O-Farms is the first African SME accelerator completely focused on circular agribusiness. It is an initiative supported by the IKEA Foundation to help scale circular agribusiness innovations in East Africa.

IBM Hyper Protect Accelerator is a multiyear collaboration between Village Capital and IBM Z geared toward empowering fintech, healthtech, and other digital services startups to build and scale. We closed out another stellar cohort of DataTech4Good entrepreneurs earlier this year and we are delighted to announce Cohort 4, and Friends of Hyper Protect participating companies at IBM Z Day on September 15, 2021.

FS Tech covered the launch of Finance Forward Europe 2020, an accelerator program run by Village Capital, MetLife Foundation and PayPal.

What do the pandemic and economic crisis mean for social enterprise and impact investing? Village Capital CEO Allie Burns spoke with Anne Field from Forbes about how startups are mobilizing, the challenges they're facing, and how Village Capital is adapting to support them in uncertain times:

Allie Burns, Village Capital CEO, and Shruti Chandrasekhar, head of Startup Catalyst and SME Ventures at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), break down new research on accelerators' role in the gender financing gap in a Fast Company op-ed:

Village Capital announced that Xendoo and Worthy Financial were peer-selected for funding during Finance Forward US 2019, an accelerator program that is a part of Finance Forward. A multi-year global coalition led by founding partners MetLife Foundation and PayPal, Finance Forward is supporting entrepreneurs on four continents who are building tech-enabled solutions to challenges around financial health.

Last year our fund, VilCap Investments, made its 110th and final initial seed investment, and shifted its focus to supporting our existing portfolio. ImpactAlpha covered the announcement of our new family of funds strategy.

Disrupt Africa reported in September nine startups from across the continent had been selected for the Agriculture Africa 2019 accelerator cohort. This month, Disrupt Africa covered the peer-selected startups:

Village Capital and QBE's recent report, Impact InsurTech: How InsurTech is Transforming the Insurance Industry, was featured in several media outlets over the past month, including Insurance Business Magazine and Crowd Fund Insider. The report explores how technology is democratizing the insurance industry, and reducing barriers to access for historically underserved customers. Insurance Business Magazine wrote:

Village Capital's South Asia team was profiled in The Deccan Herald. Deepak Menon spoke about Village Capital's focus on fintech in the EMEAA region, and how the Indian startup ecosystem is seeing a shift toward impact investing:

Village Capital and CIIE.CO, with support from Omidyar Network India, co-authored a report, Catalyzing Civic Tech In India. The report aims to help catalyze the civic tech sector in India by defining civic tech, identifying emerging subsectors, and sharing promising revenue models.

On December 6 and 7, Village Capital and UBS held their second Inclusive Capital Summit, in Miami at Art Basel. Impact Alpha covered the convening, where investors and entrepreneurs talked about how to drive more early-stage capital to women, Latinx and Black founders.