Village Global

Founded in 2017, Village Global is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm focusing on early-stage investments. It targets technology and software startups, with a particular interest in fin-tech and healthcare-related technologies.

Ben Casnocha

Partner

Adam Corey

Co-Founder and Operating Partner

Max Kilberg

Investor

Amrit Rao

Investor

Past deals in Pre-Seed Round

Maisa

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Maisa is a deep-tech AI company specializing in autonomous knowledge processing and reasoning engines, powered by its proprietary Knowledge Processing Unit (KPU). It offers maiWork, a platform enabling end-to-end job and mission-critical process execution by autonomous digital workers, ensuring full traceability and continuous learning. Maisa's AI system calculates, validates, and explains each process step, minimizing errors and enhancing business competitiveness through AI-driven core function improvement.

Wizard Perks

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Wizard Perks develops an AI-powered rewards platform for corporate employees. Custom-built and described as the first free AI-powered rewards platform for the corporate environment, it offers personalized discounts, product giveaways, and status-based benefits that are automatically applied to employee purchases at no cost. The platform provides travel perks, discounts at national and local merchants, custom discounts, and AI-powered cash-backs.

Crosshatch

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Crosshatch empowers users to securely connect their data with preferred applications, facilitating personalized outputs through AI while maintaining user control.

Desteia

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Desteia is a technology company that specializes in logistics and supply chain management. It operates a platform that leverages artificial intelligence to provide end-to-end visibility and insights to users, helping them mitigate supply chain disruptions and optimize costs. The platform analyzes conversations and network mapping to offer data-driven insights, enabling businesses to effectively manage their supply chain networks and adapt their operations with AI-assisted decision-making.

KURUKURU

Pre Seed Round in 2023
KURUKURU is a webcomic platform to create comics by posing scenes and generating characters.

Haxion

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Haxion specializes in developing artificial intelligence solutions tailored for national security applications.

Claryo

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Claryo is a San Francisco-based company focused on developing advanced computer vision technologies, specializing in spatial generative AI for facility intelligence. Operating in stealth mode, Claryo aims to leverage its innovative approach to enhance the understanding and management of physical spaces through cutting-edge visual analysis. The company's solutions are designed to transform the way organizations interact with their environments, offering insights that can drive efficiency and optimize operations.

Groundswell

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Groundswell is a developer of cloud-based technology that enhances the efficiency of sales teams by integrating seamlessly into existing platforms such as CRM and Slack. The company focuses on product-led sales, enabling teams to engage with customers more effectively by leveraging real-time product usage data and contextual insights. This technology allows sales professionals to prioritize their outreach, automate workflows, and identify key signals across the revenue stack. By improving the quality of customer interactions based on these insights, Groundswell aims to facilitate timely and meaningful connections between sales teams and their customers.

Stems Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Stems Labs is a community and platform for collaborative creativity. Through web3 tools, it encourages artist and fan engagement. For example, a musician can share their music stems or a mix of drums, bass, guitar, and other individual musical tracks with the Stem community. Users can then remix the audio to create new music NFTs, with royalties paid to the original artists upon sale.

Eyebot

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Eyebot develops innovative eye examination technology designed to eliminate barriers and enhance accessibility to vision care. Their flagship product is a freestanding, self-serve vision testing terminal that provides accurate eye prescriptions directly at the point of sale, enabling ophthalmologists to proactively improve eye care quality and reduce costs.

Blanq

Pre Seed Round in 2022
The first distributed-key hardware wallet

Ryze

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Ryze is a fintech and crypto-focused company that develops a cryptocurrency investment platform to help members grow and protect their wealth. Its technology analyzes real-time market data and makes investment decisions aligned with users' custom risk profiles, enabling automated investing, portfolio diversification, and live portfolio tracking, with the aim of optimizing returns.

Contoro Robotics

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Contoro Robotics specializes in developing AI-powered robots for safe trailer and container unloading. Their robots autonomously pick up cases, recognize text, and palletize them, minimizing human intervention and robot downtime.

