Transforming financial services by
investing in the most ambitious founders.

Valley Bank was founded in 1927 with a commitment to empowering the communities it serves to achieve financial success. More than 95 years later, as one of the top 30 largest commercial banks in the United States, Valley created Valley Ventures to fuel the next generation of financial services.

Our strategic investments align Valley with innovative founders to create outcomes that benefit not only our customers, but the financial ecosystem at large.

Our team combines the scale and scope of Valley Bank with venture expertise and operator experience, to create the winning formula to help companies succeed.

We seek to invest in companies that are tackling big problems in three verticals:

 

Fintech

  

 

Proptech

    

 

Enterprise

    

 

Within these sectors we target businesses that are:

• Started by ambitious founders

• Raising a series B round or later

• Capital efficient and software-driven

• Focused on large-scale opportunities

• Operating in the US, or with plans to be

Valley Ventures offers more than just capital. We invest where we can add value:

 

Security

 

• Backed by a full-service nationally-chartered bank with over $57 billion in assets

• 1 million customers concentrated in attractive geographies

• A full suite of commercial and consumer financial solutions, including venture debt and fund banking

• Strong and efficient balance sheets and diversified deposit base

 

Expertise 

   

• Deep industry expertise

• First-hand experience building and shipping product

• Complementary to traditional venture capital firms

• Collaborative with many other corporates and CVCs

• Fluency with the most acute pain points in financial services

 

Innovation 

 

• A large bank, with small-bank agility

• Experienced in commercializing new solutions within a bank

• Start-up friendly

• Focused on creating value—not extracting it