01.27 - What to Do When the Bank Pulls Your Line of Credit
Portfolio company On Deck Capital is featured Entrepreneur's look at who's lending and when the cost is too high. more...

01.21 - TopTenReviews raises $1.5 million
TopTenReviews raised $1.5 million in Series A-1 funding. Existing investors - Highway 12 Ventures and Village Ventures - fueled the recent funding, which brings the Series A round total to $7.5 million, including a $6 million investment in 2008. more...

12.07 - CNN Invests in Outside.In
CNN.com is investing in Outside.In, a start-up that feeds neighborhood blogs and other local news and information to the Web sites of newspapers, TV stations and other media. more...

09.02 - How to Make Money on Twitter: Do Commercials!
Sponsored Tweets by IZEA are rocking the marketing world. more...

08.10 - Tweeting for Dollars
The New York Times features IZEA in an article about sponsored tweets. more...

Village Ventures is a seed and early stage venture capital firm focusing on the consumer media/retail and financial services sectors.
Our strategy is to partner with leading entrepreneurs creating innovative products and solving complicated problems in those industries.

When it comes to seed and early stage investing, we believe that there is strength in numbers. True early stage firms are necessarily small, and therefore often lack the scale required to effectively support their entrepreneurs. Village Ventures has built a platform, which it offers to other seed and early stage firms, to provide for collaboration, co-investment and administrative cost sharing. This network is a powerful tool to expand our reach and make us more effective partners for our portfolio companies.