Kalendar AI

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Kalendar AI offers an AI-driven sales platform that automates lead generation and outreach. The system personalizes emails, books meetings, and follows up with prospects using AI agents. It leverages a database of ideal customer profiles and delivers customized pitches and interactive presentations, enabling one-click meetings with potential customers. The platform aims to help businesses accelerate revenue by streamlining outreach and improving conversion rates.

Pylon

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Pylon offers a digital mortgage-lending platform that enables businesses to integrate mortgage services into their products. Based in New York, it provides APIs, UI components, and capital markets stack for origination, underwriting, processing, funding, and closing of loans.

WattCarbon

Pre Seed Round in 2021
WattCarbon develops a marketplace and measurement platform that connects climate buyers with high‑impact decarbonization projects in the built environment. Its system tracks building carbon footprints and automates reporting and verification, enabling users to purchase and fund projects that reduce emissions with reliable, revenue‑grade measurement. The platform unlocks buildings and distributed energy resources as a decarbonization resource, facilitating a carbon‑free future.

Hadrian

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Hadrian is a developer of a digital security platform that adopts a hacker-first approach to enhance cybersecurity. The platform is designed to provide organizations with insights into their digital risks by continuously analyzing and probing their IT infrastructure. Utilizing cloud technology and machine learning, Hadrian delivers scalable and accurate security insights from an external perspective, revealing potential vulnerabilities and methods that could be exploited in a real-world data breach. This approach enables companies to gain a comprehensive understanding of their attack surface and proactively address security challenges.

Alongside

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Alongside builds indexes for cryptocurrencies.

MLtwist

Pre Seed Round in 2021
MLtwist is a Data as a Service platform that accelerates the deployment of machine learning models by handling data preparation tasks. It streamlines the process from messy, unlabeled data to high-quality, organized, labeled data, reducing time and cost.

Airwork

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Airwork is a tech-driven platform that connects businesses with skilled blue-collar workers on demand. It streamlines the hiring process, filling shifts in as little as two hours for clients like Tesla and Toronto Pearson Airport across North America.

Burq

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Burq is a developer of a delivery management platform that simplifies the process for businesses to offer delivery services to their customers through a single API integration. The platform enables clients to access multiple delivery service providers, allowing them to present various delivery options to meet customer preferences. Burq's solution supports commission-free, on-demand, and same-day delivery, enhancing the last-mile delivery experience for businesses and their customers alike.

Goldsetu

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Goldsetu is a business-to-business platform that provides jewellers with digital tools to effectively manage and expand their jewellery operations. The platform offers comprehensive store management solutions that automate workflows, allowing jewellery retailers to create digital storefronts and engage with customers online. By providing access to extensive collections of jewellery products, Goldsetu enables retailers to modernize their businesses and compete more effectively in the organized sector.

Vendah

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Vendah operates an e-commerce platform that facilitates reselling of kitchen and homeware products in Latin America. It enables women to earn extra income by selling items to neighbors and friends, while providing tools for payment processing and logistics.

Flexpa

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Founded in 2021, Flexpa is a San Francisco-based company that develops APIs to integrate claims histories into digital health and fintech apps. Its platform also digitizes data from various hardware providers, interprets it, and creates analytics dashboards for healthcare providers to determine treatment plans.

Zelt

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Zelt offers a unified workforce platform designed to streamline employee lifecycle management. It automates processes such as onboarding and offboarding across HR, Finance, and IT functions, enabling organizations to operate more efficiently.

Hadrian

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Hadrian is a machine parts startup that manufactures precision components for technology companies, including aerospace and defense programs. It builds autonomous, software-defined precision component factories and an autonomous manufacturing platform that integrates software, robotics, and full-stack capabilities to scale mission-critical programs across space, aviation, and maritime sectors. By enabling aerospace startups, suppliers, and defense contractors to produce essential components with lower costs and greater efficiency, Hadrian aims to accelerate development timelines and reduce manufacturing complexity.

