Early Investments in Exceptional People
Since 1997, our partners have been investing into exceptional people building emerging technologies across Silicon Valley.
More than just early stage capital, we are company builders.
Our Approach
Focused Service for World Class Founders
The best founders in the world have optionality at every financing round from who they want to raise capital from, from inception to IPO.
At Valley Capital Partners, we have a firm culture committed to exceptional service to founders. Founded by a former Kleiner Perkins EIR, our roots are in company building in Silicon Valley, and from our first diligence call our goal is focused, long term partnership with the truly exceptional.
We are not indexers of the private markets. In each fund, we seek to write 8-12 strong checks, allowing our team to lean in hard on each investment and provide extraordinary access to our LPs, some of the most exceptional technology investors and financiers in the world for whom we are their earliest, highest concentration capital to founders.
Meaningful Relationships. Extraordinary Results.
Domains
While we have a flexible mandate to back the best founders referred to us at their earliest stages of growth, our team, advisors, and networks are primarily staffed to support founders building technology solutions focused on early enterprise adoption.
What we are
- Exceptional focus solely on Seed and Series A, only writing a handful of meaningful checks a year
- Focus on helping founders build the foundations for rapid growth. Hands on, focused on good corporate governance, recruiting and retaining world class talent, and exceptional access to early enterprise adopters around the world
- Long term capital partners, focused on growing alongside our founders and bringing them access to our exceptionally active LPs
- Patient capital, focused on long term compounding results over early secondary exits
What we are not
- Managers of massive amounts of follow on capital designed solely for indexing the private markets at later stages
- Hands off investors who write a large number of checks to hundreds of companies
- A scaled startup incubator or accelerator requiring substantial ownership for small upfront check sizes
- Follow on investors who can’t quickly lead and come to mutual understanding on terms with our founders