Valor Capital

Extracted Attributes

• Name

  Valor Capital Group

• Type

  Cross-border venture fund

• Founded

  2011

• Operations

  Brazil

• Headquarters

  New York, USA

• Geographic Focus

  US, Brazil, Latin America

• Investment Focus

  AI

Timeline

• Valor Capital Group was founded by Clifford M. Sobel and Scott Sobel. (Source: Web Search Results)

  2011

• Scott Sobel participated in a roundtable discussion at the White House with finance ministers from across the Western Hemisphere. (Source: Web Search Results)

  YYYY-07-XX

• Antonio Gracias of Valor Capital attended the F1 Miami event, where discussions on the economy and technology, including AI tokens and market dynamics, took place. (Source: Related Documents)

  2023-05-XX

Clifford M. Sobel

Clifford Michael Sobel (born 1949) is an American business executive, financier, Republican fundraiser, U.S. diplomat and former ambassador. He served as United States Ambassador to the Netherlands from 2001 to 2005 and United States Ambassador to Brazil from 2006 to 2009. Since 1994, Sobel has been chairman and chief executive officer of SJJ Investment Corp. He is managing partner and founder of the investment firm Valor Capital Group in New York and Brazil. Sobel is the independent director of Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc.

Web Search Results

• Valor Equity Partners - Investment Firms - GrowthCap

  Founded by Antonio Gracias, Valor Equity Partners deploys its Operational Growth investment strategy focused on identifying, investing in, and operationally supporting companies transforming their industries. Valor seeks to identify and select high-growth, pro-entropic companies where the transition to a technology-enabled economy is an important accelerant. As of December 31, 2024, Valor actively manages approximately $26.0 billion of capital, an increase of approximately $19.0 billion over [...] Below is a list of Valor’s concentrated positions (over $75 million of invested capital), listed in alphabetical order: Anduril:Initially invested in July 2020 Anduril is a product-oriented security technology company that leverages advanced commercial hardware and software for defensive and national security purposes. Castle Creek Biosciences:Initially invested in October 2018 [...] Please reference Valor’s website for further details on all members of Valor’s senior team. #### Funds Raised Over the last ten years, Valor has raised approximately $10.0 billion in growth and venture fund capital.

• Scott Sobel - Valor Capital Group | Driving Local Innovation

  Scott Sobel, Co-founder & Managing Partner of Valor Capital Group, the pioneer cross border venture fund bridging the U.S., Brazil, and Latin America technology markets, was part of the founding team of the pioneer Internet Telephony company Net2Phone; Scott helped take the company from a piece of software that was first to bridge the PC and the Public Switch Telephony Network to acquiring millions of users, generating over $200M in revenue, an IPO (1999) and the strategic sale of the company [...] Scott has primarily lived and worked in the emerging markets (China, India, and Brazil) for the past decade, is a passionate surfer, and practices Jiu Jitsu. logo ###### Contact us Interested in learning more about Valor Capital or have a venture you’d like to discuss? ###### Follow us LInkedin X ©2020 VALOR CAPITAL GROUP, All rights reserved. [...] logo thumbnail photo #### Scott Sobel Founding Partner ##### New York

• Valor Capital Group | Driving Local Innovation

  ### Founded on Ambassadorship, Fueled by Experts Valor was founded in 2011 by Clifford M. Sobel, former U.S. Ambassador to Brazil and Scott Sobel, a successful entrepreneur and technologist, to further bridge two great regions within the technology and growth sectors. [...] logo loading logo ###### Contact us Interested in learning more about Valor Capital or have a venture you’d like to discuss? ###### Follow us LInkedin X ©2020 VALOR CAPITAL GROUP, All rights reserved. # Using Global Insights to Drive Local Innovation # We are the pioneer cross-border venture fund bridging the US, Latin American and Global technology markets ## Experienced Investors Specializing in Fintech and Enterprise Software [...] This past July, our Founding Partner, Scott Sobel, was among a select group of participants in a roundtable discussion at the White House with finance ministers from across the Western Hemisphere. Recurring meetings on this topic are being hosted by Partners for Growth and organized by IDB Lab and Uruguay Innovation Hub, marking a significant step forward in the commitment to support Latin America’s burgeoning entrepreneurial landscape.

• Companies - Valor Capital Group | Driving Local Innovation

  CloudWalk is a global financial services platform whose main mission is to revolutionize how small to medium-sized enterprises manage money. As the owner of the InfinitePay brand, the company has been operating since 2019, offering products based on blockchain technology, such as digital banking, loans, cashback cards, online sales, digital wallets, and card machines. It has over 1 million customers in more than 5,500 Brazilian cities. In 2023, it surpassed $300 million in annual recurring [...] The Hive Brazil is an investment firm focused on Big Data companies with presence in Brazil, India and Hq’s in Silicon Valley, and Partner of Valor Capital Group, an NY based firm specialized in growth equity deals. The Hive Brazil aims to incubate, fund and launch data driven businesses. Udacity Acqiuired by Accenture Acqiuired by Accenture Image 112: Udacitylogo ### Udacity Mountain View, USAudacity.com [...] Circle is a global fintech and crypto company that enables businesses of all sizes to harness the power of stablecoins and public blockchains for payments, commerce and financial applications worldwide. Circle is also the creator of USDC, a stablecoin pegged 1:1 to US dollars with more than $20B in market cap that empowers Circle's platform to offer a best in class product suite for consumer and corporate clients with the end goal to bridge the gap between crypto and the fiat world. Cloudwalk

• Team - Valor Capital Group | Driving Local Innovation

  logo # Founded on Ambassadorship, Fueled by Experts We are are a team of seasoned operators, entrepreneurs, and technologists with decades of experience building and leading global companies throughout the major tech hubs of New York, Silicon Valley, Mexico City, and São Paulo. ## Investment Team thumbnail photo #### Scott Sobel Founding Partner thumbnail photo #### Amb. Clifford Sobel Founding Partner thumbnail photo #### Dan Schulman Managing Partner thumbnail photo [...] #### Paulo Passoni Managing Partner thumbnail photo #### Antoine Colaço Managing Partner thumbnail photo #### Michael Nicklas Managing Partner thumbnail photo #### Carlos Costa Managing Partner thumbnail photo #### Doug Smith Partner & CFO thumbnail photo #### Bruno Batavia Principal & Director of Emerging Tech thumbnail photo #### Ana Coutinho Principal thumbnail photo #### José Noblecilla Head of Tech & AI thumbnail photo #### Laura Pettinelli [...] Head of Capital Formation thumbnail photo #### Lana Brandão VP - Head of People and Culture thumbnail photo #### Marc Luongo VP - Controller thumbnail photo #### Felipe Mendes VP and Director of Finance Brazil thumbnail photo #### Paula Favaro Invesment Senior Associate thumbnail photo #### Bernardo Rocha Investment Senior Associate thumbnail photo #### Fabiana Scionti Investment Senior Associate thumbnail photo #### Gabriel Rosenthal Gil Investment Senior Associate