Village Global

Village Global is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Ben Casnocha, Anne Dwane, Erik Torenberg, and Ross Fubini, with Reid Hoffman serving as chair. The firm is distinctive for its network-driven model, backed by over 400 founders, operator angels, and luminary LPs including Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Dell, Sara Blakely, and Mike Bloomberg. It manages over $500 million in assets across three funds. The firm invests at pre-seed and seed stages globally, with no sector restrictions, across AI, fintech, healthcare, B2B SaaS, consumer, and logistics. Typical check sizes range from $500K to $3 million. Portfolio companies include Multiverse, Airbase, Forethought AI, Metaview, Addi, Enveda Therapeutics, and Elemind, with nine unicorns and over 24 acquisitions across 233 investments to date. Village Global runs a pre-seed program called Velocity, an AI track for early founders, as well as founder retreats, masterclasses, peer-to-peer dinners, and an annual summit called The Grove. Portfolio founders have collectively gone on to raise approximately $10 billion in follow-on funding from top-tier venture firms.