Congratulations to President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris on the outcome of the recent election. The historic turnout was validation that democracy works best when everyone participates – and I’m personally so delighted and inspired by the election of the first woman, Black woman and person of South Asian heritage as the Vice President of the United States.

(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.

(Washington, DC) - VilCap Investments portfolio company Stony Creek Colors was featured in a video by outdoor clothing designer Patagonia, as a supplier that provides sustainable and natural indigo as an alternative to synthetic dyes for jeans.

This week, hundreds of local leaders supporting entrepreneurship will come together in Kansas City to talk about the transformative power of entrepreneurship and how it can be used to address critical community challenges.

There’s an ever-present risk that’s familiar for anyone who invests in startups solving complicated problems in low-income communities: it’s possible for a business to become part of the problem, rather than solving it.

For anyone driving in Houston, the payday loan storefronts are hard to miss.