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Valor Equity Partners

Venture Capital, Private Equity · Founded 2001 · Chicago, United States

Website ↗LinkedIn ↗Dealroom ↗

Operational growth investment firm for technology-enabled companies

207 portfolio companies Venture Capital, Private Equity · $57B invested · 309 investments · Investor rank #57 · Last investment 7/2026
Portfolio companies ↑ 97% 5y
207
Decacorns ↑ 17% 5y
7
Thoroughbreds ↑ 22% 5y
33
Exits

Valor Equity Partners’s biggest exits.

Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Valor Equity Partners’s transaction record.

SpaceX | xAI
$1.3T acquisition · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $1.6TSpace
Tesla
$1.7B IPO · 2010
Entered Series B+Now $1.4TEnergy
Astera Labs
$604M IPO · 2024
Entered Series B+Now $51BSemiconductors
Cerebras Systems
$40B IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $38BSemiconductors
SolarCity
$584M IPO · 2012
Entered Series B+Now $2.6BEnergy
BitGo
$2.1B IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $867MSecurity
Harmony Biosciences
$1.5B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $1.5BHealth
Yammer
$1.2B acquisition · 2012
Entered Series B+Enterprise Software
Portfolio analysis

Where Valor Equity Partners's portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 207 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA193
  2. Canada3
  3. India2
  4. Israel2
  5. Switzerland2
  6. Brazil1
  7. Germany1
  8. Japan1
  9. Nigeria1
  10. UK1
By sectorCount
  1. Enterprise Software37
  2. Food31
  3. Fintech30
  4. Security24
  5. Health21
  6. Energy17
  7. Semiconductors15
  8. Transportation14
  9. Robotics13
  10. Media8
  11. Marketing6
  12. Real Estate6
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+86
  2. Series A77
  3. Seed44
By growth stageCount
  1. Late Growth101
  2. Breakout Stage72
  3. Early Growth34
Portfolio market map

Inside Valor Equity Partners's portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 207 tracked.

xAI
Enterprise Software · Centicorn
$250B
Anduril
Security · Decacorn
$61B
SpaceX | xAI
Space · Gigacorn
$1.6T
Gopuff
Food · Unicorn
$8.5B
Cerebras Systems
Semiconductors · Decacorn
$38B
Crusoe
Energy · Decacorn
$10B
Redwood Materials
Energy · Unicorn
$6.0B
Zipline
Robotics · Unicorn
$7.6B
Neuralink
Health · Unicorn
$9.7B
Base Power
Energy · Unicorn
$3.0B
Bird
Transportation
Dataminr
Security · Unicorn
$4.1B
Impulse Space
Space · Unicorn
$4.3B
Sonder
Travel · Unicorn
$1.2B
Chaos Industries
Security · Unicorn
$4.5B
The Boring Company
Real Estate · Unicorn
$7.0B
Addepar
Fintech · Unicorn
$3.3B
Coalition
Security · Unicorn
$5.0B
BlueVoyant
Security · Unicorn
$1.3B
NewLimit
Health · Unicorn
$3.1B
Misfits Market
Food · Unicorn
$2.0B
WEKA
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.6B
Decart
Media · Unicorn
$4.0B
Fair
Transportation
$19M
Lilac Solutions
Energy
$137M
K Health
Health
$900M
SolarCity
Energy · Unicorn
$2.6B
Quora
Media · Unicorn
$2.0B
Bedrock Robotics
Robotics · Unicorn
$1.8B
Electra
Energy
$744M
Zap Energy
Energy
$520M
Harmony Biosciences
Health · Unicorn
$1.5B
Quantifind
Security
$800M
Eight Sleep
Health · Unicorn
$1.5B
Alto Neuroscience
Health
$830M
Carbyne
Security
$400M
Positron
Semiconductors · Unicorn
$1.0B
Nile Secure
Telecom
$700M
Mythic
Semiconductors
$500M
Castle Creek Biosciences
Health
$220M
Emalex Biosciences
Health
$700M
QuEra Computing
Semiconductors
$920M
Quantum Machines
Semiconductors
$700M
AMP Robotics
Energy
$364M
Nirvana Insurance
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.5B
Fundamental
Enterprise Software
$120M
Atmosphere TV
Media · Unicorn
$1.0B
ProteanTecs
Semiconductors
$204M
Enfabrica
Semiconductors
$460M
Tesla
Energy · Gigacorn
$1.4T
Loyal
Health
$400M
Republic
Fintech
$600M
Astera Labs
Semiconductors · Decacorn
$51B
Cameo
Media
$100M
Heron Power
Energy
$560M
Zeitview
Robotics
$240M
Defense Unicorns
Security · Unicorn
$1.0B
BitGo
Security
$867M
The Farmer's Dog
Food
$260M
AgentSync
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.2B
Portfolio founders

Where Valor Equity Partners's portfolio founders come from.

197 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount
  1. United States170
  2. Israel15
  3. Canada5
  4. United Kingdom2
  5. Italy1
  6. Mexico1
  7. Netherlands1
  8. Singapore1
UniversityCount
  1. Stanford University17
  2. Harvard University8
  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology8
  4. Technion Israel Institute of Technology8
  5. University of California, Berkeley8
  6. Duke University5
  7. Tel Aviv University5
  8. University of Southern California5
  9. Yale University5
  10. Carnegie Mellon University4
Previous companyCount
  1. Alphabet | Google10
  2. Microsoft9
  3. IBM6
  4. Intel Corporation6
  5. McKinsey & Company5
  6. Modesat5
  7. Intel NAND Memory Unit4
  8. Mellanox Technologies4
  9. Active Network3
  10. AMD Ventures3
How Valor Equity Partners stacks up

Similar investors.

Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.

Y Combinator
Accelerator · San Francisco
#64 rank 7,063 companies $1.9T portfolio
Founders Fund
Venture Capital · San Francisco
#49 rank 611 companies $7.3T portfolio
Alumni Ventures
Venture Capital · Manchester
#186 rank 799 companies $201B portfolio
Bpifrance
Sovereign Wealth Fund · Maisons-Alfort
#92 rank 1,360 companies $167B portfolio
Gaingels
Venture Capital · Burlington
#182 rank 661 companies $168B portfolio
Khosla Ventures
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#53 rank 852 companies $1.9T portfolio
Andreessen Horowitz
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#2 rank 1,186 companies $4.6T portfolio
Sequoia
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#3 rank 1,918 companies $23T portfolio
Key people

Key people at Valor Equity Partners.

Vivek Pattipati
Vivek Pattipati
Partner
 Anni Ylagan
Anni Ylagan
Director
 Brian King
Brian King
Partner
Source: Dealroom next-gen API — investor team endpoint.
Every figure on this page is sourced live from the Dealroom next-gen API. Sections v1 shows that the API does not yet expose — shareholding-based holdings, Power-Law rankings & vintage time-series, entity-filtered news, and market sentiment — are omitted here rather than sourced elsewhere.