Lisa Calhoun
Founding Managing Partner at Valor Ventures
Atlanta, Georgia
Overview
Work Experience
Founding Managing Partner
2015 - Current
I am the founder and managing partner of Valor Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm headquartered in Atlanta. We are investing out of our third fund.
Valor Ventures is a venture capital firm that prefers to invest in seed rounds.
Lead Seed Investor
2024
Autonoma is the leading AI/synthetic data platform for autonomous driving.
Lead Seed Investor
2023
Valor is lead investor at FirmPilot, a B2B SaaS AI platform that manages, monitors and optimizes customer acquisition online.
FirmPilot develops an AI-driven marketing engine designed for law firms.
Raised $9,000,000.00 from Connexa Capital, Blumberg Capital, DoubleVerify, SaaS Ventures, FJ Labs and Valor Ventures.
Lead Seed Investor
2022
Saile is the leading AI prospecting platform, using generative AI and each client's CRM-driven sales data to triple and quadruple sales.
Sailes is a sales enablement software that helps increase revenue opportunities.
Raised $8,449,999.00 from KCRise Fund, Tenzing.vc, Lewis & Clark Ventures, Acronym Venture Capital and Valor Ventures.
Seed Lead Investor / VC
2022
Valor is co-lead investor in STEMULI, an AI and augmented reality platform currently serving public schools in Texas, Maryland, and Georgia, backed by GoogleForStartups and other well known private organizations. STEMuli serves K-12 students with a leading analytics and AI optimized platform for personalized learning.
Stemuli combines education and career pathways into an AI-powered video game.
Raised $11,700,000.00 from Stride.
Lead Investor, Board Director
2021
Sho.AI is the leading generative AI brand management platform for enterprise.
SHO.AI is the world's most innovative brand management platform.
Raised $1,100,000.00 from Valor Ventures.
Lead Investor, Board Director
2023
Senteon is an early-stage, AI-augmented cybersecurity endpoint protection platform.
Senteon is a turnkey cybersecurity platform designed to empower those forgotten by large security corporations.
Lead Seed VC
2021
Allellca empowers the next generation of clinical genomics with an AI-engine focused on personalized treatment solutions, equipping health systems and clinical laboratories with cutting-edge tools to reduce the impact of chronic diseases through genomic medicine.
Allelica is a genomics software company driving the transition of Polygenic Risk Score from Genomic research to clinical application.
Raised $1,750,000.00 from Valor Ventures and Pi Campus.
Fellow, Class 23
2019
Kauffman Fellows are a hand picked group of the world’s leading investors.
Co-investment VC firm supporting the mission of the Kauffman Fellows
Investor, Board Observer
2017
With our seed investment in SmartCommerce, I joined the board as observer and am excited to continue this journey with founder and CEO Jennifer Silverberg. Her vision for the future of brands and commerce continues to compel today's biggest and most break-out brands to grow their businesses faster and more sustainably.
SmartCommerce develops a shopping cart platform to make digital advertisements.
Raised $29,511,081.00 from The Argentum Group, Mathers Associates, Valor Ventures and Run Capital Investment Fund.
Education
MBA
2000 - 2003
BA, summa cum laude
1990 - 1994