Valor Equity Partners

Valor Equity Partners is a Chicago-based growth investor that provides hands-on operational expertise to help growth companies scale across the United States. The firm partners with management teams to accelerate growth and transform markets through investments in technology and technology-enabled businesses, as well as consumer products, engineered products, and services. It supports early-stage, expansion-stage, and growth-stage companies with substantial capital to drive rapid growth, often targeting software, SaaS, manufacturing, and other high-growth sectors. Valor emphasizes long-term partnerships, disciplined performance improvement, and strategic transformations to help portfolio companies achieve sustainable competitive advantage in North America.

Will Baine

Principal of Investment Team

Neil Crumpton

Vice President of Human Capital Management

Quincy Darbyshire

Vice President

Philippe El Khazen

Principal

Julie Fisher

Managing Director

Past deals in Data Mining

CompScience

Series B in 2025
CompScience is a technology company that specializes in AI-driven solutions for the workers' compensation insurance sector, with a primary focus on enhancing workplace safety. The company develops a platform that utilizes machine learning algorithms to analyze historical data, allowing organizations to assess their safety protocols, identify potential hazards, and implement effective risk management strategies. By providing actionable insights, safety monitoring, and a user-friendly dashboard, CompScience helps businesses in logistics and manufacturing industries reduce injuries and lower workers' compensation costs. Additionally, the platform facilitates improved communication between safety teams and management, ensuring that safety initiatives align with organizational objectives and ultimately enhance employee well-being and operational performance.

Ragie AI

Seed Round in 2024
Ragie AI specializes in automating and streamlining the ingestion, processing, and retrieval of structured and unstructured data, providing businesses with AI-driven tools to enhance their data workflows. Their platform allows users to effortlessly sync data from various sources, chunk and index it for efficient retrieval, and integrate seamlessly into existing systems, all while leveraging advanced language models for accurate results.

WEKA

Series E in 2024
WEKA is an AI-native data platform company that provides a cloud and hardware-agnostic software solution for performance-intensive applications. Its WEKA® Data Platform enables unprecedented performance at scale by transforming stagnant data silos into dynamic data pipelines, facilitating faster and more efficient execution of enterprise AI, machine learning, and GPU workloads. The platform ensures seamless data access across on-premises, cloud, edge, and hybrid multicloud environments. Targeting a diverse range of industries, including life sciences, media and entertainment, financial services, and government, WEKA helps organizations manage their data effectively, enabling them to overcome complex data challenges and achieve insights more rapidly. The company serves hundreds of leading enterprises and research organizations, including a significant portion of the Fortune 50.

CompScience

Series A in 2023
CompScience is a technology company that specializes in AI-driven solutions for the workers' compensation insurance sector, with a primary focus on enhancing workplace safety. The company develops a platform that utilizes machine learning algorithms to analyze historical data, allowing organizations to assess their safety protocols, identify potential hazards, and implement effective risk management strategies. By providing actionable insights, safety monitoring, and a user-friendly dashboard, CompScience helps businesses in logistics and manufacturing industries reduce injuries and lower workers' compensation costs. Additionally, the platform facilitates improved communication between safety teams and management, ensuring that safety initiatives align with organizational objectives and ultimately enhance employee well-being and operational performance.

Quantifind

Venture Round in 2023
Quantifind is a data science company that develops AI-powered platforms for marketing insight and financial crime risk management. Its Signum suite merges internal data with public information to reveal revenue drivers, explain what and who influences brand performance, and measure sponsorship impact on awareness and sales across automotive, consumer goods, entertainment, financial services, pharmaceutical, retail, and telecom sectors. The company also provides financial crime intelligence solutions for anti-money laundering and fraud detection, delivering real-time risk assessments, uncovering hidden threats, and reducing false positives by leveraging unstructured external data alongside internal records. Quantifind serves financial institutions and other organizations seeking faster, more precise risk detection, improved compliance, and scalable, data-driven decision support.

