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Valley Technical Academy, LLC

RINER · Edtech · refined from filed group “Other Technology

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Valley Technical Academy, LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$1.2M
Total raised · real
2
Rounds
5.6×
Latest step-up
Top 53%
Sector rank · raised
Pre-Seed
Latest stage · inferred · Mon Aug 26 2019 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Valley Technical Academy, LLC looks over-valued 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 edtech sector profile.

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

Over-valued
  • Modeled value is 2.34× the median modeled value of Pre-Seed Edtech companies in 2019–2021 (24 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
Dormant
  • Last raise 6.8 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 15 months.
  • Silent for over 3× the sector's normal cadence.

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

Issuer-vehicle patternmedium confidence

Valley Technical Academy, 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
8.4 yr record
Peak capital year was 2019 with $980K across 1 filings.
Market position
ahead of 48% of Edtech peers
Capital scale is ahead of 48% of Edtech peers; modeled value is above 65% 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 2019: $980K across 1 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $980K on 2019-08-26.
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 Edtech

Valley Technical Academy, LLC is one of 262 Edtech companies tracked from RINER. By capital raised it ranks mid-pack (ahead of 48% 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
Rule 506(b)
Reg D exemption
7
Investors (latest)
2017
Year incorporated
2019-08-26
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$13M$25M$38M$50MPre-Seed · 2018-02-01 Raised $175K (real) Modeled valuation $4.2M (est)$175K$4.2MPre-Seed2018Pre-Seed · 2019-08-26 Raised $980K (real) Modeled valuation $23M (est)$980K$23MPre-Seed2019+$980KCumulative $1.2M

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
Pre-Seed$175K · 2018
Pre-Seed extension$980K · 2019

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

Modeled valuation trajectory
$23.5M
Base estimate est.
$601K
Conservative case
$266.1M
Upside case
$5.4M
Modeled post-money

Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Pre-Seeda round under $1.0M). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks scaled by the edtech sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Pre-Seed · modeled $4.2M · 2018-02-012018Pre-Seed · modeled $23.5M · 2019-08-262019
Model inputs · modeled:benchmark-stage-stepup-v1
18%
Dilution assumption
Implied ownership sold in the financing.
28%
Survival probability
11% low · 51% high
1.58×/yr
Annual markup
2.14×/yr upside case
6.0 yr
Elapsed time used
6.8 yr actual, capped for stale marks
edtech
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
19 mo
Avg between rounds
$739K/yr
Capital velocity
8.4 yr
On record since
2018
First round
2
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 262 companies in Edtech. 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) 0.5× of median
This company$1.2M
Sector median$2.4M
Latest round — vs other Pre-Seed rounds in sector (real $, this stage) 2.8× above median
This company$980K
Sector median$350K
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 1.2× above median
This company$23.5M
Sector median$19.9M

Raised more than 48% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 65% of peers (estimate).

Niche peers — same stage & era

A tighter cohort than the sector chart above — only companies at the same stage (Pre-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. This company ranks #3 of 24.

This companyCohort peer
$1.0M$10.0M$100.0M$100K$1.0M$10.0MCapital raised (log)Edukoya · Pre-Seed Raised $3.5M · modeled $43.0M (est)Freedom Learning Group, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $23.7M (est)Alegra Learning, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $870K · modeled $20.8M (est)Marco Learning LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $850K · modeled $20.4M (est)FLS Academy LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $837K · modeled $20.0M (est)Ilim School Llc · Pre-Seed Raised $800K · modeled $17.1M (est)TutorX Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $705K · modeled $16.9M (est)TutorMundi, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $890K · modeled $16.4M (est)Promineo Education Llc · Pre-Seed Raised $900K · modeled $13.4M (est)Lyricos Learning, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $490K · modeled $11.6M (est)Tara Education Technologies LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $750K · modeled $10.5M (est)Valley Technical Academy, LLC (this company) Raised $1.2M · modeled $23.5M (est)Valley Technical Academy, LLC
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
EdukoyaPre-Seed$3.5M$43.0M4.29×
Freedom Learning Group, Inc.Pre-Seed$1.0M$23.7M2.36×
Valley Technical Academy, LLC this companyPre-Seed$1.2M$23.5M2.34×
Alegra Learning, Inc.Pre-Seed$870K$20.8M2.08×
Marco Learning LLCPre-Seed$850K$20.4M2.03×
FLS Academy LLCPre-Seed$837K$20.0M2.00×
Ilim School LlcPre-Seed$800K$17.1M1.71×
TutorX Inc.Pre-Seed$705K$16.9M1.68×
TutorMundi, Inc.Pre-Seed$890K$16.4M1.63×
Promineo Education LlcPre-Seed$900K$13.4M1.34×
Lyricos Learning, LLCPre-Seed$490K$11.6M1.16×
Tara Education Technologies LLCPre-Seed$750K$10.5M1.05×
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.
Pre-Seed$175K2018-02-01$972K$4.2M90%
Pre-Seed$980K2019-08-26$5.4M$23.5M90%
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. Pre-Seed$175K2018-02-01
    • First recorded raise — entered as Pre-Seed.
    • 1 investor on this round.
  2. Pre-Seed$980K2019-08-26
    • Raised 19 mo later, in step with the ~15 mo sector norm.
    • Round 5.6× larger than the prior — scaling up.
    • 7 investors on this round.
Intelligence
2021 ~Q1
Modeled next raise · ~19mo cadence
$2.9M
Modeled next size est.range $1.9M$4.7M
5.6×
Last step-up
$739K/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
James P. Smith2018-02
Registry & provenance

Valley Technical Academy, 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
1732383
SEC CIK
2017
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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TutorMundi, Inc.EdtechPre-Seed$890K$16.4Msame sector · same stage
Alegra Learning, Inc.EdtechPre-Seed$870K$20.8Msame sector · same stage
Marco Learning LLCEdtechPre-Seed$850K$20.4Msame sector · same stage
FLS Academy LLCEdtechPre-Seed$837K$20.0Msame sector · same stage
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Frequently asked
How much funding has Valley Technical Academy, LLC raised?
Valley Technical Academy, LLC has raised approximately $1.2M in disclosed capital across 2 recorded financing rounds, aggregated from public filings.
What is Valley Technical Academy, LLC's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for Valley Technical Academy, LLC is approximately $23.5M (modeled range $601K–$266.1M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is Valley Technical Academy, LLC at?
Valley Technical Academy, LLC's latest modeled financing stage is Pre-Seed. Its most recent recorded round closed around Mon Aug 26.
What does Valley Technical Academy, LLC do and where is it based?
Valley Technical Academy, LLC operates in the Edtech sector, based in RINER.
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