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. Learn more at valor.vc or follow the firm on LinkedIn.
Valor Ventures is a venture capital firm that prefers to invest in seed rounds.
Seed Lead Investor - Board Director
2025
As board director and lead seed investor at RueData, I support the CEO and leadership team in their North American expansion delivering AI-powered optimization for major fleets and logistics providers.
Seed Lead Investor
2025
Valor VC is proud to have led the seed round of Visalaw and serve on its board of directors.
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.
Seed Co-Lead Investor - Board Observer
2025
As investor and board observer with Goodfynd, I support the CEO and leadership team in expanding their offering across North America, with a particular emphasis on AI and go to market strategy. Valor co-led the initial round for Goodfynd in 2021 with Artemis Ventures.
The premier marketplace for mobile businesses
Raised $1,170,000.00 from Black Tech Nation Ventures, Aperture Venture Capital, The Artemis Fund, Valor Ventures and The Artemis Fund.
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
2025
Valor VC is proud to have led the seed round of Acuity Behavioral Health and serve on the company's board of directors.
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 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.
Education
MBA
2000 - 2003
BA, summa cum laude
1990 - 1994