# Valor Capital Group

> Valor Capital Group is a VC fund backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 238 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 238
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 39%
- Fund size: $2M
- Last fund: Sep 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://pt.linkedin.com/company/valor-capital-group
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/valorcapgroup
- Website: http://www.valorcapitalgroup.com

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$10M |
| Series A | $4.3M–$27M |
| Series B | $9.1M–$78M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 29 | 12% |
| Financial Services | 28 | 12% |
| Information Technology | 21 | 9% |
| Software | 19 | 8% |
| SaaS | 11 | 5% |

171 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 55 | 23% |
| Series B | 38 | 16% |
| Seed | 36 | 15% |
| Series C | 12 | 5% |
| Series D | 8 | 3% |

13 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brazil | 62 | 26% |
| United States | 38 | 16% |
| Mexico | 6 | 3% |
| Canada | 2 | 1% |
| Argentina | 2 | 1% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ambassador Clifford Sobel | Managing Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ambassador-clifford-sobel |
| Antoine Colaco | Managing Partner | 24 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antoine-colaco |
| Mario Mello | Venture Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mario-mello |
| Michael Nicklas | Managing Partner | 23 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-nicklas |
| Daniel Schulman | Managing Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dan-schulman |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| aviva | 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 | 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 | Vixtra is a fintech company that provides payment methods for foreign trade and B2B payment methods. | $9.8M | Series A | Jun 17, 2026 |  |
| Plata | Plata Card is a financial app for credit card. | $405M | Series C | Apr 16, 2026 |  |
| Franq | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| ElevenLabs | 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 | 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 |  |
| Rivio | RIVIO is the intelligence of the future hospitals. We transform data, procedures, and operations into actual efficiency so that medical professionals, nurses, and management teams can concentrate on what matters most: caring for people. | $18.1M | Seed | Dec 18, 2025 |  |

10 of 238 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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- [Norte Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/norte-ventures) — VC Fund, 19 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Valor Capital Group invest in?

Valor Capital Group invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 238 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Brazil. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Valor Capital Group's check size?

Valor Capital Group typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$10M at Seed, $4.3M–$27M at Series A and $9.1M–$78M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Valor Capital Group participates in.

### How do I contact Valor Capital Group?

Public channels for Valor Capital Group include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) 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 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 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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