Companies · Hardware / Semiconductors
South San Francisco · CA, USA · Hardware / Semiconductors · founded 2014 · http://getwhirl.com
Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Whirl — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→Whirl: limited disclosed financing to assess.
Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page.
Whirl is one of 130 Hardware / Semiconductors companies tracked from South San Francisco, CA, USA, on record since 2014. 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.
AI analyst read est. — model-extracted from this company's public description, not a verified fact. 30%
operates a technology-led product inferred from public copy
Grounded in: “You are a venture analyst”
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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.
No round amounts on record to chart.
No staged rounds to sequence.
Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size. Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks. Directional, not a quoted figure.
Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.
Benchmarked against 130 companies in Hardware / Semiconductors. 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 48% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 48% of peers (estimate).
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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No rounds recorded. | |||||
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.
Whirl 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AccessOwl | Hardware / Semiconductors | — | — | — | same sector |
| ACCO Semiconductor, Inc. | Hardware / Semiconductors | Series A | $55.1M | $123.3M | same sector |
| Activeloop | Hardware / Semiconductors | — | — | — | same sector |
| Advanced Silicon Group, Inc. | Hardware / Semiconductors | Seed | $1.0M | $14.6M | same sector |
| AeroFS | Hardware / Semiconductors | — | — | — | same sector |
| Afrostream | Hardware / Semiconductors | — | — | — | same sector |
| Aisle50 | Hardware / Semiconductors | — | — | — | same sector |
| AKHAN Semiconductor, Inc. | Hardware / Semiconductors | Series B | $26.0M | $207.5M | same sector |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AgileBits Inc. The world’s favourite password manager and secure wallet for Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android. | Ecommerce / Retail | Growth/Late | $161.0M | 72% |
| FingerprintJS, Inc. | Other Technology | Series B | $322.1M | 70% |
| BitPayTech, Inc | Other Technology | Seed | $10.5M | 70% |
| Walletron, Inc. | Other Technology | Seed | $37.3M | 70% |
| LockedBrands, LLC | Other Technology | Pre-Seed | $21.2M | 70% |
| WalletConnect, Inc. | Other Technology | Series A | $137.9M | 69% |
| Coin A mobile wallet that allows you to pay everywhere credit cards are… | Fintech | — | — | 69% |
| SlidePay Banking and Payment Platform APIs. Exited October 2014. | Fintech | — | — | 69% |
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