# Valiant Capital Partners

> Valiant Capital Partners is a VC fund backing Software and Internet. See 38 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 38
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 24%
- Fund size: $1.6B
- Last fund: Jan 2020
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/valiant-capital-partners
- Website: http://www.valiantcapital.com/

Valiant Capital Partners is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Internet. Valiant Capital Management is a $2.7 billion global long/short equity hedge fund founded by Christopher R. Hansen in March 2008. Prior to that, Christopher Hansen was a Managing Director of Blue Ridge Capital from 2001 to January 2008. Mr. Hansen is the President and portfolio manager of Valiant and is supported by six junior partners whoserve as senior analysts.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.1M–$9M |
| Series A | $10M–$18M |
| Series D | $10M–$425M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 18% |
| Internet | 5 | 13% |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 13% |
| SaaS | 4 | 11% |
| Mobile | 4 | 11% |

69 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series D | 6 | 16% |
| Seed | 5 | 13% |
| Series A | 5 | 13% |
| Series C | 5 | 13% |
| Series B | 4 | 11% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 32% |
| India | 8 | 21% |
| Brazil | 2 | 5% |
| Ghana | 1 | 3% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Christopher Hansen | President, Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-hansen-2 |
| Danny Karubian | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/danny-karubian |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Equal AI | Equal Identity operates as an ID-sharing platform. | $30M | Series B | Jun 12, 2026 |  |
| Zota Health Care | Zota Healthcare produces and develops pharmaceutical products. Their products include zytone-xt, zotaxime, zocold plus, gmfit, and azita taplets. They also offer sales, research, and development services. | $38.8M | Post-IPO Equity | Dec 25, 2025 |  |
| Equal AI | Equal Identity operates as an ID-sharing platform. | $10M | Series A | Nov 11, 2024 |  |
| Drift.ai | Arkifi is an artificial intelligence company that develops AI-powered financial analyst tools. Arkifi's framework generates consistent results that avoid fabricating factual details (referred to as "hallucination"), instilling enterprises with an unmatched level of confidence in the outcomes. | $9M | Seed | Aug 21, 2023 |  |
| Carepoint Hospitals | Carepoint Hospitals is a network of healthcare facilities providing optimized and patient-centered services. | $18M | Series A | Nov 16, 2021 |  |
| Africa Health Holdings Ltd | Africa Health Holdings cultivates a work-environment that motivates professionals to strive to exceed their expectations. It offers a variety of exciting and challenging careers across Africa and North America. It values teamwork and the enthusiasm to become a contributor to the development and success of local communities across Africa.It wasfounded in 2017 and is headquartered in Accra, Ghana with offices in Nigeria and New York. | $18M | Series A | Nov 15, 2021 |  |
| Brex | Brex is a financial technology company that is revolutionizing the way businesses manage their financial operations. By offering a comprehensive platform that seamlessly integrates financial services into existing software applications. Brex empowers employees to make informed financial decisions that drive business growth and success. With a focuson innovation and user-centric design. Brex is helping companies navigate the complexities of the modern business landscape and unlock their full potential. | $425M | Series D | Apr 26, 2021 |  |
| TOPPEQ | TOPPEQ is a software-as-a-service equity and debt management platform. |  | Seed | Feb 09, 2021 |  |
| Pitzi | Pitzi is the leading Brazilian insurtech, using cutting edge CX design and an innovative supply chain to transform how Brazilians interact with insurance products. Pitzi powers many of the largest smartphone insurance programs in Brazil in partnership with leading insurance companies, protecting more than 1 million Brazilian consumers. Pitzi isbacked by top venture investors including Thrive Capital, Kaszek Ventures, QED and DCM Ventures, and is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil. | $10.3M | Series D | Nov 04, 2019 |  |
| Simulmedia | Simulmedia is making TV advertising better by bringing web-like advertising techniques to television, today. Their technology is powered by the largest anonymous TV viewing database ever created. It was founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York, United States. | $29M | Series E | Jun 12, 2019 |  |

10 of 38 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vertex-ventures-southeast-asia-india) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Vertex Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vertex-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Prosus Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prosus-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [SAIF Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/saif-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Valiant Capital Partners invest in?

Valiant Capital Partners invests primarily in Software, Internet and E-Commerce startups, most often at Series D and Seed stage. Most of the 38 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Valiant Capital Partners's check size?

Valiant Capital Partners typically joins rounds of $3.1M–$9M at Seed, $10M–$18M at Series A and $10M–$425M at Series D. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Valiant Capital Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Valiant Capital Partners?

Public channels for Valiant Capital Partners include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Valiant Capital Partners?

The team at Valiant Capital Partners includes Christopher Hansen (President, Founder) and Danny Karubian (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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