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      Passoni Paulo

      Passoni Paulo

      Managing Partner - Growth Equity

      Valor Capital

      Paulo Passoni is a Managing Partner at Valor Capital Group, where he leads the firm's Growth Equity business. An investor with more than 16 years of experience, he focuses on growth equity and special situations, having deployed capital across technology, public and private equities, private and public credit, infrastructure, and real estate.

      Before joining Valor in August 2023, Paulo was Managing Investment Partner of SoftBank's Latin America Funds (~$8B AUM), where he helped scale the team from 7 to 60 professionals and backed category leaders including Quinto Andar, VTEX, Creditas, Olist, Afya, Madeira Madeira, Unico, and Pet Love. Earlier, he led Emerging Markets investments as a Managing Director at Third Point and helped build the Latin America special situations effort at Eton Park. He began his career in M&A at Morgan Stanley in Brazil.

      Paulo earned a joint MBA/MPA from Harvard Business School (Baker Scholar) and the Harvard Kennedy School, and an undergraduate degree in business and finance from FGV in São Paulo. He serves on the board of the Latin American Leadership Academy (LALA) and is based in New York.

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