Valesco Ventures

Valesco Ventures is a venture capital and go-to-market advisory firm founded in 2016 by Thorsten Freitag and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with a European presence in Berg, Germany. The firm has a distinctive model that combines capital investment with hands-on operating management, advisory and joint ventures, anchored by a singular focus on sales execution. Rather than acting as a passive investor, Valesco's team of operating partners builds and manages portfolio companies' international sales teams and constructs the go-to-market 'engine' that carries B2B technology and enterprise software companies through their startup, scale and growth phases, helping them accelerate growth, win Fortune Global 1000 customers and establish market leadership, generally as a co-investor. The firm's edge stems directly from founder Thorsten Freitag's career scaling field-sales organizations at leading global IT vendors during periods of hyper-growth: as an executive officer and executive vice president at Infoblox he helped grow the company at roughly a 40% CAGR to $96 million per quarter, and he previously served as Vice President EMEA at Check Point Software Technologies. Valesco operates a lean team of around seven to eight people and complements its investing with leadership development and sales-team optimization services. It should not be confused with Valesco Industries, a separate Dallas-based lower-middle-market private equity firm. By pairing capital with hands-on sales execution and go-to-market building, Valesco Ventures backs B2B technology and enterprise-software companies and helps them scale internationally and win large enterprise customers.