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 Drones

Zeitview

Venture Round in 2025
Zeitview is an aerial data analytics company specializing in drone services for energy and infrastructure sectors. It uses AI and machine learning to analyze visual data, providing actionable insights that enhance asset performance and longevity. Zeitview serves industries such as solar, wind, property management, telecommunications, and utilities.

Hidden Level

Series B in 2024
Hidden Level develops airspace sensing technologies, specializing in passive radar and drone detection through RF spectrum signal analysis. Its airspace monitoring systems deploy networks of passive sensors to detect and track drones and other aerial vehicles over large geographic areas, supporting critical infrastructure, defense, and public safety customers. The company emphasizes safety through sensing, offering services that cover classical systems engineering, data modeling and analysis, field testing, and full product lifecycle management, including PCB design. Its solutions enable monitoring of low-altitude air traffic while maintaining privacy in compliance with applicable regulations.

Zeitview

Series E in 2023
Zeitview is an aerial data analytics company specializing in drone services for energy and infrastructure sectors. It uses AI and machine learning to analyze visual data, providing actionable insights that enhance asset performance and longevity. Zeitview serves industries such as solar, wind, property management, telecommunications, and utilities.

Anduril Industries

Series E in 2022
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company that designs, develops, and deploys hardware and software to address national security challenges for the United States and its allies. It offers the Lattice Platform, an AI-based system that fuses real-time data from computer vision, machine learning, and mesh networking into a single autonomous operating picture; Sentry Tower, which integrates data across the electromagnetic spectrum; Ghost sUAS, an unmanned autonomous, man-portable drone capable of performing missions with limited human intervention; and Anvil sUAS, a precision kinetic intercept that autonomously navigates to counter potential drone threats with visual verification by a human operator. Founded in 2017, Anduril is based in Irvine, California, with additional offices in Orange County, California; Washington, D.C.; and Seattle, Washington.

Zeitview

Venture Round in 2021
Zeitview is an aerial data analytics company specializing in drone services for energy and infrastructure sectors. It uses AI and machine learning to analyze visual data, providing actionable insights that enhance asset performance and longevity. Zeitview serves industries such as solar, wind, property management, telecommunications, and utilities.

Anduril Industries

Series D in 2021
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company that designs, develops, and deploys hardware and software to address national security challenges for the United States and its allies. It offers the Lattice Platform, an AI-based system that fuses real-time data from computer vision, machine learning, and mesh networking into a single autonomous operating picture; Sentry Tower, which integrates data across the electromagnetic spectrum; Ghost sUAS, an unmanned autonomous, man-portable drone capable of performing missions with limited human intervention; and Anvil sUAS, a precision kinetic intercept that autonomously navigates to counter potential drone threats with visual verification by a human operator. Founded in 2017, Anduril is based in Irvine, California, with additional offices in Orange County, California; Washington, D.C.; and Seattle, Washington.

Zeitview

Series C in 2021
Zeitview is an aerial data analytics company specializing in drone services for energy and infrastructure sectors. It uses AI and machine learning to analyze visual data, providing actionable insights that enhance asset performance and longevity. Zeitview serves industries such as solar, wind, property management, telecommunications, and utilities.

Anduril Industries

Series C in 2020
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company that designs, develops, and deploys hardware and software to address national security challenges for the United States and its allies. It offers the Lattice Platform, an AI-based system that fuses real-time data from computer vision, machine learning, and mesh networking into a single autonomous operating picture; Sentry Tower, which integrates data across the electromagnetic spectrum; Ghost sUAS, an unmanned autonomous, man-portable drone capable of performing missions with limited human intervention; and Anvil sUAS, a precision kinetic intercept that autonomously navigates to counter potential drone threats with visual verification by a human operator. Founded in 2017, Anduril is based in Irvine, California, with additional offices in Orange County, California; Washington, D.C.; and Seattle, Washington.

Zeitview

Series C in 2020
Zeitview is an aerial data analytics company specializing in drone services for energy and infrastructure sectors. It uses AI and machine learning to analyze visual data, providing actionable insights that enhance asset performance and longevity. Zeitview serves industries such as solar, wind, property management, telecommunications, and utilities.

Anduril Industries

Series B in 2019
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company that designs, develops, and deploys hardware and software to address national security challenges for the United States and its allies. It offers the Lattice Platform, an AI-based system that fuses real-time data from computer vision, machine learning, and mesh networking into a single autonomous operating picture; Sentry Tower, which integrates data across the electromagnetic spectrum; Ghost sUAS, an unmanned autonomous, man-portable drone capable of performing missions with limited human intervention; and Anvil sUAS, a precision kinetic intercept that autonomously navigates to counter potential drone threats with visual verification by a human operator. Founded in 2017, Anduril is based in Irvine, California, with additional offices in Orange County, California; Washington, D.C.; and Seattle, Washington.
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