Despite the increase in internet adoption globally, roughly half the world’s population still lacks access to internet. This leaves them excluded from modern digital services like mobile money tools, which have been key in bringing people into the formal economy in countries like Kenya and Nigeria.

Village Capital, founded in 2009, is a venture capital firm based in Washington, D.C. that helps early stage entrepreneurs solving major challenges in environmental sustainability and economic opportunity bring their ideas from vision to scale.Village Global, founded in 2017, is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, CA, investing in entrepreneurs who are using software & IT to transform global industries.The two organizations are separate entities and have agreed to co-exist.

Poland’s government has made a high-profile effort to help small businesses access capital in the past few years, through a combination of loan instruments, state guarantees and tax credits.

In 2018 Turkey’s economy plummeted into economic crisis after nearly two decades of steady growth. The past year has seen double-digit inflation, a plunging Turkish lira, and a spike in loan defaults and borrowing costs.

In Ukraine, where the government forcibly closed more than 90 failing banks just a few years ago, consumers have been rightly concerned about the security of their savings.

A week later and it's still difficult to know what to say. The entrepreneurship ecosystem in Kenya and the region has lost giants.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - On October 11, Village Capital and Open Markets Institute hosted “A Right to Compete: Are Monopolies Crushing Entrepreneurship?” a conference on competition policy and the declining right to compete for entrepreneurs in America.