Company · Finance · Venture Capital · founded 1995
Valor Equity Partners
Chicago growth equity firm run by Antonio Gracias. Forbes traces it to his MG Capital, started in 1995; it was an early institutional investor in Tesla and has backed SpaceX since about 2008.
Of the 1 person here linked to Valor Equity Partners, 1 is a founder and 1 is still there. 1 of them also appear at Goldman Sachs. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
Description and founding year: forbes.com. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.
1 person at Valor Equity Partners
Founder Still there
Role
Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer, 1995–now
Also at
Source
· high confidence. Forbes lists him as founder, CEO and CIO in a bio last updated September 15, 2026, and says he started the predecessor MG Capital in 1995. Forbes's 2024 article says 2001 for Valor itself.
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Antonio Gracias
Founder, CEO and chief investment officer of Valor Equity Partners; early Tesla investor and board member, SpaceX director
upper-middle class (inferred) · well-connected · graduate degree
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