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

Jake Benedict

Vice President

Jonah Cader

Vice President

Neil Crumpton

Vice President

Kirsten Curtis

Principal

Quincy Darbyshire

Vice President

Philippe El Khazen

Principal

Julie Fisher

Managing Director

Alli Folk

Principal on the Investment Team

Chandler Foster

Vice President Operations Team

Douglas Fumagalli

Managing Director

Manuel Pantelias Garcés Ph.D

Principal, Operations Team

Antonio Gracias

Founder, CEO and CIO

Anna Gurevich

Vice President

Joseph Haslip

Managing Director

David Heskett

Operating Partner Operations Group

Theo Lederhausen

Principal

Solange Levy

Vice President

Christopher Murphy

Partner

Modit Ohri

Vice President

Vivek Pattipati

Partner

Constantine Saab

Managing Director and CTO

Bradley Sheftel

Partner

Michael Soenen

Partner

Timothy M. Watkins

Operating Partner

Anni Ylagan

Principal

Past deals in Illinois

Evozyne

Series B in 2023
Founded in 2020, Evozyne is a biotechnology company specializing in protein design using its data-driven evolution-based molecular engineering platform. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, the company focuses on therapeutic discovery and drug development to create novel proteins with advanced functionality.

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.

ErisX

Series B in 2018
ErisX is a Chicago-based company founded in 2018 that operates an online trading platform focused on the digital asset market. It offers both spot and futures contracts, facilitating easy access for users to exchange cryptocurrencies. The platform integrates advanced technology to create a reliable and compliant environment for trading, deposits, and withdrawals. By leveraging its digital asset exchange and clearinghouse capabilities, ErisX aims to streamline capital markets workflows, providing clients with a robust infrastructure for their trading needs.

ErisX

Series A in 2018
ErisX is a Chicago-based company founded in 2018 that operates an online trading platform focused on the digital asset market. It offers both spot and futures contracts, facilitating easy access for users to exchange cryptocurrencies. The platform integrates advanced technology to create a reliable and compliant environment for trading, deposits, and withdrawals. By leveraging its digital asset exchange and clearinghouse capabilities, ErisX aims to streamline capital markets workflows, providing clients with a robust infrastructure for their trading needs.

Addepar

Series D in 2017
Addepar is a software and data platform for professional wealth, investment and asset management firms that consolidates portfolios, market data and client information to enable data-driven investment decisions and client reporting. The platform aggregates data from financial accounts to provide a unified view, supports data reconciliation, investment analysis and reporting, and offers onboarding and ongoing support services. It includes Addepar Open API for programmatic access and integration with more than 100 software, data and service partners, enabling developers to build applications on the platform and connect data across systems. The company serves family offices, wealth advisors, financial institutions, endowments and foundations, with a client base spanning multiple countries and assets under management exceeding $4 trillion across platforms.

Tovala

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Tovala is a Chicago-based company that offers a unique combination of a smart oven and a fresh meal delivery service, aiming to simplify dinner preparation for busy individuals. Founded in 2015 and launched in 2017, Tovala's system features an internet-connected countertop steam oven designed for multi-step cooking, paired with gourmet chef-prepared meals. This innovative approach allows users to enjoy healthy, home-cooked meals with minimal effort, requiring only the scanning of a barcode to initiate the cooking process. Tovala's service addresses the growing demand for convenient and nutritious meal solutions in today’s fast-paced lifestyle.

Addepar

Series C in 2014
Addepar is a software and data platform for professional wealth, investment and asset management firms that consolidates portfolios, market data and client information to enable data-driven investment decisions and client reporting. The platform aggregates data from financial accounts to provide a unified view, supports data reconciliation, investment analysis and reporting, and offers onboarding and ongoing support services. It includes Addepar Open API for programmatic access and integration with more than 100 software, data and service partners, enabling developers to build applications on the platform and connect data across systems. The company serves family offices, wealth advisors, financial institutions, endowments and foundations, with a client base spanning multiple countries and assets under management exceeding $4 trillion across platforms.

Addepar

Addepar is a software and data platform for professional wealth, investment and asset management firms that consolidates portfolios, market data and client information to enable data-driven investment decisions and client reporting. The platform aggregates data from financial accounts to provide a unified view, supports data reconciliation, investment analysis and reporting, and offers onboarding and ongoing support services. It includes Addepar Open API for programmatic access and integration with more than 100 software, data and service partners, enabling developers to build applications on the platform and connect data across systems. The company serves family offices, wealth advisors, financial institutions, endowments and foundations, with a client base spanning multiple countries and assets under management exceeding $4 trillion across platforms.
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