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Traders Way Investor LLC

WOBURN · Restaurants

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Traders Way Investor LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$19.8M
Total raised · real
1
Rounds
Latest step-up
Top 6%
Sector rank · raised
Series B
Latest stage · inferred · Sat Sep 19 2020 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Traders Way Investor 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 restaurants 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 0.99× the median modeled value of Series B Restaurants companies in 2019–2021 (12 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
  • Within the normal band (99% of peer median) for its niche.
Dormant
  • Last raise 5.8 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 13 months.
  • Only one round on record and long silent — often defunct, acquired, or gone quiet.

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

Issuer-vehicle patternmedium confidence

Traders Way Investor 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
5.8 yr record
Peak capital year was 2020 with $19.8M across 1 filings.
Market position
ahead of 95% of Restaurants peers
Capital scale is ahead of 95% of Restaurants peers; modeled value is above 97% 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 2020: $19.8M across 1 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $19.8M on 2020-09-19.
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 Restaurants

Traders Way Investor LLC is one of 2292 Restaurants companies tracked from WOBURN. By capital raised it ranks among the largest (ahead of 95% 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.

As reported in public records reported — not modeled.

US
Jurisdiction
Rule 506(b)
Reg D exemption
73
Investors (latest)
2018
Year incorporated
2020-09-19
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$25M$50M$75M$100MSeries B · 2020-09-19 Raised $20M (real) Modeled valuation $62M (est)$20M$62MSeries B2020

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
Series B$19.8M · 2020

Stages are modeled from round size (public records carry no series label). No record for: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A — the company may have raised it under a different exemption, merged it into an adjacent record, or skipped it. Sequence completeness: 25%.

Modeled valuation trajectory
$62.3M
Base estimate est.
$41.6M
Conservative case
$229.7M
Upside case
$110.0M
Modeled post-money

Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Series Ba $15M–$40M round). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks scaled by the restaurants sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.

Model inputs · modeled:benchmark-stage-stepup-v1
18%
Dilution assumption
Implied ownership sold in the financing.
57%
Survival probability
38% low · 70% high
1.00×/yr
Annual markup
1.21×/yr upside case
5.8 yr
Elapsed time used
5.8 yr actual, capped for stale marks
restaurants
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
Avg between rounds
Capital velocity
5.8 yr
On record since
2020
First round
1
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 2292 companies in Restaurants. 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) 22× above median
This company$19.8M
Sector median$900K
Latest round — vs other Series B rounds in sector (real $, this stage) 1.0× of median
This company$19.8M
Sector median$19.9M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 24× above median
This company$62.3M
Sector median$2.6M

Raised more than 95% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 97% of peers (estimate).

Niche peers — same stage & era

A tighter cohort than the sector chart above — only companies at the same stage (Series B) 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 #8 of 12.

This companyCohort peer
$10.0M$100.0M$1.0B$10.0M$100.0MCapital raised (log)PPX Hospitality Holdings, LP · Series B Raised $37.5M · modeled $118.1M (est)PB Group Holdings, LLC · Series B Raised $35.2M · modeled $110.9M (est)Ag QSR LLC · Series B Raised $55.0M · modeled $94.3M (est)Slim Chickens Global, LLC · Series B Raised $30.0M · modeled $94.3M (est)Brookline KKF Holding, LLC · Series B Raised $20.2M · modeled $63.7M (est)Roti Restaurants Inc. · Series B Raised $58.0M · modeled $63.0M (est)McMenamins, Inc. · Series B Raised $20.0M · modeled $62.9M (est)10 Point Capital WO II, LLC · Series B Raised $16.4M · modeled $51.8M (est)10 Point Capital WO, LLC · Series B Raised $16.4M · modeled $51.7M (est)Pacific Catch, Inc. · Series B Raised $46.9M · modeled $48.0M (est)Hawk Acquisitions Llc / Fl · Series B Raised $30.6M · modeled $22.4M (est)Traders Way Investor LLC (this company) Raised $19.8M · modeled $62.3M (est)Traders Way Investor LLC
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
PPX Hospitality Holdings, LPSeries B$37.5M$118.1M1.88×
PB Group Holdings, LLCSeries B$35.2M$110.9M1.76×
Ag QSR LLCSeries B$55.0M$94.3M1.50×
Slim Chickens Global, LLCSeries B$30.0M$94.3M1.50×
Brookline KKF Holding, LLCSeries B$20.2M$63.7M1.01×
Roti Restaurants Inc.Series B$58.0M$63.0M1.00×
McMenamins, Inc.Series B$20.0M$62.9M1.00×
Traders Way Investor LLC this companySeries B$19.8M$62.3M0.99×
10 Point Capital WO II, LLCSeries B$16.4M$51.8M0.82×
10 Point Capital WO, LLCSeries B$16.4M$51.7M0.82×
Pacific Catch, Inc.Series B$46.9M$48.0M0.76×
Hawk Acquisitions Llc / FlSeries B$30.6M$22.4M0.36×
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.
Series B$19.8M2020-09-19$110.0M$62.3M90%
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. Series B$19.8M2020-09-19
    • First recorded raise — entered as Series B.
    • 73 investors on this round.
Intelligence
Modeled next raise
$31.7M
Modeled next size est.range $20.6M$50.7M
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
Andrew K Dolben2020-09
Bruno D Aguiar2020-09
Christopher D Koeplin2020-09
Deane H Dolben2020-09
Registry & provenance

Traders Way Investor 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
1826917
SEC CIK
2018
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
Choolaah Holdings LLCRestaurantsSeries B$20.0M$63.4Msame sector · same stage
Big Night Venues Boston Harbor Parent, LLCRestaurantsSeries B$20.0M$62.9Msame sector · same stage
Big Night Venues New England I, LLCRestaurantsSeries B$20.0M$63.5Msame sector · same stage
Chalak Growth Capital Fund II, LLCRestaurantsSeries B$20.0M$63.5Msame sector · same stage
McMenamins, Inc.RestaurantsSeries B$20.0M$62.9Msame sector · same stage
Pdq Carolina Real Estate Holdings, LlcRestaurantsSeries B$20.0M$63.5Msame sector · same stage
PDQ Florida-Georgia Restaurant Holdings, LLCRestaurantsSeries B$20.0M$63.5Msame sector · same stage
Pdq North Texas Real Estate Holdings, LlcRestaurantsSeries B$20.0M$63.5Msame 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
BCSQS Investor LLCRestaurantsSeed$5.3M86%
Vintage Properties Investments, LLCRestaurantsPre-Seed$444K86%
NEH Investors LLCRestaurantsSeed$2.6M85%
CK's Investment Group, LLCRestaurantsPre-Seed$1.8M85%
HJW Investors LLCRestaurantsSeries A$17.3M85%
DC Oakes Investors, LLCRestaurantsSeed$1.5M85%
SWC Investment Group, LLCRestaurantsPre-Seed$1.5M84%
Signal W Investment Group I, LLCRestaurantsSeed$3.1M84%
Frequently asked
How much funding has Traders Way Investor LLC raised?
Traders Way Investor LLC has raised approximately $19.8M in disclosed capital across 1 recorded financing round, aggregated from public filings.
What is Traders Way Investor LLC's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for Traders Way Investor LLC is approximately $62.3M (modeled range $41.6M–$229.7M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is Traders Way Investor LLC at?
Traders Way Investor LLC's latest modeled financing stage is Series B. Its most recent recorded round closed around Sat Sep 19.
What does Traders Way Investor LLC do and where is it based?
Traders Way Investor LLC operates in the Restaurants sector, based in WOBURN.
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