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Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Zen Beverage, LLC — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→Zen Beverage, LLC has raised $89M over 3 rounds; too few niche peers to rank its valuation yet.
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.
Procedural diagnosis est. — rule-based common-sense checks over the filing pattern, issuer name, activity cadence, and surfaced operating evidence.
Zen Beverage, 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.
Zen Beverage, LLC is one of 567 Food & Beverage companies tracked from Long Beach. By capital raised it ranks among the largest (ahead of 99% 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. Directional, not a quoted figure.
Benchmarked against 567 companies in Food & Beverage. 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 99% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 96% 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.
| Company | Stage | Raised · real | Value · est | vs peer med. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spirits Global Inc. | Series B | $40.7M | $285.2M | 1.31× |
| MM Pizza Upper Holdings, LLC | Series B | $21.0M | $235.4M | 1.09× |
| Elite Beverage International, Inc. | Series B | $20.0M | $198.5M | 0.91× |
| Zen Beverage, LLC this company | Series B | $88.5M | $195.4M | 0.90× |
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 | $22.5M | 2020-04-09 | $125.1M | $374.2M | 90% |
| Series B | $19.2M | 2020-04-09 | $106.6M | $318.9M | 90% |
| Series B | $31.5M | 2020-04-09 | $174.9M | $523.1M | 90% |
| Seed | $2.0M | 2021-09-01 | $10.0M | $24.1M | 90% |
| Series B | $32.9M | 2021-09-01 | $182.9M | $409.7M | 90% |
| Series B | $24.2M | 2023-05-31 | $134.2M | $195.4M | 90% |
| Seed | $1.5M | 2023-05-31 | $7.5M | $9.4M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lance Collins | — | 11 other | 2020-04 |
| Jason Sutherland | — | 5 other | 2020-04 |
| Bryan Crowley | — | 4 other | 2020-04 |
| Linda Collins | — | 4 other | 2020-04 |
| Paul Nadel | — | 4 other | 2023-05 |
| Greg Gilbert | — | 2 other | 2020-04 |
| Jon Ballas | — | 1 other | 2020-04 |
| Jon Crecy | — | 1 other | 2020-04 |
| John Crecy | — | — | 2020-04 |
Zen Beverage, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Casa Azul Spirits, LLC | Food & Beverage | Series C | $58.1M | $819.2M | network5 shared operators · same sector |
| Zen Beverage Investors, LLC | Food & Beverage | Series B | $21.0M | $25.6M | network3 shared operators · same sector · same stage |
| Muse Organic, LLC | Agtech / Foodtech | Series B | $24.4M | $6.5M | network4 shared operators · same stage |
| Core Nutrition, LLC | Agtech / Foodtech | Series B | $65.5M | $416.9M | network3 shared operators · same stage |
| Beyond Plastic, LLC | Other | Series A | $4.2M | $49.6M | network4 shared operators |
| ASHOC Beverage, LLC | Retailing | Series B | $42.4M | $63.8M | network2 shared operators · same stage |
| Muse Nutrition, Llc | Agtech / Foodtech | Series A | $7.1M | $69.5M | network3 shared operators |
| Spindrift Beverage Co., Inc. | Food & Beverage | Series B | $78.7M | $52.3M | same sector · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zen Beverage Investors, LLC | Food & Beverage | Series B | $25.6M | 95% |
| Zen Blend Farms LLC | Agtech / Foodtech | Pre-Seed | $4.5M | 91% |
| Wet Beverages LLC | Food & Beverage | Seed | $6.3M | 86% |
| Hello Beverages, LLC | Food & Beverage | Seed | $2.8M | 86% |
| Mountain Beverage Llc | Food & Beverage | Pre-Seed | $2.1M | 85% |
| Ohio River Beverages, LLC | Food & Beverage | Series A | $39.7M | 85% |
| Emergent Beverages, LLC | Food & Beverage | Pre-Seed | $1.2M | 85% |
| Wp Beverages, Llc | Food & Beverage | Series B | $140.5M | 84% |
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