About Eton Venture Services
Eton is the gold standard in business valuation services since 2010. Trusted by top companies, VC/PE, legal teams, accountants & high-net worth individuals
Our History
Since our founding in 2010, we have delivered more than 3,000 independent, audit-defensible valuations and advisory engagements in a timely manner and at a reasonable cost. Our highly skilled professionals have collectively over 150 years of experience providing valuation and advisory services to companies, investors, and high-net worth individuals around the world.
How can Eton help?
Elevate your valuation experience with Eton Venture Services, the preferred partner for private companies, investment firms, and their advisors. We recognize the power of personalized service and expert guidance in valuation and related matters. Our exceptional customer service and dedicated team of professionals, including lawyers, accountants, and Chartered Financial Analysts, deliver a comprehensive suite of services, including Tax Compliance Valuation, Financial Reporting Compliance, and Transaction Advisory. Trust in Eton's industry-leading expertise to provide informed solutions and exceed your expectations. Choose Eton for a client-focused approach that sets the industry standard.
Our experienced team maintains memberships in prominent valuation and advisory organizations, including:
Our Core Values
We are focused.
We are experts at all types of valuations. We provide comprehensive, audit-defensible valuation services and advice to help privately held firms fulfill their regulatory and tax requirements. As an independent valuation provider without competing business lines, our work will withstand any safe harbor challenges.
We take a hands-on approach.
We are experts at all types of valuations. We provide comprehensive, audit-defensible valuation services and advice to help privately held firms fulfill their regulatory and tax requirements. As an independent valuation provider without competing business lines, our work will withstand any safe harbor challenges.
We get it right the first time.
We have thousands of valuations under our belt. Like most of the leading law, accounting and audit firms who call on us to help their clients, you can be confident in the valuations we deliver. Our reports offer the accuracy clients need to mitigate the risks of managing a private enterprise—and we produce them quickly and at a competitive price.
Helping You Go Beyond Valuation
Through our valuation work, we gain a deep understanding of our client companies. This gives us the insight we need to efficiently provide a wide range of related services, including:
- Tax Compliance Valuation
- Financial Reporting Compliance
- Transaction Advisory
Our Senior Leadership
Chris co-founded Eton Venture Services in 2010 to provide mission-critical valuations to venture-based companies. He works closely with each client’s leadership team, board of directors, internal/external counsel, and independent auditor to develop detailed financial models of the business and create accurate, audit-proof valuations. Chris has been the project lead for thousands of valuations across a broad range of industries and sectors.
After graduating from Stanford Law School, Chris started his career as an associate at the Silicon Valley-based law firm of Gunderson Dettmer, where he worked with private and public corporations, investment banks, venture capital funds, and private equity funds. Chris focused on negotiated acquisitions and mergers, leveraged buyouts, and spinouts, as well as securities matters including initial public offerings, 144A debt offerings, and private financings. He later held senior leadership roles at two venture-backed startups. Chris is a member in good standing of the California Bar Association, the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts, the American Society of Appraisers, and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.