Valar Ventures
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Valar Ventures is a global venture capital firm known for backing high-growth technology startups, particularly in fintech and internet-enabled businesses outside Silicon Valley.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Valar Ventures canonical | 1 |
| Valar Ventures LP | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1186002 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Valar Ventures Context triple: [Peter Thiel, founded, Valar Ventures]
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A.
Madrona Venture Group
Madrona Venture Group is a Seattle-based venture capital firm known for investing in early-stage technology companies, particularly in the Pacific Northwest.
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B.
Thirty Five Ventures
Thirty Five Ventures is a business and investment firm co-founded by NBA star Kevin Durant that focuses on venture capital, media, and sports-related enterprises.
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C.
Vulcan Inc.
Vulcan Inc. is a private company founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen that manages his business, real estate, sports, and philanthropic ventures.
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D.
Mohr Davidow Ventures
Mohr Davidow Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm known for investing in early-stage technology and life sciences startups.
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E.
Zyvex
Zyvex is a pioneering nanotechnology company known for its early work in molecular nanotechnology and advanced manufacturing.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Valar Ventures Target entity description: Valar Ventures is a global venture capital firm known for backing high-growth technology startups, particularly in fintech and internet-enabled businesses outside Silicon Valley.
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A.
Madrona Venture Group
Madrona Venture Group is a Seattle-based venture capital firm known for investing in early-stage technology companies, particularly in the Pacific Northwest.
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B.
Thirty Five Ventures
Thirty Five Ventures is a business and investment firm co-founded by NBA star Kevin Durant that focuses on venture capital, media, and sports-related enterprises.
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C.
Vulcan Inc.
Vulcan Inc. is a private company founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen that manages his business, real estate, sports, and philanthropic ventures.
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D.
Mohr Davidow Ventures
Mohr Davidow Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm known for investing in early-stage technology and life sciences startups.
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E.
Zyvex
Zyvex is a pioneering nanotechnology company known for its early work in molecular nanotechnology and advanced manufacturing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
investment firm
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venture capital firm ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Valar Ventures
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surface form:
Valar Ventures LP
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| associatedWith | Peter Thiel ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
fintech startups
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internet-enabled businesses ⓘ technology startups ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Andrew McCormack
ⓘ
James Fitzgerald ⓘ Peter Thiel ⓘ |
| hasCoFounder |
Andrew McCormack
ⓘ
James Fitzgerald ⓘ Peter Thiel ⓘ |
| hasInvestmentTheme |
global fintech
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online financial services ⓘ software-as-a-service ⓘ |
| hasNotableExit |
N26 unicorn valuation
ⓘ
Wise IPO ⓘ Xero public listing ⓘ |
| industry |
private equity
ⓘ
venture capital ⓘ |
| investmentGeography |
global
ⓘ
outside Silicon Valley ⓘ |
| investmentStage |
early-stage
ⓘ
growth-stage ⓘ |
| knownFor |
backing fintech companies
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backing high-growth technology startups ⓘ investing outside traditional tech hubs ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early investment in N26
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early investment in Wise ⓘ early investment in Xero ⓘ |
| portfolioCompany |
Bitpanda
ⓘ
Clio ⓘ Lemonade ⓘ N26 ⓘ Petal ⓘ Qonto ⓘ Stash ⓘ Taxfix ⓘ Wise ⓘ Xero ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
consumer internet companies
ⓘ
financial technology companies ⓘ |
| strategy |
backing companies expanding internationally
ⓘ
supporting companies in under-served markets ⓘ |
| website | https://valar.com ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Valar Ventures Description of subject: Valar Ventures is a global venture capital firm known for backing high-growth technology startups, particularly in fintech and internet-enabled businesses outside Silicon Valley.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Valar Ventures LP