Valor Capital Group

Investment decisions are led by a six-person Managing Partner group. The group includes Founding Partners Scott Sobel and Clifford Sobel alongside Managing Partners Paulo Passoni, Antoine Colaço, Michael Nicklas, and Carlos Costa.

Valor’s cross-border structure provides a distinct sourcing advantage. With investment teams in New York and São Paulo, the firm identifies US-based companies seeking Latin American expansion and Latin American startups needing US growth capital, creating a bilateral pipeline that regional domestic funds cannot replicate.

Valor invests from seed and start-up stage through expansion, late-stage, and growth equity. The firm describes its strategy as partnering with founders from start-up to scale-up, bridging early-stage venture and later growth capital within the same platform.

The firm concentrates on FinTech and enterprise software as its primary verticals, with additional portfolio exposure to proptech and energy transition. Its website highlights renewable-energy financing platform Solfácil and fitness-tech company Wellhub as representative investments.

Valor operates from two offices: its headquarters at 10 East 53rd Street in New York City and a São Paulo office on Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Lima in the Itaim Bibi district. These locations anchor the firm’s US-Latin America bridging strategy.

Valor is structured as a venture capital firm, not a family office. It was founded by Clifford Sobel and Scott Sobel, raises external capital, and lists multiple Managing Partners, Venture Partners, and institutional board members such as Dan Schulman and Raymond Chambers.

The firm states its portfolio companies have attracted more than $13 billion in follow-on capital from co-investors and subsequent funding rounds (per the firm, undated). Valor does not publicly disclose its own total assets under management.