Comma

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Comma is a financial software platform designed to simplify the payment processes for businesses, specifically in the areas of salaries, taxes, and invoices. It employs advanced banking technology to facilitate safe and secure payments through an open banking bulk payments system. By streamlining these transactions, Comma enhances the efficiency of bookkeeping practices, allowing accounting firms to better manage the increasing demand for outsourced financial operations. This innovative approach aims to revolutionize traditional payment systems, making it easier for businesses to handle their financial obligations.

Glip.gg

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Web3 mobile gaming platform

Lit Protocol

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Lit Protocol is a decentralized access control infrastructure designed to bring more utility to the web by providing secure, token-based access to digital experiences.

Viralspace.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Viralspace, Inc. is a technology company founded in 2018 and based in Stanford, California, that specializes in developing a content performance prediction platform. This platform utilizes artificial intelligence to provide deep visual insights and performance predictions for marketing content, allowing brands to make informed, data-driven decisions. By analyzing various creative elements across digital marketing channels such as Google Ads, email, and websites, Viralspace helps marketers optimize their visual assets to enhance engagement and return on investment. The company's innovative approach integrates data into the creative process, enabling real-time optimization of advertising performance.

Enveda Biosciences

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Enveda is a biotechnology company that uses AI-powered tools to explore and characterize molecules from living organisms. It aims to accelerate drug discovery by developing a comprehensive database of chemical biodiversity.

GetHarley

Pre Seed Round in 2019
GetHarley is an online platform that facilitates connections between consumers and physicians for personalized skincare solutions. The platform enables clinicians to conduct consultations either in-person or via video conferencing, allowing them to create tailored treatment plans and recommend skincare products. Notably, GetHarley eliminates the need for clinicians to maintain inventory or manage shipping logistics, streamlining the process for both healthcare providers and patients. By providing access to medical-grade products and clinical treatments, GetHarley aims to enhance the skincare journey for users seeking effective solutions for their skin concerns.

Artica

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Helping truckers drive safely and profitably during winter weather by providing better-priced commercial trucking insurance.

Metaspectral

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Metaspectral, formerly known as Compression.ai, is an information technology company that specializes in machine learning and web services. It has developed a proprietary platform designed to compress media files, particularly images, to a fraction of their original size while retaining quality. This platform improves encoding and decoding densities, achieving average compression rates of up to 95% without significant loss in image quality. By leveraging this technology, Metaspectral enables clients to enhance the performance of applications across various platforms such as web, mobile, and cloud services.

Spot AI

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Spot AI applies video analytics to physical spaces, turning camera footage into actionable insights for safety, operations, and security across industries such as manufacturing, retail, education, and healthcare. Drawing on extensive video data, the platform helps organizations monitor environments, optimize workflows, and improve decision making. It delivers a cloud-based solution that can be deployed quickly without extensive IT resources, allowing users to securely view, search, and share footage from multiple cameras and locations in a single web dashboard. By turning cameras into a source of business value, Spot AI supports safer, smarter, and more efficient workplaces.

VeriSIM Life

Pre Seed Round in 2018
VeriSIM Life is a computational bioplatform that predicts the clinical outcomes of new drugs before clinical trials. It develops disease-specific biosimulation models to simulate how a drug interacts in biological systems, supporting preclinical and clinical programs. Its BIOiSIM platform covers small molecules, large molecules, and viruses, using AI-driven biosystem simulations to inform drug design, optimize development timelines, and reduce animal testing. The company aims to accelerate drug development and enable more personalized healthcare.

AllStripes

Pre Seed Round in 2017
AllStripes is a healthcare technology company focused on accelerating the development of new treatments for rare diseases. The company has created a platform that enables the generation of regulatory-ready evidence, facilitating rare disease research and drug development. AllStripes operates a two-sided network that connects patients with rare diseases and advocacy groups to life science companies seeking new drug candidates. Through this network, patients can contribute their medical data and participate in treatment research online, while life science companies gain access to valuable data and insights to support their drug development efforts.
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