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Valo Ventures
Venture capital · San Francisco, CA, United States · North America
Valo Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies applying emerging technologies to problems in the physical world. It organizes its investing around three themes: digitization, decarbonization and adaptation.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningEducation
In its own wordsclimatedecarbonizationelectrificationenergycircular economyadaptation
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Or find every investor that fitsValo Ventures lists 24 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 1 funding round. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (21%), Education (19%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (14%). 82% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Aligned Climate Capital, Catalio Capital Management and Collaborative Fund.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Valo Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Valo Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 1 company; its own site lists 24. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 0% |
| Series A | 100% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 59th | 24 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 21th | 21% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 21% | 18% |
| Education | 19% | 7% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 14% | 7% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 7% | 15% |
| Climate & Energy | 7% | 1% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 5% | 1% |
| Human Resources | 5% | 1% |
| Enterprise Software | 5% | 8% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Aligned Climate Capital | 2 |
| Catalio Capital Management | 2 |
| Collaborative Fund | 2 |
| E14 Fund | 2 |
| Hemisphere Ventures | 2 |
| IndieBio | 2 |
| NEA | 2 |
| Next Frontier Capital | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers24100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Aligned Climate Capital
Compare Valo Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Valo Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 21 Oct 2026 | Series A |
Round details for Valo Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Valo Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
24 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company produces carbon fiber parts for various industries, including drones, aerospace, cycling, and consumer products. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Basecamp Research designs and develops therapeutic models and medicines using artificial intelligence | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| BioSqueeze is a biomineralization platform company that solves difficult subsurface problems through engineering the subsurface with a liquid delivery system that mineralizes in place. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Boston Materials delivers high-performance thermal interfaces necessary to unlock semiconductor scaling | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| BoxPower builds and operates utility-owned battery energy storage systems and renewable microgrids in the US, and provides software to plan them. | EducationHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Clever Carnivore creates cultivated meat at scale using cell samples from animals and controlled environments. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a platform for training and enabling frontline teams to execute consistently | EducationHuman Resources | Portfolio page | ||
| Equilibrium Energy builds and provides a unified power trading cockpit called Mission Control | EducationFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company is building a platform to make robots useful in the real world. | Robotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Granular Energy provides software for utilities and energy industry professionals to manage and trade clean energy products | EducationE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Inlyte Energy develops and manufactures iron-sodium batteries for various applications, including data centers, utilities, and commercial customers. | E-commerce & MarketplacesIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Landit provides one-to-one coaching and personalized pathing for employees | EducationHuman Resources | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Novoloop transforms plastic waste into performance materials, such as polyurethane, through chemical alteration and recycling processes. | Climate & EnergyIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Optera provides enterprise emissions management software | Enterprise SoftwareSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Optivolt designs and manufactures home solar systems with built-in intelligence | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Oct 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| The company delivers global GPS-RO weather data and AI insights to governments and businesses for forecast accuracy and confidence. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Simbe Robotics provides retail robotics and AI for inventory, pricing, and merchandising management | Robotics & HardwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| SINAI Technologies provides an enterprise carbon and energy management platform for companies to measure, report, and reduce their carbon footprint. | Climate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Steady Energy designs, constructs, and operates compact, advanced nuclear heating plants for carbon-free district heating in cities. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- valoventures.org
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 21 Oct 2026
- Companies checked
- 24
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