Village Ventures

Village Ventures, Inc. is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 and headquartered in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with additional offices in Bloomington, Indiana; New York, New York; and Denver, Colorado. The firm specializes in seed and early-stage investments, primarily focusing on sectors such as consumer, media, retail, healthcare, life sciences, business services, information technology, and financial services. Village Ventures typically invests between $0.5 million and $5 million in companies based in the United States, particularly in regions like New England, Florida, New Mexico, Western Massachusetts, and Central Indiana. The firm targets early-stage companies with revenues under $10 million and seed-stage companies with no revenues, aiming to acquire a minimum of 20% ownership in its portfolio companies. While Village Ventures is no longer actively investing, it has established a reputation for co-investing alongside groups familiar to the firm.

Michael Barach

Venture Partner

Matt Harris

Co-Founder and Managing General Partner

Matt Warta

Venture Partner

Past deals in Indiana

Biostorage Technologies

Series A in 2007
BioStorage Technologies is the premier, global provider of comprehensive sample management solutions for the bioscience industry BioStorage Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is privately held and headquartered in North America in Indianapolis, Indiana with an additional full-service site in Europe near Frankfurt, Germany. Their mission is to provide their clients with world class, biorepository services, exceeding clients’ expectations of service, value and quality while setting the industry standard for the storage, management & logistics of samples.

Perfinity Biosciences

Series A in 2005
Perfinity Biosciences, Inc. focuses on developing tools for protein sample preparation, offering a range of products designed to enhance reproducibility and efficiency. Its product portfolio includes immobilized enzymes, affinity reagents, optimized buffers, and software solutions. Notable offerings include Soluble Smart Digest, a stable soluble trypsin for quick and consistent digestions, and Mag Beads, tailored for proteomics applications. The QuicPrep platform combines immunoaffinity and trypsin digestion in a single process, while Flash Digest provides a rapid and stable immobilized trypsin reactor. Additionally, the Workstation automates protein separations and mass spectrometry sample preparation. Founded in 2004 and based in West Lafayette, Indiana, the company was previously known as QuadraSpec, Inc. until its name change in March 2010.
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