Antonio Gracias

About Antonio Gracias

Antonio Gracias is the founder and CEO of Chicago-based growth equity firm Valor Equity Partners, which has $16 billion in gross assets.

In 1995, Gracias was in law school at the University of Chicago when he founded Valor's predecessor, MG Capital.

A major Musk loyalist, Gracias met Musk through a mutual friend around 2000; Valor became one of Tesla's first institutional investors in 2005.

Much of Gracias? wealth comes from his shares of Tesla, where he served as a director from 2007 to 2021.

He's known for operationally-involved investing, even sleeping on Tesla's factory floor to work through manufacturing and supply chain issues.