Companies · rail freight transport
East Bendigo · Australia · rail freight transport · founded 2003 · http://ssrail.com.au/
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Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page.
Southern Shorthaul Railroad is one of 17 rail freight transport companies tracked from East Bendigo, Australia, on record since 2003. By capital raised it ranks among the largest (ahead of 100% of sector peers), and among the largest by modeled valuation est..
Ranking is computed against this company's own sector cohort — reported capital is fact; valuation tiers are modeled.
Australian company, based in East Bendigo. Sector: rail freight transport.
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.
No round amounts on record to chart.
No staged rounds to sequence.
Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size. Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks. Directional, not a quoted figure.
Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.
Benchmarked against 17 companies in rail freight transport. 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 100% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 100% of peers (estimate).
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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No rounds recorded. | |||||
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Altmärkische Kleinbahn | rail freight transport | — | — | — | same sector |
| Aurizon | rail freight transport | — | — | — | same sector |
| Austrian Federal Railways | rail freight transport | — | — | — | same sector |
| Bowmans Rail | rail freight transport | — | — | — | same sector |
| Braunschweig-Schöninger Eisenbahn | rail freight transport | — | — | — | same sector |
| Canadian National Railway | rail freight transport | — | — | — | same sector |
| CargoServ | rail freight transport | — | — | — | same sector |
| Chemin de fer Lanaudière | rail freight transport | — | — | — | same sector |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transnet Freight Rail South African company, based in Johannesburg. Sector: rail transport. | rail transport | — | — | 78% |
| Bowmans Rail Australian company, based in Bowmans. Sector: rail freight transport. | rail freight transport | — | — | 78% |
| Regional Rail Logistics Australian company. | Mobility / Logistics | — | — | 78% |
| Pacific National Australian company, based in Sydney. Sector: rail transport. | rail transport | — | — | 76% |
| Southern & Silverton Rail Australian company, based in Broken Hill. | — | — | — | 75% |
| Sartigan Railway Canadian company, based in Vallée-Jonction. Sector: rail freight transport. | rail freight transport | — | — | 75% |
| Württembergische Nebenbahnen German company, based in Stuttgart. Sector: rail transport. | rail transport | — | — | 75% |
| Transnet South African company, based in Carlton Centre. Sector: rail transport. | rail transport | — | — | 75% |
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