Valor Equity Partners

Valor Equity Partners is a Chicago-based growth investor that provides hands-on operational expertise to help growth companies scale across the United States. The firm partners with management teams to accelerate growth and transform markets through investments in technology and technology-enabled businesses, as well as consumer products, engineered products, and services. It supports early-stage, expansion-stage, and growth-stage companies with substantial capital to drive rapid growth, often targeting software, SaaS, manufacturing, and other high-growth sectors. Valor emphasizes long-term partnerships, disciplined performance improvement, and strategic transformations to help portfolio companies achieve sustainable competitive advantage in North America.

Will Baine

Principal of Investment Team

Neil Crumpton

Vice President of Human Capital Management

Quincy Darbyshire

Vice President

Philippe El Khazen

Principal

Julie Fisher

Managing Director

Alli Folk

Principal

Chandler Foster

Vice President Operations Team

Douglas Fumagalli

Vice President

Manuel Pantelias Garcés Ph.D

Principal

Antonio Gracias

Founder, Principal

Anna Gurevich

Vice President

Joseph Haslip

Managing Director

David Heskett

Principal

Sequoia Johnson

Associate

Theo Lederhausen

Principal

Solange Levy

Vice President

Christopher Murphy

Partner

Modit Ohri

Vice President

Vivek Pattipati

Partner

Juan Sabater JD

Managing Director

Bradley Sheftel

Partner

Jonathan Shulkin

Partner

Michael Soenen

Partner

Sam Teller

Partner

Timothy M. Watkins

Operating Partner

Anni Ylagan

Principal

Past deals in El Salvador

Galoy

Private Equity Round in 2022
Galoy is an open‑source Bitcoin banking platform that enables communities and institutions to provide financial services on Bitcoin. It offers a secure backend API, mobile wallets, point‑of‑sale applications, compliance tools, and administrative controls. The platform’s core ledger and bitcoin bridge support enterprise‑scale transaction management, while extensible modules accommodate fiat and frontier markets. A proof‑of‑concept implementation, the Bitcoin Beach Wallet, helped establish a circular Bitcoin economy that influenced El Salvador’s adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender.
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