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 Infrastructure

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.

Brassica

Seed Round in 2023
Brassica Finance specializes in developing investment infrastructure tailored for private securities and digital assets. The company's solutions include a comprehensive transfer agent and trust services aimed at alternative asset platforms. By offering a robust back-end banking and investment infrastructure, Brassica provides enterprises with embedded financial tools and regulated services that facilitate the creation of compliant and scalable businesses. Their API-forward approach ensures seamless integration with existing investment platforms, enabling clients to safeguard customer assets while enhancing operational efficiency.

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.

Lightbit

Venture Round in 2022
Lightbits Labs, Inc. specializes in developing innovative data storage solutions designed for enterprise private clouds and service providers. Founded in 2015 and based in San Jose, California, with additional offices in Israel and New York, the company focuses on delivering high-performance block storage that is scalable and cost-effective. Lightbits is known for its Cloud Data Platform and the proprietary LightOS Software Defined Storage, which integrates seamlessly with existing datacenter infrastructure. The company's products leverage the NVMe over TCP protocol to enhance performance comparable to local flash storage, catering to cloud-native applications in various environments, including bare metal, virtualized, and containerized systems. By providing a comprehensive data storage platform, Lightbits enables organizations to improve agility and cost efficiency while effectively scaling their storage infrastructure.

The Boring Company

Series C in 2022
The Boring Company is an infrastructure and tunnel construction company focused on developing underground transportation networks. It designs and builds tunnel systems to alleviate urban traffic, offering safe, fast, and cost-efficient routes for transportation, utilities, and freight, with the aim of reducing surface congestion and expanding mobility options.

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.

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.

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.
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