Valor Capital Group
VC Fund
New York, United States
Valor Capital Group is a VC fund in New York focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Valor is an investment firm that focuses on cross-border financial and investment opportunities. The firm operates across two investment strategies Growth Equity and Venture Capital. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, United States.
- Total investments:
- 259
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 38%
- Fund size:
- $5M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Valor Capital Group invests in
Stages Valor Capital Group invests in
Countries Valor Capital Group invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 10 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.3M–$10M
- Series A
- $4M–$26M
- Series B
- $7M–$104M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 41 (16%)
- Financial Services 38 (15%)
- Software 29 (11%)
- Information Technology 27 (10%)
- Blockchain 16 (6%)
Stage
- Series A 68 (26%)
- Seed 49 (19%)
- Series B 47 (18%)
- Series C 19 (7%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 12 (5%)
Country
- Brazil 73 (28%)
- United States 56 (22%)
- Mexico 7 (3%)
- Canada 3 (1%)
- Argentina 2 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ambassador Clifford Sobel
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Antoine Colaco
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 25 | Find email | |
Mario Mello
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Michael Nicklas
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 23 | Find email | |
Daniel Schulman
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
| See all 10 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Higgsfield is a video AI firm aimed to making social media content creation accessible to everyone. | $400M / Series B / Aug 17, 2026 | ||
| Aviva is building an AI-powered digital bank for Latin America’s underserved communities. While determined to fuel Latin America’s ongoing emergence of a new middle class with a fully-fledged portfolio of inclusive financial services, Aviva’s initial go-to-market concentrates on unsecured credit products for individuals and nano-businesses inMexico.As most of the underbanked 40+ million Mexicans live in small and medium-sized towns, Aviva builds a bridge to those living in remote communities with its physical onboarding kiosks. These nano-branches provide a documentless 3-minute video onboarding for everyone in need of liquidity. Novel AI-based technology, including natural language processing, allows Aviva to match customers’ spoken word to the fields of a comprehensive real-time credit application. Transforming speech to text and inferring emotions and personality from the visual layer of the application video gives Aviva an edge in scoring thin-file customers. Leveraging these novel risk models, Aviva aims to provide the lowest interest rates available to today’s underserved. | $18M / Series A / Jul 06, 2026 | ||
| Trace Finance empowers Payment Facilitators, Crypto & Cross-border companies with best in class FX, Non Resident accounts and cross-border payments. Companies such as Dlocal, Volt.io and Okx are processing their local and cross border payments with us. Our mission is to provide faster and better payments globally for enterprises. 40% ofpayments in stablecoins | $32M / Series A / Jun 17, 2026 | ||
| Vixtra is a fintech company that provides payment methods for foreign trade and B2B payment methods. | $9.8M / Series A / Jun 17, 2026 | ||
| Plata Card is a financial app for credit card. | $405M / Series C / Apr 16, 2026 | ||
| Franq is a Fintech that aggregates 50 financial institutions in Brazil to distribute over 100 financial products and services through a network of 7.000 independent brokers, know as Personal Bankers. Functioning as a multi-sided marketplace banking professionals can offer a wide range of products to individuals and SMEs acting as a one-stop-shopfor free. | $9.1M / Series B / Mar 27, 2026 | ||
| Bluprynt is a company that provides digital asset declaration services to improve compliance and safety in the process. The company provides disclosure infrastructure and compliance technologies, as well as identifying and guiding government trends and market expectations, allowing businesses to save time and focus on core activities. | $4.3M / Seed / Feb 26, 2026 | ||
| Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence. | $5.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 23, 2026 | ||
| Research Lab. Exploring new frontiers of voice generation. We are researching and deploying novel methods in voice AI to make content enjoyable in any language and voice to benefit new audiences and viewers. Our mission is to make content universally accessible in any language & voice. | $550M / Series D / Feb 04, 2026 | ||
| OpenAssets builds open infrastructure and technology for digital financial systems and tokenized capital markets. The company develops standards and platforms for issuing and managing tokenized assets, digital currencies, and programmable money across major blockchains. Its solutions include tokenization-as-a-service, compliant asset issuancetools, and programmable ownership features for bonds, equities, commodities, and other assets. OpenAssets serves governments, central banks, financial institutions, and digital asset companies seeking to modernize capital markets. The organization also convenes industry alliances to define technical, policy, and governance frameworks for programmable finance. | Seed / Jan 14, 2026 | ||
| See all 259 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Valor Capital Group invest in?
Valor Capital Group invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 259 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Brazil. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Valor Capital Group invest in?
Valor Capital Group typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$10M at Seed, $4M–$26M at Series A and $7M–$104M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Valor Capital Group's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Valor Capital Group took part in.
How do I contact Valor Capital Group?
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Who are the partners at Valor Capital Group?
The team at Valor Capital Group includes Ambassador Clifford Sobel (Managing Partner), Antoine Colaco (Managing Partner) and Mario Mello (Venture Partner), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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