The partnership.

Dawid Łoza

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Dawid co-founded Valenor Capital in 2016 and leads the firm's investment strategy and partnership. Over two decades he has moved between building companies and backing them: before Valenor he founded and scaled a European enterprise-software business through international expansion and a strategic exit, then spent years investing in early-stage technology across Central Europe. He is known among founders for a direct, operator's style of board work — fewer slides, more decisions — and for staying on boards through the hardest chapters, not just the celebrated ones. Dawid splits his time between Warsaw and London and leads Valenor's AI, enterprise software and infrastructure practice.

Career highlights

Founded and exited a European enterprise-software company; 20+ investments led; three companies taken from seed to $100M+ revenue

Investment expertise

Enterprise software, applied AI, infrastructure, B2B marketplaces

Education

M.Sc. in Economics, Warsaw School of Economics; executive programmes at INSEAD

Board memberships

Aurelia Systems, Northgrid, Vantage Ledger, Quill & Query

Areas of focus

AI & enterprise software · Central & Northern Europe · founder-led growth

Elena Varga

General Partner

Elena leads Valenor's healthcare and deep-tech practice. A computational biologist by training, she spent a decade in translational research and biotech operations before moving to investing, and has since led Valenor's positions in computational drug discovery, diagnostics and clinical software. Founders value her ability to referee genuinely hard technical questions — and her insistence that great science still has to become a great business.

Career highlights

Led 12 healthcare and deep-tech investments; former VP Operations at a NASDAQ-listed biotech; published researcher in computational biology

Investment expertise

Computational biology, diagnostics, clinical software, industrial deep tech

Education

Ph.D. in Computational Biology, ETH Zürich; B.Sc., Jagiellonian University

Board memberships

Helix Bio, Clara Health, Lumen Diagnostics, Ferrostat

Areas of focus

Healthcare innovation · deep tech · regulated markets

Marcus Whitfield

Partner & Head of Platform

Marcus runs Valenor's operating platform from New York — the talent, go-to-market and capital-markets machinery behind every portfolio company. He previously led revenue organisations at two enterprise-software companies through IPO, and built his first go-to-market team with eleven people and a whiteboard. His mandate at Valenor is simple: make the firm's network usable, measurable and available to founders on their timetable.

Career highlights

Two IPOs as revenue leader; built GTM organisations from 10 to 400 people; 128 executive placements into the Valenor portfolio

Investment expertise

Go-to-market, executive talent, capital markets readiness

Education

B.A. in Economics, University of Pennsylvania

Board memberships

Oakline, Bastion Pay (to exit), Meridian Compute

Areas of focus

Founder success · executive talent · transatlantic scaling