Diligence memo · auto-generated · as of July 2, 2026
Turning Point Brands, Inc.
Turning Point Brands, Inc. looks fair against its niche peers and is dormant on financing cadence.
Businessfiled
Turning Point Brands, Inc. operates in Consumer / Retail, based in LOUISVILLE.
No verified homepage on file yet — operating evidence is limited to the public record.
Capital & rounds (filed)filed
Turning Point Brands, Inc. has raised $27M in disclosed capital across 2 recorded rounds, aggregated from public filings. Its latest round is modeled as Series B (a $15M–$40M round).
Largest single filing: $22M on 2014-01-24.
Most recent recorded round closed around 2018-09-05.
Valuation (modeled)modeled
Provath models Turning Point Brands, Inc. at approximately $28M (range $11M–$109M). This is an algorithmic estimate from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
Read: Fair. Modeled value is 0.71× the median modeled value of Series B Consumer / Retail companies in 2016–2018 (5 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era. Within the normal band (71% of peer median) for its niche.
Financing rhythm & timingmixed
Historic cadence: a new round about every 28 months.
Last raise 7.8 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 15 months.
Silent for over 3× the sector's normal cadence.
The last round stepped up 1.0× from the prior — scaling.
Comparablesmixed
Capital scale ranks ahead of 97% of Consumer / Retail peers (1161 compared).
Modeled value ranks above 95% of those peers.
Closest niche peers: Entourage Commerce, LLC, Per.Se Beauty, Inc, Symphony Commerce, Inc., Consumer Physics, Inc..
Peoplefiled
16 named people on file across officers, directors and signatories.
Risks & flagsmixed
Financing has been silent well beyond sector cadence — possibly defunct, acquired, or paused.
No clearly named CEO/founder/principal in the surfaced records — key-person evidence is thin.