What is Village Capital’s track record with companies? Over the past 10 years, Village Capital has directly worked with more than 1,100 founders in 28 countries and has led more than 100 programs. Through the Global Accelerator Learning Initiative, an independent and external ongoing study of program success, we are able to confidently pull data about our program’s success.

Oscar Robles knows how to build a company from scratch. In 2004, he launched Mexico’s first virtual microfinance platform - no need for a physical bank. Within two years, he and his team had built a salesforce of women across Mexico who were spreading credit to people far away from city centers.

Before founding Spensa Technologies, the closest Johnny Park had come to farming was “driving down the highway next to a corn field. Now, his Z-Trap is using big data to help farmers control pests and increase crop yields.

PayPal has always been about democratizing access to financial services. And they've always been about thinking outside the box (not so long ago they were a startup themselves).

August 13, 2019 (Washington, DC) — Village Capital today announced the launch of Finance Forward — a global coalition created with MetLife Foundation, PayPal, and local partners to support more than 100 early-stage entrepreneurs building tech-enabled solutions around financial health in the United States, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and India.

PayPal CEO Dan Schulman hosted Ross Baird on his Facebook show, Never Stand Still.

Recode, a section on Vox.com, wrote about the findings from our Flipping the Power Dynamics report (read here), which found that peer-selected investment mitigates bias against female founders:

“The so-called skills gap doesn’t exist. Students have the skills. They just can’t prove them.” Jeffrey Moss, founder of Parker Dewey, argues that schools often are preparing their students for jobs in the marketplace - it’s just hard for students to prove those skills. “Students are graduating job ready. But the process right now discourages or even eliminates opportunities for students to explore for fit, or to prove to companies that they have the right skills.”

August 13, 2019 (Washington, DC) -- Village Capital today announced the launch of Finance Forward — a global coalition created with MetLife Foundation, PayPal, and local partners to support more than 100 early-stage entrepreneurs building tech-enabled solutions around financial health in the United States, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and India.

May 8, 2019 (San Francisco, CA) --VilCap Investments, a venture capital fund affiliated with Village Capital, announced today that it has made investments in two early-stage financial technology startups: Global Data Consortium and Intrinio.

May 7, 2019 (Houston, TX) -- Fig, a mission-driven fintech company that offers credit building alternatives to predatory loans for low-income borrowers, has become the first-ever fintech company to become both a Certified B Corporation and federal certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI). VilCap Investments and Techstars are early Fig Loans investors.

April 18, 2019 (Washington, DC) -- Village Capital and lead partner Autodesk Foundation, in collaboration with Lumina Foundation, are now accepting applications from early stage entrepreneurs building solutions to improve college persistence, job matching, and career growth opportunities through upskilling and reskilling. Applications can be found here and will be accepted through the end of May.