Lisa Calhoun
Founding General Partner @ Valor Ventures
Atlanta, United States
Lisa Calhoun is a seed investor at Valor Ventures in Atlanta focused on Software and E-Commerce. Lisa’s experience and entrepreneurship have contributed to over a billion dollars in exit value from emerging technologies. Lisa is known for pioneering platforms that connect capital to early-stage companies. She created the ValorCIO/CTO Innovation Council that connects emerging startups to potential enterprise customers. Lisa founded theStartup Runway Foundation, the largest pitch event for minority and women founders seeking seed capital. She is a Kauffman Fellow, a member of the global network of top venture capital investors. Before Valor, Lisa founded a digital marketing agency recognized as one of the “Top 10 Agencies for Tech Startups.” She supported hundreds of tech startups through their exits to public markets and acquisitions. Prior, Lisa worked in IT consulting, helping large organizations solve complex problems with code. Lisa serves on the boards of SmartCommerce, Women Who Code, MyAgData, and the Woodruff Arts Center Women’s Giving Circle. She earned her BA/Baylor 1994 and MBA/University of Texas.
- Total investments:
- 18
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 56%
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Industries Lisa Calhoun invests in
Stages Lisa Calhoun invests in
Countries Lisa Calhoun invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (39%)
- E-Commerce 3 (17%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (17%)
- CRM 2 (11%)
- SaaS 2 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 9 (50%)
- Series A 3 (17%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (17%)
- Angel 1 (6%)
- Funding Round 1 (6%)
Investments
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| Saile uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help sales leaders spend less time searching and more time selling. Through Digital Labor, its patent-pending Sailebots reduce manual prospecting by millions of tasks each year, while increasing revenue opportunities. Sailebots are currently deployed in 29 countries and multiple languages, allowing salesleaders to automate their entire prospecting lifecycle, including finding contacts, setting meetings, cleansing data, and reading and summarizing prospective company reports and documents.Saile is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, and has employees all over the world. | $1.4M / Seed / Nov 22, 2022 | ||
| SHO.AI is the world's most innovative brand management platform. Leading designers and brand builders rely on SHO.AI to deliver a seamless experience from brand creation through engagement. Agencies and enterprises rave about how we empower talent to produce 2-3X more high-quality work than they did before. | $1.1M / Seed / Aug 18, 2021 | ||
| We are a collaborative learning platform built for the modern classroom. Our goal is to strengthen student competencies and empower educators to create long-lasting learning experiences. We encourage you to visit info.ecoText.co to learn more. Also, feel free to reach out to us at info.ecoText.co/contact. We would love to talk to you. | $500K / Seed / Dec 03, 2020 | ||
| Funding U is a merit-based student lender for career-focused college students. It offers an alternative to old FICO and cosigner-based bank loan models, and offers loans on the basis of student's academic performance, career trajectory, and earning potential, thus enabling students to apply for loans with fixed interest rates and avoiddropping out of college.It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. | $4M / Private Equity / Oct 29, 2020 | ||
| Physician 360 is creating the first virtual urgent care by combining at-home tests and a telemedicine platform for minor medical illnesses. | $400K / Seed / Sep 30, 2019 | ||
| Drum is a new gig economy platform that aims to improve the lives of millions. Set to launch in the third quarter of 2019, Drum allows any business to stand up a sales force faster and easier than it is to launch an AdWords campaign. | $11M / Seed / Sep 23, 2019 | ||
| CapWay is a fintech startup that provides financial access, opportunities, and resources through digital banking to the financially underserved and overlooked - including the unbanked, underbanked, working poor, and those fed up with the traditional banking system.CapWay is providing the tools, access, and opportunity needed for the marathon tofinancial health and generational wealth. | Seed / Sep 18, 2019 | ||
| Map My Customers offers a geospatial sales platform designed to help marketing agents map and share customers' locations. The platform features email automation, sales funnel, route optimization, charts, and easy CRM features, enabling business owners to drive more sales with visual territory management resulting in increased revenue,efficiency, and accountability.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York. | $2.6M / Series A / Apr 01, 2019 | ||
| The Gathering Spot is an invitation only, private membership club redefining the traditional club model & experience. | $5M / Seed / Feb 01, 2019 | ||
| SmartCommerce helps CPG brands like P&G, Unilever, and Nestle get their products into retailer carts. SmartCommerce provides a shorter and simpler path into the shopping carts at the customers’ choice of retailers. SmartCommerce was founded in 2009 by Jennifer Silverberg and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. | $4.4M / Series A / Dec 11, 2018 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Valor Ventures
Valor invests in financial inclusion technology platforms that support the demographic transformation of the United States into a minority-majority economy. Over 70% of our portfolio is led by underrepresented founders. We focus on leading seed rounds primarily in the Southeast. We run the largest pitch event for underrepresented founders in thecountry, Startup Runway, which is a 501c3 Foundation. Learn more at www.valor.vc.
Valor Ventures Contacts
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Amanda Li
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Lisa Calhoun
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Michael Pellegrino
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What does Lisa Calhoun invest in?
Lisa Calhoun invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Lisa Calhoun closed in Nov 2022. Shizune tracks 18 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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