March 23, 2020
Coronavirus–A Catalyst for Seed-Stage Venture Capital?
The coronavirus is catalyzing a perfect opportuity for seed stage venture capital--here's are several reasons…
March 15, 2020
How Valor’s Responding to Coronavirus
We're working hard on a healthy, prosperous and positive 2020. Our focus and our inspiration…
February 10, 2020
Validating Diverse Startups and Financial Outperformance
Definitive Kauffman study across 20,000 startups and 10 years of data shows diverse founding teams…
December 2, 2019
Building Your Private Company Board
Startups scale at the speed of the founder's learning and growth. Nothing will impact your…
November 24, 2019
Why Smart Investors and Founders Use the “Inclusion Premium”
Inclusion is one of the risk factors controllable by investors--especially in venture capital. Now's the…
October 4, 2019
How Valor Invests and Our Venture Capital Diligence Process
Here are highlights from Valor’s venture capital diligence process. We are sharing this because we…
September 19, 2019
New Faces Drive Innovation
The vacuum in first institutional rounds is unsustainable for our financial markets. All three of…
August 7, 2019
Why Atlanta Is The Next Emerging Seed Capital Hub
by Michael Pellegrino, Junior Analyst (and student at Vanderbilt) Atlanta is a VC diamond in…
March 11, 2019
Helping Under-represented Founders Reach Investors
I know pitching can be an amorphous process for under-represented founders--which is why I'm sharing…
November 9, 2018
Growing the Inclusive Innovation Ecosystem
Together, and only together, can we bring in the bold harvest of better innovation. It's right…