Companies · Agtech / Foodtech

Smart Flour Foods, LLC

Austin · Agtech / Foodtech · refined from filed group “Other

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Smart Flour Foods, LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$9.5M
Total raised · real
4
Rounds
0.6×
Latest step-up
Top 23%
Sector rank · raised
Seed
Latest stage · inferred · Wed Jan 25 2017 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Smart Flour Foods, LLC looks fair 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 agriculture sector profile.

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

Fair
  • Modeled value is 1.00× the median modeled value of Seed Agtech / Foodtech companies in 2016–2018 (23 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
  • Within the normal band (100% of peer median) for its niche.
Dormant
  • Last raise 9.4 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 14 months.
  • Silent for over 3× the sector's normal cadence.

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

Issuer-vehicle patternmedium confidence

Smart Flour Foods, LLC 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
13.5 yr record
Peak capital year was 2015 with $3.8M across 1 filings.
Market position
ahead of 78% of Agtech / Foodtech peers
Capital scale is ahead of 78% of Agtech / Foodtech peers; modeled value is above 72% 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
Consistent
Canonical totals and visible filing detail are broadly aligned.
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 2015: $3.8M across 1 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $3.8M on 2015-02-15.
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.
  • The more important signal is lifecycle: repeated filings ended years ago, so current activity needs outside confirmation.
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 Agtech / Foodtech

Smart Flour Foods, LLC is one of 481 Agtech / Foodtech companies tracked from Austin. By capital raised it ranks in the upper tier (ahead of 78% 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.

US
Jurisdiction
Rule 506(b)
Reg D exemption
21
Investors (latest)
2017-01-25
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$13M$25M$38M$50MPre-Seed · 2012-12-28 Raised $775K (real) Modeled valuation $12M (est)$775K$12MPre-Seed2012Seed · 2013-12-19 Raised $2.8M (real) Modeled valuation $34M (est)$2.8M$34MSeed2013Seed · 2015-02-15 Raised $3.8M (real) Modeled valuation $46M (est)$3.8M$46MSeed2015Seed · 2017-01-25 Raised $2.1M (real) Modeled valuation $25M (est)$2.1M$25MSeed2017+$2.8M+$3.8M+$2.1MCumulative $9.5M

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
Pre-Seed$775K · 2012
Seed$2.8M · 2013
Seed extension$3.8M · 2015
Seed extension$2.1M · 2017

Stages are modeled from round size (public records carry no series label). Ladder is contiguous — every modeled rung has a record.

Modeled valuation trajectory
$25.4M
Base estimate est.
$1.8M
Conservative case
$199.6M
Upside case
$10.6M
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 agriculture sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Pre-Seed · modeled $11.6M · 2012-12-282012Seed · modeled $33.6M · 2013-12-19Seed · modeled $45.8M · 2015-02-15Seed · modeled $25.4M · 2017-01-252017
Model inputs · modeled:benchmark-stage-stepup-v1
20%
Dilution assumption
Implied ownership sold in the financing.
38%
Survival probability
17% low · 58% high
1.36×/yr
Annual markup
1.79×/yr upside case
6.0 yr
Elapsed time used
9.4 yr actual, capped for stale marks
agriculture
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
16 mo
Avg between rounds
$2.3M/yr
Capital velocity
13.5 yr
On record since
2012
First round
4
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 481 companies in Agtech / Foodtech. 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) 2.8× above median
This company$9.5M
Sector median$3.4M
Latest round — vs other Seed rounds in sector (real $, this stage) 1.3× above median
This company$2.1M
Sector median$1.6M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 2.1× above median
This company$25.4M
Sector median$12.2M

Raised more than 78% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 72% 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 #12 of 23.

