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 excellence and the courage to transform their industries.
- Total investments:
- 335
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 30%
- Fund size:
- $759M
- 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 13 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series A
- $9.3M–$80M
- Series B
- $18M–$230M
- Series C
- $10M–$375M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 52 (16%)
- Artificial Intelligence 48 (14%)
- Financial Services 26 (8%)
- Information Technology 26 (8%)
- FinTech 19 (6%)
Stage
- Series B 69 (21%)
- Series A 63 (19%)
- Series C 45 (13%)
- Seed 39 (12%)
- Series D 21 (6%)
Country
- United States 179 (53%)
- Israel 5 (1%)
- Canada 3 (1%)
- United Kingdom 3 (1%)
- India 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: 49 | Find email | |
Bradley S. Sheftel
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Chris Murphy
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 13 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atomic Machines are into MEMS micro- and nano-fabrication. | $250M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 07, 2026 | ||
| Flow is the agentic systems engineering platform for the companies building the physical world. Next-gen hardware teams use Flow as their default platform to design, build, and iterate on hardware faster without sacrificing engineering rigor. Today, thousands of engineers at companies including Rivian, Stoke Space, Joby, Astranis, and Radiant are building on Flow. Flow gives these teams a living system of record that connects requirements, CAD, simulation, code, and test. On top of this system of record, Flow's agents continuously analyze engineering changes, identify downstream impact, and verify requirements and test coverage — so work stays aligned across the tools engineers already use. | $50M / Series B / Sep 30, 2026 | ||
| CSpeed is a telecommunications company that offers datacenter connectivity services. | $145M / Series C / Sep 30, 2026 | ||
| General Intuition is a frontier research lab focused on teaching machines to learn and adapt through play, aiming to build artificial intelligence that can perceive, anticipate, and improvise in real-world dynamics, with gaming as a central domain for testing and innovation. | $220M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 29, 2026 | ||
| Impulse Space develops spacecraft and propulsion systems that provide transportation and mobility services for payloads operating in space. The company focuses on moving, deploying, and hosting payloads across a range of orbital destinations, including low Earth orbit, geostationary orbit, and other deep-space trajectories. Its vehicle portfolioincludes Mira, a spacecraft designed for payload hosting, deployment, and orbital maneuvers, and Helios, a transfer vehicle intended to transport larger payloads between orbits. Impulse Space designs, manufactures, and tests much of its hardware in-house, covering spacecraft systems, propulsion components, and mission integration. The company supports commercial, civil, and government missions by providing in-space transportation and logistics capabilities after launch. | $308M / Series D / Sep 16, 2026 | ||
| The Boring Company is an infrastructure and tunnel construction company that facilitates underground transportation networks. It aims to create safe, fast-to-dig, and low-cost transportation, utility, and freight tunnels. | $3B / Series D / Sep 09, 2026 | ||
| Cognition develops artificial intelligence systems for software engineering and code automation. The company operates Devin, an AI software engineer that plans, writes, tests, debugs, and deploys code through integrated development workflows. Its platform works with existing development tools and codebases to support engineering tasks acrossapplication development, maintenance, and issue resolution. Cognition also provides tools that assist teams with system design, technical workflows, and collaborative coding processes. The company focuses on AI agents that automate repetitive engineering work while supporting software teams in managing complex development tasks. | $2B / Series E / Sep 08, 2026 | ||
| Celero Communications develops coherent digital signal processor (DSP) technology that enables high-bandwidth, energy-efficient optical links for AI infrastructure. Their platform targets data center networks and AI acceleration clusters, supporting scalable and power-optimized interconnects. The company combines expertise in analog design, digitalsignal processing, and system architecture to deliver connectivity solutions tailored for next-generation AI computing environments. With a strong technical team, they aim to help customers overcome bandwidth, cost, and energy limits in modern AI data centers. | $275M / Series C / Sep 08, 2026 | ||
| Crusoe is on a mission to help the oil industry reduce routine flaring of natural gas. They are passionate about creating solutions that benefit the environment, local communities, and energy producers.Crusoe Energy Systems provides oil and gas companies with a fast, low cost and simple solution to natural gas flaring. As the energy industrystruggles with pipeline constraints and increasing regulations around flaring and combusting, Crusoe is here to help. Their service lets operators preserve or regain regulatory compliance, maintain existing production and facilitate future development. | $3.9B / Series F / Sep 03, 2026 | ||
| David is a food-tech firm focused on creating high-protein, low-calorie, blood-sugar-friendly foods. It creates tools to build muscle and lose weight. | $250M / Series B / Sep 02, 2026 | ||
| See all 335 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Valor Equity Partners invest in?
Valor Equity Partners invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 335 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Valor Equity Partners invest in?
Valor Equity Partners typically joins rounds of $9.3M–$80M at Series A, $18M–$230M at Series B and $10M–$375M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Valor Equity Partners's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Valor Equity Partners took part in.
How do I contact Valor Equity Partners?
Public channels for Valor Equity Partners 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 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 13 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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