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Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Samsonite International S.A. — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→Samsonite International S.A. has raised $32M over 6 rounds; too few niche peers to rank its valuation yet.
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.
Samsonite International S.A. 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.
Samsonite International S.A. is one of 2347 Retailing companies tracked from LUXEMBOURG CITY. By capital raised it ranks among the largest (ahead of 92% 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.
This issuer has a dense recurring filing history, so the chart groups filings by year. Solid bars are annual reported capital reported; hatched bars show the latest modeled value est. observed in that year. Use the toggles to overlay data labels and the niche-peer / market average value lines.
Dense history compressed: 39 filings shown as 5 yearly buckets. Hover a bucket for filing count, annual capital, and latest modeled value.
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.
This looks like a recurring offering series, so a VC stage ladder would be misleading. Showing the filed offering sequence instead.
Showing first 24 of 39 filings to keep the sequence readable.
This issuer files recurring offerings, so the model treats stage labels as a loose sizing heuristic, not a clean VC ladder. The estimate anchors on reported filing amounts and dates, then applies benchmark dilution, survival, and markup assumptions. Directional, not a quoted figure.
Benchmarked against 2347 companies in Retailing. 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 92% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 88% of peers (estimate).
This issuer files too frequently for VC stage labels to be meaningful, so rows are shown as initial/follow-on offerings est. instead of Pre-Seed/Seed/Series buckets.
| Stage | Amount · real | Announced | Post-money · est | Value · est | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Initial offering | $10.1M | 2014-01-16 | $46.1M | $52.1M | 90% |
| Follow-on offering | $507K | 2014-01-16 | $2.8M | $4.0M | 85% |
| Follow-on offering | $6.8M | 2014-01-16 | $31.0M | $35.1M | 90% |
| Follow-on offering | $412K | 2014-01-16 | $2.3M | $3.2M | 85% |
| Follow-on offering | $6.2M | 2014-01-16 | $28.1M | $31.8M | 90% |
| Follow-on offering | $10.8M | 2014-01-16 | $49.0M | $55.4M | 90% |
| Follow-on offering | $2.5M | 2014-01-16 | $12.5M | $15.8M | 90% |
| Follow-on offering | $10.1M | 2014-01-16 | $46.1M | $52.1M | 90% |
| Follow-on offering | $10.8M | 2014-01-16 | $49.0M | $55.4M | 90% |
| Follow-on offering | $2.1M | 2014-01-16 | $10.7M | $13.5M | 85% |
| Follow-on offering | $257K | 2015-01-01 | $1.3M | $1.6M | 85% |
| Follow-on offering | $7.9M | 2015-01-13 | $35.7M | $40.4M | 90% |
| Follow-on offering | $5.1M | 2015-01-13 | $23.3M | $26.3M | 90% |
| Follow-on offering | $7.9M | 2015-01-13 | $35.7M | $40.4M | 90% |
| Follow-on offering | $7.9M | 2015-01-13 | $35.7M | $40.4M | 90% |
| Follow-on offering | $10.1M | 2015-01-13 | $45.8M | $51.7M | 90% |
| Follow-on offering | $9.7M | 2015-01-13 | $44.1M | $49.9M | 90% |
| Follow-on offering | $1.7M | 2015-01-13 | $8.5M | $10.8M | 90% |
| Follow-on offering | $2.4M | 2015-01-13 | $12.1M | $15.3M | 90% |
| Follow-on offering | $16.8M | 2016-07-01 | $93.4M | $94.8M | 85% |
| Follow-on offering | $2.4M | 2016-10-06 | $11.8M | $14.9M | 90% |
| Follow-on offering | $10.7M | 2016-10-06 | $59.7M | $60.6M | 90% |
| Follow-on offering | $5.8M | 2016-10-06 | $26.2M | $29.6M | 90% |
| Follow-on offering | $5.0M | 2016-10-06 | $22.7M | $25.7M | 90% |
| Follow-on offering | $10.7M | 2016-10-06 | $48.8M | $55.2M | 90% |
| Follow-on offering | $956K | 2016-10-06 | $5.3M | $7.5M | 90% |
| Follow-on offering | $5.9M | 2016-10-06 | $26.9M | $30.4M | 90% |
| Follow-on offering | $5.8M | 2016-10-06 | $26.2M | $29.6M | 90% |
| Follow-on offering | $5.8M | 2016-10-06 | $26.2M | $29.6M | 90% |
| Follow-on offering | $1.5M | 2017-05-09 | $7.6M | $9.6M | 90% |
| Follow-on offering | $1.8M | 2017-05-09 | $9.1M | $11.4M | 90% |
| Follow-on offering | $251K | 2017-05-09 | $1.4M | $2.0M | 90% |
| Follow-on offering | $3.3M | 2017-05-09 | $16.6M | $20.9M | 90% |
| Follow-on offering | $3.3M | 2017-05-09 | $18.4M | $18.7M | 90% |
| Follow-on offering | $2.0M | 2017-05-09 | $9.8M | $12.4M | 90% |
| Follow-on offering | $1.8M | 2017-05-09 | $9.1M | $11.4M | 90% |
| Follow-on offering | $15.9M | 2017-05-09 | $88.3M | $89.7M | 90% |
| Follow-on offering | $613K | 2017-09-01 | $3.4M | $3.5M | 90% |
| Follow-on offering | $9.2M | 2018-09-04 | $50.9M | $51.7M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Timothy Parker | — | 2 other | 2014-01 |
| John Livingston | — | 1 other | 2014-01 |
| Miguel Ko | — | 1 other | 2014-01 |
| Andrew Bayard Dawson | — | — | 2015-01 |
| Andrew David Wells | — | — | 2014-01 |
| Angela Iris Brav | — | — | 2014-01 |
| Boo Suk Suh | — | — | 2014-01 |
| Bruce Hardy McLain | — | — | 2014-01 |
| Bruce McLain | — | — | 2014-01 |
| Claire Marie Bennett | — | — | 2014-01 |
| Damien Bayard Mignot | — | — | 2017-05 |
| Damien Robert Mignot | — | — | 2016-10 |
| Deborah Maria Thomas | — | — | 2016-10 |
| Fabio Bayard Rugarli | — | — | 2015-01 |
| Fabio Kai Kwun Rugarli | — | — | 2014-01 |
| Glenn Robert Richter | — | — | 2016-10 |
| Ivy Bayard Chow | — | — | 2014-01 |
| Ivy Chow | — | — | 2014-01 |
| Jerome Francis Griffith | — | — | 2014-01 |
| Jerome Griffith | — | — | 2014-01 |
| Jerome Kenneth Griffith | — | — | 2014-01 |
| Jerome Maria Griffith | — | — | 2017-05 |
| John Bayard Livingston | — | — | 2014-01 |
| Juan Roberto Guzman Martinez | — | — | 2014-01 |
Samsonite International S.A. is an official record sourced from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). U.S. data is aggregated from SEC Form D filings.
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