Synaptic

Series B in 2022
Synaptic is a data platform that provides actionable insights to enhance investment strategies by leveraging a diverse range of alternative data. The company consolidates proprietary and custom datasets, including app performance, marketing metrics, employee insights, product reviews, and various market trends, into a user-friendly no-code platform. This integration allows investors to efficiently track portfolio companies, competitors, and market sectors while utilizing advanced analytical tools and algorithms to process large volumes of data. By identifying patterns, trends, and anomalies, Synaptic enables venture capital, private equity, and hedge fund professionals to uncover investment opportunities, manage risks effectively, and improve overall performance in their investment practices.

Mozart Data

Series A in 2022
Founded in 2020, Mozart Data develops an online platform that streamlines data management. Its platform collects, organizes, and manages data, enabling users to spin up modern data stacks, manage data warehouses, and build/maintain ETL pipelines without extensive technical knowledge.

DigiSure

Seed Round in 2021
DigiSure is a technology platform that provides on-demand insurance services for the sharing economy, focusing on mobility marketplaces and other digital platforms. The company offers screening, insurance management, and claims services to operators and marketplaces, enabling access to user data to help partners understand and control their insurance ecosystems. By applying data-enabled intelligence and automation, DigiSure aims to transform risk management, increasing transparency and responsiveness for digital businesses. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, it serves a global footprint across mobility, short-term rental and other sharing-economy sectors.

Dataminr

Series F in 2021
Dataminr is a technology company that leverages artificial intelligence to monitor public information sources. It specializes in detecting and alerting clients to high-impact events and emerging risks in real-time, enabling them to make informed decisions across various sectors including finance, security, crisis management, and news.

Ocient

Series B in 2021
Founded in 2018, Ocient develops a high-performance data analytics platform designed for rapid analysis of massive datasets. Its platform efficiently handles large datasets measured in terabytes, petabytes, or exabytes with trillions or quadrillions of rows, enabling organizations to harness the power of big data at scale and velocity.

Premise Data

Series E in 2021
Premise Data Corporation, established in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in developing a data and analytics platform. This platform, Premise Ground Truth, offers end-to-end data collection, quality assurance, and analysis. It provides insights into price changes, location discovery, retail audits, asset condition monitoring, movement patterns, logistics, risk indicators, and sentiment surveys. Additionally, it facilitates geospatial mapping and infrastructure impact measurement. Premise serves international organizations for investment and policy decisions.

Datasembly

Series A in 2020
Founded in 2014, Datasembly specializes in transforming unstructured web data into structured data. It aggregates millions of grocery and retail pricing records daily from various sources, providing valuable insights to CPG brands, retailers, and analytics firms for informed business decisions.

Solink

Series B in 2020
Solink is a security platform that captures and audits video and transactional data to proactively reduce fraud. The platform links video with point-of-sale transactions to provide real-time visibility into store operations, support loss prevention, and help enforce company policies and standards. It analyzes matched video and transaction data to identify suspicious activity and enables users to monitor multiple locations remotely, improving operational oversight and security across the business.

Solink

Series A in 2019
Solink is a security platform that captures and audits video and transactional data to proactively reduce fraud. The platform links video with point-of-sale transactions to provide real-time visibility into store operations, support loss prevention, and help enforce company policies and standards. It analyzes matched video and transaction data to identify suspicious activity and enables users to monitor multiple locations remotely, improving operational oversight and security across the business.

Dataminr

Series E in 2018
Dataminr is a technology company that leverages artificial intelligence to monitor public information sources. It specializes in detecting and alerting clients to high-impact events and emerging risks in real-time, enabling them to make informed decisions across various sectors including finance, security, crisis management, and news.

Solink

Venture Round in 2017
Solink is a security platform that captures and audits video and transactional data to proactively reduce fraud. The platform links video with point-of-sale transactions to provide real-time visibility into store operations, support loss prevention, and help enforce company policies and standards. It analyzes matched video and transaction data to identify suspicious activity and enables users to monitor multiple locations remotely, improving operational oversight and security across the business.

Premise Data

Series C in 2015
Premise Data Corporation, established in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in developing a data and analytics platform. This platform, Premise Ground Truth, offers end-to-end data collection, quality assurance, and analysis. It provides insights into price changes, location discovery, retail audits, asset condition monitoring, movement patterns, logistics, risk indicators, and sentiment surveys. Additionally, it facilitates geospatial mapping and infrastructure impact measurement. Premise serves international organizations for investment and policy decisions.
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