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.
Top Stages
Past deals in Language Processing
ElevenLabs
Series C in 2025
ElevenLabs specializes in developing AI audio technology for creating realistic speech. Its platform integrates advanced text-to-speech technology, voice cloning, and multilingual support to dub videos and podcasts into other languages, enhancing accessibility and engaging global audiences.
Fastino
Pre Seed Round in 2024
Fastino specializes in developing high-performance, task-optimized language models for enterprise AI developers. Their large language model (LLM) is designed to efficiently and accurately handle a range of data tasks, including structuring, summarization, planning, and sensitive information management. By offering near-instant inference, Fastino helps businesses enhance operational efficiency and process data at scale.
Ragie AI
Seed Round in 2024
Ragie AI specializes in automating and streamlining the ingestion, processing, and retrieval of structured and unstructured data, providing businesses with AI-driven tools to enhance their data workflows. Their platform allows users to effortlessly sync data from various sources, chunk and index it for efficient retrieval, and integrate seamlessly into existing systems, all while leveraging advanced language models for accurate results.
Extropic AI
Seed Round in 2023
Extropic AI is a startup developing a specialized chip designed to efficiently run large language models (LLMs). Their platform reduces electricity consumption for AI models, enhancing sustainability and enabling automation of coding tasks.
Fastino
Fastino specializes in developing high-performance, task-optimized language models for enterprise AI developers. Their large language model (LLM) is designed to efficiently and accurately handle a range of data tasks, including structuring, summarization, planning, and sensitive information management. By offering near-instant inference, Fastino helps businesses enhance operational efficiency and process data at scale.
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