Valley Capital Partners is an early stage venture capital firm investing across the Midwest and Silicon Valley at Series A in sectors such as AI/ML, biotech, blockchain, cybersecurity, enterprise, and robotics. We are defined by our focused approach to identifying early but promising data driven deep tech companies. Our engagement focuses on partnering with founders to provide capital, access to strategic investment networks, and talent to build strong foundations for growth that allow our founders to meet the high standards required to raise capital from the biggest funds in the world. The firm is led by partners who are former operators and entrepreneurs and experienced investors with decades of experience and relationships with the leading growth venture capital funds, and our limited partners include notable family offices, individuals, and institutions across Silicon Valley and the United States.
Employees: 1-10
Founded date: 2013
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A
Portfolio 2
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 09.06.2026 | Upriver | upriver.ai | $14M | United Sta... |
| 01.06.2023 | Beehive | beehive.ai | $5.1M | United Sta... |
Persons 1
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| - | Steve | O'Hara | Co-Founder... | linkedin.c... | - | - |
Mentions in press and media 3
| Date | Title | Description |
| 16.06.2026 | AI's Data Dilemma: Upriver Secures $14M to Automate Foundation for Enterprise Intelligence | Upriver secured $14M in seed funding to automate enterprise data engineering for AI success. Its AI-native platform connects to an organization's full data stack. It autonomously resolves data quality issues. It maintains complex data pipel... |
| 09.06.2026 | Upriver Raises $14M in Seed Funding | Upriver, a San Francisco, CA-based AI-native data engineering platform provider, raised $14m in seed funding. The round was led by Valley Capital Partners and Hetz Ventures. The company intends to use the funds to expand both its engineerin... |
| 28.05.2026 | Tensormesh: $20 Million Raised To Scale KV Caching Infrastructure For Enterprise AI Inference | Tensormesh announced $20 million in new funding from investors including AMD’s AMD Ventures, CoreWeave, NVIDIA’s NVentures, Valley Capital Partners, and Laude Ventures, extending its seed round and bringing total funding to $24.5 million. A... |