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Seneca Investment, LLC / WY

LAKE GENEVA · Lodging and Conventions

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Seneca Investment, LLC / WY — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$1.5M
Total raised · real
1
Rounds
0.6×
Latest step-up
Top 67%
Sector rank · raised
Seed
Latest stage · inferred · Thu Mar 28 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Seneca Investment, LLC / WY looks under-valued against its niche peers and is at-risk on financing cadence.

Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page. Valuation uses the lodging sector profile.

Analyst read est. — computed against this company's niche peers in the same era. Inputs shown; not a quoted figure.

Under-valued
  • Modeled value is 0.50× the median modeled value of Seed Lodging and Conventions companies in 2022–2024 (19 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
At-risk
  • Last raise 2.3 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 12 months.
  • Past due for a raise versus sector cadence — watch for distress or a bridge.

Procedural diagnosis est. — rule-based common-sense checks over the filing pattern, issuer name, activity cadence, and surfaced operating evidence.

Issuer-vehicle patternmedium confidence

Seneca Investment, LLC / WY behaves more like a recurring private-offering issuer than a conventional venture-backed operating company.

Issuer structure
Company-like
No recurring-offering pattern strong enough to override normal financing interpretation.
Lifecycle
2.5 yr record
Peak capital year was 2024 with $3.9M across 2 filings.
Market position
ahead of 34% of Lodging and Conventions peers
Capital scale is ahead of 34% of Lodging and Conventions peers; modeled value is above 25% of peers by modeled value. Large capital with mid-pack modeled value can signal an issuer/program profile rather than operating-company growth.
Valuation reliability
Normal applicability
Stage/dilution valuation models are weakest when the issuer is broad-sector, recurring, or vehicle-like.
Operating evidence
Sparse
No clear CEO/founder/principal role is surfaced, so operating-company confidence is lower.
Data quality
Needs review
Row-level filing totals differ from canonical totals, so amendment/superseded filtering should be checked.
What triggered this
  • Legal name looks like an issuer vehicle rather than a product company.
  • No clearly named CEO/founder/principal role in the public records surfaced here.
  • No verified homepage on the profile yet.
  • Capital program peaked in 2024: $3.9M across 2 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $2.4M on 2024-01-17.
  • Filing rows sum to $3.9M, while canonical raised total is $1.5M; likely amendments/superseded rows are mixed into the detail view.
How to read the page
  • Read this less like a startup funding journey and more like a capital-raising program.
  • Stage-based valuation and peer labels have lower applicability for this pattern.
  • Canonical filtering should be tightened before using row-level totals for diligence.
Leadership

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.

Where it sits in Lodging and Conventions

Seneca Investment, LLC / WY is one of 514 Lodging and Conventions companies tracked from LAKE GENEVA. By capital raised it ranks in the long tail (ahead of 34% of sector peers), and in the long tail 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.

US
Jurisdiction
Rule 506(b)
Reg D exemption
10
Investors (latest)
2024
Year incorporated
2024-03-28
First sale
Amount raised vs valuation, by round

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.

Amount raised · realModeled valuation · estCumulative funded · real
$0$2.5M$5.0M$7.5M$10MSeed · 2024-01-17 Raised $2.4M (real) Modeled valuation $6.8M (est)$2.4M$6.8MSeed2024Seed · 2024-03-28 Raised $1.5M (real) Modeled valuation $4.2M (est)$1.5M$4.2MSeed2024+$1.5MCumulative $3.9M

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.

Financing ladder & sequence gaps
Seed$2.4M · 2024
Seed extension$1.5M · 2024

Stages are modeled from round size (public records carry no series label). No record for: Pre-Seed — the company may have raised it under a different exemption, merged it into an adjacent record, or skipped it. Sequence completeness: 50%.

Modeled valuation trajectory
$4.2M
Base estimate est.
$1.2M
Conservative case
$12.0M
Upside case
$7.6M
Modeled post-money

Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Seeda $1.0M–$4.0M round). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks scaled by the lodging sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Seed · modeled $6.8M · 2024-01-172024Seed · modeled $4.2M · 2024-03-282024
Model inputs · modeled:benchmark-stage-stepup-v1
20%
Dilution assumption
Implied ownership sold in the financing.
35%
Survival probability
16% low · 55% high
1.22×/yr
Annual markup
1.60×/yr upside case
2.3 yr
Elapsed time used
2.3 yr actual, capped for stale marks
lodging
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
2 mo
Avg between rounds
Capital velocity
2.5 yr
On record since
2024
First round
2
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 514 companies in Lodging and Conventions. 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.

Total raised — vs sector median (real $, all stages) 0.6× of median
This company$1.5M
Sector median$2.5M
Latest round — vs other Seed rounds in sector (real $, this stage) 0.8× of median
This company$1.5M
Sector median$2.0M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 0.4× of median
This company$4.2M
Sector median$10.8M

Raised more than 34% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 25% of peers (estimate).

Niche peers — same stage & era

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 #15 of 19.