This companyCohort peer
$10.0M$100.0M$1.0M$10.0M$100.0MCapital raised (log)Crown O'Maine Organic Cooperative · Seed Raised $4.0M · modeled $48.2M (est)CoExist Nutrition, LLC · Seed Raised $4.0M · modeled $48.2M (est)Boomerang's Foods, Inc. · Seed Raised $8.5M · modeled $46.0M (est)Lux Organics Holdings, LLC · Seed Raised $3.7M · modeled $45.0M (est)True Pet Food Project Inc. · Seed Raised $2.9M · modeled $35.0M (est)GreenSight Agronomics, Inc. · Seed Raised $2.6M · modeled $31.4M (est)New Grounds Food, Inc. · Seed Raised $2.7M · modeled $30.1M (est)EVR Foods, Inc. · Seed Raised $5.2M · modeled $28.0M (est)H&S Coffee Series A, LLC · Seed Raised $2.3M · modeled $27.7M (est)Bright Foods, LLC · Seed Raised $2.3M · modeled $27.4M (est)Prosperity Organic Foods, Inc. · Seed Raised $3.1M · modeled $27.0M (est)Smart Flour Foods, LLC (this company) Raised $9.5M · modeled $25.4M (est)Smart Flour Foods, LLC
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
Crown O'Maine Organic CooperativeSeed$4.0M$48.2M1.90×
CoExist Nutrition, LLCSeed$4.0M$48.2M1.90×
Boomerang's Foods, Inc.Seed$8.5M$46.0M1.81×
Lux Organics Holdings, LLCSeed$3.7M$45.0M1.77×
True Pet Food Project Inc.Seed$2.9M$35.0M1.38×
GreenSight Agronomics, Inc.Seed$2.6M$31.4M1.23×
New Grounds Food, Inc.Seed$2.7M$30.1M1.18×
EVR Foods, Inc.Seed$5.2M$28.0M1.10×
H&S Coffee Series A, LLCSeed$2.3M$27.7M1.09×
Bright Foods, LLCSeed$2.3M$27.4M1.08×
Prosperity Organic Foods, Inc.Seed$3.1M$27.0M1.06×
Smart Flour Foods, LLC this companySeed$9.5M$25.4M1.00×
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.
Pre-Seed$775K2012-12-28$4.3M$11.6M85%
Seed$2.8M2013-12-19$13.9M$33.6M85%
Seed$3.8M2015-02-15$19.0M$45.8M85%
Seed$2.1M2017-01-25$10.6M$25.4M90%
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. Pre-Seed$775K2012-12-28
    • First recorded raise — entered as Pre-Seed.
    • 7 investors on this round.
  2. Seed$2.8M2013-12-19
    • Raised 12 mo later, in step with the ~14 mo sector norm.
    • Round 3.6× larger than the prior — scaling up.
    • Switched to Rule 506(b) (was Rule 06).
    • 13 investors on this round.
  3. Seed$3.8M2015-02-15
    • Raised 14 mo later, in step with the ~14 mo sector norm.
    • Round 1.4× larger than the prior — scaling up.
    • 23 investors on this round.
  4. Seed$2.1M2017-01-25
    • Raised again after 23 mo — slower than the ~14 mo sector norm.
    • Round 1.8× smaller than the prior — bridge or down round.
    • 21 investors on this round.
Intelligence
2018 ~Q2
Modeled next raise · ~16mo cadence
$2.1M
Modeled next size est.range $2.1M$3.4M
0.6×
Last step-up
$2.3M/yr
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
Charles Pace Jr.2017-01
Charles W. Pace, Jr.2012-12
Registry & provenance

Smart Flour Foods, 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.

United States
Country of record
US
Jurisdiction
1566292
SEC CIK
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Frequently asked
How much funding has Smart Flour Foods, LLC raised?
Smart Flour Foods, LLC has raised approximately $9.5M in disclosed capital across 4 recorded financing rounds, aggregated from public filings.
What is Smart Flour Foods, LLC's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for Smart Flour Foods, LLC is approximately $25.4M (modeled range $1.8M–$199.6M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is Smart Flour Foods, LLC at?
Smart Flour Foods, LLC's latest modeled financing stage is Seed. Its most recent recorded round closed around Wed Jan 25.
What does Smart Flour Foods, LLC do and where is it based?
Smart Flour Foods, LLC operates in the Agtech / Foodtech sector, based in Austin.
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