U S Precious Metals Inc has raised $9.2M over 20 rounds; too few niche peers to rank its valuation yet.
Raised $9.2M across 20 disclosed rounds, last modeled as Recurring offerings.
Last raise 11.3 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 11 months.
Latest round stepped up 4.6× from the prior — scaling.
Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page.
Analyst read est. — computed against this company's niche peers in the same era. Inputs shown; not a quoted figure.
Program ended
Last raise 11.3 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 11 months.
For a recurring offering issuer, long silence usually means the offering program is inactive or ended; it is not proof the legal entity is defunct.
Procedural diagnosis est. — rule-based common-sense checks over the filing pattern, issuer name, activity cadence, and surfaced operating evidence.
Recurring offering issuermedium confidence
U S Precious Metals Inc behaves more like a recurring private-offering issuer than a conventional venture-backed operating company.
Issuer structure
Program-like
Frequent filings and follow-ons read more like a securities offering program than discrete startup rounds.
Lifecycle
17.3 yr record
Peak capital year was 2014 with $2.3M across 5 filings.
Market position
ahead of 76% of Other peers
Capital scale is ahead of 76% of Other peers; modeled value is above 60% 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
Lower 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
20 dated financing filings, averaging about 4 months apart.
Sector is still broad/Other, so operating comparables are weak.
No clearly named CEO/founder/principal role in the public records surfaced here.
No verified homepage on the profile yet.
Capital program peaked in 2014: $2.3M across 5 filings.
Largest single filing was $1.4M on 2015-02-25.
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 Other
U S Precious Metals Inc is one of 25015 Other companies tracked from Califon. By capital raised it ranks in the upper tier (ahead of 76% of sector peers), and mid-pack 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
Amount raised vs valuation, by year
This issuer has a dense recurring filing history, so the chart groups filings by year. Solid bars are annual reported capital reported; hatched bars show the latest modeled value est. observed in that year. Use the toggles to overlay data labels and the niche-peer / market average value lines.
Annual capital raised · realLatest value in year · estCumulative funded · real
Dense history compressed: 20 filings shown as 6 yearly buckets. Hover a bucket for filing count, annual capital, and latest modeled value.
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
This looks like a recurring offering series, so a VC stage ladder would be misleading. Showing the filed offering sequence instead.
Initial offering$100K · 2009
Follow-on offering$330K · 2009
Follow-on offering$100K · 2009
Follow-on offering$1.4M · 2010
Follow-on offering$228K · 2010
Follow-on offering$200K · 2011
Follow-on offering$1.1M · 2011
Follow-on offering$200K · 2013
Follow-on offering$100K · 2013
Follow-on offering$605K · 2013
Follow-on offering$350K · 2013
Follow-on offering$155K · 2014
Follow-on offering$494K · 2014
Follow-on offering$567K · 2014
Follow-on offering$500K · 2014
Follow-on offering$575K · 2014
Follow-on offering$238K · 2015
Follow-on offering$317K · 2015
Follow-on offering$300K · 2015
Follow-on offering$1.4M · 2015
Modeled valuation trajectory
$25.6M
Base estimate est.
$1.2M
Conservative case
$200.9M
Upside case
$6.9M
Modeled post-money
This issuer files recurring offerings, so the model treats stage labels as a loose sizing heuristic, not a clean VC ladder. The estimate anchors on reported filing amounts and dates, then applies benchmark dilution, survival, and markup assumptions. Directional, not a quoted figure.
Model inputs · modeled:benchmark-stage-stepup-v1
20%
Dilution assumption
Implied ownership sold in the financing.
40%
Survival probability
18% low · 62% high
1.45×/yr
Annual markup
1.90×/yr upside case
6.0 yr
Elapsed time used
11.3 yr actual, capped for stale marks
general
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
4 mo
Avg between rounds
$1.5M/yr
Capital velocity
17.3 yr
On record since
2009
First round
20
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market
Benchmarked against 25015 companies in Other. 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)▲ 4.5× above median
This company$9.2M
Sector median$2.0M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages)▲ 1.5× above median
This company$25.6M
Sector median$17.7M
Raised more than 76% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 60% of peers (estimate).
Full financing history
This issuer files too frequently for VC stage labels to be meaningful, so rows are shown as initial/follow-on offerings est. instead of Pre-Seed/Seed/Series buckets.
Stage
Amount · real
Announced
Post-money · est
Value · est
Conf.