This companyCohort peer
$1.0M$10.0M$100.0M$1.0M$10.0MCapital raised (log)Topeka470 LLC · Seed Raised $4.0M · modeled $16.2M (est)Mojave Investment Group LLC · Seed Raised $3.5M · modeled $14.7M (est)Beyonder Marine at Sterett Creek LLC · Seed Raised $3.7M · modeled $13.8M (est)Horizon Hospitality WSS, LLC · Seed Raised $3.2M · modeled $12.7M (est)Decatur Hotels II, LLC · Seed Raised $3.1M · modeled $12.6M (est)Bloom Springfield, LLC · Seed Raised $3.0M · modeled $10.7M (est)HIE Depot, LLC · Seed Raised $3.0M · modeled $10.5M (est)Arvada Lodging Associates, LLC · Seed Raised $2.5M · modeled $9.1M (est)La Tourelle Partners, LLC · Seed Raised $3.0M · modeled $8.6M (est)Enjoi Resorts, Inc. · Seed Raised $2.1M · modeled $8.4M (est)GrayMatter Hospitality Co, LLC · Seed Raised $2.5M · modeled $6.7M (est)MVCO Hotel, LLC · Seed Raised $2.8M · modeled $6.6M (est)Seneca Investment, LLC / WY (this company) Raised $1.5M · modeled $4.2M (est)Seneca Investment, LLC / WY
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
Topeka470 LLCSeed$4.0M$16.2M1.93×
Mojave Investment Group LLCSeed$3.5M$14.7M1.75×
Beyonder Marine at Sterett Creek LLCSeed$3.7M$13.8M1.64×
Horizon Hospitality WSS, LLCSeed$3.2M$12.7M1.51×
Decatur Hotels II, LLCSeed$3.1M$12.6M1.50×
Bloom Springfield, LLCSeed$3.0M$10.7M1.27×
HIE Depot, LLCSeed$3.0M$10.5M1.25×
Arvada Lodging Associates, LLCSeed$2.5M$9.1M1.09×
La Tourelle Partners, LLCSeed$3.0M$8.6M1.02×
Enjoi Resorts, Inc.Seed$2.1M$8.4M1.00×
GrayMatter Hospitality Co, LLCSeed$2.5M$6.7M0.80×
MVCO Hotel, LLCSeed$2.8M$6.6M0.78×
Seneca Investment, LLC / WY this companySeed$1.5M$4.2M0.50×
Full financing history

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.

StageAmount · realAnnouncedPost-money · estValue · estConf.
Seed$2.4M2024-01-17$11.8M$6.8M90%
Seed$1.5M2024-03-28$7.6M$4.2M90%
What happened at each round

Step-up, pace versus the sector's normal cadence, and revenue/exemption moves — read straight from the reported round facts reported.

  1. Seed$2.4M2024-01-17
    • First recorded raise — entered as Seed.
  2. Seed$1.5M2024-03-28
    • Came back fast: 2 mo vs the ~12 mo sector norm.
    • Round 1.6× smaller than the prior — bridge or down round.
    • 10 investors on this round.
Intelligence
2024 ~Q2
Modeled next raise · ~2mo cadence
$1.5M
Modeled next size est.range $1.5M$2.4M
0.6×
Last step-up
Capital velocity

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.

Key people & operators

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.

PersonRoleAlso runsTied since
Carolynne Douglass2024-01
Frank LaMark2024-01
Registry & provenance

Seneca Investment, LLC / WY is an official record sourced from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). U.S. data is aggregated from SEC Form D filings.

United States
Country of record
US
Jurisdiction
2007475
SEC CIK
2024
Incorporated
Similar companies

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.

CompanySectorStageRaised · realValue · estWhy similar
Native Hostel Austin LLCLodging and ConventionsSeed$1.5M$8.8Msame sector · same stage
Highlands Treehouse Retreat LLCLodging and ConventionsSeed$1.5M$3.4Msame sector · same stage
Starlight Haven at Hot Springs, LLCLodging and ConventionsSeed$1.6M$5.9Msame sector · same stage
Cloverleaf Partners, LLCLodging and ConventionsSeed$1.5M$8.6Msame sector · same stage
CLT North Lodging LLCLodging and ConventionsSeed$1.5M$6.5Msame sector · same stage
Decorah Hotel Partners LPLodging and ConventionsSeed$1.5M$8.6Msame sector · same stage
Habitas S.A.Lodging and ConventionsSeed$1.5M$8.6Msame sector · same stage
HI Stone Oak LLCLodging and ConventionsSeed$1.5M$7.5Msame sector · same stage
Semantically similar

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.

CompanySectorStageValue · estMatch
Rentlever Investments, LLCLodging and ConventionsSeed$7.6M84%
BME Investments, LLCLodging and ConventionsPre-Seed$1.8M83%
Bison Ridge Investors LLCLodging and ConventionsSeed$4.0M83%
Gorge Capital LlcLodging and ConventionsPre-Seed$6.1M82%
McNeill Investment Group, LLCLodging and ConventionsSeed$1.3M82%
Mojave Investment Group LLCLodging and ConventionsSeed$14.7M82%
Loretto Preferred Investment, LLCLodging and ConventionsPre-Seed$5.4M82%
Gardner Experience Investments, Inc.Lodging and ConventionsPre-Seed$893K82%
Frequently asked
How much funding has Seneca Investment, LLC / WY raised?
Seneca Investment, LLC / WY has raised approximately $1.5M in disclosed capital across 1 recorded financing round, aggregated from public filings.
What is Seneca Investment, LLC / WY's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for Seneca Investment, LLC / WY is approximately $4.2M (modeled range $1.2M–$12.0M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is Seneca Investment, LLC / WY at?
Seneca Investment, LLC / WY's latest modeled financing stage is Seed. Its most recent recorded round closed around Thu Mar 28.
What does Seneca Investment, LLC / WY do and where is it based?
Seneca Investment, LLC / WY operates in the Lodging and Conventions sector, based in LAKE GENEVA.
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