Valor Equity Partners
VC Fund
Chicago, United States
Valor Equity Partners is an operational growth investment firm that focuses on growth companies across various stages of development. For decades, it has served its companies with the expertise to solve the challenges of growth and scale. Valor Equity partners with companies and entrepreneurs who are committed to the highest standards of excellenceand the courage to transform their industries.
- Total investments:
- 309
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 28%
- Fund size:
- $2.8B
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Valor Equity Partners invests in
Stages Valor Equity Partners invests in
Countries Valor Equity Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $9.3M–$80M
- Series B
- $20M–$200M
- Series C
- $13M–$435M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 49 (16%)
- Artificial Intelligence 33 (11%)
- Information Technology 24 (8%)
- Financial Services 17 (6%)
- FinTech 15 (5%)
Stage
- Series B 57 (18%)
- Series A 49 (16%)
- Series C 35 (11%)
- Seed 31 (10%)
- Funding Round 20 (6%)
Country
- United States 151 (49%)
- Israel 5 (2%)
- India 2 (1%)
- Canada 2 (1%)
- Switzerland 2 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
David F. Heskett
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Vivek K. Pattipati
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 19 | Find email | |
Antonio Gracias
Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer
|
Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer | Total investments: 43 | Find email | |
Bradley S. Sheftel
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Chris Murphy
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 12 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Hadrian
|
Hadrian is a precision manufacturing company that manufactures precision components to serve aerospace and defense clients. It builds autonomous, software-defined precision component factories that help its customers make rockets, satellites, jets, and eVTOLs. | $1.4B / Series D / Aug 06, 2026 | |
DISA Uranium
|
DISA Uranium recovers uranium and vanadium from abandoned uranium mine waste and conventional mineral resources. The company remediates legacy uranium mine sites and applies High-Pressure Slurry Ablation technology to liberate and concentrate uranium-bearing material. DISA Uranium also develops domestic uranium recovery and processing capacity forproducing uranium oxide from recovered and mined feedstock. | $105M / Private Equity / Aug 04, 2026 | |
Base Power
|
Base Power provides home battery systems, retail electricity services, and energy management solutions for residential customers. The company installs battery storage systems that provide backup power during outages and help manage electricity usage. Its platform combines distributed battery storage with electricity services to support home energymanagement and grid operations. | $1B / Series D / Aug 03, 2026 | |
Valar Atomics
|
Uses nuclear fission to create gas and oil from ambient air. | $1B / Series B / Aug 03, 2026 | |
Xsight Labs
|
Xsight Labs is an Israeli company that develops technology for accelerating the next-generation, cloud-based, data-intensive workloads such as machine learning by offering new chipset designs that enhance scalability, performance and efficiency. | $300M / Series E / Jul 30, 2026 | |
Andrenam
|
Andrenam is a defense technology and artificial intelligence company that develops an AI-powered distributed maritime sensing network for persistent underwater and surface domain awareness. The company builds autonomous acoustic sensing systems that detect, classify, and track maritime activity in real time, providing continuous intelligence fordefense, maritime security, and autonomous naval operations. Founded by former aerospace engineers, Andrenam focuses on strengthening maritime situational awareness through scalable, networked sensing infrastructure.Its platform combines AI-powered sonar processing, distributed acoustic sensing, edge and cloud computing, autonomous sensor networks, real-time data streaming, underwater target detection, and maritime intelligence into a unified system. Andrenam's Pearl smart buoys continuously collect and transmit acoustic data, enabling operators to detect and track submarines, unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), and other maritime assets with low-latency analytics. The platform integrates AI-driven signal processing with distributed hardware to support persistent monitoring across large maritime environments. | $18M / Series A / Jul 23, 2026 | |
Dominion Dynamics
|
Dominion Dynamics is an advanced technology firm building a dual-use, AI-driven Arctic sensing network designed for both military and civilian applications, focusing on seamless multi-domain coordination and persistent regional surveillance. | $97.6M / Series A / Jun 30, 2026 | |
NewLimit
|
NewLimit specializes in treating age-related diseases to extend the human health span. It works on developing epigenetic reprogramming medicines to treat diseases with large unmet needs. | $435M / Series C / Jun 02, 2026 | |
Decart
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Decart is an AI platform significantly improves the training and inference of large generative models. | $300M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 18, 2026 | |
Judgment Labs
|
Judgment Labs is an machine learning research lab that focuses on evaluations. | $32M / Series A / May 12, 2026 | |
| See all 309 investments → | |||
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39 deals together
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33 deals together
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28 deals together
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21 deals together
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21 deals together
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FAQ
What does Valor Equity Partners invest in?
Valor Equity Partners invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 309 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 Valor Equity Partners's check size?
Valor Equity Partners typically joins rounds of $9.3M–$80M at Series A, $20M–$200M at Series B and $13M–$435M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Valor Equity Partners participates in.
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Who are the partners at Valor Equity Partners?
The team at Valor Equity Partners includes David F. Heskett (Principal), Vivek K. Pattipati (Partner) and Antonio Gracias (Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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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