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Valor Capital Group, LLC.

Valor Capital Group, LLC is an investment firm focused on Brazilian and US/International cross-border opportunities with a presence in
New York, Menlo Park & São Paulo. The firm operates across two investment strategies: Growth Equity and Venture Capital

THE OPPORTUNITY

Brazil represents a Increasingly important Burgeoning middle class Fast-growing internet Explosive adoption
actor on the global with strong cultural and mobile user bases of US online consumer
high growth market
economic stage proximity to the US • Number of internet and behavior
for online consumer • 14M new consumers mobile users in Brazil grew • Brazil ranked #2 in
• 7th largest economy
and enterprise entered the market between by 15% and 79% to 107M Facebook and Twitter
in the world by GDP
solutions 2010-2014. and 284M respectively from users globally.
• Highest consumption
• Brazilian middle class ’13-’15. Smartphone • Most time spent online
per capita across all currently accounts for 56% of penetration expected to in any LatAm country
of the BRICS. the population (115M). reach 33% by 2017. (27 hours per month).

WHY VALOR?

Cross-Border Strategy Best-in-Class Platform Experienced Team


Differentiated local and cross- Deep strategic relationships both Strong focus on portfolio engagement and market
in the US & Brazil access
border strategy triangulating New
• Network of market leading strategics
• Valor team comprised of operationally focused
York, Silicon Valley and Brazil operating across different industry verticals
investment professionals and access-driven senior
• Invest in Brazilian entrepreneurs enhances ability to validate opportunities and
partnership team.
creating innovative and successful accelerate portfolio company growth.
• Partnerships with Abril (Media), DGB • Advisory Board includes former President of Brazil’s
businesses. Central Bank, former head of FB & Google in LATAM,
(Logistics), Somos Educacao (Education), Grupo
• Carry out cross-border migrations, VR (Payments), Brasif (Retail), and Qualicorp head of Paypal LATAM, MD of Qiming Venture
into and out of Brazil. (Healthcare) are central to this strategy. Partners, and CEO of Barclays Bank, amongst others.

Valor Venture Fund I LP


Valor Venture Fund I, L.P. is an early stage venture fund focused on Brazilian and foreign consumer and enterprise internet companies and software
based businesses. Diversified across stage and sector; target equity check size of $1 to $5M, including follow-on investments. Valor proactively maps US
and Global Technology markets to Brazil, investing in entrepreneurs / companies that we believe will win in market.

• 70% Brazil Early Stage Investment thesis: technology solutions targeting the sectors that

24 Portfolio
Companies*
• 30% US International Expansion Stage
(Geo-arbitrage and local M&A exits realized)
benefit the large and growing “technical” middle class and sectors
of large fragmentation and inefficiencies

KEY VERTICALS

Edtech Health & Wellness Fintech Logistics


• Market size of $15.8B • Market size of $260B • Payment Market size of $202B • Market size of $160B
• 3rd Largest Globally after • 18,200 gyms in Brazil, • Bitcoin Opportunity - • Projected growth of 20% per
the US and India 2nd most in the world $200B worldwide market year over the next 3 years

TEAM

Investment Scott Sobel Antoine Colaco Michael Nicklas Doug Smith


VP, NCR Emerging COO for Google in CTO Univision VP, Wesray
Team
Markets; founding team LatAm & APAC. MD, Ideiasnet Capital
Net2Phone

Amb. Cliff Sobel Raymond Chambers Gabriel Jaramilo Willem Kooyer


Senior Former US Founder of Wesray Former President, Founder of
Partnership Ambassador to Brazil Capital Santander Brazil Blenheim Capital
Group
*Excludes exit of portfolio company to public Brazilian Company. Valor Capital Group, LLC - January 2016
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