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TrueFan Travel, LLC

BLUE BELL · Tourism and Travel Services

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on TrueFan Travel, LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$1.8M
Total raised · real
2
Rounds
0.4×
Latest step-up
Top 43%
Sector rank · raised
Seed
Latest stage · inferred · Tue Dec 30 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

TrueFan Travel, LLC has raised $1.8M over 2 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 travel sector profile.

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

Active
  • Last raise 6 mo ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 14 months.
  • Raising on or ahead of the sector's normal rhythm.

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

Issuer-vehicle patternmedium confidence

TrueFan Travel, 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
2.5 yr record
Peak capital year was 2024 with $3.4M across 3 filings.
Market position
ahead of 58% of Tourism and Travel Services peers
Capital scale is ahead of 58% of Tourism and Travel Services peers; modeled value is above 2% 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Row-level filing totals differ from canonical totals, so amendment/superseded filtering should be checked.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: $3.4M across 3 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $1.6M on 2024-01-08.
  • Filing rows sum to $3.5M, while canonical raised total is $1.8M; 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 Tourism and Travel Services

TrueFan Travel, LLC is one of 172 Tourism and Travel Services companies tracked from BLUE BELL. By capital raised it ranks mid-pack (ahead of 58% 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
$5M–$25M
Issuer revenue
Rule 506(b)
Reg D exemption
3
Investors (latest)
2023
Year incorporated
2025-12-30
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 · 2024-01-08 Raised $1.6M (real) Modeled valuation $5.1M (est)$1.6M$5.1MSeed2024Seed · 2024-01-08 Raised $1.4M (real) Modeled valuation $4.4M (est)$1.4M$4.4MSeed2024Pre-Seed · 2024-01-08 Raised $400K (real) Modeled valuation $1.2M (est)$400K$1.2MPre-Seed2024Seed · 2025-12-30 Raised $150K (real) Modeled valuation $300K (est)$150K$300KSeed2025+$1.4M+$400K+$150KCumulative $3.5M

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
Seed$1.6M · 2024
Seed extension$1.4M · 2024
Bridge · Seed-stage$400K · 2024smaller follow-on
Seed extension$150K · 2025

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

Modeled valuation trajectory
$300K
Base estimate est.
$120K
Conservative case
$533K
Upside case
$750K
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 travel sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Seed · modeled $5.1M · 2024-01-082024Seed · modeled $4.4M · 2024-01-08Pre-Seed · modeled $1.2M · 2024-01-08Seed · modeled $300K · 2025-12-302025
Model inputs · modeled:benchmark-stage-stepup-v1
20%
Dilution assumption
Implied ownership sold in the financing.
36%
Survival probability
16% low · 55% high
1.26×/yr
Annual markup
1.65×/yr upside case
0.5 yr
Elapsed time used
0.5 yr actual, capped for stale marks
travel
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
8 mo
Avg between rounds
$890K/yr
Capital velocity
2.5 yr
On record since
2024
First round
4
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 172 companies in Tourism and Travel Services. 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) 1.3× above median
This company$1.8M
Sector median$1.3M
Latest round — vs other Seed rounds in sector (real $, this stage) 0.1× of median
This company$150K
Sector median$1.5M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 0.1× of median
This company$300K
Sector median$5.5M

Raised more than 58% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 2% 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.

Not enough valued peers in this cohort to chart positioning.

CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
Fuelup, Corp.Seed$2.5M$4.9M1.88×
TrueFan Travel, LLC this companySeed$1.8M$300K0.12×
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$1.6M2024-01-08$8.1M$5.1M90%
Seed$1.4M2024-01-08$6.9M$4.4M90%
Pre-Seed$400K2024-01-08$2.2M$1.2M90%
Seed$150K2025-12-30$750K$300K90%
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$1.6M2024-01-08
    • First recorded raise — entered as Seed.
    • 12 investors on this round.
  2. Seed$1.4M2024-01-08
    • Filed alongside the prior round (same month) — likely a tranche or amendment.
    • Round roughly the size of the prior one.
    • 11 investors on this round.
  3. Pre-Seed$400K2024-01-08
    • Filed alongside the prior round (same month) — likely a tranche or amendment.
    • Round 3.4× smaller than the prior — bridge or down round.
    • 2 investors on this round.
  4. Seed$150K2025-12-30
    • Raised again after 24 mo — slower than the ~14 mo sector norm.
    • Round 2.7× smaller than the prior — bridge or down round.
    • Revenue band moved $1M–$5M → $5M–$25M.
    • 3 investors on this round.
Intelligence
2026 ~Q3
Modeled next raise · ~8mo cadence
$150K
Modeled next size est.range $150K$240K
0.4×
Last step-up
$890K/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
Robert Cavanaugh1 other2024-01
Vincent Rizzuto2024-01
Registry & provenance

TrueFan Travel, 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
2009049
SEC CIK
2023
Incorporated
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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.

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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.

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Growth Bookings, LLCTourism and Travel ServicesPre-Seed$1.2M75%
Group Island Spirit, Inc.Tourism and Travel ServicesPre-Seed$4.5M75%
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Frequently asked
How much funding has TrueFan Travel, LLC raised?
TrueFan Travel, LLC has raised approximately $1.8M in disclosed capital across 2 recorded financing rounds, aggregated from public filings.
What is TrueFan Travel, LLC's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for TrueFan Travel, LLC is approximately $300K (modeled range $120K–$533K). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is TrueFan Travel, LLC at?
TrueFan Travel, LLC's latest modeled financing stage is Seed. Its most recent recorded round closed around Tue Dec 30.
What does TrueFan Travel, LLC do and where is it based?
TrueFan Travel, LLC operates in the Tourism and Travel Services sector, based in BLUE BELL.
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