |
| Swell Commerce Corp. | Seed | $3.6M | $20.4M | 1.70× |
| Shoptimize, Inc. | Seed | $3.2M | $20.3M | 1.69× |
| Wilde Brands Inc. | Seed | $7.7M | $18.9M | 1.57× |
| Kalahari Brands, Inc. | Seed | $4.5M | $17.5M | 1.46× |
| Everywhere Apparel, Inc. | Seed | $3.0M | $17.0M | 1.41× |
| 24 Watts Brand Development 1, LLC | Seed | $3.0M | $16.1M | 1.35× |
| American Certified Brands, LLC | Seed | $2.5M | $15.8M | 1.31× |
| StoreEase, Inc. | Seed | $2.8M | $14.1M | 1.17× |
| Brands of Holding Inc. | Seed | $3.2M | $13.4M | 1.12× |
| PRE Brands LLC this company | Seed | $3.8M | $1.6M | 0.13× |
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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-Seed | $1.0M | 2016-06-30 | $5.6M | $7.8M | 85% |
| Seed | $1.1M | 2017-02-09 | $5.6M | $7.1M | 90% |
| Seed | $1.4M | 2019-07-19 | $7.1M | $9.0M | 90% |
| Seed | $250K | 2020-04-24 | $1.3M | $1.6M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| David Meltzer | — | 2 other | 2020-04 |
| JASON PINTER | — | 1 other | 2019-07 |
| Jeffrey Klunzinger | — | 1 other | 2016-06 |
| MATT JACKSON | — | 1 other | 2020-04 |
| KEVIN PONTICELLI | — | — | 2019-07 |
| Lenny Lebovich | — | — | 2016-06 |
| NEIL COX | — | — | 2019-07 |
| NICOLE SCHUMACHER | — | — | 2019-07 |
| PATRICIA WILLMOT | — | — | 2019-07 |
| Patrick Cascarano | — | — | 2016-06 |
| PHILIP PELLEGRINO | — | — | 2020-04 |
| PHIL PELLEGRINO | — | — | 2019-07 |
| RYAN YOUNGMAN | — | — | 2019-07 |
| STEVE JUNGMANN | — | — | 2019-07 |
| TOM CORLEY | — | — | 2019-07 |
| Tracy Sinclair | — | — | 2016-06 |
PRE Brands 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retail Aware Inc. | Consumer / Retail | Seed | $3.5M | $938K | same sector · same stage |
| Petfive Brands Holding Llc | Consumer / Retail | Seed | $4.2M | $1.6M | same sector · same stage |
| Nine County Brands, Inc. | Consumer / Retail | Seed | $2.6M | $1.6M | same sector · same stage |
| Turning Point Retail Corp | Consumer / Retail | Seed | $5.7M | $1.7M | same sector · same stage |
| Pomp Beauty, Inc. | Consumer / Retail | Seed | $6.2M | $1.2M | same sector · same stage |
| Generation NEXT Franchise Brands, Inc. | Consumer / Retail | Seed | $7.0M | $1.6M | same sector · same stage |
| Commerce Resources Corp. | Consumer / Retail | Seed | $1.9M | $750K | same sector · same stage |
| Rodeo Commerce, Inc. | Consumer / Retail | Seed | $1.8M | $719K | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Future Proof Brands LLC | Consumer / Retail | Series B | $74.1M | 86% |
| Defined Brand, LLC | Consumer / Retail | Pre-Seed | $1.0M | 86% |
| AC Brands LLC | Consumer / Retail | Pre-Seed | $1.3M | 84% |
| PREMIUM BRANDS HOLDINGS Corp | Consumer / Retail | Series D+ | $949.6M | 84% |
| Sound Brands LLC | Consumer / Retail | Pre-Seed | $3.1M | 84% |
| Forte Brands LLC | Consumer / Retail | Pre-Seed | $3.0M | 83% |
| Property Brands Parent, Inc. | Proptech / Real Estate | Series B | $248.0M | 83% |
| Regional Brands Inc. | Consumer / Retail | Series A | $62.0M | 83% |
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