Initial offering
$100K
2009-03-13
$556K
$2.3M
90%
Follow-on offering
$330K
2009-03-13
$1.8M
$7.6M
90%
Follow-on offering
$100K
2009-10-20
$556K
$2.3M
90%
Follow-on offering
$1.4M
2010-02-26
$6.8M
$25.1M
90%
Follow-on offering
$228K
2010-02-26
$1.3M
$5.3M
90%
Follow-on offering
$200K
2011-12-10
$1.0M
$3.7M
90%
Follow-on offering
$1.1M
2011-12-10
$5.4M
$20.0M
90%
Follow-on offering
$200K
2013-07-17
$1.0M
$3.7M
90%
Follow-on offering
$100K
2013-07-17
$500K
$1.9M
90%
Follow-on offering
$605K
2013-07-17
$3.0M
$11.2M
90%
Follow-on offering
$350K
2013-07-17
$1.8M
$6.5M
90%
Follow-on offering
$155K
2014-04-08
$775K
$2.9M
90%
Follow-on offering
$494K
2014-08-26
$2.5M
$9.2M
90%
Follow-on offering
$567K
2014-08-26
$2.8M
$10.5M
90%
Follow-on offering
$500K
2014-12-18
$2.5M
$9.3M
90%
Follow-on offering
$575K
2014-12-18
$2.9M
$10.7M
90%
Follow-on offering
$238K
2015-02-12
$1.2M
$4.4M
90%
Follow-on offering
$317K
2015-02-12
$1.6M
$5.9M
90%
Follow-on offering
$300K
2015-02-25
$1.5M
$5.6M
90%
Follow-on offering
$1.4M
2015-02-25
$6.9M
$25.6M
90%
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.
Initial offering$100K2009-03-13
First recorded raise — entered as Initial offering.
Follow-on offering$330K2009-03-13
Filed alongside the prior round (same month) — likely a tranche or amendment.
Round 3.3× larger than the prior — scaling up.
Follow-on offering$100K2009-10-20
Raised 7 mo later, in step with the ~11 mo sector norm.
Round 3.3× smaller than the prior — bridge or down round.
Follow-on offering$1.4M2010-02-26
Came back fast: 4 mo vs the ~11 mo sector norm.
Round 13.5× larger than the prior — scaling up.
Follow-on offering$228K2010-02-26
Filed alongside the prior round (same month) — likely a tranche or amendment.
Round 5.9× smaller than the prior — bridge or down round.
Follow-on offering$200K2011-12-10
Raised again after 21 mo — slower than the ~11 mo sector norm.
Round roughly the size of the prior one.
Follow-on offering$1.1M2011-12-10
Filed alongside the prior round (same month) — likely a tranche or amendment.
Round 5.4× larger than the prior — scaling up.
Follow-on offering$200K2013-07-17
Raised again after 19 mo — slower than the ~11 mo sector norm.
Round 5.4× smaller than the prior — bridge or down round.
Follow-on offering$100K2013-07-17
Filed alongside the prior round (same month) — likely a tranche or amendment.
Round 2.0× smaller than the prior — bridge or down round.
Follow-on offering$605K2013-07-17
Filed alongside the prior round (same month) — likely a tranche or amendment.
Round 6.0× larger than the prior — scaling up.
Follow-on offering$350K2013-07-17
Filed alongside the prior round (same month) — likely a tranche or amendment.
Round 1.7× smaller than the prior — bridge or down round.
Follow-on offering$155K2014-04-08
Raised 9 mo later, in step with the ~11 mo sector norm.
Round 2.3× smaller than the prior — bridge or down round.
Follow-on offering$494K2014-08-26
Came back fast: 5 mo vs the ~11 mo sector norm.
Round 3.2× larger than the prior — scaling up.
Follow-on offering$567K2014-08-26
Filed alongside the prior round (same month) — likely a tranche or amendment.
Round roughly the size of the prior one.
Follow-on offering$500K2014-12-18
Came back fast: 4 mo vs the ~11 mo sector norm.
Round roughly the size of the prior one.
Follow-on offering$575K2014-12-18
Filed alongside the prior round (same month) — likely a tranche or amendment.
Round roughly the size of the prior one.
Follow-on offering$238K2015-02-12
Came back fast: 2 mo vs the ~11 mo sector norm.
Round 2.4× smaller than the prior — bridge or down round.
Follow-on offering$317K2015-02-12
Filed alongside the prior round (same month) — likely a tranche or amendment.
Round 1.3× larger than the prior — scaling up.
Follow-on offering$300K2015-02-25
Filed alongside the prior round (same month) — likely a tranche or amendment.
Round roughly the size of the prior one.
Follow-on offering$1.4M2015-02-25
Filed alongside the prior round (same month) — likely a tranche or amendment.
Round 4.6× larger than the prior — scaling up.
Intelligence
2015 ~Q2
Modeled next raise · ~4mo cadence
$4.1M
Modeled next size est.range $2.7M–$6.6M
4.6×
Last step-up
$1.5M/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.
U S Precious Metals Inc 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
1286181
SEC CIK
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How much funding has U S Precious Metals Inc raised?
U S Precious Metals Inc has raised approximately $9.2M in disclosed capital across 20 recorded financing rounds, aggregated from public filings.
What is U S Precious Metals Inc's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for U S Precious Metals Inc is approximately $25.6M (modeled range $1.2M–$200.9M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is U S Precious Metals Inc at?
U S Precious Metals Inc shows a recurring offering pattern rather than a clean VC stage progression. Its most recent recorded round closed around Wed Feb 25.
What does U S Precious Metals Inc do and where is it based?
U S Precious Metals Inc operates in the Other sector, based in Califon.
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