Valent

What it does

Valent is building the agentic platform that will turn Western manufacturers into the next generation of industrial leaders. Starting with the defense industrial base, Valent provides the ground truth evidence layer that helps manufacturers win contracts, enter new markets, and ramp production, laying the foundation for an industry of AI-native factories. In just 6 weeks they scaled to $180k annualized revenue, built a pipeline of $5M across industrial segments that are notoriously hard to penetrate, and hired an ex-Meta engineer to support expansion. CEO Felix Zerbib is an industrial engineer who rebuilt supply chain ops for some of the worlds largest critical minerals companies. CTO Beni Shafer-Sull is a former founder and Bridgewater investor who led a $20B hedge fund portfolio centered on Asia with a deep focus around US-China trade policy and supply chain dynamics.