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Valor Ventures

Founders Lisa Calhoun

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Total investments 34
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 28
Rounds per year 3.78
Lead investments 11
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.18
Exits 1
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Internet
  • Education
  • E-Commerce
  • SaaS
Summary

Valor Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2014. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Atlanta.

When the investment is from Valor Ventures the average startup value is 1-5 millions dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2019. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The current fund was established by Lisa Calhoun.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Hospitality, Education. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Map My Customers, MyAgData, Funding University. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Valor Ventures, startups are often financed by Redpoint eventures, Kevin Efrusy, Kaszek Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Kevin Efrusy, Kaszek Ventures, Atomico. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Atomico, Kevin Efrusy, Kaszek Ventures.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

FirmPilot

Legal
Legal Tech
Marketing Automation
SEO
$2M02 Jan 2024 Miami, Florida, United States

Saile

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
$5M14 Sep 2023 -

Arpio

B2B
Internet
SaaS
$8M14 Aug 2023 Durham, North Carolina, United States

Love to Ride

Association
Communities
Social
31 Mar 2023 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Aetos Imaging

3D Technology
Image Recognition
Marketing
13 Mar 2023 Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States

CareWork

Analytics
Health Care
Software
$2M04 Jan 2023 -

Saile

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
$1M22 Nov 2022 -

Thred Technologies

Artificial Intelligence
Cryptocurrency
Search Engine
$3M09 Nov 2022 Seattle, Washington, United States

STEMuli

E-Learning
Education
Gaming
$3M17 May 2022 Dallas, Texas, United States
News
Valor Leads $1.1M Investment in Brand Platform SHO.AI

Valor Ventures announced its investment in SHO.AI, its 19th investment in fast-growing software based in the Southeast.
– With offices in Cape Girardeau, MO, Paris, France, and New York, NY, SHO.AI is led by co-founders CEO Sho Rust, Michael Machiah, and Thomas Belhacene.
– The founding team earned deep backgrounds in digital content management at Google, BCG, and Nike.
– Valor led the round with a $1M check and with participation from existing angel investors.
– Lisa Calhoun joins SHO.AI’s newly formed board.

Valor Backs Genomics SaaS Platform Allelica

Valor Ventures Fund 2 is pleased to announce its seventh investment, a $1.75m Series Seed financing of Allelica, Inc.
– Valor General Partner Gary Peat joins the Allelica board of directors.
– In addition to lead investor Valor Ventures, participants in the round included AI-focused venture fund Pi Campus and prestigious genetics research institution Medical Genetics Center (MGZ) in Munich as a strategic investor.
– Allelica brings precision medicine into mainstream clinical practice through a Software-as-a-Service platform for the prediction of complex, genetic diseases using proprietary polygenic risk scores.
– With major customers across three continents, Allelica is poised to be the first mass adoption of precision medicine.

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Total investments 34
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 3.78
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 11
Follow on index 0.18
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.53

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

FirmPilot

Legal
Legal Tech
Marketing Automation
SEO
$2M02 Jan 2024 Miami, Florida, United States

Saile

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
$5M14 Sep 2023 -

Arpio

B2B
Internet
SaaS
$8M14 Aug 2023 Durham, North Carolina, United States

Love to Ride

Association
Communities
Social
31 Mar 2023 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Aetos Imaging

3D Technology
Image Recognition
Marketing
13 Mar 2023 Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States

CareWork

Analytics
Health Care
Software
$2M04 Jan 2023 -

Saile

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
$1M22 Nov 2022 -

Thred Technologies

Artificial Intelligence
Cryptocurrency
Search Engine
$3M09 Nov 2022 Seattle, Washington, United States

STEMuli

E-Learning
Education
Gaming
$3M17 May 2022 Dallas, Texas, United States
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