Companies · Agriculture

Watauga Meats & Butchery, LLC

VILAS · Agriculture

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Watauga Meats & Butchery, LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→
$300K
Total raised · real
1
Rounds
—
Latest step-up
Top 87%
Sector rank · raised
Pre-Seed
Latest stage · inferred · Fri Feb 25 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Watauga Meats & Butchery, 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 agriculture 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 1.20× the median modeled value of Pre-Seed Agriculture companies in 2022–2024 (67 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
  • Within the normal band (120% of peer median) for its niche.
Dormant
  • Last raise 4.3 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 11 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

Watauga Meats & Butchery, 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
4.6 yr record
Peak capital year was 2022 with $300K across 1 filings.
Market position
ahead of 14% of Agriculture peers
Capital scale is ahead of 14% of Agriculture peers; modeled value is above 17% 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 2022: $300K across 1 filings.
  • Largest single filing was $300K on 2022-02-25.
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.
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 Agriculture

Watauga Meats & Butchery, LLC is one of 1056 Agriculture companies tracked from VILAS. By capital raised it ranks in the long tail (ahead of 14% 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
Rule 504
Reg D exemption
9
Investors (latest)
2020
Year incorporated
2022-02-25
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$1.3M$2.5M$3.8M$5.0MPre-Seed · 2022-02-25 Raised $300K (real) Modeled valuation $2.2M (est)$300K$2.2MPre-Seed2022

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$300K · 2022

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

Modeled valuation trajectory
$2.2M
Base estimate est.
$190K
Conservative case
$15.3M
Upside case
$1.7M
Modeled post-money

Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Pre-Seed — a round under $1.0M). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks scaled by the agriculture 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.
28%
Survival probability
11% low · 52% high
1.43×/yr
Annual markup
1.93×/yr upside case
4.3 yr
Elapsed time used
4.3 yr actual, capped for stale marks
agriculture
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
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Avg between rounds
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Capital velocity
4.6 yr
On record since
2022
First round
1
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 1056 companies in Agriculture. 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)▼ 0.1× of median
This company$300K
Sector median$2.2M
Latest round — vs other Pre-Seed rounds in sector (real $, this stage)▼ 0.8× of median
This company$300K
Sector median$374K
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages)▼ 0.2× of median
This company$2.2M
Sector median$11.9M

Raised more than 14% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 17% 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 #28 of 67.

This companyCohort peer
$1.0M$10.0M$100K$1.0M$10.0MCapital raised (log)Vertical Malt, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $7.3M (est)Wellfish Diagnostics Ltd · Pre-Seed Raised $736K · modeled $5.6M (est)Pacific Hybreed, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $2.1M · modeled $5.2M (est)Grapeman Farm Holdings, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $5.2M (est)Belstra Group Farms, LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $769K · modeled $5.2M (est)Canopii Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $742K · modeled $5.1M (est)X-C, Llc · Pre-Seed Raised $799K · modeled $5.1M (est)Lepidext, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $1.2M · modeled $5.1M (est)Greencare Collective LLC · Pre-Seed Raised $650K · modeled $4.8M (est)Cipresso International, Inc. · Pre-Seed Raised $905K · modeled $4.7M (est)Greenfield Bamboo Investments Llc · Pre-Seed Raised $1.0M · modeled $4.2M (est)XYZ CBD Group, Inc · Pre-Seed Raised $1.6M · modeled $4.0M (est)Watauga Meats & Butchery, LLC (this company) Raised $300K · modeled $2.2M (est)Watauga Meats & Butchery, LLC
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
Vertical Malt, Inc.Pre-Seed$1.0M$7.3M3.93×
Wellfish Diagnostics LtdPre-Seed$736K$5.6M3.03×
Pacific Hybreed, Inc.Pre-Seed$2.1M$5.2M2.81×
Grapeman Farm Holdings, LLCPre-Seed$1.0M$5.2M2.78×
Belstra Group Farms, LLCPre-Seed$769K$5.2M2.78×
Canopii Inc.Pre-Seed$742K$5.1M2.76×
X-C, LlcPre-Seed$799K$5.1M2.74×
Lepidext, Inc.Pre-Seed$1.2M$5.1M2.73×
Greencare Collective LLCPre-Seed$650K$4.8M2.60×
Cipresso International, Inc.Pre-Seed$905K$4.7M2.53×
Greenfield Bamboo Investments LlcPre-Seed$1.0M$4.2M2.24×
XYZ CBD Group, IncPre-Seed$1.6M$4.0M2.15×
Watauga Meats & Butchery, LLC this companyPre-Seed$300K$2.2M1.20×
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$300K2022-02-25$1.7M$2.2M90%
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$300K2022-02-25
    • First recorded raise — entered as Pre-Seed.
    • 9 investors on this round.
Intelligence
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Modeled next raise
$480K
Modeled next size est.range $312K–$768K
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Last step-up
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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 Gray Shipley III——2022-02
Robert Gray Shipley, Jr.——2022-02
Registry & provenance

Watauga Meats & Butchery, 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
1918046
SEC CIK
2020
Incorporated
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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.

CompanySectorStageValue · estMatch
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Frequently asked
How much funding has Watauga Meats & Butchery, LLC raised?
Watauga Meats & Butchery, LLC has raised approximately $300K in disclosed capital across 1 recorded financing round, aggregated from public filings.
What is Watauga Meats & Butchery, LLC's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for Watauga Meats & Butchery, LLC is approximately $2.2M (modeled range $190K–$15.3M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is Watauga Meats & Butchery, LLC at?
Watauga Meats & Butchery, LLC's latest modeled financing stage is Pre-Seed. Its most recent recorded round closed around Fri Feb 25.
What does Watauga Meats & Butchery, LLC do and where is it based?
Watauga Meats & Butchery, LLC operates in the Agriculture sector, based in VILAS.
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