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Cooks Venture, Inc.

Updated Oct 27, 2026·Latest SEC filing Sep 14, 2023·Suggest an edit

About Cooks Venture

Cooks Venture is a private company based in Decatur, Arkansas, incorporated in 2018 in Delaware. It has reported $122,739,267 raised in eight offerings on Form D since July 2019. Its chief executive is John Niemann.

Funding Rounds (SEC Form D)

First saleFiled with SECAmount soldInvestorsAvg. checkTermsFiling
Aug 29, 2023Sep 14, 2023$3,500,000of $30.0M target2$1.7MDebt, OptionsRule 506(b)Form D ↗
Jan 13, 2023Jan 27, 2023amended Apr 28, 2023$38,382,813of $58.4M target12$3.1MEquityRule 506(b)Form D/A ↗1 earlier filing
Nov 12, 2021Dec 1, 2021amended Aug 3, 2022$35,417,984of $50.0M target15$2.3MDebt, Options, Securities on exerciseRule 506(b)Form D/A ↗2 earlier filings
Sep 24, 2021Oct 5, 2021$13,750,000of $20.0M target6$2.2MEquityRule 506(b)Form D ↗
Aug 12, 2021Aug 24, 2021$6,250,000of $15.0M target5$1.2MDebt, OptionsRule 506(b)Form D ↗
Feb 5, 2021Feb 18, 2021$19,868,470of $22.8M target14$1.4MEquityRule 506(b)Form D ↗
Oct 14, 2020Oct 26, 2020amended Nov 12, 2020$5,320,000of $8.0M target8$665KDebt, OptionsRule 506(b)Form D/A ↗1 earlier filing
Jul 3, 2019Jul 18, 2019$250,000of $3.0M target1$250KDebt, OptionsRule 506(b)Form D ↗
Total, eight offerings$122,739,267

First sale is the date the first investor in the offering committed to invest. Companies must file Form D within 15 days of that date, so filing dates run later.

Leadership Team

Executive officers and directors listed on Cooks Venture's Form D filed Sep 14, 2023.

RL
MF
JN
John Niemann
Chief Executive Officer
KC
Ken Collins
Executive officer

Earlier filings also listed Matthew Wadiak (chief executive officer and director, last listed Apr 2023), Dan Phillips (director, last listed Apr 2023), Joseph DePippo (director, last listed Aug 2022), Alexandra Lunt (director, last listed Aug 2022), Zack Levenson (director, last listed Oct 2021), Daniel Gross (director, last listed Oct 2021), Ankur Agrawal (executive officer, last listed Oct 2021) and Alan Kelley (director, last listed Oct 2021).

Sources

  1. SECCooks Venture, Inc. Form D, filed Jan 27, 2023
  2. SECCooks Venture, Inc. Form D/A, filed Mar 24, 2022
  3. SECCooks Venture, Inc. Form D, filed Dec 1, 2021
  4. SECCooks Venture, Inc. Form D, filed Oct 26, 2020
  5. SECCooks Venture, Inc. filing history