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Valo Ventures

About

We’re drawn to the line where creative entrepreneurs and emerging technologies intersect with social, economic, and environmental trends.

Why? Because we believe that today’s innovative companies will determine the quality of life for our kids and future generations. We're looking for mission-driven entrepreneurs who believe that purpose and profit go together naturally.

What Matters To Us

  • Climate Change: Monitoring, adapting to, and mitigating the effects of climate change to improve economic resiliency and the quality of life for future generations.
  • Circular Economy: Improving resource efficiency, advancing materials, designing for recycling, reimagining “waste” as a resource, and regenerating natural systems to create abundance from perceived scarcity.
  • Empowered People: Creating personalized, transparent, frictionless products and services that empower people and align with their values.

Our thing

  • We prefer people over algorithms.
  • We expect innovative companies to come from anywhere.
  • We believe that technology should serve us and make life easier.
  • We seek entrepreneurs, partners, and investors who unite purpose with profits.
  • We see diversity as a source of resilience and insight.

Your thing

  • You expect a partner you can trust.
  • You appreciate hands-on experience balancing growth with governance.
  • You believe a partnership is defined by listening and collaboration.
  • You seek a partner who regards your time as your most valuable asset.

We are optimists

We are keenly aware of the challenges facing future generations, yet we remain confident in the creativity of startups, the application of emerging technologies, and the increasing dynamism of global markets.

We are a group of entrepreneurs, corporate advisors, board members and investors who offer our partners access to a global network, decades of experience growing businesses, and a track record of successful investing.

We discover: We find creative entrepreneurs applying digital and cloud-scale technologies to solve well-defined problems in the physical world. Our ideal investments are venture- and growth-stage companies that are driven by purpose and profit, while being committed to long-term environmental, social, and corporate governance values.

We invest: We find alignment with entrepreneurs who seek a thought partner as they build their business and welcome strategic insights based on our collaboration with corporate LPs. We invest with our whole selves, offering the accumulation of our life experiences, business acumen, and deep understanding of technology to our partners.

We regenerate: Our investments support companies forging a bold path to a regenerative economy - one in which the end condition is better than the original state. We back businesses that develop people and global capacity while respecting natural resources and restoring - not depleting - the environment. And as collaborative investors, we honor the trust our limited partners place in us by working to multiply their capital.

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