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HOUSTON · Space / Aerospace · refined from filed group “Other”
Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on West Star Aviation Holdings, LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→West Star Aviation Holdings, 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 space/aerospace sector profile.
Analyst read est. — computed against this company's niche peers in the same era. Inputs shown; not a quoted figure.
Procedural diagnosis est. — rule-based common-sense checks over the filing pattern, issuer name, activity cadence, and surfaced operating evidence.
West Star Aviation Holdings, LLC behaves more like a recurring private-offering issuer than a conventional venture-backed operating company.
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.
West Star Aviation Holdings, LLC is one of 133 Space / Aerospace companies tracked from HOUSTON. By capital raised it ranks in the upper tier (ahead of 86% of sector peers), and among the largest 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.
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.
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.
Stages are modeled from round size (public records carry no series label). No record for: Pre-Seed, Series A — the company may have raised it under a different exemption, merged it into an adjacent record, or skipped it. Sequence completeness: 50%.
Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Series B — a $15M–$40M round). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks scaled by the space/aerospace sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.
Benchmarked against 133 companies in Space / Aerospace. 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.
Raised more than 86% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 91% of peers (estimate).
A tighter cohort than the sector chart above — only companies at the same stage (Series B) 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 #2 of 7.
| Company | Stage | Raised · real | Value · est | vs peer med. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aero Aggregates of North America LLC | Series B | $35.0M | $354.0M | 2.39× |
| West Star Aviation Holdings, LLC this company | Series B | $17.9M | $253.9M | 1.71× |
| Beyond Aero Inc. | Series B | $23.9M | $163.8M | 1.10× |
| Venus Aerospace Corp. | Series B | $48.3M | $148.4M | 1.00× |
| Slingshot Aerospace, Inc. | Series B | $42.1M | $77.1M | 0.52× |
| TERRAN ORBITAL Corp | Series B | $45.5M | $12.0M | 0.08× |
| Tamarack Aerospace Group, Inc. | Series B | $29.3M | $6.5M | 0.04× |
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.
| Stage | Amount · real | Announced | Post-money · est | Value · est | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series B | $17.9M | 2022-03-01 | $99.6M | $253.9M | 90% |
| Seed | $1.0M | 2022-03-01 | $5.1M | $13.2M | 90% |
Step-up, pace versus the sector's normal cadence, and revenue/exemption moves — read straight from the reported round facts reported.
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.
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.
| Person | Role | Also runs | Tied since |
|---|---|---|---|
| Max Klupchak | — | 12 other | 2022-03 |
| Brandon Baudin | — | 9 other | 2022-03 |
| Greg Elliott | — | 5 other | 2022-03 |
| John Griffin | — | 5 other | 2022-03 |
| Patrick Vocke | — | 1 other | 2022-03 |
West Star Aviation Holdings, 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.
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.
| Company | Sector | Stage | Raised · real | Value · est | Why similar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Star Aviation Investments, LLC | Space / Aerospace | Series D+ | $224.1M | $3.9B | network5 shared operators · same sector |
| Bad Boy Mowers Holdings, LLC | Other | Series B | $19.6M | $324.6M | network2 shared operators · same stage |
| Tangent Technologies Investments, LLC | Software / Tech | Series D+ | $103.5M | $3.3B | network3 shared operators |
| SV-Aero Holdings, LLC | Space / Aerospace | Series B | $21.6M | $391.3M | same sector · same stage |
| Beyond Aero Inc. | Space / Aerospace | Series B | $23.9M | $163.8M | same sector · same stage |
| Reflect Orbital Inc. | Space / Aerospace | Series B | $28.7M | $137.7M | same sector · same stage |
| Tamarack Aerospace Group, Inc. | Space / Aerospace | Series B | $29.3M | $6.5M | same sector · same stage |
| Artisan Design Group Holdings, LLC | Other | Series B | $23.5M | $389.8M | network1 shared operator · same stage |
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.
| Company | Sector | Stage | Value · est | Match |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Star Aviation Investments, LLC | Space / Aerospace | Series D+ | $3.9B | 98% |
| SV-Aero Holdings, LLC | Space / Aerospace | Series B | $391.3M | 87% |
| Next Level Aviation Holdings, LLC | Space / Aerospace | Series A | $341.8M | 86% |
| Victoria Aerospace Holdings LLC | Space / Aerospace | Series A | $95.5M | 83% |
| BrightWater United Aero Group Holdings, LLC | Space / Aerospace | Series A | $102.5M | 82% |
| Advanced Aero Services, LLC | Space / Aerospace | Pre-Seed | $31.8M | 80% |
| MI SpaceX Investment, LLC | Other | Pre-Seed | $1.9M | 80% |
| Starspace Holdings LLC | Other Technology | Seed | $63.5M | 80% |
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